
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life. Whether you’re a seasoned dev or just getting started, it’s all about having fun and making something awesome!

The GitHub Awards celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community by honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for creating an outsized positive impact on the community.
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Laura Lindeman, Lee Reilly·October 30, 2024Engineering 
Find out how we’re evolving GitHub and GitHub Copilot—and get access to the latest previews and GA releases.
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Mario Rodriguez·October 29, 2024AI & ML 
At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer.
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Thomas Dohmke·October 29, 2024AI & ML 
In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.

Learn about browser extension security and secure your extensions with the help of CodeQL.
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Kevin Stubbings·October 24, 2024Security 
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program—@adrianoapj!
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Brandon Szymanski·October 24, 2024Security 
From advancing ethical AI practices to expanding open source learning for developers in Africa, discover how we’ve fostered diversity, inclusion, and belonging this year.
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Justin Thenutai·October 23, 2024AI & ML 
Vulnerability data has grown in volume and complexity over the past decade, but open source and programs like the Github Security Lab have helped supply chain security keep pace.
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Madison Ficorilli·October 21, 2024Security 
Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts.

In September, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

GitHub Next launched the technical preview for GitHub Copilot Workspace in April 2024. Since then, we’ve been listening to the community, learning, and have some tips to share on how to get the most out of it!
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Chris Reddington, Cole Bemis·October 9, 2024AI & ML 
Learn about a community-developed framework for how to think about this problem holistically and how to use GitHub, particularly, to improve the security in the second half of your software supply chain.
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Zachary Steindler·October 8, 2024Security 
Git 2.47 is here, with features like incremental multi-pack indexes and more. Check out our coverage of some of the highlights here.

Students used GitHub Copilot to decode ancient texts buried in Mount Vesuvius, achieving a groundbreaking historical breakthrough. This is their journey, the technology behind it, and the power of collaboration.
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Juan Pablo Flores Cortés·October 3, 2024AI & ML 
Let’s take a closer look at some of the stars of the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024 🔎

For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program—@imrerad!
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Brandon Szymanski·October 1, 2024Security 
Announcing the general availability of code referencing in GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure AI, allowing developers to permit code suggestions containing public code matches while receiving detailed information about the match.
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Yalini Prabhakaran·September 30, 2024AI & ML 
Sharing the latest data update to our Transparency Center alongside a new research article on what makes moderating a code collaboration platform unique.

With this public preview, we’re unlocking the context of your code and collaborators—and taking the next step in infusing AI into every developer’s workflow.
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Mario Rodriguez·September 26, 2024AI & ML 
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, GitHub’s Bug Bounty team is excited to offer some additional incentives to security researchers!
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Shilpa Kumari·September 26, 2024Security 
Want to know how to take your terminal skills to the next level? Whether you’re starting out, or looking for more advanced commands, GitHub Copilot can help us explain and suggest the commands we are looking for.
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Michelle Duke·September 26, 2024AI & ML 
How we used GitHub to build GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency.

OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini are now available in GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and in the GitHub Models playground.
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Mario Rodriguez·September 19, 2024AI & ML 
Looking for ways to code in a more sustainable way? We’ve got you covered with our top list of tools to help lower your carbon footprint.

Open source software underpins all sectors of the economy, public services and even international organizations like the United Nations. How can all its beneficiaries work together to make the open source ecosystem more sustainable?

Whether you’re an individual developer looking to streamline your workflow or an organization aiming to integrate proprietary tools, GitHub Copilot Extensions now offers a platform to make that happen and to share your creations on the GitHub Marketplace.
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Shuyin Zhao·September 17, 2024AI & ML 
We’ve tested integrating OpenAI o1-preview with GitHub Copilot. Here’s a first look at where we think it can add value to your day to day.
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Mario Rodriguez·September 12, 2024AI & ML 
In August, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Explore how Arm’s optimized performance and cost-efficient architecture, coupled with PyTorch, can enhance machine learning operations, from model training to deployment and learn how to leverage CI/CD for machine learning workflows, while reducing time, cost, and errors in the process.

Fine-tuned models empower organizations to receive code suggestions specifically tailored to their coding practices and internal languages.
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Shuyin Zhao·September 10, 2024AI & ML 
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to improve the security of your profile and create a profile README. This will let you give your GitHub account a little more personality.
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Kedasha Kerr·September 9, 2024Security 
How GitHub volunteers built an open source metrics dashboard for the World Health Organization and some best practices they picked up along the way.
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Ian Candy, Liliana Torres, Andrew Henry·September 3, 2024Career & Teams 
GitHub is considering what is at stake for our users and platform, how we can take responsible action to support free and fair elections, and how developers contribute to resilient democratic processes.

AWS CodeCommit is discontinuing new customer access and will no longer introduce new features. Learn how to migrate to GitHub Enterprise and why it’s the best option for you.
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Melody Mileski, Jun Pak·August 27, 2024SRE & Ops 
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to merge pull requests. This will enable you to resolve conflicts when they arise.

This year, as part of its annual Magic Quadrant series, Gartner published a first-of-its-kind report analyzing the state of play in the AI Code Assistants market–and named GitHub a Leader.

We surveyed 2,000 people on software development teams at enterprises in the U.S., Brazil, India, and Germany about the use, experience, and expectations around generative AI tools in software development.

Using Git in the CLI can improve your development speed and power. Here are our top eight commands for using GitHub via your command line.

Discover how the Ersilia Open Source Initiative accelerates drug discovery by using GitHub Actions to disseminate AI/ML models.
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Nicole Choi·August 15, 2024AI & ML 
In July, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

With Copilot Autofix, developers and security teams can keep new vulnerabilities out of code and confidently remediate their backlog of security debt.

Learn how AI agents and agentic AI systems use generative AI models and large language models to autonomously perform tasks on behalf of end users.
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Aaron Winston·August 13, 2024AI & ML 
Five actionable tips and strategies to supercharge developer happiness—and a more innovative workplace.

In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2024-5830, a type confusion in Chrome that allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site.

As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to create pull requests. This will enable you to suggest changes to existing repositories.

Explore how AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot can accelerate your journey to learn new programming languages.

We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.
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Thomas Dohmke·August 1, 2024AI & ML 
To enhance your coding experience, AI tools should excel at saving you time with repetitive, administrative tasks, while providing accurate solutions to assist developers. Today, we’re spotlighting three updates designed to increase efficiency and boost developer creativity.
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Elle Shwer, Stella Yang·July 31, 2024AI & ML 
Learn how we’re experimenting with open source AI models to systematically incorporate customer feedback to supercharge our product roadmaps.
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Mariana Borges·July 30, 2024AI & ML 
Introducing the generally available capability of GitHub Artifact Attestations to secure your cloud-native supply chain packages and images.

Git 2.46 is here with new features like pseudo-merge bitmaps, more capable credential helpers, and a new git config command. Check out our coverage on some of the highlights here.

Teams with neurodivergent employees can be up to 30 percent more productive. Discover tips on how best to support them in your workplace.

Take the next step in our GitHub for Beginners series and add code to your repository. Learn how to create branches and upload changes into a pull request.

Meet each maintainer, watch their project demos, and discover the unique story of each open source AI project.

Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here’s a look at some of the tools in GitHub’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.

GitHub Staff Engineer Sarah Vessels discusses her philosophy of code review, what separates good code review from bad, her strategy for finding and reviewing code, and how to get the most from reviews of her own code.

In this blog post, we’ll explain how we discovered three critical vulnerabilities in Kafka UI and how they can be exploited.
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Michael Stepankin·July 22, 2024Security 
An interview with economic researchers who are applying causal inference techniques to analyze the effect of generative AI tools on software development activity.

In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.