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GitHub’s guide to Hacktoberfest 2021
Giving back to open source projects is a great way to practice skills you don’t get to use in your day job. Check out ways to get involved! ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advisory Database now powers npm audit
Today, we’re adding a proxy on top of the GitHub Advisory Database that speaks the \\npm audit\\ protocol. This means that every version of the npm CLI that supports security audits is now talking directly to the GitHub Advisory Database. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advisory Database now powers npm audit
Today, we’re adding a proxy on top of the GitHub Advisory Database that speaks the \npm audit\ protocol. This means that every version of the npm CLI that supports security audits is now talking directly to the GitHub Advisory Database. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: September 2021
In September, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. ⌘ Read more
13 tiny and terrific entries from the js13kGames competition
If you think about it, 13kB isn’t really a lot. The image above is 81kB. This page weighs over 3MB (waaay more if you include the videos). That’s why it’s so incredibly impressive that the ⌘ Read more
A new public beta of GitHub Releases: How we’re improving the release experience
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes. ⌘ Read more
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researchers chen-robert and @ginkoid
GitHub's bug bounty team is excited to kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a spotlight on two security researchers who participate in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program. ⌘ Read more
Enterprise managed users are now generally available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Manage your company in the cloud with more control and governance using enterprise managed users. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is now generally available
Today, we’re excited to announce that GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is generally available. This release brings over 70 new features and changes that improve developer experience and deliver new security capabilities. ⌘ Read more
Revised enterprise DPA with new standard contractual clauses
As part of GitHub's strong commitment to developer privacy, we are excited to announce updates to our privacy agreements in line with new legal requirements and our own robust data protection practices. ⌘ Read more
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet GitHub's growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases. ⌘ Read more
Announcing npm’s new access token format
npm access tokens will now follow the established format of GitHub authentication tokens. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Rust
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on the Rust ecosystem! ⌘ Read more
Audit log streaming is now in public beta
If you're a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, you can now set up a stream of audit log and Git events to Splunk or an Azure Event Hub. ⌘ Read more
The ReadME Project: A look back at the community stories that shape us
In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? August 2021 Recap
What did we ship in August? Codespaces, Discussions, and lots of other updates, from the general availability of the dark high contrast theme to an auto-generated table of contents for wikis. ⌘ Read more
Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and GitHub Sponsors now open in India
Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and opening of GitHub Sponsors in India. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 brings new color modes and added security capabilities
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate. With this release, we’re shipping over 70 new features and changes to improve the developer experience and deliver new security capabilities for our customers. ⌘ Read more
An analysis on developer-security researcher interactions in the vulnerability disclosure process
We put out a call to open source developers and security researchers to talk about the security vulnerability disclosure process. Here's what we found. ⌘ Read more
GitHub security update: Vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist**
Between July 21, 2021 and August 13, 2021 we received reports through one of our private security bug bounty programs from researchers regarding vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist. ⌘ Read more
Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning
How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too. ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · August 2021 Edition
The end of financial year is complete, tax time is over, and everyone is back to shipping awesome projects. During August, our community has been super busy shipping lots of new updates. These new releases ⌘ Read more
Introducing the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track
Applications are now open for the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track. Apply by September 13. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: August 2021
In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services. ⌘ Read more
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. Only users connecting via SSH or git:// will be affected. If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline. ⌘ Read more
Introducing GitHub Global Campus
Calling all students! Get the most out of your GitHub Education experience by joining the GitHub student community on our new digital campus. ⌘ Read more
Vague infringement allegations considered harmful
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals. ⌘ Read more
Request for proposals: Defining standardized GitHub metrics
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. ⌘ Read more
30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more
30 free and open source Linux games – part 2
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories.   I shared the first 10 yesterday. ⌘ Read more
2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats. ⌘ Read more
GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful. ⌘ Read more
The npm registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher. ⌘ Read more
Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We're excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through \\CITATION.cff\\ files. ⌘ Read more
Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We're excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through \CITATION.cff\ files. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality. ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.33
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33 with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors, 19 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git when 2.31 ⌘ Read more
Securing your GitHub account with two-factor authentication
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub. ⌘ Read more
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? July 2021 Recap
A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more. ⌘ Read more
Seamless teaching and learning through GitHub Classroom and Visual Studio Code
This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code. ⌘ Read more
GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development. ⌘ Read more
August 2021 Campus Experts applications are open!
The GitHub Campus Expert applications are officially open for the August 2021 generation! ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · Mid-year 2021 Edition ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Availability Report: July 2021 ⌘ Read more...
15+ new code scanning integrations with open source security tools ⌘ Read more...
Standing up for developers: the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship at Stanford Law School ⌘ Read more...
Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects ⌘ Read more...
GitHub brings supply chain security features to the Go community ⌘ Read more...
Student leaders are taking GitHub Campus TV to the next level ⌘ Read more...
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? June 2021 Recap ⌘ Read more...
Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7 ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Availability Report: June 2021 ⌘ Read more...
Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer ⌘ Read more...
Seven years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program ⌘ Read more...
Run online campus events with your favorite tools at no cost with the new GitHub Virtual Event Kit ⌘ Read more...
Introducing the new GitHub Issues ⌘ Read more...
A framework for building Open Graph images ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Packages Container registry is generally available ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Desktop 2.9 includes squashing, reordering, amending, and more! ⌘ Read more...
Blacktocats turn five ⌘ Read more...
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? May 2021 Recap ⌘ Read more...
Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug ⌘ Read more...
Securing the open source supply chain by scanning for package registry credentials ⌘ Read more...
Updates to our policies regarding exploits, malware, and vulnerability research ⌘ Read more...
Release Radar · May 2021 Edition ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.1 is now generally available ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Availability Report: May 2021 ⌘ Read more...
Github Social Impact: How we’re driving change with social sector organizations ⌘ Read more...
Why (and how) GitHub is adopting OpenTelemetry ⌘ Read more...
Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better ⌘ Read more...
Ludum Dare 48 staff picks ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Artifact Exporter open source release ⌘ Read more...
Headphones on, volume up: Introducing The ReadME Podcast ⌘ Read more...
Video uploads now available across GitHub ⌘ Read more...
Join GitHub on June 5 to celebrate the Class of 2021 ⌘ Read more...
Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations ⌘ Read more...
Release Radar · April 2021 Edition ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.1 available as a release candidate ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Availability Report: April 2021 ⌘ Read more...
How we use Web Components at GitHub ⌘ Read more...
Goodbye Dependabot Preview, hello Dependabot! ⌘ Read more...
A call for feedback on our policies around exploits and malware ⌘ Read more...
Scaling monorepo maintenance ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Desktop supports hiding whitespace, expanding diffs, and creating repository aliases ⌘ Read more...
How we use GitHub Actions to manage GitHub Docs ⌘ Read more...
How we ship code faster and safer with feature flags ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors ⌘ Read more...
Environmental sustainability at GitHub ⌘ Read more...
New and simplified Enterprise and Partner terms ⌘ Read more...
Open source goes to Mars 🚀 ⌘ Read more...
Work with GitHub Actions in your terminal with GitHub CLI ⌘ Read more...
Implementing least privilege for secrets in GitHub Actions ⌘ Read more...
Release Radar · March 2021 Edition ⌘ Read more...
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 2 ⌘ Read more...
GitHub Availability Report: March 2021 ⌘ Read more...
Supreme Court sides with developers in Google v. Oracle ⌘ Read more...
Announcing the Global Maintainer Summit ⌘ Read more...
Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats ⌘ Read more...
How we scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis ⌘ Read more...
Introducing new push notifications, scheduling, releases and more on GitHub Mobile ⌘ Read more...