Streamline virtual hackathon events with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience
Attention all students! Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience.
GitHub Sponsors available in 30 new regions
GitHub Sponsors expands globally with 30 newly supported regions, bringing the total to 68.
Planning next to your code - GitHub Projects is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point.
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
Tips & tricks for using GitHub Projects for personal productivity
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity.
Streamline virtual hackathon events with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience
Attention all students! Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience.
Latest posts
Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors
Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars.
Release Radar · June 2022 Edition
It's been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects…
Corrupting memory without memory corruption
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.
Launching GitHub Community: Powered by GitHub Discussions
Today, we’re launching GitHub Community, which brings together GitHub Community Forum, GitHub Education Forum, and product feedback into a free, in-product, single space for all user-to-user interactions.
Engineering
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
6 strategic ways to level up your CI/CD pipeline
From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline.
GitHub Availability Report: June 2022
In June, we experienced four incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub.com services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted several GitHub.com services in May.
Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects
High-quality Git commits are the key to a maintainable and collaborative open- or closed-source project. Learn strategies to improve and use commits to streamline your development process.
Community
Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors
Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars.
Release Radar · June 2022 Edition
It's been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects…
Launching GitHub Community: Powered by GitHub Discussions
Today, we’re launching GitHub Community, which brings together GitHub Community Forum, GitHub Education Forum, and product feedback into a free, in-product, single space for all user-to-user interactions.
Tips & tricks for using GitHub Projects for personal productivity
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity.
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Planning next to your code - GitHub Projects is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point.
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Streamline virtual hackathon events with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience
Attention all students! Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience.
3
How to build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions in four simple steps
A quick guide on the advantages of using GitHub Actions as your preferred CI/CD tool—and how to build a CI/CD pipeline with it.
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Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
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Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.
Product
Planning next to your code - GitHub Projects is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point.
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
Tips & tricks for using GitHub Projects for personal productivity
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity.
Here’s how academic research is shaping GitHub Discussions
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here's how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions.
Research: How GitHub Copilot helps improve developer productivity
We surveyed more than 2,000 developers about whether GitHub Copilot helped them be more productive and improved their coding. Then, we matched this qualitative feedback and subjective perception with quantitative data around objective usage measurements and productivity.
How the GitHub Security Team uses projects and GitHub Actions for planning, tracking, and more
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub Enterprise Server
The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.
Security
Corrupting memory without memory corruption
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
Extend your dependency information in the GitHub Dependency Graph with new GitHub Actions
New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.
How the GitHub Security Team uses projects and GitHub Actions for planning, tracking, and more
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.
The Chromium super (inline cache) type confusion
In this post I'll exploit CVE-2022-1134, a type confusion in Chrome that I reported in March 2022, which allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site. I'll also look at some past vulnerabilities of this type and some implementation details of inline cache in V8, the JavaScript engine of Chrome.
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub Enterprise Server
The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages!
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.
Open Source
GitHub Sponsors available in 30 new regions
GitHub Sponsors expands globally with 30 newly supported regions, bringing the total to 68.
Release Radar · June 2022 Edition
It's been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects…
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
Open Source Monthly: July 2022 Edition
July's Open Source Monthly features Zag.js, which leverages state machines to make framework agnostic components.
Top tips for creating a healthy and sustainable open source community
Read about the six key themes, and tips for each, that ensure sustainable and healthy open source communities.
Enterprise
6 strategic ways to level up your CI/CD pipeline
From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline.
GitHub Availability Report: June 2022
In June, we experienced four incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub.com services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted several GitHub.com services in May.
Improving Git protocol security on GitHub Enterprise Server
The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.
Education
Streamline virtual hackathon events with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience
Attention all students! Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience.
Announcing the summer 2022 MLH Fellowship GitHub Contributors
Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub.
Start your open source journey with Community Exchange
Are you a student who is new to open source or just starting your maintainer journey? GitHub Global Campus’ Community Exchange can help you make that first contribution or grow your open source project.
Policy
What’s new in Codespaces for Organizations
We’re releasing exciting functionalities that will enable organizations to confidently manage and scale with Codespaces.
How can the United States build its Open Source Software policy?
We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States.
Our response to the war in Ukraine
As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.
Company
How the GitHub Security Team uses projects and GitHub Actions for planning, tracking, and more
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.
GitHub Advisory Database now supports Erlang and Elixir packages!
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.
Accelerating GitHub theme creation with color tooling
Learn why the GitHub Design Infrastructure team built a dedicated color tool and how they use it to create new color palettes for GitHub.