GitHub’s supply chain security features now support Dart
Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts.
Developers are now included in the WIPO Global Innovation Index
We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits.
js13kGames 2022 winners 🏆
The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.
Detect secrets in your code more accurately with dry runs for custom patterns now available in GitHub Advanced Security
Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.
GitHub Availability Report: September 2022
In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August.
Working on a creative project? Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience
Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground.
Latest posts
Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.
Expand your open source contributions during Hacktoberfest 2022
Give back to open source projects during the month of October! This year, we’re encouraging more than code contributions: writing, design, advocacy, and financial donations.
Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.
GitHub supports internet freedom and global availability in Iran
Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community.
Engineering
GitHub Availability Report: September 2022
In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August.
Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.
How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year.
8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about.
Community
js13kGames 2022 winners 🏆
The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.
Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.
Expand your open source contributions during Hacktoberfest 2022
Give back to open source projects during the month of October! This year, we’re encouraging more than code contributions: writing, design, advocacy, and financial donations.
After the offer: staying in tech long-term
Tech can be a tricky industry (to say the least). We talked with three tech professionals who share why they stay, what has helped them the most, and the power of switching things up.
Trending stories
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js13kGames 2022 winners 🏆
The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.
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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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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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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.
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Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.
Product
Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.
GitHub for Startups is generally available
We’re launching GitHub for Startups to give your startup the tools needed to go from idea to unicorn status on the world's largest developer platform.
5 steps to convince your boss to send you to GitHub Universe
Here are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included!
8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about.
Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus features
Calling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus!
GitHub Copilot now available for teachers
After a year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, is now free for all teachers verified on GitHub Global Campus.
Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness
When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.
Security
GitHub’s supply chain security features now support Dart
Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts.
Detect secrets in your code more accurately with dry runs for custom patterns now available in GitHub Advanced Security
Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.
Best practices on rolling out code scanning at enterprise scale
Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO.
Security alert: new phishing campaign targets GitHub users
On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations.
5 tips for prioritizing Dependabot alerts
Dependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building.
SCA vs SAST: what are they and which one is right for you?
We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects.
Dependabot now alerts for vulnerable GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions gives teams access to powerful, native CI/CD capabilities right next to their code hosted in GitHub. Starting today, GitHub will send a Dependabot alert for vulnerable GitHub Actions, making it even easier to stay up to date and fix security vulnerabilities in your actions workflows.
Open Source
Expand your open source contributions during Hacktoberfest 2022
Give back to open source projects during the month of October! This year, we’re encouraging more than code contributions: writing, design, advocacy, and financial donations.
Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.38.
Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience.
The ReadME Project: Built for you!
The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development.
“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: putting the Vault in GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
GitHub this month installed a massive steel vault, etched with striking AI-generated art, deep within an Arctic mountain, finalizing its Arctic Code Vault. This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years. It also now includes a Tech Tree, a human-readable selection of works describing software, computers, and their foundational technologies, along with full-text copies of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other data sources.
Enterprise
GitHub Availability Report: September 2022
In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August.
Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.
Best practices on rolling out code scanning at enterprise scale
Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO.
Education
Working on a creative project? Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience
Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground.
Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience.
Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus features
Calling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus!
Policy
Developers are now included in the WIPO Global Innovation Index
We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits.
GitHub supports internet freedom and global availability in Iran
Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community.
Why we signed the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
As the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That's why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We're committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for democracy and human rights, and we encourage you to join us in this pledge.
Company
Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.
The ReadME Project: Built for you!
The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development.
5 steps to convince your boss to send you to GitHub Universe
Here are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included!