Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability
The Sigstore GA means you can protect your software supply chain today with GitHub Actions, and will power new npm security capabilities in the near future.
Build a game this November with Game Off 2022
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉
Git Merge 2022 - that's a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.
Unboxing fork improvements and unwrapping fork docs
We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.
Improving navigation for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions changed how developers automate workflows with GitHub. Today, we’re introducing a new navigation to manage your GitHub Actions experience, improving discoverability and accessibility as well as opening up future feature opportunities.
Git security vulnerabilities announced
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially when cloning with --recurse-submodules from untrusted repositories, or if you use git shell interactive mode.
Latest posts
Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
GitHub at the 77th United Nations General Assembly
Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.
5 tips for embedding security into your workflows
Having a robust security plan is key to innovation. These tips will empower you to gain the upper hand on cyberattacks, so you can ship quickly and innovate with ease.
OSI’s Deep Dive is an essential discussion on the future of AI and open source
GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.
Engineering
The Story of Scalar
New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.
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.
Community
Build a game this November with Game Off 2022
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉
Git Merge 2022 - that's a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.
The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.
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.
Trending stories
1
Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
2
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.
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.
4
Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
5
Git security vulnerabilities announced
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially when cloning with --recurse-submodules from untrusted repositories, or if you use git shell interactive mode.
6
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
Improving navigation for GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions changed how developers automate workflows with GitHub. Today, we’re introducing a new navigation to manage your GitHub Actions experience, improving discoverability and accessibility as well as opening up future feature opportunities.
5 tips for embedding security into your workflows
Having a robust security plan is key to innovation. These tips will empower you to gain the upper hand on cyberattacks, so you can ship quickly and innovate with ease.
Introducing GitHub Advanced Security SIEM integrations for security professionals
Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) alerts with Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) tools. Check out the integrations, and read more about getting started.
The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.
View GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces
Developers can now view GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces. The new Microsoft SARIF Viewer extension gives developers direct access to their code scanning results, making remediating vulnerabilities easier than ever.
On the go with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile (public beta)
Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta.
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.
Security
Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability
The Sigstore GA means you can protect your software supply chain today with GitHub Actions, and will power new npm security capabilities in the near future.
Git security vulnerabilities announced
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially when cloning with --recurse-submodules from untrusted repositories, or if you use git shell interactive mode.
Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
5 tips for embedding security into your workflows
Having a robust security plan is key to innovation. These tips will empower you to gain the upper hand on cyberattacks, so you can ship quickly and innovate with ease.
Introducing GitHub Advanced Security SIEM integrations for security professionals
Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) alerts with Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) tools. Check out the integrations, and read more about getting started.
View GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces
Developers can now view GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces. The new Microsoft SARIF Viewer extension gives developers direct access to their code scanning results, making remediating vulnerabilities easier than ever.
GitHub’s supply chain security features now support Dart
Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts.
Open Source
Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability
The Sigstore GA means you can protect your software supply chain today with GitHub Actions, and will power new npm security capabilities in the near future.
Build a game this November with Game Off 2022
Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉
Git Merge 2022 - that's a wrap! 🎬
Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.
Unboxing fork improvements and unwrapping fork docs
We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.
Git security vulnerabilities announced
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially when cloning with --recurse-submodules from untrusted repositories, or if you use git shell interactive mode.
Enterprise
Unboxing fork improvements and unwrapping fork docs
We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.
Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.
The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.
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
GitHub at the 77th United Nations General Assembly
Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.
OSI’s Deep Dive is an essential discussion on the future of AI and open source
GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.
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.
Company
The GitHub Universe 2022 agenda is live
Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.
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.