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Beginner’s guide to GitHub repositories: How to create your first repo

Git started on your first repository in the third installment of GitHub for Beginners. Discover the essential features and settings to manage your projects effectively.

Product

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.13 is now generally available

With this version, customers can choose how to best scale their security strategy, gain more control over deployments, and so much more.

Engineering

Unlocking the power of unstructured data with RAG

Unstructured data holds valuable information about codebases, organizational best practices, and customer feedback. Here are some ways you can leverage it with RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation.

Community

Leveraging technology on the frontlines of emergency: How communities of developers are taking action

From sending emergency alerts about nearby fires to mapping services in refugee camps, developers are taking action to solve global problems.

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Security

Execute commands by sending JSON? Learn how unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities work in Ruby projects

Can an attacker execute arbitrary commands on a remote server just by sending JSON? Yes, if the running code contains unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities. But how is that possible? In this blog post, we’ll describe how unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities work and how you can detect them in Ruby projects.

Engineering

GitHub Availability Report: May 2024

In May, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Engineering

How we improved push processing on GitHub

Pushing code to GitHub is one of the most fundamental interactions that developers have with GitHub every day. Read how we have significantly improved the ability of our monolith to correctly and fully process pushes from our users.

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GitHub Actions: Ubuntu 24.04 image now available for arm64 runners

June 24, 2024

Introducing Copilot Extensions: everything you need to know to get started

June 21, 2024

Enhanced enterprise support and scope update for the Copilot User Management API

June 21, 2024

CodeQL can scan C# projects without requiring working builds (public beta)

June 20, 2024

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Engineering

How we’re building more inclusive and accessible components at GitHub

We’ve made improvements to the way users of assistive technology can interact with and navigate lists of issues and pull requests and tables across GitHub.com.

Empowering accessibility: GitHub’s journey building an in-house Champions program

As part of GitHub’s dedication to accessibility, we expanded our internal accessibility program and scaled up our assessment process to help remove or lower barriers for users with disabilities. Then, we empowered employees from various disciplines to drive accessibility efforts within their teams.

How GitHub uses merge queue to ship hundreds of changes every day

Here’s how merge queue transformed the way GitHub deploys changes to production at scale, so you can do the same for your organization.

Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI

A peek under the hood of GitHub Advanced Security code scanning autofix.

Bringing npm registry services to GitHub Codespaces

The npm engineering team recently transitioned to using GitHub Codespaces for local development for npm registry services. This shift to Codespaces has substantially reduced the friction of our inner development loop and boosted developer productivity.

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Automate your software development lifecycle with GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions helps your developers automate away complexity, move faster, and focus more on delivering value. Software development is complicated, but your organization’s tools don’t have to be. “In the past, we were able to deploy to production, maybe in a week, sometimes in two,” says Gabriel Galeazzi, DevSecOs and Cloud at Itau Unibanco. Now, with the GitHub Actions platform, we can deploy in one hour or two hours.”

Inclusive innovation: GitHub’s drive for accessible coding

Showcasing six inspirational stories of overcoming limitations and pursuing passions with accessible technologies. Our ever-evolving tech landscape opens doors to new opportunities and possibilities.

Basic Git commands you need to know | Git commands with examples

Take your Git skills to the next level with this beginner-friendly guide to the most essential Git commands. From configuring your Git environment to creating repositories and managing branches, this video will walk you through the daily commands you’ll use.

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