$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community
Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.
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Automate your project with GitHub Models in Actions
Learn how to integrate AI features with GitHub Models directly in GitHub Actions workflows.
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Onboarding your AI peer programmer: Setting up GitHub Copilot coding agent for success
Learn how to configure Copilot coding agent’s environment, optimize project structure, use custom instructions, and extend its capabilities with MCP servers.
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Light waves, rising tides, and drifting ships: Game Off 2025 winners
This year’s Game Off winners weren’t just inspired by the WAVES theme. They surfed it. From sound-bending platformers and tide-controlled puzzles to glow-slug exploration, naval drift madness, and typing so…
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Highlights from Git 2.31
The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new. Last time we caught up with you, Git 2.29…
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Orchestrator at GitHub
GitHub uses MySQL to store its metadata: Issues, Pull Requests, comments, organizations, notifications and so forth. While git repository data does not need MySQL to exist and persist, GitHub’s service…
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Nodeload2: Downloads Reloaded
Nodeload, the first GitHub node.js project, turned 1 year old recently. Nodeload is what prepares git repository contents into zip and tarballs. As the service has grown over the last…
Engineering
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How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.
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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
Plus, considerations in updating one of GitHub’s oldest and most heavily used features.
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
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Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
How do we translate web accessibility standards to command line applications? This is GitHub CLI’s journey toward making terminal experiences for all developers.
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Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this candid interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
Using GitHub Copilot Free: What to know
Find out what you can do with the free tier of GitHub Copilot, the AI editor for everyone, and start building what’s next today.
Octoverse 2024: The rise of Python and AI
Find out how AI and a rapidly growing global developer community defined this past year on GitHub across public and open source projects.
News & insights
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We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
Open source software is critical infrastructure, but it’s underfunded. With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.
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GitHub Availability Report: June 2025
In June, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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From pair to peer programmer: Our vision for agentic workflows in GitHub Copilot
AI agents in GitHub Copilot don’t just assist developers but actively solve problems through multi-step reasoning and execution. Here’s what that means.
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GitHub Availability Report: May 2025
In May, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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GitHub Universe 2025: Here’s what’s in store at this year’s developer wonderland
Sharpen your skills, test out new tools, and connect with people who build like you.
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GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent
Implementing features has never been easier: Just assign a task or issue to Copilot. It runs in the background with GitHub Actions and submits its work as a pull request.
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