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GitHub is pleased to announce that version 1.0 of the Atom text editor is now available from atom.io. Read the full behind the scenes story over on the Atom blog.…

Graphs, and pencils, and locks…Oh my! Now you can collect themed Octicon buttons with the four new button packs offered in the GitHub Shop.

We’re hosting Hackcon III at our San Francisco office on July 18th and 19th. Hackcon is the place to be for student hackathon organizers. The event is run by our…

A few days ago we announced that “GitHub is growing in Europe”. This growth is supported by GitHub teams based in UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The team in…

CodeConf is next week, and I couldn’t be more excited to bring the open source community together to exchange ideas and have some fun in Nashville. There are a few…

We’re excited to announce that our next Patchwork hack night will be on Tuesday, June 23, and will be co-hosted with our friends at Deavor Co-Working in Nashville. 🎉 🤘…

Last week we opened our first international office in Japan. This week we thought we’d take a closer look at Europe, which happens to be the largest demographic of GitHub…

You can now create deploy keys with read-only access. A deploy key is an SSH key that is stored on your server and grants access to a single GitHub repository.…

Like most software applications, GitHub can generate a few exceptions. Incoming exceptions range from system-level issues including Git timeouts and missing references, to application-level issues including simple code mistakes and…

One of the key points of GitHub’s engineering culture —and I believe, of any good engineering culture— is our obsession with aggressively measuring everything. Coda Hale’s seminal talk “Metrics, Metrics…

Navigating what’s most important to you on GitHub.com just got a little easier with our updated site header. The new header gives you faster access to your pull requests and…

Organizations have always been the best way for teams to work together and collaborate on code. We’re happy to announce major improvements to GitHub organization permissions. These improvements include new…

GitHub <3s Japan, and today we’re excited to announce the formation of GitHub Japan G.K., a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc. Our new office in Tokyo is our first official office…

CodeConf is coming June 25 & 26 to Nashville and will feature the best that the open source community has to offer. We’re excited to share that there will be…

When we shipped the new GitHub Issues, we made it easy to scope lists of Issues and Pull Requests with filters like author, date, mentions, and team mentions. With the…