The latest blogs from GitHub

Whether you’re reviewing project issues from your phone while traveling for business, or trying to find a specific Node.js repository to show a friend at lunch, we want the GitHub.com…

GitHub is joining the LOT Network, an open patent-licensing program designed to reduce patent litigation. The rising threat of patent trolls Some claim that software patents are essential to motivate…

Unified and split diffs now feature syntax highlighting, which adds colors to your code to make its meaning and structure clearer. Now you can more easily understand the code that…

Since we introduced the Status API, you’ve been able to improve the quality of your code by including the status of a pull request within the conversation timeline, for every…

Webhooks are now available at the organization level on GitHub.com. Organization webhooks send events for all repositories in an organization. They also include new events for repository creation, team membership,…

We’re excited to let you know about the next installment of our Patchwork hack night on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at Polygon. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on…

For those of us in the United States, many of our families have collected White House holiday ornaments over the years. With the Octocat’s history of celebrating moments, we thought…

We’re open-sourcing the components that power task lists on GitHub, including the HTML rendering pipeline filter packaged as a Gem and the JavaScript update behaviors published as a Bower package.…

Last month, we released the Octocat figurine, finally taking our mascot into the third dimension. For years, we’ve illustrated her in different themes—from human culture to pop culture—so a figurine…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Monday, November 24, 2014 with our friends at TechColumbus. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git…

Microsoft announced at their Connect event last week that they will be open sourcing much of the .NET technology stack, as well as moving development of these technologies over to…

After we introduced the merge button on mobile, we heard from many of you that you’d love to be able to delete merged branches on your phone too. Now you…

This week we will be conducting a “brownout” of all misconfigured GitHub Pages sites. If your GitHub Pages site’s DNS is pointed at an out-of-date IP address, we will intermittently…

@dbussink, @samlambert, @jlord and @mikemcquaid are in town so join them for delicious BBQ and Beer (or soft beverage of your choice) at Campus North. Everyone is welcome! The Facts:…

Today we’re releasing the fastest and most flexible version of GitHub Enterprise ever, including high availability and disaster recovery options, dramatically improved LDAP and SAML integration, major improvements to features…

Today, we’re releasing an all-new GitHub Enterprise designed to make it even easier for developers and businesses around the world to use GitHub at work. Now available on Amazon Web…

Update: We’ve extended the deprecation deadline to February 2, 2015 to give Pages users more time to update their DNS records. If you use a custom domain with GitHub Pages,…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 with our friends at Dev Bootcamp Chicago. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for…

We’re thrilled to host our next Patchwork Night in Nashville, on October 29th at 6:30PM at Emma’s wonderful space, The Bistro. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop…

For years, the Octocat has been stuck in the realm of two dimensions—but no more! Now she’s crawling off your laptop and onto your desk as a 5″ vinyl figurine.…

To bring more transparency and clarity to the processes surrounding the DMCA, we are rolling out three improvements to the way we process copyright takedowns: First, whenever possible, users will…