The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
100 million developers and counting
There are now 100 million developers around the world using GitHub. Here’s what this means—and why it’s just the beginning.
Introducing the GitHub Bug Bounty swag store
We’re excited to share the newest addition to our GitHub Bug Bounty Program!
Pwning the all Google phone with a non-Google bug
It turns out that the first “all Google” phone includes a non-Google bug. Learn about the details of CVE-2022-38181, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU. Join me on my journey through reporting the vulnerability to the Android security team, and the exploit that used this vulnerability to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on a Pixel 6 from an Android app.
Unpacking the value of open source and code collaboration
We’re more excited than ever about what the future holds and the role open source will continue to play in solving critical societal challenges.
Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile
How to tap into the power of GitHub Actions from anywhere with GitHub Mobile!
Unlocking security updates for transitive dependencies with npm
How Dependabot integrated with npm to address security vulnerabilities on transitive dependencies and increase the likelihood of success for JavaScript security updates by 40%.
How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features.
Remediation made simple: Introducing new validity checks for GitHub tokens
GitHub now tells you whether GitHub tokens found by secret scanning are active so you can prioritize and escalate remediation efforts.
Dependabot alerts are now visible to more developers
Default settings will allow developers with write and maintain access to see and resolve Dependabot alerts.
Git security vulnerabilities announced
Git users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, especially if they use `git archive`, work in untrusted repositories, or use Git GUI on Windows.
3 common DevOps antipatterns and cloud native strategies that can help
Explore how GitHub and cloud native strategies can help you address common DevOps pipeline and team antipatterns.
New GitHub CLI extension tools
Support for GitHub CLI extensions has been expanded with new authorship tools and more ways to discover and install custom commands. Learn how to write powerful extensions in Go and find new commands to install.
A smarter, quieter Dependabot
Dependabot is getting a little smarter—and, a little quieter—by reducing bot-based noise from repositories based on your interaction with Dependabot.
Passwordless deployments to the cloud
Discovering passwords in our codebase is probably one of our worst fears. But what if you didn’t need passwords at all, and could deploy to your cloud provider another way? In this post, we explore how you can use OpenID Connect to trust your cloud provider, enabling you to deploy easily, securely and safely, while minimizing the operational overhead associated with secrets (for example, key rotations).
Introducing required workflows and configuration variables to GitHub Actions
Now, you can standardize and enforce CI/CD best practices across all repositories in your organization to reduce duplication and secure your DevOps processes.
GitHub Discussions just got better with Category Forms!
Category Forms allow maintainers to create templates for their GitHub Discussions, which means that users can start new discussions with all the necessary information already included.
Default setup: A new way to enable GitHub code scanning
Default setup is a new way to automatically set up code scanning on your repository, without the use of a .yaml file.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.
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