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gh brings GitHub to the command line by helping developers manage pull requests, issues, gists, and much more. As of 1.9.0, even more of GitHub is available in your terminal:…

GitHub Actions provide a powerful, extensible way to automate software development workflows. When access to outside resources is required, GitHub provides the ability to store encrypted secrets used by GitHub…

The open source community is always hard at work. February’s projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some…

The modern internet was built on a legal framework of safe harbors for user-generated content. These safe harbors are widely credited with having enabled global internet innovation by protecting online…

In March, we experienced three incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, webhooks, API requests, GitHub Pages, and GitHub Actions services.Follow up to…

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle reaffirms that developers’ ability to port their code and skills between platforms is a significant interest to be protected. The headline is…

If you’re an open source maintainer, you know that keeping the wheels of the open source ecosystem turning is quite a task. Project maintenance is uniquely challenging and rewarding work.…

We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…

About a year ago, we migrated an old rate limiter in order to serve more traffic and accommodate a more resilient platform architecture. We adopted a replicated Redis backend with…

GitHub Mobile helps you get work done when you’re on the go, wherever you go. You’ve told us that you’d like more options for push notifications and viewing releases on…

GitHub Desktop aims to provide an intuitive way for users to complete everyday Git and GitHub workflows. One of our most requested features from the past year is cherry-picking, and…

GitHub Advanced Security helps you create secure applications with a community-driven, developer-first approach. Today, we are excited to announce two updates: Beta of the new security overview for organizations and…

March is Women’s History Month: a unique time to celebrate the myriad impact of women leaders, both throughout history and today. It’s also a time to reflect on the challenges…

A year ago, we were celebrating the launch of GitHub India to serve the third largest developer community on GitHub. Today, I am thrilled to welcome GitHub Satellite to India…

Rendering logs in a web UI might seem simple: they are just lines of plain text. However, there are a lot of additional features that make them more useful to…

We are taking GitHub Campus TV to the next level with the help of emerging developers! How? Students from around the world are coming together to host weekly streams on…

When it comes to security research, the path from bug to vulnerability to exploit can be a long one. Security researchers often end their research journey at the “Proof of…

Imagine you’re in an organization with over 2,000 repositories across several different product lines. It can be daunting task to find the right project.

Earlier this month, we challenged you to a Call to Hacktion—a CTF (Capture the Flag) competition to put your GitHub Workflow security skills to the test.Participants were invited to find…

This article originally appeared in The New Stack, and is republished here with permission.Digital sovereignty has become a rallying cry across the globe. In 2021, open innovation will, counterintuitively, provide…

On March 8, we shared that, out of an abundance of caution, we logged all users out of GitHub.com due to a rare security vulnerability. We believe that transparency is…