The latest blogs from GitHub

We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Henry Zhu.

The Atom editor has been updated to make common features notably faster.

Hello, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors Team! It’s been incredibly motivating for us to see the outpouring of enthusiasm for the launch and to hear your ideas for where you’d like to see it go from here. We’re just getting started, and your input is important to keep us going in the right direction.

Try your hand at fun challenges with several Noops for you to interact with.

Software is truly changing the world, and I could not be more excited to be joining GitHub—the company at the center of it all—as Chief Operating Officer and help us scale to the next 36 million users and beyond.

A look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

Today, we’re excited to introduce repository templates to make boilerplate code management and distribution a first-class citizen on GitHub. To get started, all you need to do is mark a repository as a template, and you’ll immediately be able to use it to generate new repositories with all of the template repository’s files and folders.

We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Siân Griffin.

Resolve merge conflicts more easily, co-author commits to share credit with others, check out your GitHub pull requests, and more with the release of GitHub Desktop 2.0.

We recently upgraded GitHub to use the latest version of Ruby 2.6. Ruby 2.6 contains an optimization for reducing memory usage.

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ll be adding support for Swift packages to GitHub Package Registry. Swift packages make it easy to share your libraries and source code across your projects and with the Swift community.

Make your portfolio shine with pinned gists.

We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Mariatta Wijaya.

Learn about the experiences of interning from several GitHub Campus Experts. They’ll share what they learned, and what they think you should know before starting.

To make it easier for businesses to securely embrace open source and keep up with the best technology has to offer, we’re launching several improvements to GitHub Enterprise. These new features will support businesses as they work toward their goals, encourage open collaboration, and build trust at scale.

Today, we joined hundreds of developers in Berlin for GitHub Satellite, our global developer conference. To celebrate our interconnected community, we launched GitHub Sponsors to help support open source maintainers and contributors, released new security features to enable more secure software development from start to finish, and introduced new capabilities that address the needs of enterprises and large organizations.

It’s more important than ever that every developer becomes a security developer—that they responsibly disclose vulnerabilities and patch vulnerable code quickly. Today, we’re excited to announce several new security features designed to make it easier for developers to secure their code.

We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. Open source developers build tools for the rest of us. GitHub Sponsors is a new tool to help them succeed, too.

We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the April 2019 edition of Release Radar.

The XPRIZE Foundation challenged teams to develop open source software to help children learn basic reading, writing, and arithmetic—learn more about the challenge and who won.

Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.