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Issue and pull request templates help teams gather the right information from the beginning of a thread, but sometimes one template just isn’t enough. Now project maintainers can have and…

Repository owners, collaborators, and prior contributors to a public repository can now more easily report comments, issues, pull requests, and commit comments to GitHub Support. Selecting the icon above will…

Get a more complete overview of how each of your projects is going. Now you’ll see a progress bar that tracks the to do, in progress, and done cards and…

Several years ago, Jekyll, the open source project that powers GitHub Pages, introduced shared themes. Since then, you have been able to use about a dozen themes to change the…

Working together on software is so much more than writing code. Processes like planning, analysis, design, user research, documentation, and general project decision-making all play a part in the build…

Last month, we made it easier for you to keep track of the projects your code depends on with the dependency graph, currently supported in Javascript and Ruby. Today, for…

Writing code with other developers can be a great way to onboard teammates, get to know how your peers think, and learn new skills. Unfortunately, writing code together can be…

Just because a repository isn’t actively developed anymore and you don’t want to accept additional contributions doesn’t mean you want to delete it. Now archive repositories on GitHub to make…

Continuous Integration (CI) tools help you stick to your team’s quality standards by running tests every time you push a new commit and reporting the results to a pull request.…

Today we’re releasing the first set of project automation events. Now you can set up your project boards to make updates for you automatically, moving cards between columns when you…

Earlier this year, we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. As noted during our initial announcement, the vast majority of HTTPS clients connect to GitHub using TLSv1.2 and…

Review requests are a great way to ask for review on software, and with the addition of team requests you can get the feedback you need faster. To make it…

Your team can get more done when they have all of the information they need in one place. Now, you can see helpful references in issues you’re already working in…

Today I am pleased to share our second annual Diversity Report. While we are working every day internally to make GitHub the most inclusive company it can possibly be, this…

While effective code review is essential to every successful project, it’s not always clear who should review files—even with GitHub’s reviewer suggestions. Now repository maintainers can define exactly which people…