Open Source

The vast majority of businesses today rely on open source, making it an essential part of the software industry. And millions of those projects are on GitHub. Learn about documentation, maintainers, gaming Git, licenses, and how open source positively impacts the world. You can also find information in our documentation about how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.

Git

Git credential helper vulnerability announced (Update)

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26.1 and older.

Git

Git credential helper vulnerability announced

Learn more about the security vulnerabilities affecting Git 2.26 and older.

Open Source

Learn about open source in the social sector from our latest report

Learn more about open source’s impact in the social sector from the Open Source for Good research paper.

Git

Celebrating 15 years of Git: An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano

GitHub is built on Git, and as Git celebrates its 15th anniversary, our own Jeff King interviews Git maintainer Junio Hamano about Git’s impact over the years.

Maintainers

Getting started with GitHub Sponsors

This quickstart guide walks you through several ways you can start pursuing funding for your open source work.

Git

Highlights from Git 2.26

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

Maintainers

Show open source some love and win a GitHub Hoodie with #OpenSourceValentine

Share your love for open source and learn how to get involved for a chance to win a GitHub hoodie.

Maintainers

The Arctic Code Vault starts production and your open source projects are being archived

On 02/02/2020 we took a snapshot of every active public repository on GitHub to be archived for a thousand years in the Arctic Code Vault. Learn about what’s included, how you can help us improve it, and more.

Maintainers

Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source

Want to contribute to open source, but not sure where to begin? GitHub now helps you find good first issues to get you started.

Maintainers

How we built the good first issues feature

We’ve recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.

Git

Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout

Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.

Gaming

Game Off 2019 Winners

Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our annual game jam celebrating open source. Let’s take a look at 2019’s winners.