On the go with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile (public beta)
Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta. ⌘ Read more

Developers are now included in the WIPO Global Innovation Index
We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits. ⌘ Read more

GitHub’s supply chain security features now support Dart
Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts. ⌘ Read more

js13kGames 2022 winners 🏆
The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries. ⌘ Read more

Detect secrets in your code more accurately with dry runs for custom patterns now available in GitHub Advanced Security
Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: September 2022
In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August. ⌘ Read more

Working on a creative project? Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience
Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground. ⌘ Read more

Two ways you can experience GitHub Universe
GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer. ⌘ Read more

Expand your open source contributions during Hacktoberfest 2022
Give back to open source projects during the month of October! This year, we’re encouraging more than code contributions: writing, design, advocacy, and financial donations. ⌘ Read more

Highlights from Git 2.38
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.38. ⌘ Read more

GitHub supports internet freedom and global availability in Iran
Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community. ⌘ Read more

After the offer: staying in tech long-term
Tech can be a tricky industry (to say the least). We talked with three tech professionals who share why they stay, what has helped them the most, and the power of switching things up. ⌘ Read more

Best practices on rolling out code scanning at enterprise scale
Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO. ⌘ Read more

Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience. ⌘ Read more

GitHub for Startups is generally available
We’re launching GitHub for Startups to give your startup the tools needed to go from idea to unicorn status on the world’s largest developer platform. ⌘ Read more

Security alert: new phishing campaign targets GitHub users
On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations. ⌘ Read more

Applications for micro-mentoring at GitHub Universe 2022 are now live
Students have the opportunity to connect with GitHub employees at GitHub Universe 2022 through Micro-Mentoring sessions hosted by GitHub Social Impact. ⌘ Read more

The ReadME Project: Built for you!
The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development. ⌘ Read more

Why we signed the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy
As the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That’s why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We’re committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for democracy and human rights, … ⌘ Read more

Transform your software engineering practices with GitHub Enterprise
Go beyond knowing GitHub as the home of open source and explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices. ⌘ Read more

“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: putting the Vault in GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
GitHub this month installed a massive steel vault, etched with striking AI-generated art, deep within an Arctic mountain, finalizing its Arctic Code Vault. This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/202 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years. It also now includes a … ⌘ Read more

Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience. ⌘ Read more

5 steps to convince your boss to send you to GitHub Universe
Here are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included! ⌘ Read more

5 tips for prioritizing Dependabot alerts
Dependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building. ⌘ Read more

How we tripled max concurrent jobs to boost performance of GitHub Actions
The GitHub Actions team has done lots of work to improve the performance and resource consumption of Actions on GHES in the past year. ⌘ Read more

8 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Copilot
Developers all over the world are using GitHub Copilot to help speed up their development and increase developer productivity. With GitHub Copilot available to developers everywhere, we’ve found some fun and useful examples of how developers can use GitHub Copilot for things you may not be thinking about. ⌘ Read more

Scaling Git’s garbage collection
A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories. ⌘ Read more

Join GitHub at the Grace Hopper Celebration 2022
We’re thrilled to be back at the Grace Hopper Celebration at Open Source Day, the largest celebration of women in open source. Stop by and say hi at one of our workshops. ⌘ Read more

Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus features
Calling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus! ⌘ Read more

SCA vs SAST: what are they and which one is right for you?
We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot now available for teachers
After a year in technical preview, GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, is now free for all teachers verified on GitHub Global Campus. ⌘ Read more

Research: open source software in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico
Read the new GitHub report on OSS in India, Kenya, Egypt, and Mexico. Available now in English, and in Spanish and Arabic later this year. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: August 2022
In August, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We’re still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in July. ⌘ Read more

Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness
When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? Our research, using a combination of surveys and experiments, led us to expected and unexpected answers. ⌘ Read more

Join us for OctogatosConf 2022
Live on September 15, 2022, with talks by industry experts in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, on topics including software development, security, technical project management, community, open source, professional development and best practices. ⌘ Read more

Contributing to open source at GitHub
A software engineer’s personal journey to becoming an open source contributor. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · August 2022 Edition
We’ve been gearing up to launch GitHub Universe 2022 and our community has been launching cool projects left right and center.  These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of the open source projects that released major version updates this August. Read more about these projects in […] ⌘ Read more

Git’s database internals V: scalability
This fifth and final part of our blog series exploring Git’s internals shows several strategies for scaling your Git repositories that match related database sharding techniques. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Actions: introducing the new, larger GitHub-hosted runners beta
Now your team can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time writing code. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Actions: introducing the new, larger GitHub-hosted runners beta
Now your team can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time writing code. ⌘ Read more

Git’s database internals IV: distributed synchronization
We’re examining Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. This post views Git as a distributed database and looks into its synchronization techniques, specifically ‘git fetch’ and ‘git push’. ⌘ Read more

What you can expect at GitHub Universe 2022: cloud, security, community, and AI
Register now to attend GitHub Universe virtually or in-person at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on November 9-10. ⌘ Read more

Git’s Database Internals III: File History Queries
Git’s file history queries use specialized algorithms that are tailored to common developer behavior. Level up your history spelunking skills by learning how different history modes behave and which ones to use when you need them. ⌘ Read more

Git’s database internals II: commit history queries
This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom query index – the commit-graph file – and how to make sure it’s enabled in your repositories. ⌘ Read more

Git’s database internals I: packed object store
This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses how Git stores its data in packfiles using custom compression techniques. ⌘ Read more

3 ways every company can get started with an open-source software strategy
The future of software development does not exist without open source. However, to maintain today’s software and create the software of the future, the largest organizations and beneficiaries of open source need to expand their collaboration with the community and help it grow. ⌘ Read more

Keeping your skillset fresh as a developer
Whether you’re committing 30 minutes or 3 hours a day to learning, consistency is key. Klint Finley asks 3 tech professionals at different stages in their career for more advice. ⌘ Read more

Introducing Trilogy: a new database adapter for Ruby on Rails
We’ve open sourced Trilogy, the database adapter we use to connect Ruby on Rails to MySQL-compatible database servers. ⌘ Read more

Open Source Monthly: August 2022 Edition
This month’s featured open source project, Open Sauced, connects contributors and maintainers through analytical insights. ⌘ Read more

The full lineup for Git Merge 2022 revealed
We are pleased to announce the full lineup of talks and workshops for this year’s Git Merge conference in Chicago. 17 talks, 3 workshops, 1 panel, and some great company! ⌘ Read more