Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @yvvdwf
We’re excited to highlight another top contributing researcher to GitHub’s Bug Bounty Program: @yvvdwf ⌘ Read more

GitHub keeps getting better for open source maintainers
Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone. ⌘ Read more

13 short and scary games plus source to play (or hack) this Halloween 🎃
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested in learning more about game ⌘ Read more

Everything new from Universe 2021
Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week. ⌘ Read more

A peek inside some of the top games from Ludum Dare 49
The 49th Ludum Dare game jam just wrapped up with almost 3000 entries. Here’s a peek at some of the highest-rated entries that you can play, plus their source code that you can poke around ⌘ Read more

GitHub Actions for security and compliance
GitHub Actions can automate several common security and compliance tasks, even if your CI/CD pipeline is managed by another tool. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Marketplace welcomes its 10,000th action
GitHub Marketplace just passed 10,000 published actions! Learn about contributing to this growing open source ecosystem. ⌘ Read more

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2021
In the past two years, GitHub has doubled in size, welcoming more than 760 new Hubbers in 2021 alone. This past year we particularly focused on our goal of making GitHub more equitable. We saw growth in our diversity representation, whose population increased at a higher rate than the company itself. ⌘ Read more

What’s new from GitHub Changelog? September 2021 recap
Catch up on 44 ships, including a colorblind-accessible theme, a public README.md for organizations, and customization of code review settings. ⌘ Read more

Meet the GitHub Universe hosts, and start building your schedule
We sat down with Universe hosts Lorena Mesa and Jarryd McCree for a quick Q&A to help you make the most out of your conference experience this year. ⌘ Read more

💾 Save the date for GitHub Game Off 2021
Game Off is an annual game jam (or “hackathon for building games”) that’s a little different from most—it lasts for the entire month of November—not just a weekend or a few days. It’s the perfect ⌘ Read more

Student developer resources you won’t find in the classroom
Heading back to school? Did you just graduate? The GitHub Education Stream Team (GEST) is sharing resources, tools, and more to help emerging developers land a job. Student leaders from around the world are creating and hosting shows to grow the tech community and share information you won’t find in the classroom. ⌘ Read more

Everybody is building one because, you know, why not? Why I built my own static site generator.

Apply now for GitHub Universe 2021 micro-mentoring
As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure GitHub’s conferences are accessible and inclusive to people from all walks of life, we’re offering 30-minute, 1:1 micro-mentoring sessions with GitHub employees. ⌘ Read more

GitHub security update: revoking weakly-generated SSH keys
On September 28, 2021, we received notice from the developer Axosoft regarding a vulnerability in a dependency of their popular git GUI client - GitKraken. An underlying issue with a dependency, called `keypair`, resulted in the GitKraken client generating weak SSH keys. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · September 2021 Edition
The Northern Hemisphere has hit fall, and the southern is starting to warm into summer. September has been a busy time for our community. Maintainers have been getting their repositories ready for Hacktoberfest, joining us ⌘ Read more

GitHub’s guide to Hacktoberfest 2021
Giving back to open source projects is a great way to practice skills you don’t get to use in your day job. Check out ways to get involved! ⌘ Read more

GitHub Advisory Database now powers npm audit
Today, we’re adding a proxy on top of the GitHub Advisory Database that speaks the `npm audit` protocol. This means that every version of the npm CLI that supports security audits is now talking directly to the GitHub Advisory Database. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: September 2021
In September, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. ⌘ Read more

13 tiny and terrific entries from the js13kGames competition
If you think about it, 13kB isn’t really a lot. The image above is 81kB. This page weighs over 3MB (waaay more if you include the videos). That’s why it’s so incredibly impressive that the ⌘ Read more

A new public beta of GitHub Releases: How we’re improving the release experience
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes. ⌘ Read more

Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researchers @chen-robert and @ginkoid
GitHub’s bug bounty team is excited to kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a spotlight on two security researchers who participate in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program. ⌘ Read more

Enterprise managed users are now generally available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Manage your company in the cloud with more control and governance using enterprise managed users. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is now generally available
Today, we’re excited to announce that GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is generally available. This release brings over 70 new features and changes that improve developer experience and deliver new security capabilities. ⌘ Read more

Revised enterprise DPA with new standard contractual clauses
As part of GitHub’s strong commitment to developer privacy, we are excited to announce updates to our privacy agreements in line with new legal requirements and our own robust data protection practices. ⌘ Read more

Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale
In 2019, to meet GitHub’s growth and availability challenges, we set a plan in motion to improve our tooling and ability to partition relational databases. ⌘ Read more

Announcing npm’s new access token format
npm access tokens will now follow the established format of GitHub authentication tokens. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Advisory Database now supports Rust
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on the Rust ecosystem! ⌘ Read more

using this as the service: https://github.com/JonLundy/sshfwd

Audit log streaming is now in public beta
If you’re a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, you can now set up a stream of audit log and Git events to Splunk or an Azure Event Hub. ⌘ Read more

The ReadME Project: A look back at the community stories that shape us
In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more

What’s new from GitHub Changelog? August 2021 Recap
What did we ship in August? Codespaces, Discussions, and lots of other updates, from the general availability of the dark high contrast theme to an auto-generated table of contents for wikis. ⌘ Read more

Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and GitHub Sponsors now open in India
Announcing recipients of the GitHub Open Source Grants and opening of GitHub Sponsors in India. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 brings new color modes and added security capabilities
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate. With this release, we’re shipping over 70 new features and changes to improve the developer experience and deliver new security capabilities for our customers. ⌘ Read more

An analysis on developer-security researcher interactions in the vulnerability disclosure process
We put out a call to open source developers and security researchers to talk about the security vulnerability disclosure process. Here’s what we found. ⌘ Read more

GitHub security update: Vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist
Between July 21, 2021 and August 13, 2021 we received reports through one of our private security bug bounty programs from researchers regarding vulnerabilities in tar and @npmcli/arborist. ⌘ Read more

Increasing developer happiness with GitHub code scanning
How GitHub uses code scanning to increase developer happiness, and how you can too. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · August 2021 Edition
The end of financial year is complete, tax time is over, and everyone is back to shipping awesome projects. During August, our community has been super busy shipping lots of new updates. These new releases ⌘ Read more

Introducing the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track
Applications are now open for the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track. Apply by September 13. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: August 2021
In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services. ⌘ Read more

Improving Git protocol security on GitHub
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. Only users connecting via SSH or git:// will be affected. If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline. ⌘ Read more

Introducing GitHub Global Campus
Calling all students! Get the most out of your GitHub Education experience by joining the GitHub student community on our new digital campus. ⌘ Read more

Vague infringement allegations considered harmful
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals. ⌘ Read more

Request for proposals: Defining standardized GitHub metrics
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. ⌘ Read more

@niplav@niplav.github.io bigwor~1

30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more

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30 free and open source Linux games – part 2
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories.   I shared the first 10 yesterday. ⌘ Read more

2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats. ⌘ Read more

GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful. ⌘ Read more