GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Markdown
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
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Securing the git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution vulnerability
How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation.
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An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
Latest
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Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
We’re making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
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Highlights from Git 2.54
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI
See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream.
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
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Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
We’re making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
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An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
Changelog
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How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
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The uphill climb of making diff lines performant
The path to better performance is often found in simplicity.
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Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions.
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How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server
Here’s how we made the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers.
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From pixels to characters: The engineering behind GitHub Copilot CLI’s animated ASCII banner
Learn how GitHub built an accessible, multi-terminal-safe ASCII animation for the Copilot CLI using custom tooling, ANSI color roles, and advanced terminal engineering.
Spotlight
Octoverse 2025: AI, India, and the new #1 programming language
Dive into the key findings from Octoverse 2025! This year saw record-breaking growth with over 180 million developers now on GitHub. We explore three big shifts: generative AI becoming ordinary engineering, TypeScript’s rise to the #1 language, and how AI is influencing developer choices. See how the developer map is redrawing itself faster than ever.
The untold story of Log4j and Log4Shell
In late 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability sent shockwaves through the global tech community. Hear the untold, inside story from Christian Grobmeier, a maintainer of the Log4j project.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
News & insights
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Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page
Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you’ll have better insight into the overall health of the platform.
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Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency
We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead.
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GitHub availability report: March 2026
In March, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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GitHub Universe is back: We want you to take the stage
Get inspired by five of the most memorable, magical, and quirky Universe sessions to date.
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What’s coming to our GitHub Actions 2026 security roadmap
A look at GitHub Actions’ 2026 roadmap, outlining how secure defaults, policy controls, and CI/CD observability harden the software supply chain end to end.
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Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.
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