Open source is hitting an “Eternal September.” As contribution friction drops, maintainers are adapting with new trust signals, triage approaches, and community-led solutions.
Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available in public preview on GitHub and VS Code with a Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Enterprise subscription. Here’s what you need to know and how to get started today.
What languages are growing fastest, and why? What about the projects that people are interested in the most? Where are new developers cutting their teeth? Let’s take a look at Octoverse data to find out.
A senior engineer’s guide to architecting and extending Copilot’s real-world applications.
In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Think of Continuous AI as background agents that operate in your repository for tasks that require reasoning.
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.
Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.
Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available in public preview on GitHub and VS Code with a Copilot Pro+ or Copilot Enterprise subscription. Here’s what you need to know and how to get started today.
Learn how to write effective agents.md files for GitHub Copilot with practical tips, real examples, and templates from analyzing 2,500+ repositories.
User feedback led us to clean up outdated mitigations. See why observability and lifecycle management are critical for defense systems.
GitHub is introducing post-quantum secure key exchange methods for SSH access to better protect Git data in transit.
Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.
Plus, considerations in updating one of GitHub’s oldest and most heavily used features.
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
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.
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.
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.
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with data from the Innovation Graph through Q3 2025.
Read GitHub’s position on the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy and learn how to participate.
Now in technical preview, the GitHub Copilot SDK can plan, invoke tools, edit files, and run commands as a programmable layer you can use in any application.
In December, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
We envision the future of AI-enabled tooling to look like near-effortless engineering for sustainability. We call it Continuous Efficiency.
A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience.
Build what’s next on GitHub, the place for anyone from anywhere to build anything.
Catch up on the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.
