2019
Hello, GitHub! I’m Erica Brescia
Software is truly changing the world, and I could not be more excited to be joining GitHub—the company at the center of it all—as Chief Operating Officer and help us scale to the next 36 million users and beyond.
Generate new repositories with repository templates
Today, we’re excited to introduce repository templates to make boilerplate code management and distribution a first-class citizen on GitHub. To get started, all you need to do is mark a repository as a template, and you’ll immediately be able to use it to generate new repositories with all of the template repository’s files and folders.
Maintainer spotlight: Sage Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Siân Griffin.
GitHub Desktop 2.0 expands to support stashing and rebasing
Resolve merge conflicts more easily, co-author commits to share credit with others, check out your GitHub pull requests, and more with the release of GitHub Desktop 2.0.
Direct instruction marking in Ruby 2.6
We recently upgraded GitHub to use the latest version of Ruby 2.6. Ruby 2.6 contains an optimization for reducing memory usage.
GitHub Package Registry will support Swift packages
Today we’re excited to announce that we’ll be adding support for Swift packages to GitHub Package Registry. Swift packages make it easy to share your libraries and source code across your projects and with the Swift community.
Pins to win: students, show off your stuff to win a GitHub Education backpack
Make your portfolio shine with pinned gists.
Maintainer spotlight: Mariatta Wijaya
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Mariatta Wijaya.
Preparing for your internship
Learn about the experiences of interning from several GitHub Campus Experts. They’ll share what they learned, and what they think you should know before starting.
Build like an open source community with GitHub Enterprise
To make it easier for businesses to securely embrace open source and keep up with the best technology has to offer, we’re launching several improvements to GitHub Enterprise. These new features will support businesses as they work toward their goals, encourage open collaboration, and build trust at scale.
Building an interconnected community, together
Today, we joined hundreds of developers in Berlin for GitHub Satellite, our global developer conference. To celebrate our interconnected community, we launched GitHub Sponsors to help support open source maintainers and contributors, released new security features to enable more secure software development from start to finish, and introduced new capabilities that address the needs of enterprises and large organizations.
Introducing new ways to keep your code secure
It’s more important than ever that every developer becomes a security developer—that they responsibly disclose vulnerabilities and patch vulnerable code quickly. Today, we’re excited to announce several new security features designed to make it easier for developers to secure their code.
Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source
We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. Open source developers build tools for the rest of us. GitHub Sponsors is a new tool to help them succeed, too.
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