October 2026

Today, we laid out our vision for GitHub as the most comprehensive, end-to-end software delivery system in the world.

See how a record year of growth reached every industry, every field, and every kind of builder in the 2026 Octoverse report.

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers.

We moved a copy of 99.99999% of GitHub’s repositories to Azure. Here’s how per-reference quorums will bring over the rest, and how object storage lets reads scale independently.

Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results.

Put native GitHub features to work to review outside collaborator access and archive stale repositories.

In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made.

GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%.

The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning.

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub.

Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it.