We’re making it easier for maintainers to grow healthy open source communities on GitHub with minimized comments, retired namespaces for popular projects, and new pull request requirements.

Just over a year ago Jekyll, the open source project that powers GitHub Pages, introduced shared themes. Since then, you’ve been able to use about a dozen themes to change the look and feel of

You write software so that others can use it, but no software is perfect, and sometimes users have questions or run into trouble. To better direct users to dedicated support channels, you can now describe

Back in September we added open source licenses to repository overview pages. Now, when you view a repository’s license, we’ll tell you a bit more about it. If a project is licensed under a popular

Publishing a website or software documentation with GitHub Pages now requires far fewer steps — three to be exact: Create a repository (or navigate to an existing repository) Commit a Markdown file via the web interface,

You’ve been able to use relative links when authoring Markdown on GitHub.com for a while. Now, those links will continue to work when published via GitHub Pages. If you have a Markdown file in your

As promised, GitHub Pages has been upgraded to Jekyll 3.2. The move to Jekyll 3.2 brings over 100 improvements including the introduction of Gem-based themes. You can begin using the Minima theme, starting today, by

GitHub Pages will upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 on August 23rd. The upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 comes with over 100 improvements including the introduction of themes, meaning that soon, you’ll be able to create a beautiful

Ensuring that your GitHub Pages site appears in search engines and is shareable via social media is now easier with the introduction of the Jekyll SEO Tag plugin. By simply adding the {% raw %}{%

GitHub Pages will upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Jekyll 3.1.4 on May 23rd. The Jekyll 3.1.x branch brings significant performance improvements to the build process, adds a handful of helpful Liquid filters, and fixes a few