Security: Heartbleed vulnerability
On April 7, 2014 information was released about a new vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in OpenSSL, the cryptography library that powers the vast majority of private communication across the Internet. This library…
Repository redirects are here!
It's a fact of life - sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…
New GitHub Pages domain: github.io
Beginning today, all GitHub Pages sites are moving to a new, dedicated domain: github.io. This is a security measure aimed at removing potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the…
Notification Email Improvements
Reading notifications on github.com is greatly improved thanks to the numerous enhancements shipped out earlier today. We're excited to also announce a brand new email backend with support for rich…
Section links in READMEs and blob pages
Ever want to link to a specific section of a README or blob content page? Now you can. Hover over any section heading to expose the pilcrow: Clicking updates the…
Scheduled Maintenance Tomorrow @ 20:00 PST
The site will be down for maintenance tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 8, 2011) at 20:00 PST. We'll be restarting a couple redis servers to increase limits. Total downtime shouldn't exceed…
Mention @somebody. They’re notified.
Ever wish you could summon a particular someone to take a look at an issue or pull request? Now you can: When you @mention a GitHub username anywhere in the…
Hello Singapore (CDN Experiment)
Earlier this week we began experimenting with using Amazon CloudFront as a CDN for serving static assets. We've also rolled out some general asset delivery optimizations. Depending on how far…
Git Dumb HTTP Transport to be turned off in 90 days
UPDATE: Dumb HTTP has been disabled as of Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 2AM PST. If you'd like a little more time to transition, please contact support and we can…
Threaded Email Notifications
Over the weekend we rolled out a few changes to email notifications to better take advantage of your mail reader's ability to group messages into conversations and threads: Here's what's…
Pull Request Diff Comments
That's right. They're here. Now you can comment directly on individual lines in the Diff attached to any Pull Request. These things are smart. They keep their proper position, even…
Sidejack Prevention
A Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released this week that makes it easy to capture and exploit other user's HTTP session cookies sent over insecure connections on untrusted networks. This…
Pull Requests 2.0
GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You've used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we're taking it to…
Cross-Repository Compare View
When we launched Compare View earlier this year, we knew there was a killer feature still missing: the ability to compare branches across repositories. Easy forking and the networks that…
Scheduled Maintenance Today @ 22:00 PST
UPDATE: Maintenance completed with great success. Thanks! The site will be down for maintenance today (Friday, May 28, 2010) starting at 22:00 PST for a (long due) Redis upgrade. We…
Tracking Deploys with Compare View
We log a message to Campfire anytime someone deploys code to staging or production. It looks like this: Recently, we added the link pointing to a Compare View where you…