Risk Olson

Distributed version control systems like Git have enabled new and powerful workflows, but they haven’t always been practical for versioning large files. We’re excited to announce Git Large File Storage…

Good news, everyone! Changing your public profile picture just got easier. Click the “Account Settings” icon in the header. Upload a picture of your awesome new haircut. Crop the picture…

This summer we made it easier to release your software. Today, you can fully automate those releases via the Releases API Preview. ✨⚡🚀 You can even upload binaries in a…

Today, we’re excited to announce Releases, a workflow for shipping software to end users. Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond…

We are finishing up a new GitHub Services backend, dubbed “Hookshot”, to increase the speed and reliability of our delivered payloads. We are doing what we can to make this…

We recently started letting you tidy up your Pull Requests. What happens when someone deletes a branch that is still needed? Starting today, you can restore any head branch of…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Reducing words is one of our top priorities at GitHub HQ, so we’re releasing image attachments for issues today. Update: Oh,…

Now that the dust has settled around Notifications and Stars, we’ve unleashed all that ✨ in a brand new API. You can now view and mark notifications as read. The…

We recently changed the Watcher behavior on GitHub. What used to be known as “Watching” is now “Starring”. Starring is basically a way to bookmark interesting repositories. Watching is a…

We have shut down API v1 and v2 as promised. Just a reminder, you should follow @GitHubAPI on Twitter for the latest updates about the API. API v3 keeps a…

API v3 has been in place for nearly a year. We’ve seen a large increase in the amount of API consumers and have ambitious future plans for it. However, at…

Nodeload 2 has been rocking since August, so I thought I’d give a quick report of its performance. Nodeload is the system responsible for dynamically building and delivering your Git…

Do you have a GitHub URL you’d like to shorten? Use Git.io! $ curl -i https://git.io -F “url=https://github.com/…” HTTP/1.1 201 Created Location: https://git.io/abc123 $ curl -i https://git.io/abc123 HTTP/1.1 302 Found…

Today we’re announcing two new API features: Event Timeline access, and OAuth Authorizations. We’ve also tweaked the way mime types work in preparation for the finalization of API v3. Event…

Over three years ago, @pjhyett launched GitHub Services with just four services: Campfire, IRC, Lighthouse, and Twitter. Since then, 124 other people contributed to a total of 68 third-party services.…