How much can the GitHub community accomplish in a year? 1.1 billion contributions and so much more in The State of the Octoverse 2018.

Developers everywhere are improving their workflows with the Electron-based GitHub Desktop app since we launched it a year ago. If you’re using an older version of Desktop or have never used it, now is a great time to try it out.

As more developers draw from existing code libraries to build new tools, tracking changes in dependencies like security vulnerabilities has become more difficult. Since the launch of security alerts last year, we’ve taken an active

Last year, GitHub brought 24 million people from almost 200 countries together to code better and build bigger. From frameworks to data visualizations across more than 25 million repositories, you were busy in 2017—and the

Last month, we made it easier for you to keep track of the projects your code depends on with the dependency graph, currently supported in Javascript and Ruby. Today, for the over 75 percent of

Earlier this year, we launched topics, a new feature that lets you tag repositories with descriptive words or phrases. Topics help you create connections between similar GitHub projects and explore them by type, technology, and

We just released an open data set for the open source community, researchers, and curious data wonks to study. The data includes responses from 5,500 open source participants randomly sampled from over 3,800 projects on

GitHub data is available for public analysis using Google BigQuery, and we’d like to help you take it for a spin. If you’d like to find out more about what data is available and how

Data gives us insight into how people build software, and the activities of open source communities on GitHub represent one of the richest datasets ever created of people working together at scale. In 2012, the

Recently we took a look at the popularity of programming languages used on GitHub.com. Below is a graph that shows the change in rank of languages since GitHub launched in 2008. The rank represents languages