Being friendly: Friendly forks 101
This is the first post in a two-part series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. Stay tuned for part two coming in May!
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Celebrating 40 years of ZX Spectrum ❤️ 💛 💚 💙
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active - creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.
Highlights from Git 2.36
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.36.
Dependabot alerts now surface if your code is calling a vulnerability
Today, we're shipping a new feature for Dependabot alerts which helps you better understand how you're affected by a vulnerability.
Performance at GitHub: deferring stats with rack.after_reply
How we sped up GitHub.com by moving slow, non-critical code into rack.after_reply.
Release Radar · March 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…
Improving your GitHub feed
Today, we are rolling out a new beta version of GitHub’s home feed, making it easier to discover projects, developers and more across GitHub.
Release Radar · February 2022 Edition
Our community has shipped lots of open source project updates in the last month. Here's a few of our staff picks.
The GitHub Stars in our eyes ⭐️
Over the past year, the GitHub Stars have made a tremendous impact in the community with their influence, inspiring and building communities and creating content to help everyone.
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.
Release Radar · January 2022 Edition
Here's January's top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases.
Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Release Radar · December 2021 Edition
Our community has been hard at work through December shipping updates. Here's our staff picks for open source projects with major version releases.
Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?
When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn't just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.
Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4
We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google.