15+ new code scanning integrations with open source security tools
Today, we’re happy to announce more than 15 new integrations with open source security tools that broaden our language coverage to include PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, and more.
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Open Source
Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects
When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.
Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7
At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.
Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
Today, we're launching a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, a new AI pair programmer that helps you write better code.
Securing the open source supply chain by scanning for package registry credentials
GitHub secret scanning has been securing our users’ code by scanning for and revoking secrets since 2015. Recently, we’ve focused on scanning for package registry credentials as well—a significant and…
Release Radar · May 2021 Edition
We've seen some amazing community projects this last month. This was a huge month for your community with hundreds of new releases. There’s everything from world-changing tech to weekend hobbies.…
Ludum Dare 48 staff picks
The theme for Ludum Dare 48 was “deeper and deeper,” which inspired over ten thousand people to create almost four thousand games together over a weekend. As you can imagine,…
GitHub Artifact Exporter open source release
GitHub Artifact Exporter provides a CLI and a simple GUI for exporting GitHub Issues and related comments based on a date range, and it supports GitHub’s full search syntax.
Release Radar · April 2021 Edition
We've seen some amazing community projects this last month. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech to weekend hobbies. There…
Scaling monorepo maintenance
At GitHub, we serve some of the largest Git repositories on the planet. We also serve some of the fastest-growing repositories. Each day, the largest repositories we host become even…
GitHub Desktop supports hiding whitespace, expanding diffs, and creating repository aliases
GitHub Desktop 2.8 now includes several new features to make it easier to work with diffs and easier for people who have multiple copies of the same repository. Expand diffs…
How we use GitHub Actions to manage GitHub Docs
👋 Hello from the GitHub Docs team! We build everything you see at docs.github.com. Over the past year, we've written a bunch of GitHub Actions workflows to do some fun…
GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors
GitHub Actions is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that gives developers the ability to automate all of their software workflows. Developers have built amazing things with GitHub Actions, and the…
Open source goes to Mars 🚀
This morning, we watched in awe as the first Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, took flight in the thin Martian atmosphere. This is an incredible achievement for the teams at NASA and…
Release Radar · March 2021 Edition
The open source community is always hard at work. February's projects were super hard to pick since there are so many amazing releases. These are exciting new releases from some…