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GitHub Desktop 2.0 expands to support stashing and rebasing
Resolve merge conflicts more easily, co-author commits to share credit with others, check out your GitHub pull requests, and more with the release of GitHub Desktop 2.0.
Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source
We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. Open source developers build tools for the rest of us. GitHub Sponsors is a new tool to help them succeed, too.
XPRIZE awards $15M for open source, scalable education software
The XPRIZE Foundation challenged teams to develop open source software to help children learn basic reading, writing, and arithmetic—learn more about the challenge and who won.
Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
We’re excited to welcome the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to GitHub.
Join us at Maintainerati Berlin
Maintainers: Join us at Maintainerati Berlin on May 24 to gather, present, and discuss the challenges of being an open source maintainer.
GitHub shares lessons learned from EU Copyright Directive at US DMCA roundtable
Find out what we shared at the US Copyright Office based on our experience with the EU Copyright Directive.
Our contribution to the United Nations report on free assembly and association online
Read about how collaboration on GitHub connects to free assembly and association online as part of our input to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Maintainer spotlight: Courtney Wilburn
In the month of February, we’re featuring Black maintainers that push open source software forward. Read on to find out about Courtney Wilburn, the maintainer of three open source projects: the Green Book App, Dank Memes, and EvictionAnd.
Maintainer spotlight: William Shepherd
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source. William is the maintainer of GitHub…
The EU Copyright Directive: what happens from here
The EU Copyright Directive has come down to a final vote. Read on for more on what’s at stake and how the developer community shaped the debate.
Maintainer spotlight: Rachel Green and Mark Nyon
Mark and Rachel are both maintainers on the End Bias Wiki (EBWiki) project. Read more about their mission to tell the stories of people of color who have died as a result of police action.
Maintainer spotlight: Safia Abdalla
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source.
Release Radar · December 2017
It's time to celebrate a fresh round of releases from our community—many of them 1.0s! The open source projects in this month's Release Radar are supported by the Apache foundation…
Helping secure FOSS and the internet: our $100,000 donation to the Internet Bug Bounty
A little over three years ago, we launched our Security Bug Bounty Program, a way to reward security researchers who help make GitHub more secure by reporting vulnerabilities in our…