Our tl;dr for California’s new privacy law: Do not sell
California’s new privacy law comes into effect this January. Learn how you can prepare (tl;dr—don’t sell personal information) and contribute to the rules.
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Open Source
The State of the Octoverse 2019
To celebrate 365 days of achievements, let’s look back at the code and communities built on GitHub this year.
GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta and generally available to developers with bank accounts in 30 countries and growing.
Game Off 2019 theme announcement
The 2019 theme for Game Off, our annual month-long game jam and hackathon for building games is LEAPS AND BOUNDS. Join now!
Thirteen spooktacular games to play, hack, and slash this Halloween 🧙🏻♀️
Make a pillow fort and grab some candy (and a friend) before you play and hack your way through 13 of the spookiest game jam games.
Get ready for Game Off
Join us for Game Off on November 1, where you can create your own game, learn a new technology, and even collaborate on something over the weekends with friends.
Getting started with Git and GitHub is easier than ever with GitHub Desktop 2.2
GitHub Desktop 2.2 now features an interactive tutorial to help introduce new users to Git and GitHub.
Accelerating the GitHub Sponsors beta with Stripe Connect
GitHub Sponsors now features a new streamlined onboarding and payment experience with Stripe Connect.
Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
Yarn support for security alerts
Yarn now supports security alerts for public and private repositories.
FAQ with the GitHub Sponsors team
Hello, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors Team! It's been incredibly motivating for us to see the outpouring of enthusiasm for the launch and to hear your ideas for where you'd like to see it go from here. We're just getting started, and your input is important to keep us going in the right direction.
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.