Recently Updated and Created Repositories
Edit: this feature has been replaced by https://github.com/trending You can now browse recently updated and recently created repositories for a specific language. Go nuts!
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Multiple Post-Receive URLs
You can now add multiple Post-Receive URLs for a single repository. Also, the Post-Receive settings have moved to the 'Services' tab (where they belong).
Impact Graph Speedups
Impact Graphs got a nice upgrade today that has resulted in improved render times (except on the very first load after the recent deploy). Once a graph has been generated,…
Wiki Preview
More Slowness Eradicated
Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other "write" DB operations are now much faster.  That is all.
The New, Improved GitHub Gem
While at RubyConf this year, giving my talk and drinking like an idiot with nearly every internet-famous Rubyist out there, I had a great idea. Only my incredible humility prevents…
Brand new feature we don’t want you to use
That's right, in the past accounts could not be deleted. Previously we advised users to downgrade to the free plan and stop using their account, but some people wanted to…
PDF Receipts
We send an email receipt whenever we charge your credit card on GitHub. While this is sufficient for most, not all corporations are happy receiving a plain/text receipt, so we're…
GitHub Code Search
Update: GitHub Codesearch is now located at github.com/search Today we're unveiling a new feature on GitHub that we've been working on for a bit now that lets you search through…
Our RubyGem build scripts are now open source
The amount of people running into issues with our gem builder has been overwhelming, so we're releasing the code if some kind souls want to lend a hand making the…
Participation Graphs go Canvas
 I've converted our participation graphs (as seen above) to use Canvas instead of Flash. Linux users rejoice! This means the graphs should load quite a bit faster and not…
Network Graph: Better, Stronger, Faster!
 It's been almost 6 months since we released the network graph and since then it has become an indispensable part of the GitHub experience. Over that period I've been…
Repo Deletion for Everyone
Here's our latest feature: Did ya spot it? It's the delete button! No, we're not crazy. Prior to today, if you had a project that had been forked, you were…
Token Authentication
We've just added site-wide token based authentication. You can find your API token in your account page, front and center. Simply pass login and token to any URL which requires…
GitHub Languages
Edit: these features are no longer available. To go along with our new language graphs we've added some site-wide language pages. First, the top languages in GitHub as used by…