The latest blogs from GitHub

Posters featuring some extraordinary Octocat moments are now available in 8.5″x11″, 18″x24″, and 24″x36″ sizes*. Check them out in the GitHub Shop *Frames not included

If you have source code in Subversion, Mercurial, Team Foundation Server, or another Git repository, you can now quickly and easily move that code to GitHub with the GitHub Importer.…

We are excited to announce the release of GitHub Enterprise 2.5. With this release, we’re introducing features and updates that will help development teams build software at scale with a…

To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Judy Gichoya is a medical doctor specializing in radiology, but she’s also an…

Despite the best efforts of its writers, software has vulnerabilities, and GitHub is no exception. Finding, fixing, and learning from past bugs is a critical part of keeping our users…

Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…

We hope you’ll join us on February 10 at WorkMarket for a casual night of hands-on hacking and learning about Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages. We’ll be unveiling our new…

Today we’re releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…

GitHub Pages is now running the latest major version of Jekyll, Jekyll 3.0, and with it, many of the complexities associated with publishing have been further simplified, meaning it’s now…

Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Git provides submodules to help with this. Submodules allow you to include or embed one…

Mark your calendars. GitHub has a fresh lineup of events for 2016 – including two new European conferences, GitHub Satellite and CodeConf Copenhagen. Git Merge: April 5, New York City…

On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 00:23am UTC, we experienced a severe service outage that impacted GitHub.com. We know that any disruption in our service can impact your development workflow,…

You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you’ve always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…

Are you going to be in town for FOSDEM? We’d love if you joined us at our next Patchwork hack night. It will be on January 29, 2016 and will…

We hope you’ll join us for our next Patchwork hack night on January 25, at the London School of Economics in London. GitHubbers @johndbritton, @tracicakes, and @amosie, as well as…

We’re proud to kick off the new year by co-hosting Ladies that UX Amsterdam‘s January meetup! Join the Ladies that UX Amsterdam founders Jenny Shen and Nadia Udalova and members,…

If your New Year’s resolution was to update to a new version of Git, we’ve got good news. The Git community has just released Git 2.7.0, and we’d like to…

If you’re writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team’s primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…

We love the Ruby programming language for its natural, human-focused design philosophy and think you will too. That’s why we teamed up with Udacity to bring you three new Ruby…

Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…

Today GitHub is proud to host the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro, at our SF office. We are thrilled to welcome him, his senior staff, community organizations,…