The latest blogs from GitHub

Applications integrate with GitHub to help you and your team build, test, and deploy software. But not all apps are created equal. By adopting a list of approved applications, organization…

Pull requests are fantastic. We use them every day to review and discuss code, documentation, and designs. Now you can create pull requests without leaving the warm embrace of GitHub…

Starting conversations around changes is what pull requests and GitHub Flow are all about, so we’re excited to introduce a powerful shortcut that gets you there even faster. When using…

Ever found yourself in a situation where your working directory contains a mix of changes that don’t quite fit together? It would be easy to commit it all at once…

Providing well-written documentation helps people understand, make use of, and contribute back to your project, but it’s only half of the documentation equation. The underlying system used to serve documentation…

To keep GitHub as secure as possible for every user, we will remove RC4 support in our SSL configuration on github.com and in the GitHub API on January 5th 2015.…

A critical Git security vulnerability has been announced today, affecting all versions of the official Git client and all related software that interacts with Git repositories, including GitHub for Windows…

Whether you’re reviewing project issues from your phone while traveling for business, or trying to find a specific Node.js repository to show a friend at lunch, we want the GitHub.com…

GitHub is joining the LOT Network, an open patent-licensing program designed to reduce patent litigation. The rising threat of patent trolls Some claim that software patents are essential to motivate…

Unified and split diffs now feature syntax highlighting, which adds colors to your code to make its meaning and structure clearer. Now you can more easily understand the code that…

Since we introduced the Status API, you’ve been able to improve the quality of your code by including the status of a pull request within the conversation timeline, for every…

Webhooks are now available at the organization level on GitHub.com. Organization webhooks send events for all repositories in an organization. They also include new events for repository creation, team membership,…

We’re excited to let you know about the next installment of our Patchwork hack night on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at Polygon. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on…

For those of us in the United States, many of our families have collected White House holiday ornaments over the years. With the Octocat’s history of celebrating moments, we thought…

We’re open-sourcing the components that power task lists on GitHub, including the HTML rendering pipeline filter packaged as a Gem and the JavaScript update behaviors published as a Bower package.…

Last month, we released the Octocat figurine, finally taking our mascot into the third dimension. For years, we’ve illustrated her in different themes—from human culture to pop culture—so a figurine…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Monday, November 24, 2014 with our friends at TechColumbus. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git…

Microsoft announced at their Connect event last week that they will be open sourcing much of the .NET technology stack, as well as moving development of these technologies over to…

After we introduced the merge button on mobile, we heard from many of you that you’d love to be able to delete merged branches on your phone too. Now you…

This week we will be conducting a “brownout” of all misconfigured GitHub Pages sites. If your GitHub Pages site’s DNS is pointed at an out-of-date IP address, we will intermittently…

@dbussink, @samlambert, @jlord and @mikemcquaid are in town so join them for delicious BBQ and Beer (or soft beverage of your choice) at Campus North. Everyone is welcome! The Facts:…