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Update: We’ve extended the deprecation deadline to February 2, 2015 to give Pages users more time to update their DNS records. If you use a custom domain with GitHub Pages,…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 with our friends at Dev Bootcamp Chicago. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for…

We’re thrilled to host our next Patchwork Night in Nashville, on October 29th at 6:30PM at Emma’s wonderful space, The Bistro. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop…

For years, the Octocat has been stuck in the realm of two dimensions—but no more! Now she’s crawling off your laptop and onto your desk as a 5″ vinyl figurine.…

To bring more transparency and clarity to the processes surrounding the DMCA, we are rolling out three improvements to the way we process copyright takedowns: First, whenever possible, users will…

We’re excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on Thursday, October 23rd 2014, co-hosted with our friends at CodeBase in central Edinburgh. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on…

Beginners welcome Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. Join us to meet new people over snacks and great discussion. Newcomers to Git and GitHub, you’ll leave…

We’ve been including the containing branches and tags on commit pages to give you more context around changes. Now, commits in a repository’s default branch will also show you the…

We’re excited to be back at the Grace Hopper Conference this year! Stop by booth #108 to say hi and grab our newest sticker – the Gracehoptocat: We also have…

There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That’s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our…

很高興和大家宣布，十月十四號（星期二）我們將在五倍紅寶石台北出礦坑舉辦 Patchwork 活動。 We’re happy to announce our next Patchwork night on Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at the 5xRuby offices! 完全不需要程式經驗/No coding experience required! Patchwork 是一個由 GitHub 主辦，專門給初學者的 Git 與…

In the spirit of making diffs of rich information easier to parse, SVG images are now viewable and diffable on GitHub! As always, you can find more details in our…

Keep track of all of your issues and pull requests with the new Issues Dashboard and the new Pull Requests Dashboard. When we rebuilt GitHub Issues earlier this summer, we…

Join @schacon, @mhagger, @vmg, @mastahyeti, @fooforge, @danishkhan, @mislav, @pmn and @jdennes for beers in Kreuzberg on Wednesday, October 8th at 20:00. The Facts: Wednesday, October 8th at 20:00. Golgatha Viewer…

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to help the cause, we’re offering a new shirt in the GitHub Shop. All proceeds from the sales of this shirt will be…

We’re in Seoul, Korea for DEVIEW 2014 this week! In collaboration with the Seoul Tech Society, I’ll be giving a talk on GitHub Secrets open to the public on Tuesday,…

I’ll be at London’s Future of Web Apps 2014 next week, and we’re throwing a meetup for Londoners on Sunday. Join us! You don’t need to be going to the…

Update: 2014-09-29 23:10 UTC We have published an update to the Git Shell tools for GitHub for Windows, which resolves the bash vulnerabilities CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186 and CVE-2014-7187. If you…

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at GitHub HQ. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub.…

The entries are in, the votes are tallied, and we’ve chosen the winners for our third annual Data Challenge! First Place Our first place winner is Issue Stats (repository), by…

If you’re a Gmail user who gets GitHub notifications via email, you’ll notice that we’ve added subject-line links to issues and pull requests on notification messages. You can use these…