The latest blogs from GitHub

It’s been almost a year since we first released GitHub for Windows. Today we just shipped version 1.0.38. That’s 38 updates since 1.0! As we’ve said before, we ship early…

Over the last month or so, we noticed steady week-over-week rises in overall MySQL query time. A poorly-performing database makes for a slow site and a slow site makes for…

We ❤ seeing the :octocat: in the wild! Today we’re launching a new logos page to make it easier to find official GitHub logos as well as our beloved Octocat,…

Two GitHubbers are headed into our nation’s capital for a civic hackathon this Friday, so that, of course, means we’re throwing a drinkup! The Facts Loft at The Hamilton February…

Today we’re proud to open source Boxen, our tool for automating and managing Macs at GitHub. Boxen started nearly a year ago as a project called “The Setup” — a…

I decided to blog on our blog about our new blog. Design. The blog looks fresh no matter where you read it — be it on your desktop or on…

@thedaniel & I are in Tel Aviv and are holding a drinkup tonight! Join us at Levontin 7 for a drink on GitHub! The Facts Where: Levontin 7 – Levontin…

I happen to be in town at the same time as Webstock, so I figured I’d organize a drinkup. Join me tonight at Mac’s Brewbar for a drink on us!…

Join @defunkt, @spicycode and me while we host a drinkup in Cincinnati. We’ll be down at Japp’s Annex Wednesday night, and we hope you can join us! Word on the…

Stars are a great way to keep track of repositories that you find interesting. Starting today you can sort your starred repositories by when you starred them or when the…

@danishkhan and I are in Madrid for the UC3M t3chFest, and we’ll be sponsoring the conference after-party in Saloon Bar El Paso, right next to the conference venue. You do…

There are a more than a million open issues to be found across all public repositories hosted on GitHub right now. Finding a specific issue can be a tedious process…

URLs are extremely important and the ability to be as informative as possible with those URLs is equally important to us. Gists are now namespaced in much the same way…

We are finishing up a new GitHub Services backend, dubbed “Hookshot”, to increase the speed and reliability of our delivered payloads. We are doing what we can to make this…

This week we’re taking our OctoBooth down the road to AppsWorld – North America. You can join us on the Expo floor by getting your passes here. Then join us…

Last week, between Thursday, January 24 and Friday, January 25 we experienced a critical outage surrounding our newly-launched Code Search service. As always, we strive to provide detailed, transparent post-mortems…

On an average weekday, more than 70,000 comments are added to discussions on GitHub. Today we’re introducing a small enhancement to the way you can reply to discussion threads to…

Cleveland 🤘! Let’s 🍻🍸:neckbeard:🎸:octocat: in one of Ohio’s greatest cities, Cleveland! Join @asenchi and me Wednesday at the Great Lakes Brewing Company Taproom, drinks on GitHub. The Facts: Great Lakes…

We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We’re shipping this version with Issue Attachments, Contributions, and much more. Along with a variety of general improvements and adjustments,…

A game jam is typically a 48-hour hackathon for building games based on some theme. Participants—or “jammers”—usually work in teams of two to five people comprised of artists, sound engineers,…

Last week, we were proud to introduce our new Code Search and improved repository and user search. Today, when you perform a search that has more than one page of…