The latest blogs from GitHub

We are pleased to announce that this year’s OctoGala, GitHub’s annual black-tie charity event, will take place on September 19 at the Fairmont Hotel. Tickets are $100 for a single…

This Saturday, August 31st, 2013 at 5AM PDT we will be upgrading a large portion of our database infrastructure in order to provide a faster and more reliable GitHub experience.…

As we continue to expand the infrastructure that powers GitHub, we want to make everyone aware of some changes to the IP addresses that we use. Most customers won’t have…

We’re always looking at ways to improve security. Today’s release of GitHub for Windows (version 1.0.54) improves password handling security through the use of OAuth tokens. Prior to this release…

Following on the tails of 3D models and geographic data, GitHub.com now also supports rendering tabular data in the form of .csv (comma-separated) and .tsv (tab-separated) files. When viewed, any…

The GitHub Enterprise team will be at the CEDEC conference in Yokohama, Japan, this week. Please stop by to say hello, find out more about GitHub, and grab some of…

Today we’re excited to share a new episode of OctoTales – our video series about incredible companies using GitHub to work better together. This episode features Balanced. Since 2011, Balanced…

Join @jonmagic and me Wednesday night at Warszawa Buffet for some drinks on GitHub 🍻 We’re in Saint Petersburg for ESEC/FSE, but you don’t need to attend the conference to…

GitHub is about to get a lot more colorful. Starting today, we are generating Identicons for anyone without a Gravatar: Our Identicons are simple 5×5 “pixel” sprites that are generated…

GitHub is a great place to find interesting projects. From the White House open data policy to Chicago bike routes, GitHub has become a place for collaboration on more than…

Not content with hosting just one drinkup in the 505, we decided to host another. This time, in the Duke City at the Downtown Distillery. Please join @aspires, @VxJasonxV, me,…

A few of us find ourselves in the Land of Enchantment this week, so please join @aspires, @VxJasonxV and me for a drinkup at Del Charro in the City Different…

For all of the pull request reviewers out there, we’re excited to announce a new feature in GitHub for Mac and GitHub for Windows to make your lives easier! On…

Building and testing GitHub Pages sites on your computer just got a whole lot easier with the release of the GitHub Pages Gem. Running Jekyll (the engine that powers GitHub…

Good news for folks who want to get their web-based GitHub Flow on while remaining cloaked in secrecy: Today we’re 🚢ing the ability to make your email address private! Until…

Join @sroberts, @benbalter and @nakajima tomorrow night at Con Murphy’s for some alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks on GitHub. They’ll be around for FOSSCON, but you don’t need to attend the…

Back in June we shipped support for viewing geographic data to GitHub.com repositories in GeoJSON & TopoJSON formats, which was awesome for open data sets and collaborative projects. We didn’t…

Join us Wednesday, July 31st for Code Bass 3! Come prepared to dance and have a good time. Music will be provided by GitHub’s DJs @newmerator, @defunkt, @atmos, @technoweenie, @thedaniel,…

Humans have enjoyed our ✨ new code search for a while, and today we’re ready to share that joy with the machines. 🔍 With the new code search API, we’ve…

It’s easy to get caught up in code. Sharing your code isn’t everything, though: it’s also important to tell people how they can use that code. Choosing an open source…

We have a couple of great new features and improvements to the OAuth flow to announce! First off, application developers can now add full text descriptions and custom images to…