The latest blogs from GitHub

GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…

Git Merge 2013 is in full effect here in Berlin and we will end the conference tomorrow with a Drinkup at Golgatha Biergarten! Come out and let us buy you…

Millions of people around the world use GitHub every day to build software together, but the GitHub Way™ isn’t limited to code. We are humbled to see that the White…

At GitHub, we’re big fans of traditional computer science education, and we’re also happy to see some alternative models emerging for training new programmers. There are the Massively Open Online…

We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. Along with a variety of general improvements and adjustments, this new release brings the following features from GitHub.com: Relative links…

Today we’re happy to announce two big additions to our API: File CRUD and Repository Statistics. File CRUD The repository contents API has allowed reading files for a while. Now…

1/9/2018: Whoops! This post is out of date. For more information on searching repositories on GitHub, check out our documentation. Today we are allowing you to search your own public…

@nakajima and I will be in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, and we’re shooting for the ever-elusive back-to-back-to-back drinkup. GitHub will be buying your favorite alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks for…

Join us on May 9th for the next event in our Passion Projects talk series. We’ll be welcoming Timoni West to GitHub HQ for drinks and a chat about all…

Last week we explained how we greatly reduced the rendering time of our web views by switching our escaping routines from Ruby to C. This speed-up was two-fold: the C…

We’re sponsoring ScotlandJS in Edinburgh this week, so we thought we’d throw a drinkup. Whether you’re attending the conference, or are part of the local tech community, come on down…

Beginning today, you can head over to your favorite repository’s Branches page and see the build status for the HEAD of each branch. Better yet, the page updates automatically whenever…

Both GitHub and Gist offer ways to view “raw” versions of user content. Instead of viewing files in the visual context of the website, the user can see the actual…

There are several GitHubbers in Italy and we would like to buy you a drink! Join me, @schacon @brianmario @jdpace @newmerator @aspires @tclem @brntbeer @steveward @lukehefson this Thursday, April 25th…

I’m going to be in Jyväskylä, Finland for AgileJkl with @matthewmccullough and @danishkhan. Join us on Tuesday, after the AgileJkl event, at Gastropub Jalo. We’ll be buying your favorite alcoholic…

We’ve started rolling out a new security feature called “Content Security Policy” or CSP. As a user, it will better protect your account against XSS attacks. But, be aware, it…

@wfarr and myself are in Nuremberg today attending PuppetCamp, and I’d love to share a drink with you and talk tech. Whether you’re in town for the conference or are…

Today we’re happy to release Pulse. Pulse is a great way to discover recent activity on projects. Maybe you haven’t checked on your favorite repository in a while or you…

We work very hard to keep GitHub fast. Ruby is not the fastest programming language, so we go to great lengths benchmarking and optimizing our large codebase: our goal is…

Today we are excited to ship a new iteration of our visual identity: an updated logo, an official mark, and an Octocat that conveys as much character as the Octocats…

There are a number of GitHubbers here in London for BACON this week, and it’d be lovely if you could join us tomorrow night for some drinks! The details Saturday,…