The latest blogs from GitHub

We’re excited to share GitHub’s 2019 Transparency Report, a by-the-numbers look at how we handle requests for user data and moderate content on GitHub.

GitHub is now a proud sponsor of Hack Your Future, a not-for-profit coding school for refugees and other people that have limited access to education and the labor market. Learn more about the latest campaign, Behind the Source.

In this deep dive, we cover how our daily schema migrations amounted to a significant toil on the database infrastructure team, and how we searched for a solution to automate the manual parts of the process.

We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.

We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.

We’re bringing GitHub closer to communities in India to better serve students, developers, maintainers, enterprise customers, and everyone helping to create the future of open source.

Additional security features, a new internal visibility option, and more with the latest updates to GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20.

Share your love for open source and learn how to get involved for a chance to win a GitHub hoodie.

Now, anyone can connect an issue to a pull request from the issue directly using the new linked pull request section providing greater context to your workflow.

Manage secrets, make use of self-hosted runners, and more with the GitHub Actions API—now available in beta.

GitHub and Major League Hacking (MLH) came together to organize Local Hack Day: Share.

On 02/02/2020 we took a snapshot of every active public repository on GitHub to be archived for a thousand years in the Arctic Code Vault. Learn about what’s included, how you can help us improve it, and more.

GitHub Desktop brings two features that avoid permission failures: rerouting when pushing to a cloned repository and rerouting when pushing to a protected branch.

Want to contribute to open source, but not sure where to begin? GitHub now helps you find good first issues to get you started.

We’ve recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.

Git 2.25.0 includes a new experimental git sparse-checkout command that makes the existing feature easier to use, along with some important performance benefits for large repositories.

The GitHub Student Developer Pack now delivers over $200k worth of tools and training to every student with the addition of 22 new partners.

The GitHub for mobile beta is now available on Android—learn more and sign up to be part of a limited test group.

Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our annual game jam celebrating open source. Let’s take a look at 2019’s winners.

Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.

This is the fourth and final post in a series about Ubuntu’s crash reporting system. We’ll review CVE-2019-11484, a vulnerability in whoopsie which enables a local attacker to get a shell as the whoopsie user, thereby gaining the ability to read any crash report.