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February 28th DDoS Incident Report
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 GitHub.com was unavailable from 17:21 to 17:26 UTC and intermittently unavailable from 17:26 to 17:30 UTC due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. We understand…
Weak cryptographic standards removed
Earlier today we permanently removed support for the following weak cryptographic standards on github.com and api.github.com: TLSv1/TLSv1.1: This applies to all HTTPS connections, including web, API, and Git connections to…
GitHub welcomes all CI tools
Continuous Integration (CI) tools help you stick to your team’s quality standards by running tests every time you push a new commit and reporting the results to a pull request.…
Weak cryptographic standards deprecation update
Earlier this year, we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. As noted during our initial announcement, the vast majority of HTTPS clients connect to GitHub using TLSv1.2 and…
The GitHub Diversity Report
Today I am pleased to share our second annual Diversity Report. While we are working every day internally to make GitHub the most inclusive company it can possibly be, this…
GitHub for Unity is now open source
The GitHub for Unity extension we announced at the Game Developers Conference last March is now open source! Download the latest release for Windows and OS X for free, and…
Welcoming CodePlex projects to GitHub
Earlier today, Microsoft announced the shutdown plans for CodePlex. We’re working with the CodePlex team to streamline the experience of importing projects to GitHub for CodePlex users. As always, we…
SHA-1 collision detection on GitHub.com
A few weeks ago, researchers announced SHAttered, the first collision of the SHA-1 hash function. Starting today, all SHA-1 computations on GitHub.com will detect and reject any Git content that…
Bug Bounty anniversary promotion: bigger bounties in January and February
The GitHub Bug Bounty Program is turning three years old. To celebrate, we’re offering bigger bounties for the most severe bugs found in January and February. The bigger the bug,…
gh-ost: GitHub’s online schema migration tool for MySQL
Today we are announcing the open source release of gh-ost: GitHub’s triggerless online schema migration tool for MySQL. gh-ost has been developed at GitHub in recent months to answer a…
January 28th Incident Report
Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…
Large Scale DDoS Attack on github.com
We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com’s history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination…
From sticker to sculpture: the making of the Octocat figurine
Last month, we released the Octocat figurine, finally taking our mascot into the third dimension. For years, we’ve illustrated her in different themes—from human culture to pop culture—so a figurine…
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