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As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.

Over the past year, the GitHub Stars have made a tremendous impact in the community with their influence, inspiring and building communities and creating content to help everyone.

In January, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.

GitHub continues to improve account security and developer experience with a new 2FA mechanism in GitHub Mobile on iOS and Android.

With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science.

In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.

As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.

On Thursday, December 9, 2021, GitHub was made aware of a vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework, CVE-2021-44228.

In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.

In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Codespaces service.

This morning, I shared the following post with Hubbers in response to Nat’s announcement about his next adventure. I am thrilled to take on the role of CEO to build the next phase of GitHub for our global community of software developers.

This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.

GitHub Marketplace just passed 10,000 published actions! Learn about contributing to this growing open source ecosystem.

In the past two years, GitHub has doubled in size, welcoming more than 760 new Hubbers in 2021 alone. This past year we particularly focused on our goal of making GitHub more equitable. We saw growth in our diversity representation, whose population increased at a higher rate than the company itself.

We sat down with Universe hosts Lorena Mesa and Jarryd McCree for a quick Q&A to help you make the most out of your conference experience this year.