Secrets in the code
Programming often involves keeping a bunch of secrets around. You’ve got account passwords, OAuth tokens, SSL and SSH private keys. The best way to keep a secret is, well, to…
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News & insights
Resources for developers seeking to stay informed about the latest industry trends, research, and updates from GitHub. Explore research and surveys that delve into various aspects of software development and open source communities—and Octoverse, which provides detailed annual analyses of open source and public projects across GitHub.
Viewing Past Contributions
Now you can go back in time to view contribution activity from any period within the last year. Click on a day to see your contributions. Hold down shift and…
Zen Writing Mode
At GitHub, we love finding new ways to help people get in the zone. Today we’re excited to announce a feature that we hope will do just that. You’ll now…
GitHub now supports Twitter Cards
Tweets with links to GitHub just got a whole lot prettier. By supporting Twitter Cards on GitHub, any tweets containing a link to a GitHub repository will provide more context…
A Whole New Code Search
Finding great code on GitHub just got a whole lot easier. Today we’re releasing several big improvements to code search. New Technology First, we are unveiling our new search infrastructure…
Closing Issues via Commit Messages
Recently we changed the way closing issues via commit message works on GitHub. Now when you enter “Fixes #33” in a commit message, issue 33 will only be closed once…
Redwood City Drinkup
Please join us at Martins West in Redwood City, California this Wednesday night to mingle and enjoy a few drinks on us. Where: Martins West (back room) @ 831 Main…
Tokyo Drinkup
A couple of GitHubbers will be in Tokyo this week, attending a GitHub Enterprise meetup hosted by GREE! Come by for a beer on us at August Beer Club in…
Three Million Users
Monday night, on the very first day of our all-hands winter summit this week, the three millionth person signed up for a GitHub account. That’s three million developers building software…
View long-running Pull Requests
You can now view and sort long-running Pull Requests from your repository’s Pull Request page. When a feature or a bugfix goes on for months but never ships nor dies,…
Task Lists in GFM: Issues/Pulls, Comments
GitHub Flavored Markdown is getting a little Task List flavoring. Today, we’re shipping an enhancement to our Markdown pipeline to support task lists. Task lists are lists with items marked…
Create and delete branches
Now you can create and delete branches from GitHub.com. Create a branch In your repository’s branch selector, just start typing a new branch name. We’ll give you the option to…
CODE BASS 2 – Thursday, January 17
Next week we are hosting a very special party at Public Works in San Francisco. We are bringing the whole company to San Francisco for our January summit – come…
Restore Tidied Pull Requests
We recently started letting you tidy up your Pull Requests. What happens when someone deletes a branch that is still needed? Starting today, you can restore any head branch of…
Introducing Contributions
Today we’re happy to release Contributions: a new addition to profile pages that lets you see what everyone has been up to on GitHub. Popular Repositories Show off the fancy…
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