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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.

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Formatted Files

Files in your repository are now formatted same as the README. This means if you have a file with a @.markdown@ extension, for example, it’ll show up all pretty-like. Enjoy.…

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Services Galore

After open sourcing the GitHub services code, we’ve been just floored with the number of pull requests for adding tons of functionality. We launched the service hooks with just Campfire…

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RubyGem Info

Now that it’s so easy to install gems, we figured that you should know when a repository offers a gem install. So, that’s what we did: If you see a…

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Popular Languages

We’re working on some awesome new visualizations and statistics here at GitHub. While they’re not quite ready to roll out, there is one chart I wanted to share. These are…

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