News & insights

What did we ship in August? Codespaces, Discussions, and lots of other updates, from the general availability of the dark high contrast theme to an auto-generated table of contents for wikis.

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is available today as a release candidate.

Applications are now open for the MLH Fellowship: GitHub Externship Track. Apply by September 13.

In August, we experienced two distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Git operations, API requests, webhooks, issues, pull requests, GitHub Pages, GitHub Packages, and GitHub Actions services.

Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals.

The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines.

We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.

GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful.

We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files.

GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.

The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub.

A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more.

The GitHub Campus Expert applications are officially open for the August 2021 generation!

In July, GitHub experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.

Today, we’re happy to announce more than 15 new integrations with open source security tools that broaden our language coverage to include PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, and more.