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In 30 days, we’ll be deprecating anonymous gist creation—a decision we made after a lot of deliberation. Anonymous gists are a handy tool for quickly putting a code snippet online,…

Yesterday we filed an amicus brief alongside a group of other technology companies supporting San Francisco’s and Santa Clara County’s efforts to permanently block Executive Order 13768, which seeks to…

From tougher security to more beautiful source code images, our first Release Radar of 2018 has something for everyone. Check out the latest tools that have been delighting and delivering…

In the third programming course in the computer science major, Dan Wallach wants students to master programming in Java with a high degree of rigor and at a large scale.…

Last year, GitHub brought 24 million people from almost 200 countries together to code better and build bigger. From frameworks to data visualizations across more than 25 million repositories, you…

Last year we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. Then we provided a status update toward the end of last year outlining some changes we’d made to make…

Topic pages on GitHub help you find repositories that match your interests—from Chrome extensions and cryptocurrency projects to web application frameworks like React. The pages also provide insight into the…

Last year we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. Then we provided a status update toward the end of last year outlining some changes we’d made to make…

The field of data science has seen enormous growth over the last few years. Organizations increasingly leverage data as a strategic asset that data scientists turn into meaningful insights. These…

With faster onboarding for junior developers, increased code quality, and more thorough code review, it’s easy to see why more developers than ever are writing code collaboratively. Your team’s (and…

Issue and pull request templates help teams gather the right information from the beginning of a thread, but sometimes one template just isn’t enough. Now project maintainers can have and…

Repository owners, collaborators, and prior contributors to a public repository can now more easily report comments, issues, pull requests, and commit comments to GitHub Support. Selecting the icon above will…

Integrated development environments (IDEs) 2017 was a busy year for IDEs and GitHub. From new additions like Xcode to complete rewrites of some of our favorites like GitHub Desktop, there’s…

Data powers much of the software we use every day. Although data science teams operate differently than engineering teams, they can apply the same best practices that engineers use to…

In a recent webcast, GitHub Enterprise Solutions Engineer Tommy Byrd shared how to get GitHub Enterprise up and running as a virtual appliance in just thirty minutes. In this recording,…