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At GitHub we say, “it’s not fully shipped until it’s fast.” We’ve talked before about some of the ways we keep our frontend experience speedy, but that’s only part of…

We’ve just released some major improvements to our organization audit logs. As an organization admin, you can now see a running list of events as they’re generated across your organization,…

You’ll now start seeing expanded file listings on GitHub that look like this: The grey text in the paths — in this case, java/com/netflix/ — means those three folders don’t…

Sometimes, you just want to grab someone’s attention when you’re finished with some cool code. That’s why we’ve added support for GitHub’s @mention feature inside GitHub for Windows. You can…

In the summer of 2009, The New York Senate was the first government organization to post code to GitHub, and that fall, Washington DC quickly followed suit. By 2011, cities…

So many of us here at GitHub have benefited from early exposure to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that we’re always looking for ways to help young people develop a…

Our traffic graphs tab shows you a lot of information about who’s visiting your repository on the web. We’ve added a new graph to this tab, showing git clone activity.…

… and stickier than ever! Now in the GitHub Shop: sticker packs with never-before-seen Octocats! Share them with your friends, and bring your laptop one Octocat sticker closer to greatness.

We’re happy to announce a Patchwork hack night at GitHub’s new Boulder office. No coding experience required! Patchwork is a hands-on workshop for learning Git and GitHub. We’d love for…

We’ve changed the process for adding new GitHub users to your organization. Starting today, users you add will be sent an email invitation. Once they accept this invitation, they’ll become…

We’ve upgraded GitHub Pages to support the latest version of Jekyll, the open source static site generator. Whether you’re a new user or a savvy veteran, here are a few…

We’ve rebuilt GitHub Issues to be smarter: search smarter, filter smarter, and manage your issues and pull requests smarter. If you want to see it in action, check out Bootstrap’s…

After we shipped the ability to view GeoJSON & TopoJSON, users have put tons of cool maps on GitHub, but sometimes you still need to see the underlying GeoJSON. Now…

GitHub’s annual data challenge is back, and we can’t wait to see what you’ll build this year, be it beautiful generative art or full blown, third-party activity dashboards. Check out…

We’ll be at OSCON next week and you’re invited to join us on Wednesday, July 23 at 6:30pm for Pub Quiz Night at Spirit of 77 in Portland, OR, co-hosted…