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Next week we’re hosting another GitHub Town Hall on academia and open source in partnership with the eScience Institute at University of Washington. Software plays a vital role in much…

Git will be 10 years old in April, and we’re bringing back Git Merge to celebrate. Mark your calendars for April 8-9th to be a part of the only Git…

It’s a new year and we couldn’t think of a better way to start it off than with a new release of GitHub Enterprise. We’ve included a number of highly-requested…

Applications integrate with GitHub to help you and your team build, test, and deploy software. But not all apps are created equal. By adopting a list of approved applications, organization…

Pull requests are fantastic. We use them every day to review and discuss code, documentation, and designs. Now you can create pull requests without leaving the warm embrace of GitHub…

Starting conversations around changes is what pull requests and GitHub Flow are all about, so we’re excited to introduce a powerful shortcut that gets you there even faster. When using…

Ever found yourself in a situation where your working directory contains a mix of changes that don’t quite fit together? It would be easy to commit it all at once…

To keep GitHub as secure as possible for every user, we will remove RC4 support in our SSL configuration on github.com and in the GitHub API on January 5th 2015.…

Whether you’re reviewing project issues from your phone while traveling for business, or trying to find a specific Node.js repository to show a friend at lunch, we want the GitHub.com…

GitHub is joining the LOT Network, an open patent-licensing program designed to reduce patent litigation. The rising threat of patent trolls Some claim that software patents are essential to motivate…

Unified and split diffs now feature syntax highlighting, which adds colors to your code to make its meaning and structure clearer. Now you can more easily understand the code that…

Since we introduced the Status API, you’ve been able to improve the quality of your code by including the status of a pull request within the conversation timeline, for every…

Webhooks are now available at the organization level on GitHub.com. Organization webhooks send events for all repositories in an organization. They also include new events for repository creation, team membership,…

We’re excited to let you know about the next installment of our Patchwork hack night on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at Polygon. No coding experience needed Patchwork is a hands-on…

For those of us in the United States, many of our families have collected White House holiday ornaments over the years. With the Octocat’s history of celebrating moments, we thought…