Open Source

The vast majority of businesses today rely on open source, making it an essential part of the software industry. And millions of those projects are on GitHub. Learn about documentation, maintainers, gaming Git, licenses, and how open source positively impacts the world. You can also find information in our documentation about how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.

Open Source

Release Radar · November 2022 Edition

We promised we’d be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I…

Git

Highlights from Git 2.39

Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.39.

Open Source

Release Radar · October 2022 Edition

Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning…

Maintainers

An open source economy–built by developers, for developers

Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today.

Open Source

Understanding the social impact of open source technologies

Here’s how nonprofits and the social sector are using open source to drive social good.

Maintainers

Why more companies are investing in open source program offices

By our estimation at GitHub, over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have now implemented OSPOs. Here’s what that means for open source.

Maintainers

Bringing greater financial sustainability to open source communities

We know that companies benefit from open source. That’s why we’re making it easier for companies to financially support projects.

Gaming

Game Off 2022 theme announcement

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Are you ready?

Gaming

13 tiny, terrific, and terrifying games to hack, slay, and play this Halloween 🧛🏻‍♀️

Some seriously spooktacular open source games for the web, Windows, macOS, and Linux with all sorts of fun hacks for infinite lives, invulnerability, and playing with time.

Open Source

Release Radar · September 2022 Edition

Hackatoberfest, hackathons, and open source contributions. It’s been a hectic month with so many community pull requests to all kinds of projects. So many in fact that we had to…

Gaming

Build a game this November with Game Off 2022

Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉

Git

Git Merge 2022 – that’s a wrap! 🎬

Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.

Git

Git security vulnerabilities announced

Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially when cloning with –recurse-submodules from untrusted repositories, or if you use git shell interactive mode.

Git

The Story of Scalar

New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.

Gaming

JS13K 2022 winners 🏆

The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.