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.

Maintainers

Welcome to Maintainer Month 2022! 🎉

During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated.

Gaming

Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022

The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them.

Open Source

Release Radar · April 2022 Edition

Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…

Open Source

Open Source Monthly – May 2022 Edition

Introduction Open Sauced, GitHub’s Explore page, Hacktoberfest, and First Timers Only help folks discover open source projects. This monthly series–Open Source Monthly—will add to these efforts by helping: First-time contributors…

Gaming

20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50

20 of our favorite games plus source code from the latest Ludum Dare competition.

Git

Highlights from Git 2.36

Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.36.

Git

Git security vulnerability announced

Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.

Open Source

Release Radar · March 2022 Edition

Open Source

Release Radar · February 2022 Edition

Our community has shipped lots of open source project updates in the last month. Here’s a few of our staff picks.

Open Source

Release Radar · January 2022 Edition

Here’s January’s top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases.

Maintainers

New sponsors-only repositories, custom amounts, and more

Along with the release of sponsors-only repositories, here’s a look at what’s new and what’s next for Sponsors.

Git

Highlights from Git 2.35

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.