The latest blogs from GitHub

In an effort to increase the adoption of FIDO U2F second factor authentication, we’re releasing Soft U2F—a software-based U2F authenticator for macOS. Soft U2F currently works with Google Chrome and…

Patchwork is headed to Pittsburgh! This event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn. We’ll have stickers for everyone, and a…

A little over three years ago, we launched our Security Bug Bounty Program, a way to reward security researchers who help make GitHub more secure by reporting vulnerabilities in our…

From product design mocks to user help content, GitHub teams use GitHub to build just about everything—and they’re often collaborating across different timezones. As we continue to build products that…

You write software so that others can use it, but no software is perfect, and sometimes users have questions or run into trouble. To better direct users to dedicated support…

Today I am pleased to share our second annual Diversity Report. While we are working every day internally to make GitHub the most inclusive company it can possibly be, this…

In an effort to increase the adoption of FIDO U2F second factor authentication, we’re releasing Soft U2F: a software-based U2F authenticator for macOS. We’ve long been interested in promoting better…

When you first started using GitHub, you read every notification that trickled in with interest and stayed up-to-date on projects with ease. It gets more difficult when you start to…

Manage your repositories’ incoming issues more efficiently with a few new updates: a keyword and saved reply to mark duplicate issues, along with a clearer, more informative style for keywords.…

Nearly three years ago GitHub joined millions of people and hundreds of companies to support the open internet. In 2015 the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed net neutrality…

GitHub presents Field Day—a one-day unconference for leaders of technical student communities. Students will share how they build communities, learn from each other’s successes and mistakes, and explore how they…

Professor Chris Lupo has taught at California Polytechnic State University for eight years and recently revamped his upper-level Architecture course using GitHub Classroom. In this post, he shares his workflow…

Katrina is an Open Source Advocate at GitHub. As a frequent speaker and proposal reviewer for conferences like GitHub Universe, she’s seen hundreds of speaker proposals—and written a few as…

While effective code review is essential to every successful project, it’s not always clear who should review files—even with GitHub’s reviewer suggestions. Now repository maintainers can define exactly which people…

You’re invited to watch, fork, and collaborate on GitHub’s Terms of Service and other site policies. Back in March we open sourced our Balanced Employee IP Agreement. The feedback from…

Our MySQL infrastructure is a critical component to GitHub. MySQL serves GitHub.com, GitHub’s API, authentication and more. Every git request touches MySQL in some way. We are tasked with keeping…

This post was written by our partners at Sentry—an open source error tracker that helps you prioritize, identify, reproduce, and fix issues. Install Sentry from GitHub Marketplace or the Student…

Over 600 people made their way to London and attended our second GitHub Satellite last month. From new developers to seasoned software entrepreneurs, attendees came together for two days of…

Review requests are a great way to get the people you need to look at your work. Now with team requests, you can find the right group of people and…

The GitHub for Unity extension we announced at the Game Developers Conference last March is now open source! Download the latest release for Windows and OS X for free, and…

Git LFS v2.2.0 is now available with the all-new git-lfs-migrate command, making it easier than ever to start using Git LFS in your repository. For example, if you’ve tried to…