The latest blogs from GitHub

We’re making it easier to publish a website with GitHub Pages. Now you can select a source in your repository settings and GitHub Pages will look for your content there.…

At GitHub we use MySQL as our main datastore. While repository data lies in git, metadata is stored in MySQL. This includes Issues, Pull Requests, Comments etc. We also auth…

You can now access more tools from our Integrations Directory. The Directory now has more than 15 categories — from API management to application monitoring, there’s a GitHub integration to…

Just in time for back-to-school preparations, we welcome you to join a new forum for technology education: education.github.community This supportive environment will allow educators to collaborate with each other, and…

You’ve never been to an after party like this. We’re doing something a little different with our conference after party and opening it up to GitHub communities outside of our…

You can now change the base branch of an open pull request. After you’ve created a pull request, you can modify the base branch so that the changes in the…

We’re taking Patchwork to sunny Tampa Bay on August 30. Together with our friends at Women in Linux, we’ll be hosting this event at First WaVE Venture Center. As with…

GitHub Universe kicks off next month in San Francisco. To make the conference accessible to more people and enrich the experience for all attendees, we’re excited to offer free tickets…

GitHub Pages will upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 on August 23rd. The upgrade to Jekyll 3.2 comes with over 100 improvements including the introduction of themes, meaning that soon, you’ll be…

You can now search for wiki pages from either the main search page, or within a repository. Quickly discover how to use the exec command of your Redis client, or…

We’re thrilled to be visiting Dallas and hosting a Patchwork with our friends at Improving. As with all our Patchworks, the event is open to all beginners to Git and…

Universe is three full days of featured community speakers, in-depth product training, keynotes from GitHub leadership, and breakout sessions led by experts from across the industry. You’ll hear from the…

A new release of GitHub Enterprise is now available with improvements for developers and administrators alike. With GitHub Enterprise 2.7, we’re introducing GPG signature verification — a new way for…

Organization owners are able to reinstate members that have been removed from an organization. Reinstating a member will restore organization and team memberships, forks of private repositories, issue assignments, repository…

Today we are announcing the open source release of gh-ost: GitHub’s triggerless online schema migration tool for MySQL. gh-ost has been developed at GitHub in recent months to answer a…

In May, 600 developers converged in Amsterdam for GitHub Satellite, the first-ever international conference in the GitHub Universe event series. GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath began the day by sharing some…

GitHub Universe is more than just a conference or a festival, although it feels like both. On September 13-15, you can experience advanced trainings, deep-dives on open source projects, keynotes…

Organization owners can send an email invitation to invite members, billing managers, and owners to their organization. This helps organization administrators invite members without a GitHub account or with unknown…

For this edition of Patchwork, we’re teaming up with our friends at Code for Philly for an evening of food, hacking, and meeting some new faces. You do not need…

The GitHub Universe 2016 call for proposals is open until July 31st, and we’re looking for 24 speakers to share their ideas in breakout sessions on September 14-15th. We encourage…

We’re bringing Patchwork to Seattle on July 21. If you’re in town for Open Source and Feelings, or if you’re local, we hope you can join us for a relaxing…