The latest blogs from GitHub

Millions of people rely on GitHub Pages to host their websites and millions more visit these websites every day. To better protect traffic to GitHub Pages sites, as well as…

Join us in Amsterdam as we team up with our friends at Le Wagon to host a Patchwork event on June 23. The event is open to beginners to Git…

We’ve rolled out several changes to our email notifications. Now you have more ways to filter your email notifications and each email will contain more information about why you received…

We’re welcoming the open source community to Los Angeles for three days of talks, workshops, and festivities. CodeConf LA is approaching fast, so grab your ticket or donate one today.…

You can now move checklist items around just by dragging and dropping them. Reorder items quickly and easily without editing the original comment’s Markdown. How to re-order task list items…

On May 11 in Amsterdam, over 500 developers converged at GitHub Satellite to share and hear stories about open source, enterprise software, engineering best practices, and more. In case you…

Issues and pull requests often need to be assigned to more than one person. Multiple Assignees are now supported, allowing up to 10 people to be added to a given…

We’ve teamed up with our pals at Grumpy Gits to host a Patchwork event in Singapore on June 25. The event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub, or…

At GitHub our goal is to help everyone build better software. To do that, we know we must create a company where anyone, regardless of what they look like or…

Beginning today, repository admins must invite you to their repository and you must accept the invitation before you can start collaborating. Repository invitations let you decide whether or not you…

As promised, GitHub Pages has moved to the Jekyll 3.1 branch with an upgrade to Jekyll 3.1.6. Jekyll 3.1 brings significant performance improvements to GitHub Pages. By using Liquid::Drops, rather…

Patchwork comes to Toronto on June 16, and we’ll be co-hosting with our friends at Rangle.io. The event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub, or mentors who would…

Earning green squares on your contribution graph means celebrating the work you do in open source and public projects. Starting today, you can also celebrate the work you do in…

Sometimes customers find themselves needing the unique advantages of GitHub Enterprise and decide to move their private repositories there. Now it’s easier than ever to move repositories to GitHub Enterprise…

We couldn’t be more excited to announce that all of our paid plans on GitHub.com now include unlimited private repositories. GitHub will always be free for public and open source…

For two years, Electron has lowered the barrier to developing desktop applications—making it possible for developers to build cross-platform apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Now we’re excited to share…

Ensuring that your GitHub Pages site appears in search engines and is shareable via social media is now easier with the introduction of the Jekyll SEO Tag plugin. By simply…

GitHub Desktop on Windows is a nice complement to developer tools such as Atom and Visual Studio. Now it visually complements those tools too! The latest update adds the ability…

We’re bringing Patchwork back to Chicago on May 24 and co-hosting with our friends at Dev BootCamp. The event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub, or mentors who…

GitHub will be hosting meetups in Amsterdam and Paris on 10 and 12 May, the days surrounding GitHub Satellite. Come by to say hello and chat with GitHubbers both local…

GitHub Pages will upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Jekyll 3.1.4 on May 23rd. The Jekyll 3.1.x branch brings significant performance improvements to the build process, adds a handful of helpful Liquid…