The latest blogs from GitHub

We thought you’d like a preview of what we have in store for CodeConf 2015 in June before discounted ticket sales end on May 25th. We’re beyond excited to be…

Pride week is coming early to GitHub! We’re throwing two LGBTQ-focused events on Tuesday June 2nd and Wednesday June 3rd, and will also be launching our 2015 Pridetocat shirt. Patchwork…

GitHub is used by government agencies to collaborate on all sorts of interesting things, from software that aids first responders to White House policy, but sometimes agencies require a level…

Prepare yourself for the future with the new Atom shirt and Atom Coasters. Available in the GitHub Shop

Most large-scale web applications incorporate at least some browser monitoring, collecting metrics about the user experience with JavaScript in the browser, but, as a community, we don’t talk much about…

Earlier this spring, we upgraded our database cluster to MySQL 5.6. Along with many other improvements, 5.6 added some exciting new features to the performance schema. MySQL’s performance schema is…

What does it take to run and build GitHub? On our new Engineering Blog we’ll show you how it’s done. Through the writings of our engineers you’ll gain insight into…

We are happy to introduce GitHub’s Engineering Blog to the world. Starting today, you can read details about our infrastructure, learn about our development practices, and hear about the knowledge…

On April 8-9, Git Merge returned to Europe, this time to La Gaite Lyrique in Paris. Over 200 people attended to celebrate ten years of Git, and with your help…

We love all the awesome little Octicons. Now you can wear Octicons…tons of Octicons! Available in the GitHub Shop

For the past year, GitHub has hosted small, informal events for beginners to Git and GitHub. We call them Patchwork events, and we’ve held them all over the world. We’re…

Communicating ideas that combine code, data and visualizations can be hard, especially if you’re trying to collaborate in realtime with your colleagues. Whether you’re a researcher studying Wikipedia, an astronomer…

One year ago today, Atom went from private alpha to open source software in hopes that the sunshine would help it reach its true potential. Thanks to you, our users…

Last year, we exposed repository and organization metadata to help you showcase your open source efforts on GitHub Pages. We’re adding releases metadata to that list, allowing you to more…

The Organization audit log allows you to quickly review actions performed by members of your organization on GitHub. You may need to look for specific activity or even through your…

Git’s 10-year birthday celebrations notwithstanding, the Git community has been busy preparing another major new release of the Git command-line utility. Release 2.4.0 is weighted towards cleanups, bug fixes, and…

At Microsoft Build 2015, we announced deep GitHub integration in Visual Studio 2015, along with GitHub Enterprise 2.2.0. This release will help developers who work with the Microsoft stack make…

Believe it or not, just over a year ago, GitHub Pages, the documentation hosting service that powers nearly three-quarters of a million sites, was little more than a 100-line shell…

CodeConf 2015, GitHub’s premiere open source event, will take place on June 25-26 in Tennessee. We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be a special community experience…

Last month, we challenged you to fork a game repository and do something awesome with it based on our Tron-inspired theme, “the game has changed“. Below are the submissions. They’re…

Like most online services, GitHub occasionally receives legal requests relating to user accounts and content, such as subpoenas or takedown notices. You may wonder how often we receive such requests…