The future of AI-powered software optimization (and how it can help your team)
We envision the future of AI-enabled tooling to look like near-effortless engineering for sustainability. We call it Continuous Efficiency.
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Let’s talk about GitHub Actions
A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience.
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MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents
MCP is moving to the Linux Foundation. Here’s how that will affect developers.
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Speed is nothing without control: How to keep quality high in the AI era
AI can help you build faster than ever, but it can also produce bugs, issues, and problems. Use these strategies to keep your speed without losing control of your code.
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GitHub Availability Report: November 2025
In November, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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The new identity of a developer: What changes and what doesn’t in the AI era
Discover how advanced AI users are redefining software development—shifting from code producers to strategic orchestrators—through delegation, verification, and a new era of AI-fluent engineering.
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How to use GitHub Copilot Spaces to debug issues faster
Follow this step-by-step guide to learn how to debug your issues using GitHub Copilot Spaces and Copilot coding agent.
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Let’s talk about GitHub Actions
A look at how we rebuilt GitHub Actions’ core architecture and shipped long-requested upgrades to improve performance, workflow flexibility, reliability, and everyday developer experience.
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Spec-driven development with AI: Get started with a new open source toolkit
Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.
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How GitHub’s agentic security principles make our AI agents as secure as possible
Learn more about the agentic security principles that we use to build secure AI products—and how you can apply them to your own agents.
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Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub
GitHub is introducing post-quantum secure key exchange methods for SSH access to better protect Git data in transit.
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How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale.
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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
Plus, considerations in updating one of GitHub’s oldest and most heavily used features.
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
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Octoverse 2025: AI, India, and the new #1 programming language
Dive into the key findings from Octoverse 2025! This year saw record-breaking growth with over 180 million developers now on GitHub. We explore three big shifts: generative AI becoming ordinary engineering, TypeScript’s rise to the #1 language, and how AI is influencing developer choices. See how the developer map is redrawing itself faster than ever.
The untold story of Log4j and Log4Shell
In late 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability sent shockwaves through the global tech community. Hear the untold, inside story from Christian Grobmeier, a maintainer of the Log4j project.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
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Your stack, your rules: Introducing custom agents in GitHub Copilot for observability, IaC, and security
Use partner-built Copilot agents to debug, secure, and automate engineering workflows across your terminal, editor, and github.com.
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The ultimate gift guide for the developer in your life
Finding the perfect gift for your favorite developer is easy with our top tips.
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Why developers still flock to Python: Guido van Rossum on readability, AI, and the future of programming
Discover how Python changed developer culture—and see why it keeps evolving.
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Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents
Calling on developers, startups, and open source organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.
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GitHub Availability Report: October 2025
In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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TypeScript, Python, and the AI feedback loop changing software development
An interview with the leader of GitHub Next, Idan Gazit, on TypeScript, Python, and what comes next.
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The GitHub Podcast
Catch up on the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.