Improved Audit Log
We've just released some major improvements to our organization audit logs. As an organization admin, you can now see a running list of events as they're generated across your organization,…
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Pay for GitHub with PayPal
GitHub is now accepting PayPal, in addition to credit cards, to pay for personal plans and organization accounts. We've been working closely with Braintree to deliver PayPal payments using their…
Improving GitHub for science
GitHub is being used today to build scientific software that's helping find Earth-like planets in other solar systems, analyze DNA, and build open source rockets. Seeing these projects and all…
Switch your picture with ease
Good news, everyone! Changing your public profile picture just got easier. Click the "Account Settings" icon in the header. Upload a picture of your awesome new haircut. Crop the picture…
Recent activity for authentication credentials
In addition to seeing your browser session activity, you can now view activity for your SSH keys and OAuth tokens as well. SSH key activity Find the most recent activity…
Enhanced OAuth security for SSH keys
We just added more granular permissions so third party applications can specifically request read-only access, read/write access, or full admin access to your public SSH keys. You're in control As…
GitHub goes to school
Today, we're excited to announce the launch of education.github.com, a site dedicated to using GitHub at school. Students, teachers, and schools all over the world use GitHub to teach and…
GitHub Security Bug Bounty
Our users' trust is something we never take for granted here at GitHub. In order to earn and keep that trust we are always working to improve the security of…
Better Organizations
Today we’re making it easier to manage GitHub organizations. Whether your organization is a large private company or a small open source project, these improvements will help keep your teams…
Closed Captions on YouTube
With help from the non-profit, open-source project Amara, we've added English closed captions to all of our videos on YouTube. This includes all videos on the main GitHub channel (such…
DNS Outage Post Mortem
Last week on Wednesday, January 8th, GitHub experienced an outage of our DNS infrastructure. As a result of this outage, our customers experienced 42 minutes of downtime of services along…
More Enterprise support in GitHub for Mac
To help kick off the new year, we're happy to announce that GitHub for Mac now supports CAS authentication with GitHub Enterprise as of version 11.10.328 or later! The sign-in…
Weak passwords brute forced
Some GitHub user accounts with weak passwords were recently compromised due to a brute force password-guessing attack. I want to take this opportunity to talk about our response to this…
GitHub Game Off II
We ran our very first game jam last year and had so much fun, we decided to throw another one! The Challenge You have the entire month of November to…
View Active Browser Sessions
To follow up with our recent two-factor authentication security feature, we are giving users more insight into their active browser sessions. Under Account settings > Security History you will see…
Enterprise Support in GitHub for Windows
Today's GitHub for Windows release adds support for GitHub Enterprise. Now you can use all the GitHub for Windows features you know and love with your GitHub Enterprise repositories. Adding…
Two-factor Authentication
Today we're adding two-factor authentication to GitHub. When you enable this feature, it adds an additional layer of security to your account. When logging in to GitHub, after providing your…
Better password security in GitHub for Windows
We're always looking at ways to improve security. Today's release of GitHub for Windows (version 1.0.54) improves password handling security through the use of OAuth tokens. Prior to this release…
OAuth Improvements
We have a couple of great new features and improvements to the OAuth flow to announce! First off, application developers can now add full text descriptions and custom images to…
Introducing GitHub Sudo Mode
In the ongoing effort to keep our users safe, we recently took inspiration from the Unix sudo command. We wanted to require password confirmation for dangerous actions on GitHub.com, but…
Repository redirects are here!
It's a fact of life - sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…