Get to know the Satellite speakers
Satellite speakers and attendees will be on their way to London next week for our biggest European conference to date. Learn more about the work and inspiration of two U.K.-based…
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Git 2.13 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.13.0, with features and bugfixes from over 65 contributors. Before we dig into the new features, we have a brief security…
A sneak peek at Satellite sessions
Developers, community builders, and technical leaders from around the world are gearing up to share their experiences in fourteen sessions at Satellite on May 22. Here’s a closer look at…
GitHub Issues and user testing as authentic assessment
A course organized around users, not exams In his Startup Programming course at the University of Victoria, Alexey Zagalsky asks students to design products based on user needs. Working together…
Work/life balance in employee intellectual property agreements
At GitHub, we recognize that running a great business over the long term requires a measure of "work/life balance" – and that includes recognizing that developers and other knowledge workers…
SHA-1 collision detection on GitHub.com
A few weeks ago, researchers announced SHAttered, the first collision of the SHA-1 hash function. Starting today, all SHA-1 computations on GitHub.com will detect and reject any Git content that…
Invest in tools students can grow with: GitHub and RStudio for data science at Duke University
Data science is a melting pot of disciplines: students from Anthropology to Political Science to Education all sign up for the same course. It’s a challenge to keep the material…
Bug Bounty third anniversary wrap-up
In honor of our Bug Bounty Program's third birthday, we kicked off a promotional bounty period in January and February. In addition to bonus payouts, the scope of the bug…
A formal spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown
Starting today, all Markdown user content hosted in our website, including user comments, wikis, and .md files in repositories will be parsed and rendered following a formal specification for GitHub Flavored Markdown.
GitHub Enterprise 2.9 is here with Pull Request improvements, organization-wide Projects, and Google Cloud Platform support
GitHub Enterprise 2.9 is now available with improvements for both developers and administrators. With this release, administrators will see improvements in reliability and developers can get more out of pull…
Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards
Cryptographic standards are ever evolving. It is the canonical game of security cat and mouse, with attacks rendering older standards ill-suited, and driving the community to develop newer and stronger…
A glimpse into GitHub’s Bug Bounty workflow
Last month, we announced the third anniversary of our Bug Bounty Program. While there's still time to disclose your findings through the program, we wanted to pull back the curtain…
Introducing Topics
Discover networks of similar repositories in a completely new way with Topics. Topics are labels that create subject-based connections between GitHub repositories and let you explore projects by type, technology,…
GitHub’s post-CSP journey
Last year we shared some details on GitHub's CSP journey. A journey was a good way to describe it, as our usage of Content Security Policy (CSP) significantly changed from…
Bug Bounty anniversary promotion: bigger bounties in January and February
The GitHub Bug Bounty Program is turning three years old. To celebrate, we're offering bigger bounties for the most severe bugs found in January and February. The bigger the bug,…
Git Merge 2017: the full agenda is now live
The complete agenda for Git Merge 2017 is now live. Check it out. Learn how companies like Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Autodesk, Yubico, MIT, Atlassian, and the Software Freedom Conservancy are…
Git 2.11 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.11.0, with features and bugfixes from over 70 contributors. Here's our look at some of the most interesting new features: Abbreviated…
GitHub is headed to AWS re:Invent
The GitHub team is getting ready for AWS re:Invent on November 28, and we'd love to meet you there. Why? GitHub works alongside AWS to ensure your code is produced…
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 is now available with code review, project management tools, and Jupyter notebook rendering
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds power and versatility directly into your workflow with Reviews for more streamlined code review and discussion, Projects to bring development-centric project management into GitHub, and Jupyter…
Meet Nahi: Developer and Ruby Contributor
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Hiroshi “Nahi” Nakamura, currently a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and Software Engineer at…
Top open source launches on GitHub
The open source community on GitHub has released some of the world's most influential technologies. Earlier this month, a new dependency manager for JavaScript called Yarn was launched and hit…