Eight lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months
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…
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GitHub’s 2014 Transparency Report
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…
Patchwork Wellington, NZ
Patchwork Wellington We're excited to announce a Patchwork hack night on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, that will be co-hosted with our friends at BizDojo at their Project: Blank Canvas space…
The Game Has Changed
GitHub's Game Off is back, and this year it's a little different! The Challenge Take an existing game or game jam entry on GitHub, fork it and do something awesome…
The Game Off Returns!
The GitHub Game Off, our very own game jam is returning next week! We've had some great games submitted in previous years and can't wait to see what you come…
GitHub Security Bug Bounty program turns one
It's already been a year since we launched the GitHub Security Bug Bounty, and, thanks to bug reports from researchers across the globe, 73 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in our…
GitHub Town Hall: Open Source and Academia
Next week we're hosting another GitHub Town Hall on academia and open source in partnership with the eScience Institute at University of Washington. Software plays a vital role in much…
Announcing GitHub Enterprise 2.1.0
It's a new year and we couldn't think of a better way to start it off than with a new release of GitHub Enterprise. We've included a number of highly-requested…
How GitHub uses GitHub to document GitHub
Providing well-written documentation helps people understand, make use of, and contribute back to your project, but it's only half of the documentation equation. The underlying system used to serve documentation…
Welcome to GitHub, .NET!
Microsoft announced at their Connect event last week that they will be open sourcing much of the .NET technology stack, as well as moving development of these technologies over to…
A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise
Today, we’re releasing an all-new GitHub Enterprise designed to make it even easier for developers and businesses around the world to use GitHub at work. Now available on Amazon Web…
Linking merged pull requests from commits
We've been including the containing branches and tags on commit pages to give you more context around changes. Now, commits in a repository's default branch will also show you the…
The best developer tools, now free for students
There's no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That's why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our…
Managing Issues and Pull Requests Across Repositories
Keep track of all of your issues and pull requests with the new Issues Dashboard and the new Pull Requests Dashboard. When we rebuilt GitHub Issues earlier this summer, we…
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,…
Nested task lists
The most organized people know that finishing a task rarely involves just one step. That's why we're excited to announce nested task lists! For example: - [ ] Figure out…
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…
GitHub Pages <3
We're excited to share some recent improvements to GitHub Pages, which you may have already noticed rolling out over the past several weeks: Additional metadata for organization pages Many large…
Hello World Guide
We just shipped our latest GitHub Guide: Hello-World. The "Hello World" project is a time-honored tradition in computer programming and now there is one just for GitHub. Hello repositories and…
Updated Services UI
A little over 6 years ago we launched github-services as an open source project. We've had a great deal of success with github-services, but the growing number of supported services…
Showcasing interesting projects in Explore
We love watching trending repositories on GitHub every day. All kinds of interesting projects bubble up and there is always something new to catch your eye. We want to collect…