The Actions Tab Gets a New Look
The Actions tab is getting an exciting new look and many new features based on feedback from our users. Today you will see the following improvements: Runs are now organized…
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UI changes in GitHub Actions checks
GitHub Actions uses the Checks API for representing and storing information about job executions. These checks appear in many places in the GitHub UI such as the merge box of…
Securing software, together
Software security is a collective problem, a responsibility that involves producers and consumers of code, open source maintainers, security researchers, and security teams. At GitHub, we want to give the community the tools it needs to secure the software we all depend on.
Dependency graph support is now available for PHP repositories with Composer dependencies
The dependency graph is rolling out for all PHP repositories with Composer dependencies. In addition to Composer, GitHub supports package managers for many other programming languages, including Maven, NPM, Yarn, and Nuget.
Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
Improved check annotations on the “Files changed” tab
Check annotations created on lines or files that were not modified as part of a pull request are now displayed on the "Files changed" tab, helping you fix test or…
Pins to Win: stunning student profiles
Check out the Pins to Win competition winners and get inspiration to make your own winning GitHub profile.
Updates to triage and maintain roles (beta)
The triage and maintain roles now have expanded permissions. Users with the triage role can request reviews on pull requests, mark issues and pull requests as duplicates, and add or…
GitHub Enterprise Server 2.18 is here
See what’s new for project management, security, and the developer experience with our latest Enterprise Server release.
Why you need to be at GitHub Universe 2019
Our biggest community event is back—and better than ever. Join us on November 13-14 at the Palace of Fine Arts with brand new speakers, swag, and so much more.
Lessons from Snyk: Make smarter decisions about your application’s security
Liran Tal, Developer Advocate at Snyk, shared a few key takeaways and advice from their 2019 Open Source Security Report.
C# or Java? TypeScript or JavaScript? Machine learning based classification of programming languages
To make language detection more robust and maintainable in the long run, we developed a machine learning classifier named OctoLingua based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture which can handle language predictions in tricky scenarios.
Mark files as viewed
Mark files as viewed—and see if they’ve changed since you viewed them—to easily pick up where you left off.
Improved authoring experience for new issues on mobile web
New issues on mobile web now have improved editing features! We've optimized the design for the mobile authoring experience, making it easier to add links, format text, and take quick…
Show your peers how to collaborate with GitHub
Student event organizers can use the new workshop from Major League Hacking, How to Collaborate on Code Projects with GitHub, to help their peers get started with version control.
Maintainer spotlight: Henry Zhu
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Henry Zhu.
Generate new repositories with repository templates
Today, we’re excited to introduce repository templates to make boilerplate code management and distribution a first-class citizen on GitHub. To get started, all you need to do is mark a repository as a template, and you’ll immediately be able to use it to generate new repositories with all of the template repository’s files and folders.
Maintainer spotlight: Sage Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Siân Griffin.
GitHub Desktop 2.0 release
The release of GitHub Desktop 2.0 includes four primary features: Stashing: When you have uncommitted changes on a branch and attempt to switch branches, you can now choose to stash…
Maintainer spotlight: Mariatta Wijaya
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Mariatta Wijaya.
Default “documentation” label for new repositories
Now, when you create a new repository, documentation will be within the list of default labels which you can add to issues and pull requests. Learn more about using default labels…