The latest blogs from GitHub

Save the date! Game Off returns on November 1 for its 10th year! 🎉

Git Merge 2022 just wrapped up bringing the community together for 16 talks, three workshops, one Git Contributor Summit, and lots of great conversations over two days. Read on for more info, photos from the event, and all of the session recordings.

We’re always trying to improve the GitHub developer experience in meaningful ways, and we love learning from our customers. In the last several months we released several new fork capabilities, and we’re publishing revised fork documentation that gives more details with clearer explanations to make fork concepts easier to understand.

GitHub Actions changed how developers automate workflows with GitHub. Today, we’re introducing a new navigation to manage your GitHub Actions experience, improving discoverability and accessibility as well as opening up future feature opportunities.

Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially when cloning with –recurse-submodules from untrusted repositories, or if you use git shell interactive mode.

Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens.

Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.

Having a robust security plan is key to innovation. These tips will empower you to gain the upper hand on cyberattacks, so you can ship quickly and innovate with ease.

GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.

Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) alerts with Security Information and Events Management (SIEM) tools. Check out the integrations, and read more about getting started.

New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.

Explore 80+ content sessions delivered by over 120 different speakers, across two days and four content tracks, all designed to level up your skills.

Developers can now view GitHub code scanning findings directly in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces. The new Microsoft SARIF Viewer extension gives developers direct access to their code scanning results, making remediating vulnerabilities easier than ever.

Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta.

We’re excited that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the 2022 edition of its Global Innovation Index (GII) with an indicator of developer creative outputs based on GitHub commits.

Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts.

The eleventh annual js13kGames coding competition, challenging participants to create games in 13kB or less of JavaScript in a month, just wrapped up. This post highlights the top thirteen entries.

Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.

In September, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. We also experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to Codespaces. We are still investigating that incident and will include it in next month’s report. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in August and an incident that impacted Actions in August.

Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground.

GitHub Universe is back and more robust than ever, with two great ways to engage with everything this global developer event has to offer.