Choose your merge commit email
You can now choose the author email for commits created when merging pull requests via the web. As a reminder, you can also choose the author email for web-based edits. For…
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Release Radar · March 2019
We’re sharing new and exciting releases from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects in the March 2019 edition of Release Radar.
Easily review comments in Atom
For quick and easy access, you can now view comments from review in Atom from a dock next to the editor.
Save setup time with GitHub Classroom and Probot
Use Probot with GitHub Apps to save time in the classroom by automating tasks.
Timeline entries for blocking users
A publicly visible timeline entry will be created on an issue or pull request if an Organization owner chooses to notify a user that they have been blocked. Timeline entries…
GitHub’s site policy updates are ready for your feedback
We’re updating our Privacy Statement, Subprocessors and Cookies Policy, Terms of Service, and Corporate Terms of Service—and the changes are ready for your feedback.
Subscription List
You can now access all of your issue and pull request subscriptions in one place on https://github.com/notifications/subscriptions. Learn more about the subscription list
Exclude labels from search
Excluding labels is now easier by using the alt keyboard modifier (or ⌥ on macOS) in an issue or pull request list filter to choose which labels you want to omit from…
Join us for Patchwork Austin
Patchwork is headed to Austin! This event is open to newcomers to GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn.
Prompt to clean up merged forks
There is now a shortcut to delete forked repos for pull requests that have been merged upstream.
Copy comment permalinks on mobile
Issue and pull request comment permalinks can now be copied on mobile devices, via the comment action menu.
Comment author label
Comments now indicate if they were left by the author of the issue or pull request. Learn more about commenting
How GitHub Classroom and Travis CI improved students’ grades
Learn how Dr. Shane Wilson saved time and boosted student performance with the help of GitHub Classroom and Travis CI.
User owned projects—your personal workspace
We know everyone has their own tooling and workflow preferences, which is why we’re excited to unveil our latest release: user owned project boards. Setting up a personal space for managing your work, ideas or, dare we say, bugs, should be possible…so we created user owned project boards to better support your individual needs.
An open source parser for GitHub Actions
Update: This blog post is no longer relevant with the update to GitHub Actions in August 2019. See the GitHub Actions documentation for more information. Since the beta release of…
Maintainer spotlight: Safia Abdalla
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source.
Keep your dependencies secure and up-to-date with GitHub and Dependabot
The following is a guest post written by Dependabot's co-founder, @greystiel. Modern software often relies on hundreds of open source components, all of which need to be kept secure. Staying on top…
Improved code review diff expansion
GitHub code review now supports expanding the diff view in upward and downward directions so you can see more context around the diff you're viewing. Learn more about reviewing changes…
The State of the Octoverse: machine learning
We decided to dig a little deeper into the state of machine learning and data science on GitHub. Read on to learn more about what we found.
See what’s new in GitHub Enterprise
From collaborative code review to data-powered security, GitHub is where teams of all sizes come to build and ship their best products. With our recent announcement of a unified GitHub…