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Several years ago, Jekyll, the open source project that powers GitHub Pages, introduced shared themes. Since then, you have been able to use about a dozen themes to change the…
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Give the gift of code this holiday season with 24 Pull Requests
24 Pull Requests is an annual community-organized event encouraging developers to give back to open source projects over the holiday season. Be part of this year's giving by submitting 24…
Introducing security alerts on GitHub
Last month, we made it easier for you to keep track of the projects your code depends on with the dependency graph, currently supported in Javascript and Ruby. Today, for…
Life as a GitHub Intern: the Making of GitHub Field Day
Wilhelm Klopp is a student at University College London (UCL), a Campus Expert, and creator of Simple Poll—one of the most popular Slack integrations. He spent the summer of 2017…
Introducing Teletype for Atom: Code collaboratively in real time
Writing code with other developers can be a great way to onboard teammates, get to know how your peers think, and learn new skills. Unfortunately, writing code together can be…
GitHub welcomes all CI tools
Continuous Integration (CI) tools help you stick to your team's quality standards by running tests every time you push a new commit and reporting the results to a pull request.…
And the theme for Game Off 2017 is…
Game Off—our fifth annual game jam celebrating open source is officially underway. The theme for this year’s jam is throwback. Let your imagination run wild and interpret that in any…
GitHub supports open source provisions in National Defense Authorization Act
This month, GitHub penned a letter urging the United States Senate and House of Representatives to support open source provisions in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets…
Get started with Hacktoberfest
If you're an open source maintainer, it's time to get your repository ready for Hacktoberfest. Why? Communities grow during Hacktoberfest. Just ask Peter Tseng, now a core contributor of Exercism,…
Mission report: GitHub Universe 2017
This week, more than 1,000 developers from around the world joined us at Pier 70 in San Francisco for our flagship conference. We learned new skills in workshops, heard from…
Mitigating replication lag and reducing read load with freno
At GitHub, we use MySQL as the main database technology backing our services. We run classic MySQL master-replica setups, where writes go to the master, and replicas replay master's changes asynchronously. To be able to serve our traffic we read data from the MySQL replicas.
A more connected universe
Almost a decade ago, GitHub was created as a place for developers to work together on code. Now, millions of people around the world use our platform to build businesses,…
Diversity and inclusion at GitHub Universe
Universe is just around the corner and we wanted to take one more opportunity to acknowledge our 2017 Community Partners. The following incredible organizations were kind enough to assist with…
Release Radar · October 2017
We’re kicking off Cyber Security month with a few projects to help up your security game with the tools and know-how to protect yourself from common vulnerabilities. These are the…
GitHub Universe is almost here
Our flagship conference is just a week away, and tickets are almost sold out! Don’t miss your chance to hear about some of our biggest product ships, learn from industry…
Announcing GitHub Desktop 1.0
Collaborating on GitHub with the power of a GUI application just got easier! GitHub Desktop 1.0 is now available. A few months ago, we completely redesigned and reimplemented GitHub Desktop…
GitHub Constellation is coming to a city near you
In June, we hosted Constellation Tokyo, our first-ever conference in Japan. Now, we’re bringing this two-day event for software builders and entrepreneurs to cities around the world. Every Constellation is…
Git LFS 2.3.0 released
Git LFS v2.3.0 is now available with performance improvements to git lfs migrate and git clone, new features, bug fixes, and more. Download Git LFS v2.3.0 git lfs migrate With…
The data science behind topic suggestions
Earlier this year, we launched topics, a new feature that lets you tag repositories with descriptive words or phrases. Topics help you create connections between similar GitHub projects and explore…
Introducing GitHub Enterprise 2.11
Enhance performance in high availability environments, define more granular permissions, and seamlessly review code with GitHub Enterprise 2.11. Our latest release brings together some of the most-requested features…
Introducing Atom-IDE
In collaboration with Facebook, we're excited to announce Atom-IDE—a set of optional packages that bring IDE-like functionality to Atom. The initial release includes smarter, context-aware auto-completion, navigation features, like outline…