Auto-watching updates
If you create a user-owned repository, you will now be automatically watching it for updates. Forks will no longer be automatically watched, even if you are granted push access. Learn…
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Jump to definition in public repositories
Jump to definition is now available for a subset of public repositories—supported in Go, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and TypeScript. Hovering over function and method calls will expose jump-to-definition links for…
GitHub Desktop 2.0 expands to support stashing and rebasing
Resolve merge conflicts more easily, co-author commits to share credit with others, check out your GitHub pull requests, and more with the release of GitHub Desktop 2.0.
Pins to win: students, show off your stuff to win a GitHub Education backpack
Make your portfolio shine with pinned gists.
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…
Improvements to issue transfer permissions
Users with write access to two repositories can now use issue transfer to move issues between them. Previously, only users with admin permissions on both repositories had the ability to transfer…
Build like an open source community with GitHub Enterprise
To make it easier for businesses to securely embrace open source and keep up with the best technology has to offer, we’re launching several improvements to GitHub Enterprise. These new features will support businesses as they work toward their goals, encourage open collaboration, and build trust at scale.
Introducing new ways to keep your code secure
It’s more important than ever that every developer becomes a security developer—that they responsibly disclose vulnerabilities and patch vulnerable code quickly. Today, we’re excited to announce several new security features designed to make it easier for developers to secure their code.
Announcing GitHub Sponsors: a new way to contribute to open source
We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. Open source developers build tools for the rest of us. GitHub Sponsors is a new tool to help them succeed, too.
Dependent repositories
Dependent repositories surface data from the GitHub dependency graph, showcasing which public repositories depend on the packages in that repository. Learn more
Community contributors
Users can hover over a repository's contributor count, and community contributors will show a hovercard of direct and transitive contributors to dependencies parsed from that repository's dependency graph. Learn more…
Triage and maintain roles (beta)
Administrators of organization-owned repositories can now assign "triage" and "maintain" roles to collaborators and teams as part of a public beta preview. If a contributor proves their ability to drive…
Security policy
Repositories may now specify a security policy by creating a file named SECURITY.MD. This file should be used to instruct users about how and when to report security vulnerabilities to…
XPRIZE awards $15M for open source, scalable education software
The XPRIZE Foundation challenged teams to develop open source software to help children learn basic reading, writing, and arithmetic—learn more about the challenge and who won.
Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.
Introducing GitHub Package Registry
With GitHub Package Registry your packages are at home with their code—sign up for the limited beta to try it out.
Using issues to give feedback to students
Learn how teachers can help students use issues and pull requests.
Sample of how to enable security vulnerability alerts for organizations
Recently, we introduced the vulnerability-alerts API preview which allows administrators to enable security vulnerability alerts on a per-repository basis. Today, we are releasing a code sample in Node and Bash which demonstrates…
Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
We’re excited to welcome the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to GitHub.
Custom Open Graph Images for repositories
Today, we're introducing Custom Open Graph Images to all repositories on GitHub.com.