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Following a successful beta with lots of great customer feedback, webhook forwarding in the GitHub CLI is now available to everyone. Webhook forwarding makes it easy to test your webhooks…

We now show bypassed branch protection rules in response to Git pushes. These are information messages and are not designed to block workflows. Historically there was no indication after a…

GitHub Codespaces enables you to start coding faster when coupled with dev containers. Learn how to automate a portion of your development environment by adding a dev container to an open source project using GitHub Codespaces.

Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster GitHub-hosted macOS runners for x64.

Our mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration requires us, from time to time, to fight against legal developments that would needlessly impair developers’ right to innovate. That’s why GitHub has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of Yout LLC v. Recording Industry of America, Inc.

You can now create a custom role to manage branch protections without having to grant the Admin role. Previously, to manage branch protections you had to be an Admin which…

Organizations and enterprises using branch protections may see false-alert flags in their security log for protected_branch.policy_override and protected_branch.rejected_ref_update events between January 6 and January 11, 2023. These events were improperly…

In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.

Starting today, GitHub code scanning includes beta support for analyzing code written in Kotlin, powered by the CodeQL engine. Kotlin is a key programming language used in the creation of…

We’ve launched a limited public beta of a new feature in the GitHub CLI: webhook forwarding. Webhook forwarding makes it easy to test your webhooks integration in your local environment…

Last year, we launched Ruby analysis support in beta for GitHub code scanning. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of this feature — covering even more vulnerabilities in Ruby code.…

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.

This blog series will examine Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. Part I discusses how Git stores its data in packfiles using custom compression techniques.

We updated the web UI to make keeping forks in sync with their upstream repositories more intuitive. “Fetch upstream” has been renamed to “Sync fork,” which better describes the button’s…

You can now create a custom role to bypass branch protections without having to grant the Admin role. Previously, to bypass branch protections you had to be an Admin which…

As GitHub Pages, home to 16 million websites, approaches its 15th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that all sites now build and deploy with GitHub Actions.

Previously, when creating a fork all branches from the parent repository were copied to the new fork repository. There are several scenarios where this is unneeded, such as contributing to…

Previously, three aspects of repository forks caused friction to innersource collaboration and administration: Repositories could not be forked within a single organization. Repositories with internal visibility could not be forked…

Previously, it was difficult to create a new branch from the GitHub UI. Now you can create a branch on the Branches overview page. Just click the New branch button,…

We’ve added an enhancement to the repository view for a branch that is different than its upstream branch. Previously we showed the number of commits the branch was ahead or…

Now, admins can block creation of branches that match a configured name pattern. For example, if a repository’s default branch is renamed from master to main, admins can prevent any…