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Today we’re enabling fine-grained personal access tokens (PATs) in Public Beta for all user accounts on GitHub.com. This new type of token gives developers and resource owners more control and…

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

You can now hide individual Achievements. Navigate to Achievements on your profile sidebar and click on an achievement to get started. Once in the detail view, the eye icon will…

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can now participate in a private beta enabling authentication token data to display for audit log events. In doing so, enterprise owners will be able to…

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.

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.

Private profiles (now generally available) enables users to turn their GitHub profile “private”, which gives users control over features that share user data across the GitHub platform. When a profile…

Tech can be a tricky industry (to say the least). We talked with three tech professionals who share why they stay, what has helped them the most, and the power of switching things up.

Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO.

Previously, we announced the ability for enterprise owners to limit where private and internal repository forks can be created. We heard from some customers that they need a more granular…

You can now display your local timezone on your profile to give others an idea of when to expect responses to pull requests or issues from you. You can opt…

On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations.

Enterprise administrators can now choose to redirect signed-out Enterprise Managed Users to their company’s single sign-on (SSO) page. This feature is available as a public beta. By default, enterprises with…

Dependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building.

A tour of recent work to re-engineer Git’s garbage collection process to scale to our largest and most active repositories.

Custom repository roles enable Enterprise organization administrators to define and assign least-privilege roles for their repositories, beyond the standard Read, Triage, Write, Maintain, and Admin roles. Now, REST API endpoints…

A software engineer’s personal journey to becoming an open source contributor.

We’ve been gearing up to launch GitHub Universe 2022 and our community has been launching cool projects left right and center.  These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer…

We’re examining Git’s internals to help make your engineering system more efficient. This post views Git as a distributed database and looks into its synchronization techniques, specifically ‘git fetch’ and ‘git push’.