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GitHub has supported using an alternate “noreply” email address to author web-based commits for a while now. Starting today, there’s another way to ensure you don’t inadvertently publish your email…

A few weeks ago, researchers announced SHAttered, the first collision of the SHA-1 hash function. Starting today, all SHA-1 computations on GitHub.com will detect and reject any Git content that…

In honor of our Bug Bounty Program’s third birthday, we kicked off a promotional bounty period in January and February. In addition to bonus payouts, the scope of the bug…

Last month, we announced the third anniversary of our Bug Bounty Program. While there’s still time to disclose your findings through the program, we wanted to pull back the curtain…

Professor David J. Malan, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University, is dedicated to offering his students a robust learning experience. This post outlines how…

CARTO is the newest addition to the GitHub Student Developer Pack. CARTO is a powerful open platform for discovering and predicting key insights underlying the world’s location data. It’s a…

With the continuous shipping nature at GitHub, it’s easy for the most well-intentioned feature to accidentally become the vector of abuse and harassment. The Community & Safety engineering team focuses…

Starting January 31, 2017, the Delegated Account Recovery feature will let you associate your GitHub account with your Facebook account, giving you a way back into GitHub in certain two-factor…

The Recover Accounts Elsewhere feature lets you associate your GitHub account with your Facebook account. This will help us recover your account for certain two-factor authentication lockout scenarios. For example,…

Last year we shared some details on GitHub’s CSP journey. A journey was a good way to describe it, as our usage of Content Security Policy (CSP) significantly changed from…

Historically, we have used Redis in two ways at GitHub: We used it as an LRU cache to conveniently store the results of expensive computations over data originally persisted in…

We hope you will join us and our friends at linux.conf.au as we host a Patchwork on the isle of Tasmania, in the city of Hobart. The event is open…

You’ve been able to use relative links when authoring Markdown on GitHub.com for a while. Now, those links will continue to work when published via GitHub Pages. If you have…

If you’ll be attending The Next Web NYC on November 16, we’d love to have you join us for our Patchwork round table session. The session is open to all…

On November 17, we’re teaming up with our friends at Ingressive who are hosting a GitHub Patchwork and Meetup/Q&A in Lagos, Nigeria after day one of their High Growth Africa…

We announced the GitHub Game Jam, our very own month-long game jam, a few weeks ago. Today, we’re announcing the theme and officially kicking it off. Ready player one! The…

We’re hosting this Patchwork with our friends at Condé Nast in Austin. The event is open to all beginners to Git and GitHub, or mentors who would like to help…

On Thursday, October 20th, a bug in GitHub’s system exposed a small amount of user data via Git pulls and clones. In total, 156 private repositories of GitHub.com users were…

Building software should be safe for everyone. The GitHub community is made up of millions of developers around the world, ranging from the new developer who created their first “Hello…

GitHub announced a public API one month after the site launched. We’ve evolved this platform through three versions, adhering to RFC standards and embracing new design patterns to provide a clear and consistent interface.

When you check your GitHub account today, you’ll see an announcement letting you know that we’ve updated our Privacy Statement. Check it out! Before we get into what’s new, rest…