Introducing temporary interaction limits
When issue or pull request discussions get heated, sometimes a solution can't be reached until everyone has had time to cool down. Now, with interaction limits, maintainers can temporarily limit…
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Adding Community & Safety checks to new features
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…
Email updates about your own activity
When you enable email notifications, GitHub sends you messages about everyone's issues, pull requests, comments, and commits except your own. For many people that leaves email threads feeling incomplete. For…
Git 2.9 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.9.0, with a variety of features and bug fixes. Here's our look at some of the most interesting new features: Faster…
Repository invitations
Beginning today, repository admins must invite you to their repository and you must accept the invitation before you can start collaborating. Repository invitations let you decide whether or not you…
Migrate your repositories using ghe-migrator
Sometimes customers find themselves needing the unique advantages of GitHub Enterprise and decide to move their private repositories there. Now it's easier than ever to move repositories to GitHub Enterprise…
Expanded webhook events
Webhooks are one of the more powerful ways to extend GitHub. They allow internal tools and third-party integrations to subscribe to specific activity on GitHub and receive notifications (via an…
Meet Richard Davey, creator of Phaser
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Meet Richard Davey, the game developer behind Phaser — a free open source…
Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Today we're releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…
Move Fast and Fix Things
Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…
Adding a billing manager to your organization
With the new billing manager role, you can invite individuals to manage the billing details of your organization without giving them access to code. The new role enables a user…
Exporting Your Organization Audit Log
The Organization audit log allows you to quickly review actions performed by members of your organization on GitHub. You may need to look for specific activity or even through your…
View Issue/Pull Request buttons for Gmail
If you're a Gmail user who gets GitHub notifications via email, you'll notice that we've added subject-line links to issues and pull requests on notification messages. You can use these…
Follow up to the investigation results
Last Monday I published the least open and least transparent blog post GitHub has ever written. We failed to admit and own up to our mistakes, and for that I'm…
Content Security Policy
We've started rolling out a new security feature called "Content Security Policy" or CSP. As a user, it will better protect your account against XSS attacks. But, be aware, it…
Zen Writing Mode
At GitHub, we love finding new ways to help people get in the zone. Today we’re excited to announce a feature that we hope will do just that. You’ll now…
Downtime last Saturday
On Saturday, December 22nd we had a significant outage and we want to take the time to explain what happened. This was one of the worst outages in the history…
Network problems last Friday
On Friday, November 30th, GitHub had a rough day. We experienced 18 minutes of complete unavailability along with sporadic bursts of slow responses and intermittent errors for the entire day.…
Game Bytes #3
GitHub is a goldmine of resources for game developers. I'd like to introduce you to five open source projects that'll help you build your first, or next, amazing game. Check…
New Issues and Gist API
One of the first requests we received after launching Issues 2.0 was API support. Today, we are launching the documentation for API v3, with support for all of the new…
New Organizations API
I pushed the new Organization API documentation today. You can now access and modify Organization and Team information for your repositories. The Org API managed to test the limits of…