GeoJSON rendering improvements
Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we’re excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…
Nearly two weeks ago, we announced support for rendering geographic data. Today, we’re excited to roll out several improvements: GitHub now supports rendering TopoJSON, an extension of GeoJSON that encodes…
It’s a fact of life – sometimes repository names change. This can happen in a few different types of scenarios: When you rename a repository. When you rename your user…
GitHub Pages — the easiest way to quickly publish beautiful pages for you and your projects — just got a major upgrade. We’re now running Jekyll 1.0.2, which contains over…
Millions of people around the world use GitHub every day to build software together, but the GitHub Way™ isn’t limited to code. We are humbled to see that the White…
Last Friday we announced and performed a migration of all GitHub Pages to their own github.io domain. This was a long-planned migration, with the specific goal of mitigating phishing attacks…
A game jam is typically a 48-hour hackathon for building games based on some theme. Participants—or “jammers”—usually work in teams of two to five people comprised of artists, sound engineers,…
Over the past few weeks, we’ve had a few service interruptions that can all be traced back to one cause – instability in our high-availability load balancer setup. Here’s a…
We will be performing scheduled maintenance tonight from 22:00 to 22:20 PST. During this window GitHub and all Git access will be entirely unavailable for a short period while we…
I just released and deployed Jekyll 0.7.0 to GitHub Pages today. This release includes support for SmartyPants via RDiscount for Markdown files. To get all those nice curly quotation marks,…
Today blogging company Six Apart released their TypePad Developer Platform. It’s been covered on TechCrunch and on the TypePad blog, but the reason I’m writing is they’ve put GitHub front…
On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…
For about the last 8 months, I’ve been working on a side project. In November, Apress contacted me about writing a book about Git and I thought it would be…
RDoc.info is a web service that generates and hosts documentation for your favorite GitHub-hosted Ruby libraries and Rails plugins. Just add a post-commit hook to your project and it’ll take…
For his senior project, @crnixon is implementing an R5R5 Scheme interpreter called Lemur Scheme. img http://img.skitch.com/20090206-8qpughp6au9gp3s5y6ub5y9wmd.jpg http://crnixon.github.com/lemur-scheme The blog is hosted using GitHub Pages and promises updates on the status…
The RestfulX Framework is a framework for quickly developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications. The project makes great use of GitHub Pages and the Wiki.  From the site: If…
Saved views for repository issues Repository Issues pages now support saved views, making it easier for teams to create and share filtered views of their issues. With saved views, anyone…
Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting.
You can now choose whether commit comments are enabled or disabled by default for repositories owned by your personal account. This makes it easier to manage commit comment behavior across…
Rule insights dashboard GitHub repository rulesets are powerful, but it hasn’t been easy to spot trends like spikes in blocked pushes during an incident or patterns in bypass activity without…
Artifact and deployment context now appears in two new places: repository properties and security alert pages. Repository properties: deployable and deployed Two new built-in repository properties—deployable and deployed—are now available.…
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) exports from repository pages and new API endpoints are now asynchronous operations. Previously, navigating to a repository’s dependency graph page and clicking the Export SBOM…
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