
Release Radar · February 2023 Edition
Our community—along with ourselves—took a much needed break over the festive season. Now everyone is back into the full swing of work, and the open source community is showing us…
Our community—along with ourselves—took a much needed break over the festive season. Now everyone is back into the full swing of work, and the open source community is showing us…
The GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub, an open source metadata platform, and discovered several vulnerabilities in the platform’s authentication and authorization modules. These vulnerabilities could have enabled an attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to sensitive data stored on the platform.
Explore how using GitHub and HashiCorp together enables enterprises to develop and ship to their customers faster and more secure with consistent workflows and actions.
CVE-2022-25664, a vulnerability in the Qualcomm Adreno GPU, can be used to leak large amounts of information to a malicious Android application. Learn more about how the vulnerability can be used to leak information in both the user space and kernel space level of pages, and how the GitHub Security Lab used the kernel space information leak to construct a KASLR bypass.
We’re taking a look at how open source software has evolved on GitHub, and how the role of a maintainer and contributor has changed alongside the massive growth in open source software.
Object Graph Notation Language (OGNL) is a popular, Java-based, expression language used in popular frameworks and applications, such as Apache Struts and Atlassian Confluence. Learn more about bypassing certain OGNL injection protection mechanisms including those used by Struts and Atlassian Confluence, as well as different approaches to analyzing this form of protection so you can harden similar systems.
Laying the groundwork for developer-enabled compliance.
Support for GitHub CLI extensions has been expanded with new authorship tools and more ways to discover and install custom commands. Learn how to write powerful extensions in Go and find new commands to install.
Discovering passwords in our codebase is probably one of our worst fears. But what if you didn’t need passwords at all, and could deploy to your cloud provider another way? In this post, we explore how you can use OpenID Connect to trust your cloud provider, enabling you to deploy easily, securely and safely, while minimizing the operational overhead associated with secrets (for example, key rotations).
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event!
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote.
The actions and reusable workflows from private repositories can now be shared with other private repositories within the same organization, user account, or enterprise. See managing the repository settings and…
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning…
Previously, data generated from Checks were not managed by a retention policy and would therefore grow unbounded. A recent change was made to GitHub.com that archives checks data after 400…
Catch up on everything we announced and see what else happened during this year’s GitHub Universe conference that took place November 9-10.
How is open source changing the world and impacting businesses? In this year’s Octoverse report, we identified three big trends to watch.
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
See what we’re building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
In 2022, governments and the policy community spent a lot of time thinking about open source. Here’s what that means and why it matters.
We know that companies benefit from open source. That’s why we’re making it easier for companies to financially support projects.
Build what’s next on GitHub, the place for anyone from anywhere to build anything.
Last chance: Save $700 on your IRL pass to Universe and join us on Oct. 28-29 in San Francisco.