Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.
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Git Merge 2025 isn’t just about celebrating 20 years of Git – it’s about what comes next. In this post, we’re highlighting some of the talks and speakers shaping Git’s future, from performance wins and new backends to surprising use cases and the impact of AI coding agents.
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With support for iOS 26, GitHub Mobile adopts a refined visual language, smoother motion, and tighter system integration. This helps you move from idea to pull request more naturally across…
In August, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Two GitHub Actions are now available to help open source maintainers using the GitHub Models inference API: AI assessment comment labeler: Streamline your issue triage with a simple trigger label…
Reproduce and debug web app issues with ease using the Playwright MCP server and GitHub Copilot.
We’re releasing improvements designed to streamline file navigation and editing in the web UI. Seamless editing from search results When searching for a file on GitHub, results link to a…
The remote GitHub MCP Server is now generally available. We’ve introduced OAuth-based authentication, expanded tooling, and improved security guardrails. Improvements & updates 🔐 Production authentication The GitHub MCP Server now…
This guide offers five essential tips for writing effective GitHub Copilot custom instructions, covering project overview, tech stack, coding guidelines, structure, and resources, to help developers get better code suggestions.
Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.
Next edit suggestions (NES) is now available in public preview for JetBrains IDEs. With NES, Copilot extends its capabilities to editing your existing code, proactively suggesting improvements and refinements as…
Raycast is a powerful free launcher for macOS. It can launch apps, search files, control your system, and leverage community-built extensions. Now, it can also interact with AI agents. With…
The August 2025 update to Visual Studio brings a smarter Copilot, MCP general availability, and more control. Highlights Here’s what’s new with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14): GPT-5…
Learn how the Secret Protection engineering team collaborated with GitHub Copilot coding agent to expand validity check coverage.
@cole-hartman and @dorisbwang joined the GitHub Apps team for the summer with a focus on improving the developer experience around fine-grained PAT creation. They worked with our design and product…
When a chat conversation is poisoned by indirect prompt injection, it can result in the exposure of GitHub tokens, confidential files, or even the execution of arbitrary code without the user’s explicit consent. In this blog post, we’ll explain which VS Code features may reduce these risks.
Dependencies on issues are now generally available! You can now specify which issues are blocked by or blocking others, making it easy for teams to define work that must be…
Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership.
The open source Git project just released Git 2.51. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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