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Explore how migrating your source code and collaboration history to GitHub can lead to some surprising benefits.

Rapid advancements in generative AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot are accelerating the next wave of software development. Here’s what you need to know.

When changes in a repository make a Dependabot pull request out-of-date, Dependabot will automatically rebase it so that it is able to be merged without your manual effort. With this…

You can now filter by repository topic or team on the enterprise-level Dependabot, code scanning, and secret scanning pages in security overview. These improvements have shipped to GitHub.com and will…

You can now fetch release notes, changelogs and commit history for Docker update pull requests with Dependabot. This will allow you to quickly evaluate the stability risk of the dependency…

How GitHub Enterprise ensures secure and compliant developer workflows for highly regulated industries.

GitHub Advanced Security customers using secret scanning can now view any secrets exposed historically in an issue’s title, description, or comments within the UI or the REST API. This expanded…

Following our recent release of generating a software bill of materials from the repository’s dependency graph, you can now generate an SBOM for a repository using a new REST API…

Code scanning default setup is now available for Go! Default setup automatically finds and sets up the best CodeQL configuration for your repository. It detects the languages in the repository…

Users with access to secret scanning alerts can now view metadata for any active GitHub token leaked in their repositories. Metadata includes details like the token’s owner, expiration date, and…

Explore how generative AI may soon help enable optimizing some of the foundational components of compliance.

Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…

In this post, I’ll look at a security-related change in version r40p0 of the Arm Mali driver that was AWOL in the January update of the Pixel bulletin, where other patches from r40p0 was applied, and how these two lines of changes can be exploited to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root from a malicious app. This highlights how treacherous it can be when backporting security changes.

With enterprise accounts for all, your organization can take advantage of all that GitHub Enterprise has to offer, from GitHub Actions and GitHub Advanced Security, to Copilot.

Many of us are aware of the benefits that a strong focus on automation can bring, particularly in our development workflow and DevOps lifecycle. But silos across businesses can lead to duplication of effort, and potential to lose out on best practices. In this post, we’ll explore how CI/CD can be shared across your entire organization alongside policies, for a well-governed experience with GitHub Actions.

A high-quality audit log is an essential tool for enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability.

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can now join a public beta for streaming API request events as part of their enterprise audit log. As part of this beta, REST API calls…

You can now filter by repository topic or team on the organization-level Dependabot, code scanning, and secret scanning pages in security overview. These improvements have shipped to GitHub.com and will…

GitHub Advanced Security users can now view alert metrics for custom patterns at the repository, organization, and enterprise levels directly from the custom pattern’s page. Custom patterns with push protection…

Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research!
In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries.

These changes will improve the experience for custom query authors and enable better precision in some of our standard queries. Learn how to enable them for your custom queries.