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We detail the great momentum we’ve had with our partners at GitHub this past year, building a healthy ecosystem aimed at making our users more productive.

Check out the latest announcements from GitHub Universe 2020, including dark mode, Sponsors for companies, improvements to Actions, dependency review, and more.

Aimed at developers, in this series we introduce and explore the memory unsafe attack surface of interpreted languages.

We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for December 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…

GitHub Universe is almost here. For more on what to expect from this year’s stream, we sat down with virtual host, Brian Douglas, for a quick Q&A on GitHub Actions,…

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now view and resolve private repository secret scanning results via the GitHub REST API. In addition, a webhook is available whenever a new committed secret…

To best apply DevSecOps principles to improve the security of your supply chain, you should ask your developers to declare your dependencies in code; and in turn provide your developers with maintained ‘golden’ artifacts and automated downstream actions so they can focus on code.

Dependabot already updates your public dependencies, such as open source dependencies from a public GitHub repository, npm, Maven Central, or similar. Now, you can also update dependencies from private GitHub…

Change is inevitable, and this year, it has been inescapable. We’ve had to find new ways to relate, learn, and balance both work and life at home. One thing has…

The Meta API endpoint previously contained MD5 signatures for GitHub’s SSH public keys. We have now deprecated these in favor of the newer SHA-256 fingerprints. Developers verifying the authenticity of…

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net — impacting users…

This blog describes a security vulnerability in the infrastructure that supports Germany’s COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. The mobile (Android/iOS) apps are not affected by the vulnerability and do not collect and/or transmit any personal data other than the device’s IP address. The infrastructure takes active measures to disassociate true positives from client IP addresses.

We’re here to bring you the latest and greatest releases for November 2020. These are exciting new releases from some of the coolest projects around. There’s everything from world-changing tech…

Ubuntu 20.04 local privilege escalation using vulnerabilities in gdm3 and accountsservice (CVE-2020-16125, CVE-2020-16126, CVE-2020-16127)

On October 1, 2020, we published a CVE outlining a vulnerability in the set-env and add-path workflow commands feature of GitHub Actions, and announced that we would be deprecating those…

This is the second post in our series on DevOps fundamentals. For a guide to what DevOps is and answers to common DevOps myths check out part one. What role…

When a vulnerability is added to GitHub Advisory Database, the resulting Dependabot alert and security update notifications can be noisy. To help you focus on what matters, we’ve made a…

We have updated how webhooks on repositories, organizations, and apps can be configured via the API. We have a new configuration resource for full or partial updates to any or…

Sometimes, Dependabot security updates can’t create a pull request for you because any update we could make would break the requirements of another package that you depend on. When this…

How GitHub measures and improves reliability, security, and developer happiness with automated deployments.

November 3 is election day in the U.S. Early voting is available in most states. If you haven’t yet, make a plan to vote. If you’re an employer in the…