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The Exiv2 team tightened our security by enabling GitHub’s code scanning feature and adding custom queries tailored to the Exiv2 code base.

We’ve improved the depth of CodeQL’s analysis by adding support for more libraries and frameworks and increasing the coverage of our existing library and framework models. JavaScript analysis now supports…

Developers and security researchers using the CodeQL CLI and VS Code extension can now build databases and analyze code on machines powered by Apple Silicon (e.g. Apple M1). In order…

Code scanning alerts now integrate with GitHub Issues task lists to make it easy to prioritize and track your alerts with all your development work. You can use the task…

GitHub secret scanning helps protect users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By flagging leaked secrets, our scans can prevent data leaks and prevent the fraudulent use of…

The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3 Release Candidate is available. This release contains a broad range of features and enhancements across the platform including GitHub Actions, Security, and a host of…

Tips on how to get started using GitHub Actions and resources to learn more about making it work for you.

This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.

A warning is now displayed when a file’s contents include bidirectional Unicode text. Such text can be interpreted or compiled differently than it appears in a user interface. For example,…

GitHub Codespaces allows teams and organizations to spin-up developer environments directly from a browser or through Visual Studio Code, without the hassle of setting up a brand new environment tailored…

Ruby is the 10th most popular language within the open source community. To help more open source maintainers and organizations find potential vulnerabilities in their code, we’ve added Ruby support…

GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) for secure deployments to cloud, which uses short-lived tokens that are automatically rotated for each deployment. This enables: Seamless authentication between Cloud Providers…

Since last year’s GitHub Universe, we’ve shipped more than 20,000 improvements to GitHub for developers, open source communities, and enterprise teams. Here’s a comprehensive overview of what we’re announcing at Universe this week.

GitHub Marketplace just passed 10,000 published actions! Learn about contributing to this growing open source ecosystem.

Dependency graph now supports detecting Python dependencies in repositories that use the Poetry package manager. Dependencies will be detected from both pyproject.toml and poetry.lock manifest files. We will detect dependencies…

If you are posting or editing a draft repository Security Advisory and the vulnerability impacts multiple packages and/or ecosystems, you can now identify all applicable affected products in the advisory.…

Catch up on 44 ships, including a colorblind-accessible theme, a public README.md for organizations, and customization of code review settings.

This post is a technical analysis of a recently disclosed Chrome vulnerability in the garbage collector of v8 (CVE-2021-37975) that was believed to be exploited in the wild. This vulnerability was reported by an anonymous researcher and was patched on September 30, 2021 in Chrome version 94.0.4606.71. I’ll cover the root cause analysis of the bug, as well as detailed exploitation.

GitHub secret scanning helps protect users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By flagging leaked secrets, our scans can prevent data leaks and prevent the fraudulent use of…

We sat down with Universe hosts Lorena Mesa and Jarryd McCree for a quick Q&A to help you make the most out of your conference experience this year.

GitHub Secret Scanning helps protect users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By flagging leaked secrets, our scans can prevent data leaks and fraudulent uses of secrets that…