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As we announced previously we’ve improved our SSL setup by deploying forward secrecy and improving the list of supported ciphers. Deploying forward secrecy and up to date cipher lists comes…

Some GitHub user accounts with weak passwords were recently compromised due to a brute force password-guessing attack. I want to take this opportunity to talk about our response to this…

To follow up with our recent two-factor authentication security feature, we are giving users more insight into their active browser sessions. Under Account settings > Security History you will see…

Today we’re adding two-factor authentication to GitHub. When you enable this feature, it adds an additional layer of security to your account. When logging in to GitHub, after providing your…

In the ongoing effort to keep our users safe, we recently took inspiration from the Unix sudo command. We wanted to require password confirmation for dangerous actions on GitHub.com, but…

We work very hard to keep GitHub fast. Ruby is not the fastest programming language, so we go to great lengths benchmarking and optimizing our large codebase: our goal is…

Last Friday we announced and performed a migration of all GitHub Pages to their own github.io domain. This was a long-planned migration, with the specific goal of mitigating phishing attacks…

Beginning today, all GitHub Pages sites are moving to a new, dedicated domain: github.io. This is a security measure aimed at removing potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the…

Earlier today a routine system email was incorrectly sent to many of our GitHub Enterprise customers. In these errant emails, customer email addresses were included in the To: field, making…

There are a more than a million open issues to be found across all public repositories hosted on GitHub right now. Finding a specific issue can be a tedious process…

We’re excited to announce the latest release of GitHub Enterprise. We’re shipping this version with our new Command Bar, User Profile Pages, and much more. Along with a variety of…

We hosted our first OctoGala here in San Francisco at Brick and Mortar. Not only did we have a night of glitz and glamor, but we were able to raise…

There has been some confusion over today’s security vulnerability and our policy on responsible disclosure and account suspension that I’d like to clear up. Three days ago, user @homakov opened…

Today we pushed a redesigned settings page that will make it easier to find and edit settings for your personal account as well as any organizations you own. The major…

Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. Thanks to the awesome work…

Here at GitHub, we love Markdown. We use it everywhere: to render the wikis, issues, pull requests, and all user-generated comments. We even encourage developers to write their READMEs in…

Last Tuesday, we rolled out a secure cookies for all SSL-protected pages. This meant that all private repositories, user dashboards, all admin settings (even for free users and repositories) were…

Lift, the simply functional web framework, has hit version 1.0. Congrats to @dpp and all the contributors! img http://img.skitch.com/20090226-d9d9wkns36wte1spthgpcu67if.png http://liftweb.net What is Lift? According to the website: Lift is an…

And we’re back! Rebase went on a bit of hiatus, but it has returned in full force for 2009. Read on for the latest and greatest coming out of GitHub!…

We just rolled out a security fix that puts all wikis under the @wiki.github.com@ subdomain. This means they can execute arbitrary JavaScript (like scriptaculous does, or maybe the Lighthouse Badge)…

It looks like I’ve been enlisted as an official blogger to bring you the latest and greatest work that’s coming out of GitHub! Sit back, ogle at the graphs, and…