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We’re thrilled to introduce improvements to Repo Insights! New Enhanced Repo Insights Views With this update, you’ll find significant enhancements to two of our repository insights views—Contributors and Code Frequency.…

As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to create pull requests. This will enable you to suggest changes to existing repositories.

The GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14 release candidate is here GitHub Enterprise Server 3.14 gives customers enhanced deployment requirements and security controls. Here are a few highlights in the 3.14 release:…

In July, GitHub Mobile introduced three major improvements App Lock! Securely unlock the GitHub app with just a glance. Enable App Lock in Settings to use FaceID, TouchID or pass…

Secret scanning alerts for non-provider patterns and generic passwords can now be retrieved using the REST API. With the “List secret scanning alerts” endpoint for an enterprise, organization, or repository,…

To enhance your coding experience, AI tools should excel at saving you time with repetitive, administrative tasks, while providing accurate solutions to assist developers. Today, we’re spotlighting three updates designed to increase efficiency and boost developer creativity.

Introducing the generally available capability of GitHub Artifact Attestations to secure your cloud-native supply chain packages and images.

Developers can now manually run workflows set with workflow_dispatch directly from the Workflow view (Repository -> Actions -> Workflows) on GitHub Mobile. This addition provides developers with greater flexibility and…

Git 2.46 is here with new features like pseudo-merge bitmaps, more capable credential helpers, and a new git config command. Check out our coverage on some of the highlights here.

To create a comprehensive model of the dependencies in a Maven project, it is essential to understand the the transitive dependencies that are resolved at build-time. This feature automatically performs…

To make it easier to submit security advisories, GitHub now validates package names. When submitting a new GHSA (GitHub Security Advisory) in a repository, the user is prompted to enter…

The enum field indicating a ‘detached’ status will be deprecated from the ‘Get repositories associated with a code security configuration’ endpoint. The endpoint itself will remain. We will replace the…

Solving and staying ahead of problems when scaling up a system of GitHub’s size is a delicate process. Here’s a look at some of the tools in GitHub’s toolbox, and how we’ve used them to solve problems.

GitHub Advanced Security customers using secret scanning can now use the REST API to enable or disable support for non-provider patterns at the repository level. Non-provider patterns scans for token…

GitHub Staff Engineer Sarah Vessels discusses her philosophy of code review, what separates good code review from bad, her strategy for finding and reviewing code, and how to get the most from reviews of her own code.

Code security configurations were made generally available on July 10th, 2024. This experience replaces our old settings experience and its API. If you are currently using the REST API endpoint…

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of our new organization and enterprise-level security overview dashboards, alongside enhanced secret scanning metrics and the enablement trends reports. These features are…

GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers can now see code security configurations data in audit log events. Code security configurations simplify the rollout of GitHub security products at scale by defining collections…

An interview with economic researchers who are applying causal inference techniques to analyze the effect of generative AI tools on software development activity.

Secret scanning now detects generic passwords using AI. Passwords are difficult to find with custom patterns — the AI-powered detection offers greater precision for unstructured credentials that can cause security…