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New funding platforms

  We’ve added the following to the list of external funding platforms: Community Bridge Liberapay IssueHunt Otechie Include these using community_bridge: <project_name>, liberapay: <handle>, issuehunt: <handle>, or otechie: <handle>, respectively,…

Announcing GItHub Sponsors

FAQ with the GitHub Sponsors team

Hello, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors Team! It’s been incredibly motivating for us to see the outpouring of enthusiasm for the launch and to hear your ideas for where you’d like to see it go from here. We’re just getting started, and your input is important to keep us going in the right direction.

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Auto-watching updates

If you create a user-owned repository, you will now be automatically watching it for updates. Forks will no longer be automatically watched, even if you are granted push access. Learn…

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Community contributors

Users can hover over a repository’s contributor count, and community contributors will show a hovercard of direct and transitive contributors to dependencies parsed from that repository’s dependency graph. Learn more…

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Triage and maintain roles (beta)

Administrators of organization-owned repositories can now assign “triage” and “maintain” roles to collaborators and teams as part of a public beta preview. If a contributor proves their ability to drive…

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Security policy

Repositories may now specify a security policy by creating a file named SECURITY.MD. This file should be used to instruct users about how and when to report security vulnerabilities to…

Git ransom campaign incident report—Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab

Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.

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