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At GitHub we use GitHub to build our own products, and the new projects experience is no different. Check out how our team uses projects to build powerful project planning for developers.

We’ve added an enhancement to the repository view for a branch that is different than its upstream branch. Previously we showed the number of commits the branch was ahead or…

GitHub secret scanning protects users by searching repositories for known types of secrets. By identifying and flagging these secrets, we help protect users from data leaks and fraud associated with…

GitHub Advanced Security customers can now dry run custom secret scanning patterns at the enterprise level (in addition to the organization and repository levels previously available). Dry runs allow admins…

You can now default to using PR titles for all squash merge commit messages. Navigate to ‘Settings’ in your repository and scroll down to the Pull Requests section. Select Allow…

This year, thousands of students from around the world came together and redefined the world we live in, how we learn, and how we move forward. We are honored to…

Introduction Open Sauced, GitHub’s Explore page, Hacktoberfest, and First Timers Only help folks discover open source projects. This monthly series–Open Source Monthly—will add to these efforts by helping: First-time contributors…

When you work in a codespace, the environment you are working in is created using a development container, hosted on a virtual machine. If you don’t define a configuration in…

A variety of improvements to the npm 2FA experience are now in public beta, including: Support for registering multiple second factors, such as security keys, biometric devices, and authentication applications…

Late last year, in response to an unprecedented series of account takeovers resulting from the compromise of developer accounts without 2FA enabled, we committed to a variety of enhancements to…

A beta of the Ubuntu 22.04 runner image for GitHub Actions is now available. Start using GitHub Actions to build software on the latest version of Ubuntu by updating your…

Teachers, it is now your turn to join GitHub Global Campus with our student community! Get access to exclusive benefits, programs, and the Power of Codespaces at no cost in GitHub Classroom!

Now, admins can block creation of branches that match a configured name pattern. For example, if a repository’s default branch is renamed from master to main, admins can prevent any…

In April, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for Codespaces and GitHub Packages.

Previously, the Get repository content REST API endpoint had a file size limit of 1 MB. That didn’t correspond to the Create or update file contents endpoint which has a…

This is the second and final post in a series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them.

Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too!

Now organization admins can pin a repository to their public or member-facing organization profiles directly from the repository page with the new pin repository dropdown. Public repositories will be pinned…

Organizations with GitHub Advanced Security can now prevent secrets leaked in code committed via the command line and the GitHub web editor with secret scanning’s push protection feature. For repositories…

These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today.

On March 30, 2022, we released CodeQL Action v2, which runs on the Node.js 16 runtime. The CodeQL Action v1 will be deprecated at the same time as GHES 3.3,…