Open Source Using open source to help the earth This Earth Day, we discuss how tech and open source are helping two organizations combat the effects of a changing climate. Paull Young April 22, 2024
Product A short guide to mastering keyboard shortcuts on GitHub Say goodbye to constant mouse clicking and hello to seamless navigation with GitHub shortcuts. Sara Verdi April 19, 2024
Policy A policy proposal on our approach to deepfake tools and responsible AI We’re asking for feedback on a proposed Acceptable Use Policy update to address the use of synthetic and manipulated media tools for non-consensual intimate imagery and disinformation while protecting valuable research. Jesse Geraci April 18, 2024
Community The world's fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024 It’s the 10th anniversary of our global developer event! Celebrate with us by picking up in-person tickets today. It’s bound to be our best one yet. Jeimy Ruiz April 16, 2024
Community All In Africa: New cohort now open! As we’re opening up the doors to our final class of this programmatic year, we’re also looking back at our recent graduates and the partners that helped make them a success. Sarah Oyetubo April 11, 2024
Policy Helping policymakers weigh the benefits of open source AI GitHub enables developer collaboration on innovative software projects, and we’re committed to ensuring policymakers understand developer needs when crafting AI regulation. Peter Cihon April 10, 2024
Engineering GitHub Availability Report: March 2024 In March, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. Jakub Oleksy April 10, 2024
Engineering 4 ways GitHub engineers use GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot increases efficiency for our engineers by allowing us to automate repetitive tasks, stay focused, and more. Holger Staudacher April 9, 2024
Policy Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q4 2023 data for the Innovation Graph. Kevin Xu April 9, 2024
Engineering What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI? Here’s how retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, uses a variety of data sources to keep AI models fresh with up-to-date information and organizational knowledge. Nicole Choi April 4, 2024
GitHub Availability Report: March 2024 In March, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. Jakub Oleksy April 10, 2024
4 ways GitHub engineers use GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot increases efficiency for our engineers by allowing us to automate repetitive tasks, stay focused, and more. Holger Staudacher
What is retrieval-augmented generation, and what does it do for generative AI? Here’s how retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, uses a variety of data sources to keep AI models fresh with up-to-date information and organizational knowledge. Nicole Choi
Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor. Kedasha Kerr
All In Africa: New cohort now open! As we’re opening up the doors to our final class of this programmatic year, we’re also looking back at our recent graduates and the partners that helped make them a success. Sarah Oyetubo
Game Bytes · March 2024 Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub?featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Lee Reilly
Game Bytes · February 2024 Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub?featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! ??? Lee Reilly
The world's fair of software: Join us at GitHub Universe 2024 It’s the 10th anniversary of our global developer event! Celebrate with us by picking up in-person tickets today. It’s bound to be our best one yet. Jeimy Ruiz April 16, 2024
1 How to build a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions in four simple steps A quick guide on the advantages of using GitHub Actions as your preferred CI/CD tool?and how to build a CI/CD pipeline with it. Brian Douglas
2 Research: quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers. Eirini Kalliamvakou
3 How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases In this prompt guide for GitHub Copilot, two GitHub developer advocates, Rizel and Michelle, will share examples and best practices for communicating your desired results to the AI pair programmer. Rizel Scarlett & Michelle Mannering
4 Using GitHub Copilot in your IDE: Tips, tricks, and best practices GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor. Kedasha Kerr
5 Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files. Martin Woodward & Adam Biagianti
6 Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13 On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA. Laura Paine & Hirsch Singhal
A short guide to mastering keyboard shortcuts on GitHub Say goodbye to constant mouse clicking and hello to seamless navigation with GitHub shortcuts. Sara Verdi April 19, 2024
Bringing enterprise-level security and even more power to GitHub-hosted runners GitHub-hosted runners now support Azure private networking. Plus, we've added 2 vCPU Linux, 4 vCPU Windows, macOS L, macOS XL, and GPU hosted runners to our runner fleet. Tanmayee Kamath
Insider newsletter digest: 4 things you didn't know you could do with GitHub Projects Unlock the secret to organization and collaboration magic with our GitHub Projects tips and tricks roundup. Sara Verdi
Found means fixed: Introducing code scanning autofix, powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing. Pierre Tempel & Eric Tooley
How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned Learn how we’re managing feature releases and establishing best practices within and across teams at GitHub using GitHub Projects. Riley Broughten
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available Our most advanced AI offering to date is customized to your organization’s knowledge and codebase, infusing GitHub Copilot throughout the software development lifecycle. Thomas Dohmke
Insider newsletter digest: Cook up a controller with GitHub Copilot Whether you're coding up a storm or cooking up code, building a controller function with AI is your secret sauce to a flavorful app. Sara Verdi
The architecture of SAST tools: An explainer for developers More developers will have to fix security issues in the age of shifting left. Here, we break down how SAST tools can help them find and address vulnerabilities. Nicole Choi
AppSec is harder than you think. Here’s how AI can help. In practice, shifting left has been more about shifting the burden rather than the ability. But AI is bringing its promise closer to reality. Here’s how. Eric Tooley
Gaining kernel code execution on an MTE-enabled Pixel 8 In this post, I’ll look at CVE-2023-6241, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU that allows a malicious app to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on an Android phone. I’ll show how this vulnerability can be exploited even when Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a powerful mitigation, is enabled on the device. Man Yue Mo
Keeping secrets out of public repositories With push protection now enabled by default, GitHub helps open source developers safeguard their secrets, and their reputations. Eric Tooley & Courtney Claessens
How to stay safe from repo-jacking Repo-jacking is a specific type of supply chain attack. This blog post explains what it is, what the risk is, and what you can do to stay safe. Kevin Backhouse
Build code security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game Learn to find and fix security issues while having fun with Secure Code Game, now with new challenges focusing on JavaScript, Python, Go, and GitHub Actions! Joseph Katsioloudes
Security research without ever leaving GitHub: From code scanning to CVE via Codespaces and private vulnerability reporting This blog post is an in-depth walkthrough on how we perform security research leveraging GitHub features, including code scanning, CodeQL, and Codespaces. Jorge Rosillo April 3, 2024
Using open source to help the earth This Earth Day, we discuss how tech and open source are helping two organizations combat the effects of a changing climate. Paull Young April 22, 2024
Empowering women through open source A discussion about how tech is aiding organizations fighting for gender equality, what it means to be a woman in tech and the world today, and advice on how we all move forward. Jiyon Yun March 28, 2024
Game Bytes · March 2024 Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub?featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! Lee Reilly March 27, 2024
Game Bytes · February 2024 Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub?featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! ??? Lee Reilly February 29, 2024
Highlights from Git 2.44 The first Git release of 2024 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.44. Taylor Blau February 23, 2024
GitHub Availability Report: March 2024 In March, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. Jakub Oleksy
GitHub Availability Report: February 2024 In February, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. Jakub Oleksy
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12 is now generally available With this version, customers can choose how to best scale their security strategy, gain more control over deployments, and so much more. Van Ly & David Jarzebowski
GitHub Fund 2024 and beyond: Looking to the future Celebrate the first year of GitHub Fund, our first investments, and a brief look of where we’re going. Stormy Peters
Empowering Uruguay’s future workforce with AI During the second cycle of Git Commit Uruguay, students learned the basics of AI and built their own AI-powered projects. Karen Bella
GitHub Certifications are generally available Unlock your full potential with GitHub Certifications! Earning a GitHub certification will give you the competitive advantage of showing up as a GitHub expert. Kedasha Kerr
A policy proposal on our approach to deepfake tools and responsible AI We’re asking for feedback on a proposed Acceptable Use Policy update to address the use of synthetic and manipulated media tools for non-consensual intimate imagery and disinformation while protecting valuable research. Jesse Geraci
Helping policymakers weigh the benefits of open source AI GitHub enables developer collaboration on innovative software projects, and we’re committed to ensuring policymakers understand developer needs when crafting AI regulation. Peter Cihon
Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q4 2023 data for the Innovation Graph. Kevin Xu
Empowering all developers to build without barriers GitHub has been awarded the 2024 Axe Accessibility at Scale Award from Deque Systems. Read more about how we’ve implemented accessibility at scale. Ed Summers
How GitHub’s Developer Experience team improved innerloop development Our latest solution to the ubiquitous engineering problem of integration testing in a distributed service ecosystem here at GitHub. Belal Taher
GitHub’s top blog posts of 2023 As the year winds down, we're highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers. Laura Lindeman & GitHub Staff