The GitHub Blog

We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.

Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary today, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories! If you like RTS, FPS, space

GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful.

Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher.

We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files.

GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.

The open source Git project just released Git 2.33, with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors. Here’s a look at some of the most interesting features and changes.

The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub.

A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more.

This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code.