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GitHub Availability Report: May 2022

GitHub Availability Report: May 2022

In May, we experienced three distinct incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple services across GitHub.com. This report also sheds light into the billing incident that impacted Actions and Codespaces users in April.

Jakub Oleksy

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Product

Improved REST API documentation

We’re excited to announce some big improvements to our REST API documentation. We know developers rely on this documentation to integrate with GitHub, and we are committed to making it trustworthy, easy to find, and easy to use.

Example screenshot showing math support in markdown

Math support in Markdown

Mathematical expressions are key to information sharing amongst engineers, scientists, data scientists, and mathematicians. Today we are pleased to announce that math expressions can be rendered in Markdown on GitHub using $$ as a delimiter for code blocks with math content or the $ delimiter for inline math expressions.

Security

Open Source

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Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022

The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them.

Andrzej Mazur

Enterprise

Education

Policy

Our response to the war in Ukraine

Our response to the war in Ukraine

As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.

2021 Transparency Report

In GitHub's latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.

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