The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build!
The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you're going. Untether yourself from your office.
A better way to search, navigate, and understand code on GitHub
Reading code is a hugely important task for developers. That’s why we built GitHub’s new code search—to help developers search, navigate, and understand code written by them, their team, and the world.
Introducing GitHub Actions Importer
GitHub Actions Importer helps you forecast, plan, and facilitate migrations from your current CI/CD tool to GitHub Actions.
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
An open source economy–built by developers, for developers
Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today.
Latest posts
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we're building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is available now, including a single view of code risk, new forking and repository policies, and security enhancements to the management console.
How to mitigate OWASP vulnerabilities while staying in the flow
Explore how GitHub Advanced Security can help address several of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
Advocating for developers to the US Copyright Office
How GitHub advocated for developer interests at the US Copyright Office technical measures consultations
Engineering
How GitHub converts previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord encrypted columns
This post is the second part in a series about ActiveRecord::Encryption that shows how GitHub upgrades previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord::Encryption.
GitHub Availability Report: October 2022
In October, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in September.
Why and how GitHub encrypts sensitive database columns using ActiveRecord::Encryption
You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard.
The Story of Scalar
New to Git v2.38, Scalar is a built-in repository manager for large repos. Here, we’ll tell the story of how Scalar went from a rough VFS for Git successor to a fully-integrated Git tool, with all of the engineering lessons learned in the process.
Community
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
An open source economy–built by developers, for developers
Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today.
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we're building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
Trending stories
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The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build!
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A better way to search, navigate, and understand code on GitHub
Reading code is a hugely important task for developers. That’s why we built GitHub’s new code search—to help developers search, navigate, and understand code written by them, their team, and the world.
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The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you're going. Untether yourself from your office.
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Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we're building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
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Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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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.
Product
The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you're going. Untether yourself from your office.
A better way to search, navigate, and understand code on GitHub
Reading code is a hugely important task for developers. That’s why we built GitHub’s new code search—to help developers search, navigate, and understand code written by them, their team, and the world.
The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build!
Introducing GitHub Actions Importer
GitHub Actions Importer helps you forecast, plan, and facilitate migrations from your current CI/CD tool to GitHub Actions.
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we're building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is available now, including a single view of code risk, new forking and repository policies, and security enhancements to the management console.
Security
How to mitigate OWASP vulnerabilities while staying in the flow
Explore how GitHub Advanced Security can help address several of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
How GitHub converts previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord encrypted columns
This post is the second part in a series about ActiveRecord::Encryption that shows how GitHub upgrades previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord::Encryption.
Creating a more inclusive security research field
A glimpse into the backgrounds and day-to-day work of several GitHub employees in cybersecurity roles.
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @ahacker1
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub bug bounty team is excited to spotlight one of the security researchers who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program.
What we learned from the Security Lab’s Community Office Hours
The GitHub Security Lab provided office hours for open source projects looking to improve their security posture and reduce the risk of breach. Here’s what we learned and how you can also participate.
Why and how GitHub encrypts sensitive database columns using ActiveRecord::Encryption
You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we encrypt sensitive database columns as well. Read about our column encryption strategy and our decision to adopt the Rails column encryption standard.
Why we're excited about the Sigstore general availability
The Sigstore GA means you can protect your software supply chain today with GitHub Actions, and will power new npm security capabilities in the near future.
Open Source
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
We’re giving GitHub users 60 free hours each month on Codespaces. Learn what else we shipped for Codespaces at Universe this year.
An open source economy–built by developers, for developers
Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today.
All In for Students: expanding the next generation of open source leaders
We are pleased to announce the expansion of All In for Students! All In for Students introduces college students to open source and provides them with the education, technical training and career development to prepare them for a summer internship in tech.
13 tiny, terrific, and terrifying games to hack, slay, and play this Halloween 🧛🏻♀️
Some seriously spooktacular open source games for the web, Windows, macOS, and Linux with all sorts of fun hacks for infinite lives, invulnerability, and playing with time.
Enterprise
Introducing GitHub Actions Importer
GitHub Actions Importer helps you forecast, plan, and facilitate migrations from your current CI/CD tool to GitHub Actions.
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we're building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.7 is available now, including a single view of code risk, new forking and repository policies, and security enhancements to the management console.
Education
Working on a creative project? Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience
Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground.
Meet the GitHub Campus Experts selected for the fall 2022 MLH Fellowship Cohort, powered by GitHub
Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience.
Gear-up and unlock the newest GitHub Global Campus features
Calling all students and teachers! With semester change coming soon, now is the time to start using the latest features within GitHub Education and Global Campus!
Policy
Advocating for developers to the US Copyright Office
How GitHub advocated for developer interests at the US Copyright Office technical measures consultations
GitHub at the 77th United Nations General Assembly
Read about how the GitHub Social Impact, Tech for Social Good and Policy teams participated in the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including events we hosted with the World Health Organization and the UN Development Programme.
OSI’s Deep Dive is an essential discussion on the future of AI and open source
GitHub is sponsoring Open Source Initiative’s Deep Dive: AI because we think it’s important for the community to unpack how open source software, process, and principles can help best deliver on the promise of AI.
Company
Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
See what we're building to enhance the most integrated developer platform that allows developers and enterprises to drive innovation with ease.
Choose your own GitHub Universe 2022 adventure
You can now build your agenda on GitHubUniverse.com! Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned industry professional, there’s a session for you.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2022
As GitHub continues to grow, our vision of being the home for all developers continues to materialize, expanding our progress, perspectives, and responsibility to the world.