GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2022
As the year winds down, we're highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2022 Capture the Flag
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event!
What's with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.
GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees.
Increase developer productivity, save time on developer onboarding, and drive ROI in 2023
Forrester's Total Economic Impact™ study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding.
Latest posts
Not just flightless birds: How EMUs secure and scale identity and access management for your GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise has evolved to support the needs of enterprise administrators, corporate security teams, and individual developers who contribute to open source.
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote.
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised we'd be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I…
Engineering
GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.
What's with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.
Community
GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees.
[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote.
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised we'd be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I…
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts...for free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub.
Trending stories
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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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GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers
We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year. It will also be free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source projects.
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GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2022
As the year winds down, we're highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
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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.
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GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.
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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.
Product
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.
Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
GitHub Copilot is generally available for businesses
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here with simple license management, organization-wide policy controls, and industry-leading privacy—all for $19 USD per user per month.
New npm features for secure publishing and safe consumption
Now you can create tokens with fine-grained permissions for automating your publishing and organization management workflows. And a new code explorer allows you to view content of a package directly in the npm portal.
How empowering developers helps teams ship secure software faster
AppSec expert Niroshan Rajadurai says putting developers at the center of everything will enable you to meet your security goals.
To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub's REST API with API versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
Security
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2022 Capture the Flag
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event!
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts...for free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub.
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now push protect their custom patterns
With just one click, admins in GitHub Advanced Security organizations can protect their custom patterns on push.
Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Learn more about our approach, when we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA.
How empowering developers helps teams ship secure software faster
AppSec expert Niroshan Rajadurai says putting developers at the center of everything will enable you to meet your security goals.
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
Open Source
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[Video] How has open source changed in the last 10 years?
What’s the state of open source and how has it changed over the last decade? GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations, Martin Woodward, tackles that question and more in a 2022 keynote.
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised we'd be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I…
Highlights from Git 2.39
Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.39.
Release Radar · October 2022 Edition
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning…
New npm features for secure publishing and safe consumption
Now you can create tokens with fine-grained permissions for automating your publishing and organization management workflows. And a new code explorer allows you to view content of a package directly in the npm portal.
Enterprise
GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.
Increase developer productivity, save time on developer onboarding, and drive ROI in 2023
Forrester's Total Economic Impact™ study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding.
Not just flightless birds: How EMUs secure and scale identity and access management for your GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise has evolved to support the needs of enterprise administrators, corporate security teams, and individual developers who contribute to open source.
Education
Git Commit Uruguay: Lowering barriers to make software development more inclusive and diverse
We delivered two different courses specifically designed to help students in the lowest-income neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay learn how to use GitHub and understand the value of open source.
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.
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
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2022 Capture the Flag
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event!
GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2022
As the year winds down, we're highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
What's with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain.