Exploring GitHub with the redesigned navigation, now in public beta
GitHub’s redesigned navigation is enabled for all users as a public beta.
CodeQL zero to hero part 2: getting started with CodeQL
Learn the basics of CodeQL and how to use it for security research! In this blog, we will teach you how to leverage GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL to write custom CodeQL queries.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2023
In May, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three April incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools.
GitHub’s revamped VIP Bug Bounty Program
GitHub’s VIP Bug Bounty Program has been updated to include a clear and accessible criteria for receiving an invitation to the program and more. Learn more about the program and how you can become a Hacktocat, and join our community of researchers who are contributing to GitHub’s security with fun perks and access to staff and beta features!
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
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Latest posts
Cloud migration made easy: introducing GitHub Enterprise Importer
With GitHub Enterprise Importer, you can seamlessly move to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, bringing your code and collaboration history with you so your team doesn’t miss a beat.
Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love
Maintainer Month is a time for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. Over 31 days, 16 organizations came together to offer 42 activities convening and celebrating maintainers.
Developer experience: What is it and why should you care?
Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.
Announcing the All In CHAOSS DEI Badging pilot initiative
Take part in All in for Maintainers' new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities.
Engineering
GitHub Availability Report: May 2023
In May, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three April incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools.
Developer experience: What is it and why should you care?
Explore how investing in a better developer experience frees developers to do what matters most: building great software.
Highlights from Git 2.41
The open-source Git project just released Git 2.41. Take a look at our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.41.
Community
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text.
Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love
Maintainer Month is a time for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. Over 31 days, 16 organizations came together to offer 42 activities convening and celebrating maintainers.
Announcing the All In CHAOSS DEI Badging pilot initiative
Take part in All in for Maintainers' new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities.
Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers
Experts explain how to recruit and onboard co-maintainers.
Trending stories
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Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools.
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Exploring GitHub with the redesigned navigation, now in public beta
GitHub’s redesigned navigation is enabled for all users as a public beta.
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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.
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GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience
GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience.
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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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CodeQL zero to hero part 2: getting started with CodeQL
Learn the basics of CodeQL and how to use it for security research! In this blog, we will teach you how to leverage GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL to write custom CodeQL queries.
Product
Exploring GitHub with the redesigned navigation, now in public beta
GitHub’s redesigned navigation is enabled for all users as a public beta.
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text.
Cloud migration made easy: introducing GitHub Enterprise Importer
With GitHub Enterprise Importer, you can seamlessly move to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, bringing your code and collaboration history with you so your team doesn’t miss a beat.
Announcing the public preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos.
GitHub celebrates developers with disabilities on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
GitHub is the home for all developers and on this Global Accessibility Awareness Day we are thrilled to celebrate the achievements of disabled developers and recent ships that help them build on GitHub.
Inside GitHub: Working with the LLMs behind GitHub Copilot
Developers behind GitHub Copilot discuss what it was like to work with OpenAI’s large language model and how it informed the development of Copilot as we know it today.
How GitHub Copilot is getting better at understanding your code
With a new Fill-in-the-Middle paradigm, GitHub engineers improved the way GitHub Copilot contextualizes your code. By continuing to develop and test advanced retrieval algorithms, they’re working on making our AI tool even more advanced.
Security
CodeQL zero to hero part 2: getting started with CodeQL
Learn the basics of CodeQL and how to use it for security research! In this blog, we will teach you how to leverage GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL to write custom CodeQL queries.
GitHub’s revamped VIP Bug Bounty Program
GitHub’s VIP Bug Bounty Program has been updated to include a clear and accessible criteria for receiving an invitation to the program and more. Learn more about the program and how you can become a Hacktocat, and join our community of researchers who are contributing to GitHub’s security with fun perks and access to staff and beta features!
Swift support brings broader mobile application security to GitHub Advanced Security
We’ve launched the beta of code scanning support for Swift. This launch, paired with our launch of Kotlin support in November, means that CodeQL covers both IOS and Android development languages, bringing a heightened level of security to the mobile application development process.
Rooting with root cause: finding a variant of a Project Zero bug
In this blog, I’ll look at CVE-2022-46395, a variant of CVE-2022-36449 (Project Zero issue 2327), and use it to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root privileges from the untrusted app domain on an Android phone that uses the Arm Mali GPU. I’ll also explain how root cause analysis of CVE-2022-36449 led to the discovery of CVE-2022-46395.
Announcing the public preview of GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is now available for public preview, making GitHub’s same application security testing tools natively available on Azure Repos.
How to fix a ReDoS
Code scanning detects ReDoS vulnerabilities automatically, but fixing them isn’t always easy. This blog post describes a 4-step strategy for fixing ReDoS bugs.
Push protection is generally available, and free for all public repositories
Announcing the general availability of push protection–a feature that proactively prevents secret leaks in your public and private repositories.
Open Source
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text.
Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love
Maintainer Month is a time for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. Over 31 days, 16 organizations came together to offer 42 activities convening and celebrating maintainers.
Announcing the All In CHAOSS DEI Badging pilot initiative
Take part in All in for Maintainers' new pilot program that helps open source project maintainers highlight ongoing efforts in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within their communities.
Announcing the Stale Repos Action
A tool to help you keep your open source catalog organized and up to date.
Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers
Experts explain how to recruit and onboard co-maintainers.
Enterprise
GitHub Availability Report: May 2023
In May, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three April incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Cloud migration made easy: introducing GitHub Enterprise Importer
With GitHub Enterprise Importer, you can seamlessly move to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, bringing your code and collaboration history with you so your team doesn’t miss a beat.
Applying GitOps principles to your operations
Could we use our Git repository as the source of truth for operational tasks, and somehow reconcile changes with our real-world view?
Education
How I used GitHub Copilot to build a browser extension
Here’s how, in seven steps, I built my first browser extension with GitHub Copilot—and my three major takeaways about learning and pair programming in the age of AI.
Building a more inclusive GitHub Global Campus
Every student and teacher deserves the same access to GitHub Education offerings. We’ve enlisted GitHub’s Accessibility team to help identify areas for improving inclusivity.
Build a secure code mindset with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Writing secure code is as much of an art as writing functional code, and it is the only way to write quality code. Learn how our Secure Code Game can provide you with hands-on training to spot and fix security issues in your code so that you can build a secure code mindset.
Policy
GitHub joins industry commitment to curb cyber mercenaries
GitHub is proud to join 40 companies endorsing the Cybersecurity Tech Accord principles limiting offensive operations in cyberspace.
Partnering with EU policymakers to ensure the Cyber Resilience Act works for developers
We’re looking forward to working with policymakers to improve cybersecurity and support developers.
Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate
Developers are at the heart of our online world and at the forefront of creating solutions for global challenges, working to make the software that underpins our digital infrastructure more secure, reliable, and safe.
Company
Survey reveals AI’s impact on the developer experience
We surveyed 500 U.S.-based developers at companies with 1,000-plus employees about how managers should consider developer productivity, collaboration, and AI coding tools.
Make your GitHub projects more accessible with accessibility-alt-text-bot
The accessibility-alt-text-bot leaves automated reminders in a comment when a user shares an image without providing meaningful alt text.
GitHub celebrates developers with disabilities on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
GitHub is the home for all developers and on this Global Accessibility Awareness Day we are thrilled to celebrate the achievements of disabled developers and recent ships that help them build on GitHub.