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Ludum Dare 52, the weekend-long game jam that’s been running for almost 20 years, just wrapped up. This year’s theme was “harvest” and the number of game submissions grew to a whopping 1632! Ludum Dare is an online competition challenging participants to create a game from scratch in just a few days. The only catch […]
The GitHub policy paper on the AI Act can be found here. Hello. Thank you for having me here. Thank you to those watching online. I’m Thomas, and I’m a developer. And you know, I’ve been a developer so long—I normally see a few people in the audience I know. I have been to a […]
It’s been said that documentation is like a love letter to your future self. If that’s the case, then GitHub Docs are love letters to our 100 million developers who turn to them everyday for help and support. Whether it’s a student who wants to sign up for an account or a seasoned senior developer […]
At GitHub, the branch deploy model is ubiquitous and it is the standard way we ship code to production, and it has been for years. We released details about how we perform branch deployments with ChatOps all the way back in 2015. We are able to use ChatOps to perform branch deployments for most of […]
In 2021, we launched All In to provide the open source community with an opportunity to work together to create a powerful movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). From supporting over 300 students through our All in for Students program, to capturing 7,000+ voices in the 2021 Open Source DEI Survey and hosting 300 […]
The open source movement quietly underpins all of the technology we use to live and work. Open source is about more than just technology or a license—it’s about creating a culture of participation and collaboration, where anyone can contribute to making the world a better place. Open source software existed long before GitHub. But today, […]
In January, we experienced two incidents. One that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages, and another that impacted git users. January 30 21:48 UTC (lasting 35 minutes) Our service monitors detected degraded performance for GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages. Most requests to the container registry were failing and some GitHub Pages […]
At GitHub, our goal is to build a platform and galvanize an open source community that everyone can be a part of and make meaningful contributions. The future of software development is collaborative and equitable, made up of amazing people from diverse backgrounds and experiences who work together to advance society through open source technology. […]
On December 7, 2022, GitHub detected unauthorized access to a set of repositories used in the planning and development of GitHub Desktop and Atom. After a thorough investigation, we have concluded there was no risk to GitHub.com services as a result of this unauthorized access and no unauthorized changes were made to these projects. A […]
Overview Object Graph Notation Language (OGNL) is a popular, Java-based, expression language used in popular frameworks and applications, such as Apache Struts and Atlassian Confluence. In the past, OGNL injections led to some serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, such as the Equifax breach, and over the years, protection mechanisms and mitigations against OGNL injections […]
While compliance is foundational to delivering software around the world, there may be instances where developers get frustrated with policy enforcement slowing down their workflow. Since compliance is what enables the world’s software to be run across regions and enterprises with different security, data, and privacy requirements and regulations, we at GitHub are well-practiced in […]
In 2019, we set a goal to have 100 million developers using GitHub by 2025—because we know when more developers come together in a single place, incredible things happen. Today, I’m excited to share that there are now officially more than 100 million developers using GitHub to build, maintain, and contribute to software projects. This […]
Our bug bounty team has had an exciting year, including celebrating the eighth year of our program, hosting a live hacking event in June, spotlighting one of our hackers for cybersecurity awareness month, and spending more time with our community at events such as DEFCON 30. Along the way, we have captured feedback from participants […]
The “not-Google” bug in the “all-Google” phone The year is 2021 A.D. The first “all Google” phone, the Pixel 6 series, made entirely by Google, is launched. Well not entirely… One small GPU chip still holds out. And life is not easy for security researchers who audit the fortified camps of Midgard, Bifrost, and Valhall. […]
Fix the Git integration within VS Code when working with Toolbox container. Photo by frank mckenna / Unsplash I’ve written earlier about using Toolbox as a development environment along with VS Code installed using Flatpak. Since then I have encountered some problems that you may have come across as well. Primarily, the issue was that […]
Open source is now an essential part of 99% of the software we use everyday, and the developers that contribute to the open source ecosystem are more important than ever. As the global home to over 94 million developers, we’re deeply familiar with how open source and free collaboration power innovation and accelerate human progress. […]
Hello from Git Systems, the team that works on the Subversion subsystem at GitHub. As of January 8, 2024 (about a year from now), we will sunset Subversion support completely on GitHub.com. A release of GitHub Enterprise Server sometime in early 2024 will also remove Subversion support. Read on for more details. In 2010, when […]
GitHub Actions has changed the way people automate workflows. On the GitHub Mobile team our mission is to unchain you from your desk and bring GitHub to you—wherever you are—and we’ve heard your feedback: GitHub Actions has consistently been one of your most-requested features, so over the past few months we focused on bringing the […]
Dependabot helps developers secure their software with automated security updates: when a security advisory is published that affects a project dependency, Dependabot will try to submit a pull request that updates the vulnerable dependency to a safe version if one is available. Of course, there’s no rule that says a security vulnerability will only affect […]
Looking to supercharge cross-functional work at your organization? Here at GitHub, we take pride in using GitHub to release new products and features. Each new product and feature that we release requires a great amount of cross-functional collaboration, and touches nearly all our teams, from engineering to social media. But it’s not a challenge to […]