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Engineering

Highlights from Git 2.35

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Taylor Blau January 24, 2022

Community

Release Radar · December 2021 Edition

Our community has been hard at work through December shipping updates. Here's our staff picks for open source projects with major version releases. Michelle Mannering January 21, 2022

Open Source

Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?

When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn't just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration. Peter Cihon January 20, 2022

Open Source

Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4

We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google. Jose Palafox January 19, 2022

Community

How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space

With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science. Nicole Numrich January 18, 2022

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Community

Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021

Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻 Lee Reilly January 13, 2022 Community

How five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions

From answering questions about a new release to fielding feature requests, here’s how five open source communities use GitHub Discussions. Evi Liu January 13, 2022 Open Source

The Open Source Software Security Summit: securing the world’s code together

My colleague Stormy Peters and I are proud to represent GitHub at the White House’s Open Source Software Security Summit. Mike Hanley January 13, 2022 Engineering

How we ship GitHub Mobile every week

Learn how the GitHub Mobile Team automates their release process with GitHub Actions. Taehun Kim January 12, 2022

Engineering

Highlights from Git 2.35

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Taylor Blau January 24, 2022

How we ship GitHub Mobile every week

Learn how the GitHub Mobile Team automates their release process with GitHub Actions. Taehun Kim

GitHub Availability Report: December 2021

In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. Scott Sanders

Technical interviews via Codespaces

Codespaces is a great tool for technical hiring exercises and helps level the playing field for candidates. Ian Olsen

Community

Release Radar · December 2021 Edition

Our community has been hard at work through December shipping updates. Here's our staff picks for open source projects with major version releases.

Michelle Mannering January 21, 2022

How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space

With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science. Nicole Numrich

Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021

Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻 Lee Reilly

How five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions

From answering questions about a new release to fielding feature requests, here’s how five open source communities use GitHub Discussions. Evi Liu

Product

How five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions

From answering questions about a new release to fielding feature requests, here’s how five open source communities use GitHub Discussions.

Evi Liu January 13, 2022

Getting started with GitHub Actions just got easier!

When you want to create a workflow in the Actions tab of your repository, the recommendations are now based on an analysis of repo content. Pulkit Agarwal

A brief history of code search at GitHub

This blog post tells the story of why we built a new search engine optimized for code. Pavel Avgustinov

What’s new from GitHub Changelog? November 2021 recap

We shipped a ton of updates in November, from the push notification for PR review activities on the go, to an easy way to create Markdown links. Sidi Merzouk

Precise code navigation for Python, and code navigation in pull requests

Code navigation is now available in PRs, and code navigation results for Python are now more precise. Douglas Creager

Improving GitHub code search

Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub. Pavel Avgustinov

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3 is generally available

GitHub Enterprise Server is now generally available for all customers. This release improves performance for CI/CD and for customers with large repositories. Ian Marsh

Security

Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4

We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google.

Jose Palafox January 19, 2022

The Open Source Software Security Summit: securing the world’s code together

My colleague Stormy Peters and I are proud to represent GitHub at the White House’s Open Source Software Security Summit. Mike Hanley

How the community powers GitHub Advanced Security with CodeQL queries

The GitHub Security Lab’s CodeQL bounty program fuels GitHub Advanced Security with queries written by the open source community. Xavier René-Corail

How to leverage security frameworks and libraries for secure code

In this post, I’ll discuss how to apply OWASP Proactive Control C2: Leverage security frameworks and libraries. Alvaro Munoz

Using GitHub’s security features to help identify Log4j exposure in your codebase

Use GitHub’s security features to assess Apache Log4j exposure and, where possible, mitigate this vulnerability within your GitHub repositories. Brittany O'Shea

How to define security requirements for your OSS project

Defining your security requirements is the most important proactive control you can implement for your project. Here's how. Alvaro Munoz

GitHub’s response to Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

On Thursday, December 9, 2021, GitHub was made aware of a vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework, CVE-2021-44228. Jill Moné-Corallo

Open Source

Highlights from Git 2.35

The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

Taylor Blau January 24, 2022

Release Radar · December 2021 Edition

Our community has been hard at work through December shipping updates. Here's our staff picks for open source projects with major version releases. Michelle Mannering January 21, 2022

Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?

When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn't just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration. Peter Cihon January 20, 2022

Reducing security risk in open source software with GitHub Actions and OpenSSF Scorecards V4

We’re excited to announce the V4 release of the OpenSSF’s Scorecard project in partnership with Google. Jose Palafox January 19, 2022

How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space

With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science. Nicole Numrich January 18, 2022

Enterprise

GitHub Availability Report: December 2021

In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services. Scott Sanders

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3 is generally available

GitHub Enterprise Server is now generally available for all customers. This release improves performance for CI/CD and for customers with large repositories. Ian Marsh

GitHub Availability Report: November 2021

In November, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services. Scott Sanders

Policy

Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?

When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn't just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration. Peter Cihon

How GitHub contributed to the Santa Clara Principles update

GitHub was honored to contribute to the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation 2.0. Rose Coogan

GitHub at the UN Internet Governance Forum

Last week, GitHub joined the Internet Governance Forum to spread awareness of developers’ initiatives and public policy interests. Peter Cihon

Education

GitHub Externships: enabling India’s next generation of developers

Are you a student in India? Applications are open for the GitHub Externships Winter Cohort! Maneesh Sharma

In case you missed it, GitHub Education at Universe 2021!

A recap of all the GitHub Education news from Universe 2021, including the new Intro to Web Dev Experience. Matthew Dyson

Student developer resources you won’t find in the classroom

Heading back to school? Did you just graduate? The GitHub Education Stream Team (GEST) is sharing resources, tools, and more to help emerging developers land a job. Juan Pablo Flores Cortés

Company

GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2021

As the year winds down, we're highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers. Becca Crockett

The 2021 State of the Octoverse

The State of the Octoverse analyzes data from millions of developers & repos to share trends across working habits, productivity, and career satisfaction. Eirini Kalliamvakou

Building the next phase of GitHub, together

This morning, I shared the following post with Hubbers in response to Nat’s announcement about his next adventure. I am thrilled to take on the role of CEO to build the next phase of GitHub for our global community of software developers. Thomas Dohmke

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