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GitHub Supports Internet Freedom And Global Availability In Iran

Access to the open internet is essential to defending human rights, and developers have an important role in promoting freedom of expression and transparency. GitHub is committed to keeping Iranians connected to the global developer community.

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29 Sep 2022

After The Offer: Staying In Tech Long-term

Tech can be a tricky industry (to say the least). We talked with three tech professionals who share why they stay, what has helped them the most, and the power of switching things up.

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29 Sep 2022

Best Practices On Rolling Out Code Scanning At Enterprise Scale

Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO.

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28 Sep 2022

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.

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23 Sep 2022

GitHub For Startups Is Generally Available

We’re launching GitHub for Startups to give your startup the tools needed to go from idea to unicorn status on the world's largest developer platform.

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22 Sep 2022

Security Alert: New Phishing Campaign Targets GitHub Users

On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations.

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21 Sep 2022

Applications For Micro-mentoring At GitHub Universe 2022 Are Now Live

Students have the opportunity to connect with GitHub employees at GitHub Universe 2022 through Micro-Mentoring sessions hosted by GitHub Social Impact.

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21 Sep 2022

The ReadME Project: Built For You!

The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development.

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21 Sep 2022

Why We Signed The Copenhagen Pledge On Tech For Democracy

As the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That's why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We're committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for democracy and human rights, and we encourage you to join us in this pledge.

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21 Sep 2022

Transform Your Software Engineering Practices With GitHub Enterprise

Go beyond knowing GitHub as the home of open source and explore how GitHub Enterprise can help you transform your software engineering organization and practices.

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20 Sep 2022

“If You Don’t Make It Beautiful, It’s For Sure Doomed”: Putting The Vault In GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault

GitHub this month installed a massive steel vault, etched with striking AI-generated art, deep within an Arctic mountain, finalizing its Arctic Code Vault. This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years. It also now includes a Tech Tree, a human-readable selection of works describing software, computers, and their foundational technologies, along with full-text copies of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other data sources.

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20 Sep 2022

5 Steps To Convince Your Boss To Send You To GitHub Universe

Here are some actionable tips on how to ask your manager to send you to GitHub Universe this year—with a free template included!

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19 Sep 2022

5 Tips For Prioritizing Dependabot Alerts

Dependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building.

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19 Sep 2022

GitHub Discussions Is Now Available On GitHub Enterprise Server

As part of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6, enterprise customers will now be able to use GitHub Discussions.

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17 Aug 2022

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6 Is Now Generally Available

GitHub Discussions and Audit Log Streaming, new automation features, and security enhancements are available now in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6.

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17 Aug 2022

2022 Transparency Report: January To June

We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve continued with the more granular reporting we began in our 2021 reports.

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16 Aug 2022

The Next Step For LGTM.com: GitHub Code Scanning!

Today, GitHub code scanning has all of LGTM.com’s key features—and more! The time has therefore come to announce the plan for the gradual deprecation of LGTM.com.

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15 Aug 2022

GitHub Pages Now Uses Actions By Default

As GitHub Pages, home to 16 million websites, approaches its 15th anniversary, we’re excited to announce that all sites now build and deploy with GitHub Actions.

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10 Aug 2022

Dependabot Now Alerts For Vulnerable GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions gives teams access to powerful, native CI/CD capabilities right next to their code hosted in GitHub. Starting today, GitHub will send a Dependabot alert for vulnerable GitHub Actions, making it even easier to stay up to date and fix security vulnerabilities in your actions workflows.

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9 Aug 2022

New Request For Comments On Improving Npm Security With Sigstore Is Now Open

Supply chain attacks exploit our implicit trust of open source to hurt developers and our customers. Read our proposal for how npm will significantly reduce supply chain attacks by signing packages with Sigstore.

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8 Aug 2022

All GitHub Enterprise Users Now Have Access To The Security Overview

Today, we’re expanding access to the GitHub security overview! All GitHub Enterprise customers now have access to the security overview, not just those with GitHub Advanced Security. Additionally, all users within an enterprise can now access the security overview, not just admins and security managers.

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8 Aug 2022

Release Radar · July 2022 Edition

While some of us have been wrapping up the financial year, and enjoying vacation time, others have been hard at work shipping open source projects and releases. These projects include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of the open source projects that released major version updates this July. […]

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5 Aug 2022

5 Simple Things You Can Do With GitHub Packages To Level Up Your Workflows

From hosting private packages in a private repository to tightening your security profile with GITHUB_TOKEN, here are five simple ways you can streamline your workflow with GitHub Packages.

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4 Aug 2022

GitHub Availability Report: July 2022

In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance for Codespaces. This report also acknowledges two incidents that impacted multiple GitHub.com services in June.

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3 Aug 2022

Streamline Virtual Hackathon Events With The New Hackathon In The Cloud Experience

Attention all students! Make managing your virtual hackathon events even easier with the new Hackathon in the Cloud Experience.

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2 Aug 2022

Marketing For Maintainers: Promote Your Project To Users And Contributors

Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars.

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28 Jul 2022

GitHub Sponsors Available In 30 New Regions

GitHub Sponsors expands globally with 30 newly supported regions, bringing the total to 68.

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28 Jul 2022

Release Radar · June 2022 Edition

It’s been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of these open source projects that released major updates this […]

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27 Jul 2022

Corrupting Memory Without Memory Corruption

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.

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27 Jul 2022

Planning Next To Your Code – GitHub Projects Is Now Generally Available

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point.

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27 Jul 2022

Launching GitHub Community: Powered By GitHub Discussions

Today, we’re launching GitHub Community, which brings together GitHub Community Forum, GitHub Education Forum, and product feedback into a free, in-product, single space for all user-to-user interactions.

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26 Jul 2022

Introducing Even More Security Enhancements To Npm

New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.

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26 Jul 2022

Tips & Tricks For Using GitHub Projects For Personal Productivity

GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity.

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21 Jul 2022

Here’s How Academic Research Is Shaping GitHub Discussions

We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here's how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions.

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20 Jul 2022

6 Strategic Ways To Level Up Your CI/CD Pipeline

From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline.

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19 Jul 2022

Open Source Monthly: July 2022 Edition

July's Open Source Monthly features Zag.js, which leverages state machines to make framework agnostic components.

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18 Jul 2022

Research: How GitHub Copilot Helps Improve Developer Productivity

We surveyed more than 2,000 developers about whether GitHub Copilot helped them be more productive and improved their coding. Then, we matched this qualitative feedback and subjective perception with quantitative data around objective usage measurements and productivity.

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14 Jul 2022

Top Tips For Creating A Healthy And Sustainable Open Source Community

Read about the six key themes, and tips for each, that ensure sustainable and healthy open source communities.

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7 Jul 2022

GitHub Availability Report: June 2022

In June, we experienced four incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub.com services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted several GitHub.com services in May.

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6 Jul 2022

Managing A Game Dev Community With GitHub Actions

A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community.

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6 Jul 2022

Extend Your Dependency Information In The GitHub Dependency Graph With New GitHub Actions

New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.

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1 Jul 2022

How The GitHub Security Team Uses Projects And GitHub Actions For Planning, Tracking, And More

Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.

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1 Jul 2022

Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects

High-quality Git commits are the key to a maintainable and collaborative open- or closed-source project. Learn strategies to improve and use commits to streamline your development process.

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30 Jun 2022

What To Do When Your Open Source Project Becomes A Community?

Maintainers answer your questions about how to manage an open source project that grows into a community.

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30 Jun 2022

Announcing The Summer 2022 MLH Fellowship GitHub Contributors

Meet the 2022 MLH Fellowship cohort! This 12-week internship alternative is for aspiring software engineers, and powered by GitHub.

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30 Jun 2022

The Chromium Super (inline Cache) Type Confusion

In this post I'll exploit CVE-2022-1134, a type confusion in Chrome that I reported in March 2022, which allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site. I'll also look at some past vulnerabilities of this type and some implementation details of inline cache in V8, the JavaScript engine of Chrome.

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29 Jun 2022

Improve Git Monorepo Performance With A File System Monitor

Monorepo performance can suffer due to the sheer number of files in your working directory. Git’s new builtin file system monitor makes it easy to speed up monorepo performance.

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29 Jun 2022

Improving Git Protocol Security On GitHub Enterprise Server

The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.

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28 Jun 2022

GitHub Advisory Database Now Supports Erlang And Elixir Packages!

We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.

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27 Jun 2022

Highlights From Git 2.37

The open source Git project just released Git 2.37. Take a look at some of our highlights from the latest release.

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27 Jun 2022

Thank You To Our Maintainers

To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.

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24 Jun 2022

What’s New In Codespaces For Organizations

We’re releasing exciting functionalities that will enable organizations to confidently manage and scale with Codespaces.

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22 Jun 2022

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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21 Jun 2022

GitHub Enables The Development Of Functional Safety Applications By Adding Support For Coding Standards AUTOSAR C++ And CERT C++

GitHub is excited to announce the release of CodeQL queries that implement the standards CERT C++ and AUTOSAR C++. These queries can aid developers looking to demonstrate ISO 26262 Part 6 process compliance.

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20 Jun 2022

Creating A More Comprehensive Dependency Graph With Build Time Detection

Expand the completeness of your dependency graph by using the dependency submission API, which will create more comprehensive alerts on supply chain vulnerabilities

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17 Jun 2022

Release Radar · May 2022 Edition

Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. We cover what the project is and some of their breaking changes. Read about the project, and browse their repositories. Without further ado, here are our top staff picks […]

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16 Jun 2022

The Android Kernel Mitigations Obstacle Race

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-22057, a use-after-free in the Qualcomm gpu kernel driver, to gain root and disable SELinux from the untrusted app sandbox on a Samsung Z flip 3. I’ll look at various mitigations that are implemented on modern Android devices and how they affect the exploit.

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16 Jun 2022

Git Merge 2022

Git Merge, the conference dedicated to bringing the Git community together returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois.

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15 Jun 2022

Prebuilding Codespaces Is Generally Available

Teams and GHEC customers can now create blazing fast codespaces, even for your largest and most complex projects.

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15 Jun 2022

GitHub Now Publishes Malware Advisories In The GitHub Advisory Database

To combat the prevalence of malware in the open source ecosystem, GitHub now publishes malware occurrences in the GitHub Advisory Database. These advisories power Dependabot alerts and remain forever free and usable by the community.

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15 Jun 2022

Accelerating GitHub Theme Creation With Color Tooling

Learn why the GitHub Design Infrastructure team built a dedicated color tool and how they use it to create new color palettes for GitHub.

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14 Jun 2022

How Can The United States Build Its Open Source Software Policy?

We share a recap of a recent roundtable event about what a federal open source software policy could look like in the United States.

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14 Jun 2022

Open Source Monthly: June 2022 Edition

June's Open Source Monthly features Modos–a community-focused company building software and hardware that designs digital devices with respect for users' time, attention, and well-being.

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13 Jun 2022

Implementing A Robust Digital Identity

How can you robustly assert and identify a user’s identity?

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10 Jun 2022

How We Think About Browsers

Discover how GitHub thinks about browser support, look at usage patterns, and learn about the tools we use to make sure our customers are getting the best experience.

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10 Jun 2022