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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the Stale Repos Action
A tool to help you keep your open source catalog organized and up to date. ⌘ Read more

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? ⌘ Read more

Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers
Experts explain how to recruit and onboard co-maintainers. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

The 2023 Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Survey is live!
Help quantify the state of enterprise open source by taking the 2023 OSPO survey. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

How to automate a Microsoft Power Platform deployment using GitHub Actions
Low-code enables developers and non-developers to build custom applications and solutions with less effort. In this blog, we show you how to automate your low-code deployments using GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more

Kelsey Hightower on leadership in open source and the future of Kubernetes
In this special episode of The ReadME Podcast, dedicated to GitHub’s Maintainer Month, Kelsey Hightower joins hosts Martin Woodward and Neha Batra to discuss his philosophy on fostering thriving open source communities and the importance of empathy to a maintainer’s success. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

9 tips to go from attendee to speaker at a tech conference
Here’s what you need to know to write a compelling session proposal and get on stage. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

Design’s journey towards accessibility
Design can have a significant impact on delivering accessible experiences to our users. It takes a cultural shift, dedicated experts, and permission to make progress over perfection in order to build momentum. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re starting to see a real shift in our journey to make GitHub a true home for all developers. ⌘ Read more

Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents, both long running and shorter duration. We have since mitigated these incidents and all systems are now operating normally. Read on for more details about what caused these incidents and what we’re doing to mitigate in the future. ⌘ Read more

This month on The ReadME Podcast: Balancing openness and control
Open vs. control: the paradox of open source. We take a look at the expectations of open source, how the definition has evolved, and when ‘closed to contributions’ is the right move. Tune in to the latest episode of The ReadME Podcast for more. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

Navigation and search improvements for accessibility
Discover the accessibility features within our new navigation and code search which make it easier to use for many more people. ⌘ Read more

Unlocking inclusive design: how Primer’s color system is making GitHub.com more inclusive
How Primer’s updated light and dark theme color contrast strategy resolved hundreds of color-contrast-related accessibility issues over one thousand use cases. ⌘ Read more

Revolutionize your open source workflows: the top 3 reasons why GitHub Codespaces is a must-have for maintainers
GitHub Codespaces is reliable, accessible, and always-ready. Try it out during Maintainer Month and take your projects to new heights! ⌘ Read more

Game Bytes · May 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! ⌘ Read more

How companies are boosting productivity with generative AI
Explore how generative AI coding tools are changing the way developers and companies build software. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

How we work: inclusive retrospectives for the GitHub Accessibility leadership team
Learn about tools and processes the GitHub Accessibility leadership team uses for retrospectives that fully engage every team member. ⌘ Read more

GitHub code search is generally available
The world’s code is now at your fingertips. ⌘ Read more

Building a culture of innovation in your business with GitHub
Consider the typical software development practices in an organization. Projects are commonly closed, and causes friction across engineering teams. But open source communities work asynchronously, openly, remotely and at global-scale. What if our internal teams could reuse those same practices? ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

Web Summit Rio 2023: Building an app in 18 minutes with GitHub Copilot X
GitHub CEO Thomas Domke demonstrated the power of GitHub Copilot X live on stage. ⌘ Read more

Manage your application security stack effectively with the tool status page
Code scanning’s tool status gives you a bird’s eye view of your application security stack, allowing you to quickly confirm everything is working, or troubleshoot any tool in your application security arsenal. ⌘ Read more

All In for Students 2023 cohort: our biggest group of open source leaders yet!
The second cohort of All In for Students has graduated! With a cohort 12 times as large as the pilot, learn about how this group of college students is leaning into the future of technology. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: April 2023
In April, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three March incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. ⌘ Read more

More than meets the pull request: maintainers talk contributions
Creating an open source project can feel a bit like sending out an open invite to a party—will it be a roaring good time, or will you unbegrudginly dine on leftover junk food for the following week after nobody shows? When the first guest arrives, you breathe a sigh of relief. The party’s a success, […] ⌘ Read more

Dependabot relieves alert fatigue from npm devDependencies
A new alert rules engine for Dependabot leverages alert metadata to identify and auto-dismiss up to 15% of alerts as false positives. ⌘ Read more

This month on The ReadME Podcast: exploring the fusion of technology and progress
Open source’s impact on nuclear fusion research, adapting to technological change, and mastering GitHub essentials. ⌘ Read more

CLI tricks every developer should know
Learn some tips, tricks, and tools for mastering the command line from GitHub’s own developers. ⌘ Read more

Git security vulnerabilities announced
A new set of Git releases were published to address a variety of security vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Take a look at GitHub’s view of the latest round of releases. ⌘ Read more

Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May!
Are you looking for ways to support open source maintainers? Maintainer Month is the perfect opportunity! ⌘ Read more

Shaping the GitHub of the future as COO
GitHub is driving the future of software development and, after 10 years as a Hubber, I’m more energized than ever as I take on the role of COO to help bring our vision to life. ⌘ Read more

Announcing GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules, now in public beta
Create and share your own deployment protection rules, or use the rules from our great partners, like Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic, NodeSource, Sentry, and ServiceNow, to control your deployments with more confidence. And the API is open for the community to build their own rules to make GitHub Enterprise Cloud even better. ⌘ Read more

Private vulnerability reporting now generally available
Open source maintainers and security researchers embrace a new best practice to report and fix vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more

Introducing npm package provenance
How to verifiably link npm packages to their source repository and build instructions. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

Multi-repository enablement: effortlessly scale code scanning across your repositories
We’ve gotten great feedback on default setup, a simple way to set up code scanning on your repository. Now, you have the ability to use default setup across your organization’s repositories, in just one click. ⌘ Read more

The code for the desktop client is now public here: https://github.com/stig-atle/YarnDesktopClient , I will create tickets for the known things I need to fix and such later today.

I will release the sourcecode for the desktop client tonight. I will put it on github (sorry to anyone who prefer other places), but the reason is that I do not want my own git to be open for public. So I’ll put it on github where I have all my other public projects. I have to write the readme, then add some info on the login page (link to source etc), then it’s ready to release with the current features. I then hope others will give it a try and use it if they want :) I also have many other features I need to implement, but all the main features that makes it usable has been implemented, so I’m very pleased with it (And I use it all the time now).

3 benefits of migrating and consolidating your source code
Explore how migrating your source code and collaboration history to GitHub can lead to some surprising benefits. ⌘ Read more

How generative AI is changing the way developers work
Rapid advancements in generative AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot are accelerating the next wave of software development. Here’s what you need to know. ⌘ Read more

Ensuring compliance in developer workflows
How GitHub Enterprise ensures secure and compliant developer workflows for highly regulated industries. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
Meet the individuals that make up the first GitHub Accelerator cohort and learn about how GitHub is helping bring their visions to reality. ⌘ Read more

Introducing the newest GitHub Shop collection
From dog bowl bottles to fanny packs, explore the latest and greatest GitHub merchandise. ⌘ Read more

Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development
Explore how generative AI may soon help enable optimizing some of the foundational components of compliance. ⌘ Read more

How enabling developers can help drive financial inclusion
Explore how creating a great developer experience can help provide a more inclusive financial services environment. ⌘ Read more

Also - I would like to know where you all like to have git hosted..
Github? Some other place? Do you mind self-hosted git servers? (I currently have my own)..
What do you all prefer? Do you mind compiling software from source if instructions are clear and easy? Or do you prefer to download a released binary and run that?

I also later on (as soon as it’s in usable state) want to make flatpack, appimage as well, that is something I have not done before - but I want to set that up as well.

What developers need to know about generative AI
Generative AI has been dominating the news lately—but what exactly is it? Here’s what you need to know, and what it means for developers. ⌘ Read more

Game Bytes · April 2023
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! ⌘ Read more

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […] ⌘ Read more

Pwning Pixel 6 with a leftover patch
In this post, I’ll look at a security-related change in version r40p0 of the Arm Mali driver that was AWOL in the January update of the Pixel bulletin, where other patches from r40p0 was applied, and how these two lines of changes can be exploited to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root from a malicious app. This highlights how treacherous it can be when backporting security changes. ⌘ Read more

Bring your enterprise together with enterprise accounts for all
With enterprise accounts for all, your organization can take advantage of all that GitHub Enterprise has to offer, from GitHub Actions and GitHub Advanced Security, to Copilot. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: March 2023
In March, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a February incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Codespaces. ⌘ Read more

Building organization-wide governance and re-use for CI/CD and automation with GitHub Actions
Many of us are aware of the benefits that a strong focus on automation can bring, particularly in our development workflow and DevOps lifecycle. But silos across businesses can lead to duplication of effort, and potential to lose out on best practices. In this post, we’ll explore how CI/CD can be shared across your entire organization alongside polici … ⌘ Read more

What’s new with GitHub Sponsors
GitHub Sponsors is now generally available for organizations. Also, new tooling for bulk sponsorships and an update on how we’re ensuring sustainability for GitHub Sponsors. ⌘ Read more

Level up monitoring and reporting for your enterprise
A high-quality audit log is an essential tool for enterprises to ensure compliance, maintain security, investigate issues, and promote accountability. ⌘ Read more

Calling all open source maintainers
We are building a private space for maintainers to connect with peers, preview features, and learn from each other! ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I always liked bit.
I am disappointed that a GUI app would not at least have screenshots.

julien040/gut: An easy-to-use git client for Windows, macOS, and Linux

@prologic@twtxt.net I like it, I get to follow some people I could not follow before, which I find useful.
But if you have second thoughts about it all - then I can understand that.
If you decide to pull the plug on it - then I’ll just get some additional activitypub service installed on my server and use that for that (I was thinking about installing this: https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub ) if needed.

CodeQL zero to hero part 1: the fundamentals of static analysis for vulnerability research
Learn more about static analysis and how to use it for security research!
In this blog post series, we will take a closer look at static analysis concepts, present GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL, and teach you how to leverage static analysis for security research by writing custom CodeQL queries. ⌘ Read more

Improvements to CodeQL’s data flow library for C++
These changes will improve the experience for custom query authors and enable better precision in some of our standard queries. Learn how to enable them for your custom queries. ⌘ Read more

Introducing self-service SBOMs
Developers and compliance teams get a new SBOM generation tool for cloud repositories. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Galaxy 2023: Empower developer teams with a new developer experience
Learn how GitHub’s one, integrated platform–powered by AI and secure at every step—helps developer teams be more productive, collaborative, and efficient. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the public beta of the official GitHub Actions VS Code extension, which provides support for authoring and editing workflows and helps you manage workflow runs without leaving your IDE. ⌘ Read more

Timeline is cleaned up, so now I think I have that part sorted.
Next is to refactor a bit and then fix so that the timeline refreshes properly.
Once that is done I think I’ll clean it up and upload the source somewhere and create tickets for outstanding known issues. Most likely upload it to github and continue the work there.

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We updated our RSA SSH host key
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

Godot 4.0 Release Party 🎉
We are delighted to host the Godot 4.0 Release Party at GitHub HQ on Wednesday, March 22 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. And you’re invited! ⌘ Read more

How the Grafana Alerting team scales their issue management with GitHub Projects
Hear from Grafana’s Armand Grillet about how his team uses GitHub Projects. ⌘ Read more

GitHub celebrates the ingenuity of developers with disabilities in new video series
Learn how developers with disabilities are pushing the boundaries of accessibility with ingenuity, open source, and generative AI on The ReadME Project. ⌘ Read more

Highlights from Git 2.40
The first Git release of the year is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.40. ⌘ Read more

An open source project to empower OSPOs everywhere
We are open sourcing our own OSPO policies, tools, and guides to help other OSPOs get started. ⌘ Read more

Introducing Activating Developers and the new Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program
The Social Impact, Tech for Social Good team is launching a new Open Source Community Manager Program to support digital public goods. This is part of their new Activating Developers initiative. ⌘ Read more

Introducing GitHub vulnerability management integrations for security professionals
Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security alerts with vulnerability management tools. Check out the integrations and learn about how to get started. ⌘ Read more

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. ⌘ Read more

How GitHub accelerates development for embedded systems
In a world where software and hardware is ubiquitous, GitHub can help enable secure development for mission-critical embedded systems. ⌘ Read more

Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13
On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA. ⌘ Read more

How GitHub Docs’ new search works
GitHub Docs recently changed its site-search to Elasticsearch. Here’s how it was implemented. ⌘ Read more

Multi-repository variant analysis: a powerful new way to perform security research across GitHub
Multi-repository variant analysis lets you scale security research across thousands of repositories, giving you a powerful tool to find and respond to newly discovered vulnerabilities. ⌘ Read more

Application security orchestration with GitHub Advanced Security
Learn how teams can leverage the power of GitHub Advanced Security’s code scanning and GitHub Actions to integrate the right security testing tools at the right time. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Galaxy 2023: your guide to building a more flexible and productive software development cycle
Join us virtually on March 28-31 for GitHub Galaxy, a global enterprise event focused on improving efficiency, security, and developer productivity. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.8 is now generally available
With updates to GitHub Actions, repositories, and GitHub Advanced Security, this new version of GitHub Enterprise Server is focused on bringing the best developer experience to companies. ⌘ Read more

File editing on GitHub Mobile keeps leveling up
Commit an update to a pull request, or start a new branch to squash a bug at any time, wherever you are using the GitHub Mobile apps. ⌘ Read more

Unleash your potential with GitHub Octernships: a path to a thriving tech career
Empowering the next generation of students in tech with real-world industry experience. ⌘ Read more

How to automate your dev environment with dev containers and GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces enables you to start coding faster when coupled with dev containers. Learn how to automate a portion of your development environment by adding a dev container to an open source project using GitHub Codespaces. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · February 2023 Edition
Our community—along with ourselves—took a much needed break over the festive season. Now everyone is back into the full swing of work, and the open source community is showing us it’s all hands on deck. We had dozens of submissions for the February Release Radar—a testament to the amount of code being shipped by the […] ⌘ Read more