GitHub stories

github.blog · Oct 01, 2026

Build automations using coding agents in GitHub Actions to handle triage, documentation, code quality, and more.

infoq.com · Sep 01, 2025

Allegro shared the details of the process it uses to manage code migrations at scale. The company combined GitHub’s Dependabot and OpenRewrite projects into a custom solution that helps developers per

github.blog · Aug 15, 2025

GitHub Copilot has a new feature: a coding agent that can implement a task or issue, run in the background with GitHub Actions, and more.

github.blog · Aug 12, 2025

Discover practical ways GitHub Copilot streamlines code reviews, pull requests, and daily engineering tasks with real prompts, examples, and workflow tips from our engineering team.

github.blog · May 26, 2025

A full look at agent mode in GitHub Copilot, including what it can do, when to use it, and best practices.

github.blog · May 14, 2025

Building this feature presented significant challenges. We're excited to take you behind the scenes.

timdeschryver.dev · May 12, 2025

Use the github.copilot.chat.codeGeneration.useInstructionFiles setting in Visual Studio Code to automatically add instructions to the commit messages generated by GitHub Copilot.

github.blog · Apr 04, 2025

Every minute, GitHub blocks several secrets with push protection—but secret leaks still remain one of the most common causes of security incidents. Learn how GitHub is making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets, including today’s launches of standalone Secret Protection, org-wide scanning, and better access for teams of all sizes.

github.blog · Jan 07, 2025

dev.to · Dec 23, 2024

github.blog · Nov 23, 2024

Here’s how merge queue transformed the way GitHub deploys changes to production at scale, so you can do the same for your organization.

github.blog · Oct 12, 2024

github.blog · May 16, 2024

Now in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, code scanning autofix helps developers remediate more than two-thirds of supported alerts with little or no editing.

github.blog · May 14, 2024

GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI assistant. Learn practical strategies to get the most out of GitHub Copilot to generate the most relevant and useful code suggestions in your editor.

github.blog · May 14, 2024

GitHub-hosted runners now support Azure private networking. Plus, we've added 2 vCPU Linux, 4 vCPU Windows, macOS L, macOS XL, and GPU hosted runners to our runner fleet.

mattvsts.github.io · May 14, 2024

Another integration between Azure DevOps and GitHub is in work planning and tracking, or project management if you like.

github.blog · Mar 15, 2024

Consider deploying the GitHub Action: Evergreen so that you know each of your repositories are leveraging active dependency management with Dependabot.

darkreading.com · Mar 15, 2024

GitHub and cyberattackers are waging a quiet, automated war over malicious repos.

github.blog · Aug 16, 2022

On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our users.

docs.github.com · Aug 04, 2022

GitHub limits the size of files you can track in regular Git repositories. Learn how to track or remove files that are beyond the limit.

shipit.dev · Aug 03, 2022

Here's how to migrate from utterances to giscus without loosing existing comments on single or multiple pages.

httpie.io · Jul 25, 2022

What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.

aaron-powell.com · Jul 19, 2022

This took a lot of chasing down to work out, so hopefully I can save you some time

github.blog · Jul 14, 2022

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.

petri.com · Jul 14, 2022

GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered coding assistant that launched in preview last year, will become generally available for all developers this summer. Microsoft has announced that the service will be free for Build 2022 attendees, students, and verified open-source contributors. GitHub Copilot is a ...

zellwk.com · Jul 12, 2022

Collaborators can decide whether to accept or reject your pull request. They may also request for some changes. This video shows you what process looks like.

openssf.org · Jul 01, 2022

github.blog · Jun 15, 2022

Read about all the features you may not have known come on the GitHub Free plan, and how to choose the right plan for you.

dev.to · Mar 18, 2022

GitHub recently released github.dev, which allows you to press . on any repo in order to open it in...

devblogs.microsoft.com · Mar 10, 2022

Let's take a look at how you can add code metrics and diagrams for your open-source .NET repositories with GitHub Actions.

sameerkulkarni.de · Feb 15, 2022

github.blog · Jan 26, 2022

itnext.io · Jan 26, 2022

cnbc.com · Nov 17, 2021

The announcement comes weeks after one of GitHub's most prominent competitors, GitLab, went public. GitLab was worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub.

blog.jongallant.com · Aug 22, 2021

medium.com · Jul 05, 2021

github.blog · Mar 22, 2021

On March 8, out of an abundance of caution, we logged all users out of GitHub.com. In this post we share technical details of the vulnerability and steps we're taking to ensure it doesn't happen again.

github.blog · Nov 23, 2020

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

thenextweb.com · Oct 27, 2020

ardalis.com · Jul 26, 2020

I've started using Discord more and more for things like my private group coaching program focused on software developers.

sung.codes · Apr 10, 2020

ghacks.net · Mar 18, 2020

GitHub announced yesterday that the company's new mobile application for Google Android and Apple iOS has been released as a stable version for both operating systems.

support.discordapp.com · Jan 27, 2020

Discord's built in Webhooks function as an easy way to get automated messages and data updates sent to a text channel in your server....

livablesoftware.com · Aug 31, 2019

Software bots can assist developers in all phases of the development process. Here, we present a selection of the most useful bots you can start using right away to develop and maintain your (open source) project

techcommunity.microsoft.com · Jun 17, 2019

Developers can now collaborate from anywhere using GitHub app in Microsoft Teams! GitHub app in Teams support Tab, Messaging Extension, Bot and Personal app capabilities.

haacked.com · Jun 17, 2019

A little known but very useful feature on GitHub that provides a lightweight way to suggest a small change.