Behind the scenes: GitHub security alerts

If you have code on GitHub, chances are that you’ve had a security vulnerability alert at some point. Since the feature launched, GitHub has sent more than 62 million security alerts for vulnerable dependencies. How does it work? Vulnerability alerts ... more

Announcing GitHub Security Lab: securing the world’s code, together

We all share a collective responsibility to keep open source software secure—none of us can do it alone. Today at GitHub Universe, we announced GitHub Security Lab to bring together security researchers, maintainers, and companies across the industry ... more

New from Universe 2019: GitHub for mobile, GitHub Archive Program, and more

It’s our favorite time of year: GitHub Universe gives us all two days to celebrate 40+ million developers and their contributions to the open source community. In the past year alone, over 10 million developers have joined from nearly three million organizations ... more

GitHub Enterprise Server 2.19 is here

From automating workflows to working with the world’s largest open source community, there are lots of reasons teams love using GitHub Enterprise. Launched at GitHub Universe, our latest Enterprise Server release includes updates to security features, ... more

Announcing the GitHub Education Classroom Report 2019

For the third year in a row, the GitHub Education team surveyed students and teachers who joined GitHub’s educational programs. This year, we asked former students—people who joined our programs in 2014 through 2016—about where they ended up after their ... more

Get ready for Game Off

Game Off is our annual month-long game jam where participants create games based on a theme using their favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages. Newbies, professional game developers, and everyone in between are welcome to join us ... more

Highlights from the js13kGames 2019 competition

The eighth annual js13kGames competition results are in, and we can’t wait to share the winners with you. If you’re not familiar, js13kGames is a community-run game jam which challenges developers to create a JavaScript game in 13kB or less in 31 days. ... more

Streamline your workflow with GitHub Actions from open source maintainers

Since we introduced GitHub Actions in beta last year, developers have created thousands of shareable workflows. Actions are just code in a repository, so anyone can create, reuse, and fork their software development practices. Need a little inspiration ... more

Introducing the CodeSearchNet challenge

Searching for code to reuse, call into, or to see how others handle a problem is one of the most common tasks in a software developer’s day. However, search engines for code are often frustrating and never fully understand what we want, unlike regular ... more

Dependency graph support is now available for PHP repositories with Composer dependencies

The dependency graph powers many important experiences in GitHub, including security alerts, the “used by” counter, dependency insights, and automatic security fixes. We’re also seeing PHP and Composer grow in popularity—PHP is the fourth most popular ... more

Proxying packages with GitHub Package Registry and other updates

It’s been a few months since we announced GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code. As we’ve talked to the community, we’ve heard a few common themes. We’ve ... more

GitHub supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for security keys

GitHub now supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for security keys—the new standard for secure authentication on the web. Starting today, you can use security keys for two-factor authentication on GitHub with even more browsers and devices. And, since ... more

Introducing new ways to keep your code secure

We’re all part of a deeply interconnected community, where the software we write builds on the work of others. Ninety-nine percent of new software projects depend on open source code. This extensive code reuse helps everyone build better software faster ... more

Release Radar · April 2019

Welcome to the April 2019 edition of Release Radar, where we share new and exciting releases—from world-changing technologies to weekend side projects. Most importantly, they’re all projects shipped by you. SuperTuxKart SuperTuxKart is a 3D arcade racing ... more