The latest blogs from GitHub
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
Bringing checks and statuses to GitHub for Visual Studio
With the release of GitHub for Visual Studio 2.5.5, pull requests now support checks and statuses.
Shape the debate on the EU copyright proposal
Get an update on the negotiations, and learn how you can help MEPs understand why and how to protect software development.
Merge conflicts in the classroom
Merge conflicts don’t have to be scary for you or your students! Learn how to help students resolve them.
Life as a GSoC student: What I learned about open source development through Probot
Abhijeet recounts his experience working with the Probot team at GitHub and what he learned about working with other developers on an open source project.
Release Radar · July 2018
Open source releases that caught our attention last month.
Tutorial: How to deploy an app to production with an actual button
Ready to deploy? “Ship it!” to production with the press of a button.
Linked repositories for organization-owned project boards
You can now specify which repositories are most relevant to the project you’re working on when viewing project boards own by an organization.
Updates to protected branches
Automatically enforce protected branch settings across multiple branches in your repository.
GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes
See the results from a survey of 8,000 students and teachers.
July 2018 product updates
Everything shipped on the GitHub platform in the month of July.
Create a 13 kB JavaScript game in 30 days with js13kGames
Learn a few tips and tricks to help make the most of 13kB in the competition.
GitHub anti-bribery and events policies now open source
Four new policies related to bribery and events are now available open source.
GLB: GitHub’s open source load balancer
At GitHub, we serve tens of thousands of requests every second out of our network edge, operating on GitHub’s metal cloud. We’ve previously introduced GLB, our scalable load balancing solution…
Join us for Craftwork NYC on August 14
Craftwork is a hands-on workshop for learning how to build GitHub Apps.
Scholarships and accessibility at GitHub Universe 2018
Our application period for individual scholarships has ended on Friday, August 17, and we are no longer accepting new applications for individual scholarships.
How the GitHub Student Developer Pack helped this student get a tech job
Learning with real-world tools paid off for this Georgia State student.
Net neutrality news from India and the US, and how developers can help
We recap efforts to improve protections for an open internet in the US and India, and we’ll revisit a resource for developers who want to help policymakers understand the need to save net neutrality.
New improvements and best practices for account security and recoverability
Finding compromised passwords and two-factor recovery checkups
Announcing GitHub Desktop 1.3
With the GitHub Desktop 1.3 release, you’ll be notified when your branch diverges from your repository’s default branch.
Git LFS 2.5.0 is now available
Git LFS 2.5.0 comes with three new migration modes, a handful of bug fixes, and more.
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The GitHub Podcast
Catch up on the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.