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$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open sourc…

The cost of saying yes has changed

The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which chang…

GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials

New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus …

Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it.

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by…

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here's how we gave every a…

Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closi…

GitHub availability report: June 2026

In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. …

How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages

Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually…

Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide

New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collabor…

How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero

GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here's how we separated signal…

6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is cl…

How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies

Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage op…