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GitHub is now free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
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NPM Is Joining GitHub
We're excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
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GitHub is fully available in Iran
All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers in some countries the full range of GitHub services.
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Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Thank you, GitHub
This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
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The August 17 outage
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.
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Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
We're making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
We’re excited to welcome the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to GitHub.
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Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions
Update: We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. We are continuing to…
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An update on GitHub availability
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
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GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
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Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators
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…
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Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
Do you contribute to open source software (OSS)? We'd love to hear your perspective.
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GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
Starting on February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payments processor. As such, it will no longer be possible to sponsor individuals or organizations using…
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An update on recent service disruptions
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.
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GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
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Welcoming Semmle to GitHub
Today we’re announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: we’re welcoming Semmle to the GitHub family.
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
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GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
Meet the projects that make up the first GitHub Accelerator cohort and learn about how GitHub is helping bring their visions to reality.
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GitHub will require 2FA by the end of 2023
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023.
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What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
Understanding the movement of ‘single source’ companies from ‘open source’ to ‘source available’ licenses.
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GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent.
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Update on an Employee Matter
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously.…
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The GitHub Availability Report
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
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Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans.
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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead.
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GitHub and US Government Developers
At GitHub, we believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Today, I wanted to share a message I sent to all employees yesterday that is related to this, as it is important that we share our views on immigration policy with the…
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Video uploads now available across GitHub
With video uploads now generally available, developers have even more ways to collaborate on GitHub. Try it out for yourself!
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GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries
GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta and generally available to developers with bank accounts in 30 countries and growing.