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Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that takes Markdown-inspired text definitions and creates diagrams dynamically in the browser.
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Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…
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GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages
All GitHub Pages sites served from the github.io domain will now have a Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header set. Pages sites using a custom domain will not be impacted. Learn more about…
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Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12
Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
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GitHub for mobile is now available
Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.
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How We Built the GitHub Globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
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How we use web components
GitHub has long been a proponent of Web Components. Here's how we use them.
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Making our new homepage fast and performant
This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage: How our globe is built How we collect and use the data behind the globe…
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Top games from the JS13K 2020 competition
The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in…
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A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.
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GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys
The WebAuthn standard for security keys is making authentication as easy as possible. Now you can use security keys for second-factor authentication on GitHub with many more browsers and devices.
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GitHub: Private Profiles beta
Users now have the ability to turn their GitHub profile “private”, which gives users controls over features that share user data across the GitHub platform. To enable this setting, visit…
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Access Control for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now gives you the option to limit access, making the site visible only to users with access to the repository that published the Page. With access control, you…
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Enabling the Future of GitHub's REST API with API Versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
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Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages now supports IPv6 for all Pages hosted on *.github.io and custom domains. Documentation for enabling IPv6 with custom domains can be found here.
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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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The NPM registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher.
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Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
Private profiles (now generally available) enables users to turn their GitHub profile "private", which gives users control over features that share user data across the GitHub platform. When a profile…
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New GitHub Profile Badges Beta
Available in public beta today, we're announcing Achievements as a new way to commemorate milestones on GitHub.