The latest blogs from GitHub

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.

GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here’s how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed.

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation.

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

Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record.

New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.

GitHub had 20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repositories. Here’s how we separated signal from noise, built remediation workflows, and reached inbox zero in nine months.

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before.

Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.

The open source Git project just released Git 2.55. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

The GitHub Advisory Database is processing more vulnerability reports than ever before. Here’s what’s driving the surge, how we’re responding, and how the community can help.

GitHub joined the United Nations Development Programme in Ghana to explore how open source governance can support one of West Africa’s most ambitious digital reform efforts.

How GitHub’s culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself.

Explore how the GitHub Copilot agentic harness delivers strong results across multiple benchmarks and leading token efficiency, while maintaining flexibility to choose among more than 20 models.

Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.

We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving regulatory intent.

Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.

Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here’s what we learned as we built it.

Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.

How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further.

Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but it wasn’t until recently they became popular. Learn what they are, how to use them, and why you might.