Best practices to keep your projects secure on GitHub
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today.
Justin Hutchings
April 28, 2022
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today.
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account.
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work.
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.36.
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions.
It is now possible to re-run only failed jobs or a single job in GitHub Actions workflows.
Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too!
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request.
This is the first post in a two-part series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. Stay tuned for part two coming in May!
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active - creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.
Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too!
This is the first post in a two-part series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. Stay tuned for part two coming in May!
The history of pre-receive hooks, how we discovered that the performance was problematic, and how we went about safely replacing them.
We’re releasing exciting improvements that will streamline your Codespaces experience when working with multi-repository projects and monorepos.
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active - creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions.
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks…
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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 users.
Thanks to the efforts of the Elixir community, GitHub supports code navigation for Elixir repositories. Read how favorite language can add this support too!
As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today.
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. Only users connecting via SSH or git:// will be affected. If your Git remotes start with https://, nothing in this post will affect you. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline.
This is the first post in a two-part series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. Stay tuned for part two coming in May!
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today.
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request.
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account.
Organization profiles can now display custom content visible only to members of the organization. A new Member view can be tailored to show an alternative README and pinned private repositories.
Today, we're shipping a new feature for Dependabot alerts which helps you better understand how you're affected by a vulnerability.
Today, we’re excited to bring you a few new features that will help you communicate, collaborate, and connect seamlessly with teams and communities about the software you’re building with the help of GitHub Discussions.
The new dependency review action and API prevents the introduction of known supply chain vulnerabilities into your code.
These days software is subject to an ever-changing threat landscape. Check out the many ways you can keep your projects secure on GitHub today.
Do you worry that a CVE will hurt the reputation of your project? In reality, CVEs are a tracking number, and nothing more. Here's how we think of them at GitHub.
From plug-and-play automations to protected branches, here are simple ways any developer can build more secure software on GitHub—all with a free account.
Introducing CodeQL packs to help you codify and share your knowledge of vulnerabilities.
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 users.
Today, we're shipping a new feature for Dependabot alerts which helps you better understand how you're affected by a vulnerability.
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
This is the first post in a two-part series describing friendly forks and alternative strategies for managing them. Stay tuned for part two coming in May!
The ZX Spectrum, one of the best-selling microcomputers of all time, celebrates its 40 years anniversary today. Read more about how the community is still active - creating new content, archiving old content, and hacking on all sorts of hardware.
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.36.
Today, we're shipping a new feature for Dependabot alerts which helps you better understand how you're affected by a vulnerability.
How we sped up GitHub.com by moving slow, non-critical code into rack.after_reply.
We’re kicking off InFocus, a global virtual event focused on accelerating, securing, and improving the way software development teams work.
In March, we experienced several incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub services.
Organizations with GitHub Advanced Security can now proactively protect against secret leaks with secret scanning’s new push protection feature.
Advice on fundamentals, picking languages to learn, social media presence, interviewing, and more
GitHub Education is fired up for the return of .Tech Domains developer community competition: Break The Code 2. We've hacked in some new enigmas, cheat codes, and easter eggs for digital sleuths to uncover!
The MLH Fellowship, powered by GitHub, is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. Meet the 2022 cohort!
As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.
In GitHub's latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.
When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn't just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request.
Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
From automating builds and releases to taking care of large-scale regression testing, here are a few ways we use GitHub Actions to build GitHub.