Game Bytes · February 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️
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Keeping secrets out of public repositories
With push protection now enabled by default, GitHub helps open source developers safeguard their secrets, and their reputations.
Customizing and fine-tuning LLMs: What you need to know
Learn how your organization can customize its LLM-based solution through retrieval augmented generation and fine-tuning.
How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned
Learn how we’re managing feature releases and establishing best practices within and across teams at GitHub using GitHub Projects.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
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Highlights from Git 2.44
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How to stay safe from repo-jacking
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How AI code generation works
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GitHub Availability Report: January 2024
In January, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Fixing security vulnerabilities with AI
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Bringing npm registry services to GitHub Codespaces
The npm engineering team recently transitioned to using GitHub Codespaces for local development for npm registry services. This shift to Codespaces has substantially reduced the friction of our inner development loop and boosted developer productivity.
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Meet Kayla: A college student and open source ambassador
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Release Radar · January 2024 Edition
Get excited for this month's Release Radar. Maintainers were hard at work this past month, shipping major updates for you all. Read on for our top staff picks.
Game Bytes · February 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️
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GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
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Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
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Keeping secrets out of public repositories
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Game Bytes · February 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️
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How AI code generation works
Explore the capabilities and benefits of AI code generation, and how it can improve the developer experience for your enterprise.
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Highlights from Git 2.44
The first Git release of 2024 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.44.
Product
How we’re using GitHub Projects to standardize our workflows and stay aligned
Learn how we’re managing feature releases and establishing best practices within and across teams at GitHub using GitHub Projects.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
Our most advanced AI offering to date is customized to your organization’s knowledge and codebase, infusing GitHub Copilot throughout the software development lifecycle.
Insider newsletter digest: Cook up a controller with GitHub Copilot
Whether you're coding up a storm or cooking up code, building a controller function with AI is your secret sauce to a flavorful app.
Get started with v4 of GitHub Actions Artifacts
We listened to your feedback and released new versions (v4) of actions/upload-artifact and actions/download-artifact. While this version of the actions to upload and download artifacts includes up to 10x performance improvements and several new features, there are also key differences from previous versions that may require updates to your workflows.
Copilot in GitHub Support is now available!
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10 unexpected ways to use GitHub Copilot
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Insider newsletter digest: Build from anywhere
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Rotating credentials for GitHub.com and new GHES patches
GitHub received a bug bounty report of a vulnerability that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. We have patched GitHub.com and rotated all affected credentials. If you have hardcoded or cached a public key owned by GitHub, read on to ensure your systems continue working with the new keys.
GitHub and the Ekoparty 2023 Capture the Flag
The GitHub Security Lab teamed up with Ekoparty once again to create some challenges for its yearly Capture the Flag competition!
How to stay safe from repo-jacking
Repo-jacking is a specific type of supply chain attack. This blog post explains what it is, what the risk is, and what you can do to stay safe.
Build code security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Learn to find and fix security issues while having fun with Secure Code Game, now with new challenges focusing on JavaScript, Python, Go, and GitHub Actions!
The architecture of SAST tools: An explainer for developers
More developers will have to fix security issues in the age of shifting left. Here, we break down how SAST tools can help them find and address vulnerabilities.
AppSec is harder than you think. Here’s how AI can help.
In practice, shifting left has been more about shifting the burden rather than the ability. But AI is bringing its promise closer to reality. Here’s how.
Keeping secrets out of public repositories
With push protection now enabled by default, GitHub helps open source developers safeguard their secrets, and their reputations.
Open Source
Game Bytes · February 2024
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on! 🕹️
Highlights from Git 2.44
The first Git release of 2024 is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.44.
Release Radar · January 2024 Edition
Get excited for this month's Release Radar. Maintainers were hard at work this past month, shipping major updates for you all. Read on for our top staff picks.
GitHub Fund 2024 and beyond: Looking to the future
Celebrate the first year of GitHub Fund, our first investments, and a brief look of where we’re going.
A guide to open source for the social sector
Calling all nonprofits! Do you want to implement open source software but don’t know where to start? We’ve got good news; you can easily get started by consulting our new guide.
Enterprise
Customizing and fine-tuning LLMs: What you need to know
Learn how your organization can customize its LLM-based solution through retrieval augmented generation and fine-tuning.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2024
In January, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Do you know if all your repositories have up-to-date dependencies?
Consider deploying the GitHub Action: Evergreen so that you know each of your repositories are leveraging active dependency management with Dependabot.
Education
GitHub Fund 2024 and beyond: Looking to the future
Celebrate the first year of GitHub Fund, our first investments, and a brief look of where we’re going.
Empowering Uruguay’s future workforce with AI
During the second cycle of Git Commit Uruguay, students learned the basics of AI and built their own AI-powered projects.
GitHub Certifications are generally available
Unlock your full potential with GitHub Certifications! Earning a GitHub certification will give you the competitive advantage of showing up as a GitHub expert.
Policy
New data and visualizations highlight the resilience of international developer collaboration
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q3 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
GitHub Innovation Graph Q2 2023 Data Release
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the release of Q2 2023 data for the Innovation Graph.
Introducing the GitHub transparency center
It’s time for our biannual transparency report, where we share how we approach content moderation and disclosure of user information. This year, we’re introducing the transparency center, a new platform for our transparency reporting data.
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Empowering all developers to build without barriers
GitHub has been awarded the 2024 Axe Accessibility at Scale Award from Deque Systems. Read more about how we’ve implemented accessibility at scale.
How GitHub’s Developer Experience team improved innerloop development
Our latest solution to the ubiquitous engineering problem of integration testing in a distributed service ecosystem here at GitHub.
GitHub’s top blog posts of 2023
As the year winds down, we're highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.