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. The post How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner appear...

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation. The post Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: June 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record. The post How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies. The post Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post How GitHub used secret scanning to reach inbox zero appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week appeared firs...

Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale. The post How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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 post Highlights from Git 2.55 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post Inside the Advisory Database and what happens when vulnerability volume breaks records appeared first on The GitHub ...

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. The post GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source appeared first on The GitHub Blog...

How GitHub's culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself. The post Transitioning as a hubber appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post Evaluating performance and efficiency of the GitHub Copilot agentic harness across models and ta...

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. The post I automated my job (and it made me a better leader) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency frameworks while preserving regulatory intent. The post GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source appeared first ...

Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive. The post From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post How we built an internal data analytics agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap. The post How pull request limits are cutting down the noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further. The post Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. The post What are git worktrees, and why should I use them? appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent. The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A new repository-level dataset, published on GitHub under CC0-1.0, helps researchers and developers discover multilingual developer content across READMEs, issues, and pull requests. The post Accelerating researchers and developers building multilingual AI with a new open dataset appeared first on T...

Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob. The post How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: May 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning. The post Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Install and configure LSP servers for GitHub Copilot CLI, replacing brute-force grep/decompile with real code intelligence. The post Give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence with language servers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes. The post From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Find the answers to some of the most common GitHub-related questions. The post GitHub for Beginners: Answers to some common questions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026. The post GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work. The post GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience appeared first on The GitHub Blog.