GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions
Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community.
Explore the latest blogs from GitHub on all things software development from the newest capabilities on the GitHub platform to research and insights—and guides to help you level up your engineering skills.
Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community.
Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers.
Researchers share in an interview how they used GitHub data to predict GDP, inequality, and emissions in ways that traditional economic data misses, along with our Q4 2025 data release.
Agentic workflows that run on every pull request can quietly accumulate large API bills. Here’s how we instrumented our own production workflows, found the inefficiencies, and built agents to fix them.
A practical guide to reviewing agent-generated pull requests: what to look for, where issues hide, and how to catch technical debt before it ships.
How to build the “Trust Layer” for Github Copilot Coding Agents without brittle scripts or black-box judgements by using dominatory analysis.
What maintainers are telling us, what we’ve shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source.
OpenClaw builders will gather at GitHub HQ during Microsoft Build 2026 for demos and conversations. Join in person, or watch the livestream on Twitch.
Learn the difference between CLI interactive v. non-interactive modes.
Discover how to format and edit your comments and posts using Markdown.
How we validated, fixed, and investigated a critical vulnerability in under two hours, and confirmed no exploitation.
Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
We’re making these changes to ensure a reliable and predictable experience for existing customers.
The open source Git project just released Git 2.54. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
See how we created an emoji list generator during the Rubber Duck Thursday stream.
Changes to the status page will provide more specific data, so you’ll have better insight into the overall health of the platform.
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
Learn about the productivity tool one GitHub engineer built, and how AI supported the development process.
We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead.
Learn to find and exploit real-world agentic AI vulnerabilities through five progressive challenges in this free, open source game that over 10,000 developers have already used to sharpen their security skills.
Build what’s next on GitHub, the place for anyone from anywhere to build anything.
Catch up on the GitHub podcast, a show dedicated to the topics, trends, stories and culture in and around the open source developer community on GitHub.