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  Introducing unlimited private repositories

  We couldn’t be more excited to announce that all of our paid plans on GitHub.com now include unlimited private repositories. GitHub will always be free for public and open source…May 11, 2016

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  Electron 1.0 is here

  For two years, Electron has lowered the barrier to developing desktop applications—making it possible for developers to build cross-platform apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Now we’re excited to share…May 11, 2016

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  Better discoverability for GitHub Pages sites

  Ensuring that your GitHub Pages site appears in search engines and is shareable via social media is now easier with the introduction of the Jekyll SEO Tag plugin. By simply…May 10, 2016

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  GitHub Desktop now has a dark side

  GitHub Desktop on Windows is a nice complement to developer tools such as Atom and Visual Studio. Now it visually complements those tools too! The latest update adds the ability…May 10, 2016

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  Patchwork Chicago

  We’re bringing Patchwork back to Chicago on May 24 and co-hosting with our friends at Dev BootCamp. The event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub, or mentors who…May 9, 2016

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  Atom and Electron Meetups in Amsterdam and Paris

  GitHub will be hosting meetups in Amsterdam and Paris on 10 and 12 May, the days surrounding GitHub Satellite. Come by to say hello and chat with GitHubbers both local…May 9, 2016

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  GitHub Pages to upgrade to Jekyll 3.1.4

  GitHub Pages will upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Jekyll 3.1.4 on May 23rd. The Jekyll 3.1.x branch brings significant performance improvements to the build process, adds a handful of helpful Liquid…May 4, 2016

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  Import repositories with large files

  You can now import repositories from Subversion, Mercurial, and TFS that include files larger than 100 MB using the GitHub Importer. This new ability is powered by Git LFS. When…May 3, 2016

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  GitHub Pages drops support for RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines

  Back in February, we announced, that GitHub Pages would be dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines, and today we’re making it official. For the vast…May 2, 2016

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  Get insights from GitHub customers, community, and leaders at Satellite

  Join the European developer community at GitHub Satellite in Amsterdam on May 11 to hear how organizations like Facebook, Heroku, GOV.UK, and Spotify are building software and contributing to open source. We’ll also…April 29, 2016

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  GitHub Enterprise 2.6 is here with faster, more approachable workflows

  A new release of GitHub Enterprise is now available—and includes features requested by developers across the GitHub community. With GitHub Enterprise 2.6, we’re introducing tools and updates that will provide…Matt Colyer·April 26, 2016

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  Patchwork Atlanta for Content Creators

  Technical writers, content creators, documentation experts, and anyone writing for the web, we hope you can join us for this special Patchwork edition happening in Atlanta on May 6. While…April 26, 2016

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  2016 Dodgeball Tournament: Play – Sponsor – Donate!

  We’re looking forward to seeing you at the 2016 Dodgeball Tournament for friendly competition, team bonding, the chance to take home the OctoTrophy, and best of all, the opportunity to…April 25, 2016

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  Expanded webhook events

  Webhooks are one of the more powerful ways to extend GitHub. They allow internal tools and third-party integrations to subscribe to specific activity on GitHub and receive notifications (via an…April 22, 2016

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  Preview GitHub Pages metadata locally

  A year ago, Jekyll sites on GitHub pages gained access to repository and organization metadata with the introduction of the site.github namespace. We recently moved our own site.github implementation to…April 21, 2016

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