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  GDC Party 2016

  Tens of thousands of game developers will descend upon San Francisco next week for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC). But what would GDC be without the parties? Come by…March 7, 2016

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  Issue references and @mentions for GitHub Desktop

  GitHub Desktop on both Windows and Mac now provides suggestions when mentioning team members, referencing Issues, and adding more 🎉 to your commit messages and Pull Requests. Just as you…March 3, 2016

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  Speakers Announced for Git Merge 2016

  We are excited to announce our confirmed speakers for Git Merge 2016! On April 5th, 2016 at New York City’s New World Stages (350 West 50th Street, New York City)…February 23, 2016

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  Upload files to your repositories

  You’ll soon be able to skip the command line and upload files directly to your repositories without having to leave the browser. Repository uploads will be rolling out over the…February 18, 2016

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  Posters are here!

  Posters featuring some extraordinary Octocat moments are now available in 8.5″x11″, 18″x24″, and 24″x36″ sizes*. Check them out in the GitHub Shop *Frames not includedFebruary 17, 2016

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  Migrate your code with the GitHub Importer

  If you have source code in Subversion, Mercurial, Team Foundation Server, or another Git repository, you can now quickly and easily move that code to GitHub with the GitHub Importer.…February 11, 2016

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  GitHub Enterprise 2.5 is now available

  We are excited to announce the release of GitHub Enterprise 2.5. With this release, we’re introducing features and updates that will help development teams build software at scale with a…Matt Colyer·February 9, 2016

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  Meet Judy Gichoya, Doctor and Developer

  To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Judy Gichoya is a medical doctor specializing in radiology, but she’s also an…February 5, 2016

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  Two years of bounties

  Despite the best efforts of its writers, software has vulnerabilities, and GitHub is no exception. Finding, fixing, and learning from past bugs is a critical part of keeping our users…February 4, 2016

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  January 28th Incident Report

  Last week GitHub was unavailable for two hours and six minutes. We understand how much you rely on GitHub and consider the availability of our service one of the core…February 3, 2016

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  Patchwork NYC

  We hope you’ll join us on February 10 at WorkMarket for a casual night of hands-on hacking and learning about Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages. We’ll be unveiling our new…February 3, 2016

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  GitHub Pages now faster and simpler with Jekyll 3.0

  GitHub Pages is now running the latest major version of Jekyll, Jekyll 3.0, and with it, many of the complexities associated with publishing have been further simplified, meaning it’s now…February 1, 2016

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  Save the Dates: GitHub Events in 2016

  Mark your calendars. GitHub has a fresh lineup of events for 2016 – including two new European conferences, GitHub Satellite and CodeConf Copenhagen. Git Merge: April 5, New York City…January 29, 2016

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  Update on 1/28 service outage

  On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 00:23am UTC, we experienced a severe service outage that impacted GitHub.com. We know that any disruption in our service can impact your development workflow,…January 29, 2016

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  Improved commenting with Markdown

  You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you’ve always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…January 27, 2016

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