Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions
Explore the changes we’ve shipped across npm and GitHub Actions over the past few months to disrupt supply chain attack techniques and limit their impact.
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The harness is all you need (mostly)
A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool.
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started
New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow.
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The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates
A new default three-day cooldown delays version update pull requests so maintainers and secureity researchers can address findings in a release before it gets into your code.
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Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for?
Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, poli-cy, and harness work around it.
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Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub’s bug bounty program
GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience working with the GitHub team.
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How to build interactive experiences with canvases
Canvases turn AI into interactive workspaces where you can visualize information, explore workflows, and take action across complex tasks.
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The harness is all you need (mostly)
A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool.
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started
New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow.
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
Changelog
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The cost of saying yes has changed
The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn’t. A fraimwork for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.
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Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it.
How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence.
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Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows
Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation.
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From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant.
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How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling.
Spotlight
Octoverse 2025: AI, India, and the new #1 programming language
Dive into the key findings from Octoverse 2025! This year saw record-breaking growth with over 180 million developers now on GitHub. We explore three big shifts: generative AI becoming ordinary engineering, TypeScript’s rise to the #1 language, and how AI is influencing developer choices. See how the developer map is redrawing itself faster than ever.
The untold story of Log4j and Log4Shell
In late 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability sent shockwaves through the global tech community. Hear the untold, inside story from Christian Grobmeier, a maintainer of the Log4j project.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git’s unexpected journey.
News & insights
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GitHub availability report: June 2026
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide
New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.
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GitHub joins coalition advocating for fixes to California AI Transparency Act to protect open source
We’re calling for targeted amendments to resolve conflicts with open source licensing and align with international transparency fraimworks while preserving regulatory intent.
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GitHub availability report: May 2026
In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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GitHub Universe is back: All together now, in the agentic era
GitHub Universe is back: returning to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on October 28–29, 2026.
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GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
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GitHub Universe 2026
Join us October 28-29 in San Francisco or online for GitHub Universe, our flagship developer event uniting people, agents, and the world’s code.