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20,000+ secret scanning alerts across 15,000 repos. Nine months later, GitHub reached inbox zero.

🆕 Multi-select fields for Projects and Issues are now in public preview. Tag an item with everything it relates to (like multiple teams, modules, or categories) instead of picking just one. 🏷️

$100 million+ has now been invested in open source maintainers and projects through GitHub Sponsors. 🎉 Nearly 70,000 maintainers and orgs are supported by more than 280,000 sponsors, from individual devs to Fortune 500 companies. Thank you to everyone helping make open source more sustainable. 💚

$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

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57 years ago today, humans first landed on the Moon. The source code that helped get them there? It’s on GitHub. Margaret Hamilton led the MIT team responsible for Apollo’s onboard flight software. (Image credit: Draper Laboratory; restoration by Adam Cuerden, via Wikimedia Commons.)

Black-and-white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing beside a nearly person-height stack of software listings produced by her and her MIT team for the Apollo program.

Maintainers: You don’t need to be a security engineer to improve your project’s security. 🔐 Enable these 6 free GitHub settings in under 30 minutes. 🧵

GitHub is powered by open source, and using it responsibly means respecting the licenses behind every dependency. Find out how GitHub’s OSPO uses License Compliance to review dependencies in pull requests, manage exceptions, and reduce risk.

How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies

Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.

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My GitHub beginner tip: always ________. Fill in the blank. 💡 We've put all of our GitHub for Beginners guides into one roadmap for anyone still filling in that blank. Bookmark this, or share with a friend who's just getting started 👇

GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials

New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests, and everything else you need to start working on GitHub.

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Ghana is exploring how to make open source a sustainable default across government. GitHub and UNDP brought together public-sector and community leaders to assess the policies, skills, and coordination needed to make it happen.

GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source

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.

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With GitHub Issue Fields, you can add structured, typed metadata (like priority, effort, dates, and custom values) to issues across your repos. Get key details at a glance without opening each issue. GitHub Issue Fields are now generally available to everyone. 🎉

New open source dataset for your next build. 📊 The GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset spans 40M+ repos and 80M+ classification rows, showing where non-English READMEs, issues, and PRs live.

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This is the last time we'll mention Super Early Bird. Mostly because it ends today. Get your $600 discount before 11:59pm PST. We'll see you at GitHub Universe.👇 https://githubuniverse.com/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=last_seb_uni_26

We heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd

Maintainers spend hours every week closing duplicate issues. 😮‍💨 That changes with duplicate detection. Surface up to 3 matching issues as you create one, before you hit submit.

Git 2.55 is here with a new incremental repacking strategy, more flexible ways to edit history, and much more. Check out our highlights from the latest release ✨ https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-55/

Highlights from Git 2.55

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.

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GitHub Copilot turns 5 today! 🎂 Share the projects you've built with Copilot. 👇

The story around AI used to be about generating more. For many neurodivergent professionals, the bigger benefit is offloading invisible labor: remembering what you promised, the dozen tabs open in your brain, the thread you meant to reply to. ⬇️

One Hubber shares his story about transitioning while working at GitHub. https://github.blog/developer-skills/career-growth/transitioning-as-a-hubber/

Transitioning as a Hubber

How GitHub's culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself.

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To improve accessibility in open source, we've worked through programs, partnerships, and open tooling built with real projects and communities. Learn more about what we've done, and what you can do to help make open source more inclusive. github.blog/open-source/...

From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem

Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.

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