GitHub Blog Oct 14, 8:01 PM

GitHub availability report: September 2026

In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: September 2026 ...

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GitHub Blog Oct 14, 7:11 PM

From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers

Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tra...

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GitHub Blog Oct 13, 5:56 PM

GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise

GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%. The ...

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GitHub Blog Oct 12, 5:43 PM

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase

Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright. The post GitHub Copilot app f...

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GitHub Blog Oct 9, 4:00 PM

Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build

The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. The post Hack the World: Why hacka...

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GitHub Blog Oct 8, 5:02 PM

How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences ha...

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GitHub Blog Oct 7, 5:45 PM

Secret protection must scale with software

Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of ...

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GitHub Blog Oct 6, 8:57 PM

Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development

We're rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development. The post Building Git in...

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GitHub Blog Oct 5, 3:59 PM

ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review

We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluatio...

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GitHub Blog Oct 2, 3:00 PM

AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.

Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow. The post AI is changing developer work...

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