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Maintainers, have you checked out the 2026 Partner Pack? 👀 These exclusive discounts, freebies, and perks are waiting for you. 🎁 maintainermonth.github.com/partner-pack

The GitHub Innovation Graph is fun to watch (who doesn't love a bar race? 🏁) but it's also a source of compelling economic data. It's helping researchers reveal trends in GDP, inequality, and emissions that traditional indicators miss. Find out how. 💡 gh.io/researchers-in…

Mona drink float, cabana set, that tee you've all been asking for: it's all here. Plus, a tiny hoodie for your drink. You're welcome. The ESC Collection has landed in the GitHub Shop—because we know some of the best ideas happen when we escape the confines of our desk. Shop now 👇 thegithubshop.com/?utm_source=x&…

Build data pipelines without the complexity. Tomorrow on Open Source Friday, dev advocate Elvis Kahoro explains how @dltHub, an open-source Python library, can help you move data without the overhead. Set a reminder 🔔 youtube.com/watch?v=nJdqlW…

🆕 @AnthropicAI's Claude Opus 4.8 is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Early testing shows: • It demonstrates a clear step forward in code understanding and generation across a range of real-world coding tasks. • It handles complex problem-solving and large-codebase navigation with notable improvement to previous versions. Try it out in @code or Copilot CLI. github.blog/changelog/2026…

Before I learned Git, my version control strategy was _________. Fill in the blank. (Be honest. "final_FINAL_v3.zip" counts. 📁) Just starting and ready for an upgrade? Start here 👇 github.blog/developer-skil…

Trying the new @github App on my workflow

Got nerd-sniped by @cassidoo's magnatile clustering algorithm. I fed the blog post to the new GitHub Copilot app and watched it write cassidyCluster, generate tests, and benchmark it against alternatives.

You may be missing out on these helpful slash commands in GitHub Copilot CLI. 💡

📣 Join us for a special Maintainer AMA in our GitHub Community tomorrow, May 27, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. PT. Ask your favorite projects like OpenClaw, Kubernetes, and more for advice on contributing and their experiences in open source. Or just share your appreciation. ❤️ Meet us in GitHub Community. 👇 gh.io/maintainer-mon…

The great thing about open source is that it's for everyone. Make sure your project is accessible with these newly published best practices. opensource.guide/accessibility-…

There's more to making a game than the engine. 🎮 Check out 10 open-source projects helping developers with art, audio, animation, level design, and more. github.blog/open-source/ga…

New project idea but left the laptop at home? 😬 Create a repo right from your phone. Name it, set visibility, and adjust the details in the GitHub Mobile app. 📱 github.blog/changelog/2026…

drowning in low-quality PRs? we're giving maintainers the power to set contribution limits, starting with a PR cap for outside contributors and an allowlist for your trusted ones. sneak peek below 👇

5/ We will publish a fuller report once the investigation is complete.

4/ We continue to analyze logs, validate secret rotation, and monitor for any follow-on activity. We will take additional action as the investigation warrants.

1/ We are sharing additional details regarding our investigation into unauthorized access to GitHub's internal repositories. Yesterday we detected and contained a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned VS Code extension. We removed the malicious extension version, isolated the endpoint, and began incident response immediately.

If any impact is discovered, we will notify customers via established incident response and notification channels.

We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.