GitHub’s Top Blogs of 2024
As 2024 wraps up, we’re revisiting the highlights of a year packed with innovation, learning, and community. From unlocking the power of AI to mastering essential developer tools, these blogs refl...
Announcing CodeQL Community Packs
We are excited to introduce the new CodeQL Community Packs, a comprehensive set of queries and models designed to enhance your code analysis capabilities. These packs are tailored to augment the...
Inside the Research: How GitHub Copilot Impacts the Nature of Work for Open Source Maintainers
I’m excited to share an interview with two researchers that I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with on a recently released paper studying how open source maintainers adjust their work after...
OpenAI’s Latest O1 Model Now Available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models
Hey devs! We have some exciting news for ya. So, backstory first: in case you missed it, OpenAI launched its o1-preview and o1-mini models back in September, optimized for advanced tasks like codi...
Enhance Build Security and Reach SLSA Level 3 With GitHub Artifact Attestations
The need for software build security is more pressing than ever. High-profile software supply chain attacks like SolarWinds, MOVEit, 3CX, and Applied Materials have revealed just how vulnerable ...
Introducing Annotated Logger: A Python Package to Aid in Adding Metadata to Logs
What it is Annotated Logger is a Python package that allows you to decorate functions and classes, which then log when complete and can request a customized logger object, which has additional f...
Announcing 150M Developers and a New Free Tier for GitHub Copilot in vs Code
GitHub has a long history of offering free products and services to developers. Starting with free open source and public collaboration, we added free private repos, free minutes for GitHub Action...
Uncovering GStreamer Secrets
In this blog post, I’ll show the results of my recent security research on GStreamer, the open source multimedia framework at the core of GNOME’s multimedia functionality. I’ll also go through t...
GitHub Availability Report: November 2024
In November, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. November 19 10:56 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 7 minutes) On November 19, 2024, between 10:56:00 U...
So Many Tokens, So Little Time: Introducing a Faster, More Flexible Byte-Pair Tokenizer
Large language models (LLMs), such as those used by GitHub Copilot, do not operate directly on bytes but on tokens, which can complicate scaling. In this post, we explain how we solved that chal...