"GitHub" news, interviews, and features

News about GitHub

• GitHub woos Bitbucket and Bamboo refugees

  Atlassian will end support for Bitbucket Server and Bamboo Server in February 2024, and offers a cloud migration trial program to server product customers.

• GitHub Enterprise Server 3.10 ups control, security

  GitHub Projects planning tool is now generally available.

• GitHub Copilot Chat available in a preview for businesses

  GitHub has made a beta release of its AI-powered coding chatbot available to all customers of GitHub Copilot for Business.

• GitHub Enterprise Server debuts time-based roadmap layout

  GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 introduces a time-based roadmap layout in GitHub Projects, allowing users to view project issues and pull requests on a timeline.

• Millions of GitHub repositories vulnerable to RepoJacking: Report

  AquaSec analysed a sample of 1.25 million GitHub repositories and found that about 37,000 of them are vulnerable to RepoJacking, including companies such as Google ...

• Attackers set up rogue GitHub repos with malware posing as zero-day exploits

  The threat actor created fake personas on Twitter for researchers at a non-existent security firm.

Features about GitHub

• What is GitHub? More than Git version control in the cloud

  GitHub is the host with the most for open source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why

• 21 hot programming trends—and 21 going cold

  Hot or not? From the web to the motherboard to the training ground, get the scoop on what's in and what's out in app dev

• Enterprise repo wars: GitHub vs. GitLab vs. Bitbucket

  GitLab and Atlassian have GitHub in the cross-hairs among organizations seeking enterprise-grade features for their privately hosted repos

• GitHub for the rest of us

  Git made it possible for programmers to coordinate distributed work across teams -- now GitHub makes it possible for everyone else

• Linus Torvalds diversity gaffe brings out the best (and worst) of the open source world

  Comments by Linus Torvalds have prompted a new debate on the role of meritocracy, diversity and inclusiveness in the community.

• TypeScript: Industrial-strength JavaScript

  Like it or not, JavaScript is the language of the Web, but it's tough to manage for enterprise-scale development. TypeScript offers an attractive alternative