"On Oct. 1, 2020, any new repositories you create will use main as the default branch, instead of master," the company said. Existing repositories that have "master" set as the default branch will be ...

GitHub employees are protesting the firing of a Jewish colleague who was let go two days after he warned co-workers in Washington, DC to stay safe from Nazis. The employee was chastised for using ...

GitHub says recent service outages were caused by resource contention issues in their primary database cluster. Since last week, GitHub says that there were four service outages caused by these ...

GitHub will enforce 2FA and deprecate legacy tokens to improve package publishing security Trusted Publishing will expand, and token-based publishing will be restricted by default Shai-Hulud worm ...

GitHub today launched a new publicly accessible repository designed to allow anyone to look into all of the platform's upcoming releases. The GitHub public product roadmap was created to provide users ...

Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub said today it’s making one of the main features of its enhanced copilot tool available to developers in limited beta test mode. Github Copilot Chat is described as the ...

GitHub has launched the GitHub MCP Registry, a curated registry of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with repositories on GitHub. The GitHub MCP Registry was launched September 16 with MCP servers ...

GitHub rolling out two-factor authentication to millions of users Your email has been sent GitHub, used by the majority of major tech companies, has announced that it is rolling out 2FA. Acknowledging ...