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

Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made.The post From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%.The post GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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 for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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 hackathons are still the best place to learn to build appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub.The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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 protecting it.The post Secret protection must scale with software appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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

We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics.The post ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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. Here are three skills to strengthen. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.