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Who will maintain the future? Rethinking open source leadership for a new generation
Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership.
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Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on GitHub
Delegate coding tasks to Copilot and track progress wherever you are on GitHub. Copilot works in the background, creates a pull request, and tags you for review when finished.
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Highlights from Git 2.51
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GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot: How I built a game in 60 seconds
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Q1 2025 Innovation Graph update: Bar chart races, data visualization on the rise, and key research
Discover the latest trends and insights on public software development activity on GitHub with the quarterly release of data for the Innovation Graph, updated through March 2025.
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Agents panel: Launch Copilot coding agent tasks anywhere on GitHub
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How to use GitHub Copilot to level up your code reviews and pull requests
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Highlights from Git 2.51
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How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems
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GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
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Design system annotations, part 2: Advanced methods of annotating components
How to build custom annotations for your design system components or use Figma’s Code Connect to help capture important accessibility details before development.
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Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.
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Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
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Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
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GitHub Availability Report: July 2025
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub ♥️
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We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
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GitHub Availability Report: June 2025
In June, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
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From pair to peer programmer: Our vision for agentic workflows in GitHub Copilot
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GitHub Availability Report: May 2025
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