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See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub security tools, expert guidance, and funding to improve project security.

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.

GitHub malware advisories no longer stop at npm. Here’s how we wired OpenSSF’s malicious-packages data into the Advisory Database, and why we built the pipeline paranoid.

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core.

Dependabot keeps your dependencies current, but its defaults can flood your repository with pull requests. Here’s how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project.

Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

New to GitHub? This beginner’s guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub.

New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies.

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before.

Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale.

GitHub joined the United Nations Development Programme in Ghana to explore how open source governance can support one of West Africa’s most ambitious digital reform efforts.

Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive.

Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.

Check out these 10 open source tools that help game developers create art, animation, levels, audio, dialogue, debug UIs, and engine-ready assets.