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  Patchwork Stockholm

  Patchwork is headed to Stockholm! This event is open to beginners to Git and GitHub and mentors who want to help others learn. We’ll have stickers for everyone and a…February 27, 2018

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  GitHub Desktop 1.1 is now available

  A fresh release of our Electron app is ready for your desktop. GitHub Desktop 1.1 builds on last year’s Electron relaunch with new features and enhancements that help you bring…February 26, 2018

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  Slack and GitHub: your ultimate productivity pair

  Development teams often use Slack to coordinate work together on GitHub projects–ourselves included—but following all of your team’s GitHub activity in Slack channels can get difficult as teams grow. To…February 26, 2018

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  Commit with confidence with new teacher training from GitHub

  To support teachers who want to master GitHub, we’ve launched Campus Advisors—a training program built to help you commit with confidence and teach your students with real-world tools. Our inspiration…February 26, 2018

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  Weak cryptographic standards removed

  Earlier today we permanently removed support for the following weak cryptographic standards on github.com and api.github.com: TLSv1/TLSv1.1: This applies to all HTTPS connections, including web, API, and Git connections to…February 23, 2018

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  Label improvements: emoji, descriptions, and more

  Organizing issues and pull requests with labels can help you manage the chaos and be more productive. To support your labeling efforts and make labels even more useful, we’ve made…February 22, 2018

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  Africa, Nigeria, and their growing tech communities

  Growing tech communities across Africa will continue to push the continent’s digital revolution forward while powering societal and cultural changes, and a key part of moving this digital revolution forward…February 21, 2018

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  Deprecation notice: Removing anonymous gist creation

  In 30 days, we’ll be deprecating anonymous gist creation—a decision we made after a lot of deliberation. Anonymous gists are a handy tool for quickly putting a code snippet online,…February 18, 2018

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  GitHub joins amicus brief to protect sanctuary cities

  Yesterday we filed an amicus brief alongside a group of other technology companies supporting San Francisco’s and Santa Clara County’s efforts to permanently block Executive Order 13768, which seeks to…February 14, 2018

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  Release Radar · January 2018

  From tougher security to more beautiful source code images, our first Release Radar of 2018 has something for everyone. Check out the latest tools that have been delighting and delivering…February 14, 2018

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  My first semester using GitHub at Rice University

  In the third programming course in the computer science major, Dan Wallach wants students to master programming in Java with a high degree of rigor and at a large scale.…February 8, 2018

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  Open source project trends for 2018

  Last year, GitHub brought 24 million people from almost 200 countries together to code better and build bigger. From frameworks to data visualizations across more than 25 million repositories, you…February 8, 2018

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  Weak cryptographic standards removal notice

  Last year we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. Then we provided a status update toward the end of last year outlining some changes we’d made to make…February 2, 2018

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  Contribute to popular topics on GitHub

  Topic pages on GitHub help you find repositories that match your interests—from Chrome extensions and cryptocurrency projects to web application frameworks like React. The pages also provide insight into the…February 1, 2018

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  Weak cryptographic standards removal notice

  Last year we announced the deprecation of several weak cryptographic standards. Then we provided a status update toward the end of last year outlining some changes we’d made to make…Patrick Toomey·February 1, 2018

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