GitHub Milestones
A timeline of significant moments in GitHub's history.
2019
January
GitHub announces free private repositories for all developers
April
50% of the 2018 Fortune Global 100 use GitHub Enterprise
62% of the US Fortune 50 (US) use GitHub Enterprise
27 million security vulnerability alerts sent to users
May
GitHub Package Registry is introduced
GitHub Sponsors is announced
GitHub acquires Dependabot
Dependency Insights are added to GitHub Enterprise
June
GitHub acquires Pull Panda
GitHub Desktop 2.0 is released
August
GitHub announces CI/CD and more for GitHub Actions
GitHub surpasses 40 million users
September
GitHub acquires Semmle
2018
April
GitHub Learning Lab is released
May
Electron 2.0 is released
June
Microsoft announced it is acquiring GitHub
July
GitHub reaches 30 million developers
October
November
More than 100 million repositories hosted on GitHub
2017
March
GitHub Enterprise Cloud is launched
GitHub open sources its Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement (BEIPA)
May
GitHub Marketplace launches with 14 integrators
June
100 million pull requests merged on GitHub
July
GitHub introduces a “first-time contributor” badge
GitHub is ranked #28 on the Forbes Cloud 100
September
GitHub Desktop 1.0 is released
December
Users added a total of 2,800,000,000 lines of code on GitHub in 2017
2016
May
GitHub hosts the first GitHub Satellite event in Amsterdam
GitHub releases its first Diversity and Inclusion Report
Electron 1.0 is released
June
GitHub introduces a searchable database of public data on the platform
2015
June
GitHub establishes GitHub Japan, its first office outside of the United States
July
GitHub raises $250 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital
October
GitHub hosts the first annual GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco
2014
February
GitHub begins its Security Bug Bounty Program
March
The GitHub Developer Program is announced
May
The Atom text editor is made available free and open source
October
The GitHub Student Developer Pack is released
2013
January
Contribution graphs are added to user profiles
March
GitHub reaches three million users
December
10 million repositories hosted on GitHub
2012
July
GitHub raises $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz
2011
October
Hubot, GitHub’s chatbot, is released and open sourced
November
GitHub launches GitHub Enterprise, an on-premises version of GitHub for businesses
GitHub reaches one million users
2009
July
GitHub reaches 100,000 users
October
The issue tracking feature is released
2008
February
The pull request feature is released
April
GitHub.com officially launches
July
GitHub releases Gists feature for hosting code snippets
December
GitHub releases GitHub Pages for building and hosting websites from repositories
2007
October
Chris Wanstrath creates the first commit for what would become GitHub