Unified and split diffs now feature syntax highlighting, which adds colors to your code to make its meaning and structure clearer. Now you can more easily understand the code that was changed in a commit, pull request, or review comment.
See it in action at dotnet/corefx or your favorite repository.
Since we introduced the Status API, you've been able to improve the quality of your code by including the status of a pull request within the conversation timeline, for every push. Before today, you've only been able to see results from one service. Now you can see all your results at once, from multiple CI systems that test your code against different platforms to simultaneous security testing and code coverage analysis.
You can also see how the status of a pull request has changed over its history by clicking the icons listed next to individual commits.
If you're interested in how to set up your own statuses, take a look at our Status API docs along with this guide to building your own CI service. You can also check out some the services that use the Status API to help you keep your code clean, confirm your tests are passing, and make sure contributors have agreed to your CLA.
Webhooks are now available at the organization level on GitHub.com. Organization webhooks send events for all repositories in an organization. They also include new events for repository creation, team membership, and more.
If you're extending GitHub into your internal systems, organization webhooks save you time by helping you configure integrations across multiple repositories in one place. The addition of organizational-level events, like team membership, open up new possibilties for integrators building applications that work with GitHub.
For all the details, check out our updated webhook developer guide.
After we introduced the merge button on mobile, we heard from many of you that you'd love to be able to delete merged branches on your phone too. Now you can!
Happy branching!
We've been including the containing branches and tags on commit pages to give you more context around changes. Now, commits in a repository's default branch will also show you the pull request that introduced them.
In the pull request, you can see the discussion around why the commit was introduced, and get a clearer picture of the reason for the change.
As always, if you know the commit SHA, you can skip the commit page and search for the pull request directly.
For more information, check out our Help docs.
There's no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That's why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends: to give students free access to the best developer tools in one place so they can learn by doing.
More than 100,000 students have already taken advantage of free access to GitHub, collectively pushing code more than 50,000 times per day. With the GitHub Student Developer Pack, students now have free access to an entire suite of useful developer tools, including:
Atom — atom.io
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Open Source by GitHub, free for everyone
Bitnami — bitnami.com
Install cloud applications in a single click
Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) for one year
Crowdflower — crowdflower.com
Crowdsourcing and data enrichment platform
Access to the Crowdflower platform (normally $2,500/month) and $50 in worker credit
DigitalOcean — digitalocean.com
Simple cloud hosting, built for developers
$100 in platform credit for new users
DNSimple — dnsimple.com
Simple DNS management with one-click services and a robust API
Bronze hosted DNS plan (normally $3/month) for two years
GitHub — github.com
Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management
Micro account (normally $7/month) with five private repositories while you're a student
HackHands — hackhands.com
Live programming help available 24/7
$25 in platform credit
Namecheap — namecheap.com
Domain name registration and SSL certificates
One year free domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally 8.99/year) and one year free SSL certificate (normally $9/year)
Orchestrate — orchestrate.io
Database API that includes search, time-series events, geolocation and graph queries
Developer account (normally $49/month) while you're a student
Screenhero — screenhero.com
Screen sharing for collaboration in teams
Individual account (normally $9.99/month) while you're a student
SendGrid — sendgrid.com
Email infrastructure as a service
Student plan (normally $4.95/month) for one year
Stripe — stripe.com
Web and mobile payments, built for developers
Waived transaction fees on first $1,000 in revenue processed
Travis CI — travis-ci.com
Continuous integration platform for open source and private projects
Private builds (normally $69/month) while you're a student
Unreal Engine — unrealengine.com
A complete suite of game development tools made by game developers, for game developers
Unreal Engine (normally $19/month) while you're a student
If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a one of the following:
Get your GitHub Student Developer Pack
If you're already using GitHub with a student account, you've automatically been given access to the developer pack. You can access all the offers at https://education.github.com/pack.
If your company produces developer tools and wants to be included in the pack, pass us a note.
In the spirit of making diffs of rich information easier to parse, SVG images are now viewable and diffable on GitHub!
As always, you can find more details in our help documentation.
Keep track of all of your issues and pull requests with the new Issues Dashboard and the new Pull Requests Dashboard.
When we rebuilt GitHub Issues earlier this summer, we made it easier to search and filter issues and pull requests in a repository. Now it's time to think bigger: these new dashboards let you manage your work across all of your repositories at once. You can find links to them at the top of your News Feed.
Use them to quickly find issues you've created. Or pull requests that mention your username. Or issues that have been assigned to you. Or go ahead and use any of our custom advanced search filters and create your own often-used search... the sky's the limit.
If you're a Gmail user who gets GitHub notifications via email, you'll notice that we've added subject-line links to issues and pull requests on notification messages.
You can use these links to more quickly access content on GitHub -- all without having to open your email notifications.
This feature is brought to you using Gmail's Actions in the Inbox.
Commits, compare views, and pull requests now highlight individual changed words instead of the entire changed section, making it easier for you to see exactly what’s been added or removed.
And, of course, it works great with split diffs, too:
Diffs now come in two flavors, unified and split. Switch between them on pull request, commit, and compare pages using the toggle in the top right of the page. The mode you last used will become your preferred default.
We've just released some major improvements to our organization audit logs. As an organization admin, you can now see a running list of events as they're generated across your organization, or you can search for specific activities performed by the members of your org. This data provides you with better security insights and gives you the ability to audit account, team, and repository access over time.
The audit log exposes a number of events like repository deletes, billing updates, new member invites, and team creation. You can see the activities of individual team members, along with a map that highlights the location where events originated. Using the new query interface, you can then filter all these events by the action performed, the team member responsible, the date, repository, and location.
For more information on the audit log, check out the documentation.
You'll now start seeing expanded file listings on GitHub that look like this:
The grey text in the paths — in this case, java/com/netflix/ — means those three folders don't contain any other files. Click on the expanded path to save yourself extra clicks and jump directly to the first non-empty directory.
As a reminder, you can also type t to invoke the File Finder and jump directly to any file you like.
Our traffic graphs tab shows you a lot of information about who's visiting your repository on the web. We've added a new graph to this tab, showing git clone activity.
You can use it to find out how many times your repository's source code is actually cloned in a given day, as well as how many unique GitHub users (or anonymous IP addresses) did the cloning.
For more information on traffic graphs, check out the documentation.
We've changed the process for adding new GitHub users to your organization. Starting today, users you add will be sent an email invitation. Once they accept this invitation, they'll become a member of your organization.
If you invite a user and they misplace their invitation email, they can always access the invitation from your organization's profile page.
Everyone on GitHub should be able to decide which organizations they'd like to join. This new process reinforces each person's privacy and security.
For more information on inviting people to an organization, check out our documentation. If you're using our API to add people to your organization, check out the new Team Memberships API.
