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on Mar. 23, 2022
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database, which resulted in degraded service of our platform. We know this impacts many of our customers’ productivity and we take that very seriously. We wanted to share with you what we know about these incid…
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on Mar. 2, 2022
In February, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for GitHub.com, issues, pull requests, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Codespaces services. February 2 19:05 UTC (lasting 13 minutes) As mentioned in our January report, our service monitors detec…
Written by GitHub Engineering
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on Feb. 23, 2022
Today, the ability to prebuild codespaces is entering public beta. Prebuilding a codespace enables fast environment creation times, regardless of the size or complexity of your repositories. A prebuilt codespace will serve as a “ready-to-go” template where your source code, editor extensions, proje…
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on Feb. 17, 2022
GitHub code scanning now uses machine learning (ML) to alert developers to potential security vulnerabilities in their code. If you want to set up your repositories to surface more alerts using our new ML technology, get started here. Read on for a behind-the-scenes peek into the ML framework power…
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on Feb. 14, 2022
A picture tells a thousand words, but up until now the only way to include pictures and diagrams in your Markdown files on GitHub has been to embed an image. We added support for embedding SVGs recently, but sometimes you want to keep your diagrams up to date with your docs and create something as…
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on Feb. 1, 2022
We recently added beta support for Ruby to the CodeQL engine that powers GitHub code scanning, as part of our efforts to make it easier for developers to build and ship secure code. Ruby support is particularly exciting for us, since GitHub itself is a Ruby on Rails app. Any improvements we or the…