Software is truly changing the world, and I could not be more excited to be joining GitHub—the company at the center of it all—as Chief Operating Officer and help us scale to the next 36 million users and beyond.

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ll be adding support for Swift packages to GitHub Package Registry. Swift packages make it easy to share your libraries and source code across your projects and with the Swift community.

We’re thrilled to announce the beta of GitHub Sponsors, a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. Open source developers build tools for the rest of us. GitHub Sponsors is a new tool to help them succeed, too.

Today, Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab are issuing a joint blog post in a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users of the three platforms on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident. Though there is no evidence Atlassian Bitbucket, GitHub, or GitLab products were compromised in any way, we believe it’s important to help the software development community better understand and collectively take steps to protect against this threat.

With GitHub Package Registry your packages are at home with their code—sign up for the limited beta to try it out.

We’re excited to welcome the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to GitHub.

Read about how collaboration on GitHub connects to free assembly and association online as part of our input to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The EU Copyright Directive has come down to a final vote. Read on for more on what’s at stake and how the developer community shaped the debate.

Millions of people rely on GitHub today, from their very first steps on their journey as developers, to contributing their best ideas to the world. Today, I am incredibly excited and honored to join GitHub to lead the Product Team.  

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