We’re announcing the CodeSearchNet Challenge and releasing a large dataset for natural language processing and machine learning.

The projects section of the issue sidebar has been updated to better convey project information, and you can change an issue’s project column directly from the sidebar.

GitHub Sponsors now features a new streamlined onboarding and payment experience with Stripe Connect.

On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.

To make language detection more robust and maintainable in the long run, we developed a machine learning classifier named OctoLingua based on an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) architecture which can handle language predictions in tricky scenarios.

The Atom editor has been updated to make common features notably faster.

We recently upgraded GitHub to use the latest version of Ruby 2.6. Ruby 2.6 contains an optimization for reducing memory usage.

Vulcanizer is a Go library for interacting with an Elasticsearch cluster. Its goal is to provide a high-level API to help with common tasks associated with operating an Elasticsearch cluster such as querying health status of the cluster, migrating data off of nodes, updating cluster settings, and more.

A look at some of the new features in recent Git releases.

Read about some big changes for the coming year: full legal protection for researchers, more GitHub properties eligible for rewards, and increased reward amounts.