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This is a '''timeline of [[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]]''', a web-based [[wikipedia:Git|Git]] or [[wikipedia:Repository (version control)|version control repository]] and [[wikipedia:Internet hosting service|Internet hosting service]].

== Big picture ==

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| 2008 || Conception, initial launch, and core features || GitHub is founded initially as Logical Awesome in February and the website launches in April. Core parts of GitHub launch during this year, including the company blog, per-project wikis, GitHub Gist, and GitHub Pages.<ref name="startlin">{{cite web |url=http://www.startlin.es/timelines/github/ |title=History of Github |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409191635/http://www.startlin.es/timelines/github/ |archive-date=April 9, 2016 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2009{{snd}}June 2013 || Continued growth and product releases || GitHub continues to release products including GitHub Enterprise, Redcarpet, and Hubot. Many companies that now regularly use GitHub{{snd}}including [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] and [[wikipedia:Google|Google]]{{snd}}join GitHub during this period.<ref name="enterprise" />
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| July 2013{{snd}}September 2015 || Continued growth and product releases; outreach; attacks and censorship against the site; CEO resigns || GitHub continues to launch a series of products and enhancements to existing products. For the desktop, it releases [[wikipedia:Electron (software framework)|Electron]], [[wikipedia:Atom (text editor)|Atom]], and a desktop client. In terms of outreach, it launches the Bug Bounty Program, ChooseALicense.com, GitHub Classroom, GitHub Student Developer Pack, and the GitHub Engineering blog. The GitHub website also experiences multiple attacks as well as censorship from governments. In April 2014, co-founder and CEO [[wikipedia:Tom Preston-Werner|Tom Preston-Werner]] resigns the company following allegations of harassment.<ref name="NYTResigns" />
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| October 2015{{snd}}present || Change in pricing model || GitHub changes its pricing model from a repository-based one to a user-based one; in the process, it introduces unlimited private repositories for paying customers.<ref name="unlim1" /><ref name="unlim2" />
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| June 2018{{snd}}present || Microsoft era || GitHub is acquired by {{w|Microsoft}} and becomes its subsidiary. The service surpasses 100 million repositories.
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== Full timeline ==

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| 2005 || {{Dts|7 April}} || Background || The initial version of [[wikipedia:Git|Git]], a [[wikipedia:version control system|version control system]] with support for data integrity,<ref>{{cite mailing list |last=Torvalds |first=Linus |authorlink=Linus Torvalds |mailinglist=git |date=2007-06-10 |title=Re: fatal: serious inflate inconsistency |url=http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118143549107708}}</ref> is released. Git would come to power GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/03/github-conquered-google-microsoft-everyone-else/ |title=How GitHub Conquered Google, Microsoft, and Everyone Else |publisher=WIRED |date=March 12, 2015 |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2007 || {{Dts|1 October}} || Company || Development of the GitHub platform begins.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2008 || {{Dts|8 February}} || Company || GitHub is founded.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2008 || {{dts|22 February}} || Product || GitHub launches its company blog. In the announcement blog post, GitHub notes that per-project wikis have also launched.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/2-the-blog-arrives |title=The Blog Arrives |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |date=February 22, 2008 |author=Chris Wanstrath}}</ref>
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| 2008 || {{Dts|April}} || Product || [[wikipedia:Tom Preston-Werner|Tom Preston-Werner]], [[wikipedia:Chris Wanstrath|Chris Wanstrath]], and PJ Hyett launch the GitHub website after  having made it available a few months prior as a beta release.<ref name="pastie">{{cite web |url = http://www.sitepoint.com/github-gist-is-pastie-on-steroids/ |title = GitHub Gist is Pastie on Steroids |date = 24 July 2008 |first1 = Josh |last1 = Catone |quote=GitHub hosts about 10,000 projects and officially launched in April of this year after a beta period of a few months.}}</ref>
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| 2008 || {{dts|18 June}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]] joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130418011226/https://github.com/reddit/ |title=reddit (reddit.com's code) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=Joined on Jun 18, 2008}}</ref>
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| 2008 || {{dts|9 July}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Yahoo!|Yahoo!]] joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606043218/https://github.com/yahoo |title=yahoo (Yahoo! Inc.) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=Joined on Jul 09, 2008}}</ref>
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| 2008 || {{dts|21 July}} || Product || GitHub launches [[wikipedia:GitHub#Gist|Gist]], a [[wikipedia:pastebin|pastebin]]-style service with [[wikipedia:Version control|versioning]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sitepoint.com/github-gist-is-pastie-on-steroids/ |title=GitHub Gist is Pastie on Steroids}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/118-here-s-the-gist-of-it |title=Here's the Gist of it |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |date=July 21, 2008 |author=Chris Wanstrath}}</ref>
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| 2008 || {{Dts|5 November}} || Product || The initial version of Jekyll, a [[wikipedia:static site generator|static site generator]], is released by GitHub CEO Tom Preston-Werner.<ref>{{Cite web| last = Preston-Werner| first = Tom| title = Blogging Like a Hacker| work = Preston-Werner.com| accessdate = 2015-10-10| date = 2008-11-17| url = http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hacker.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://jekyllrb.com/docs/history/#v0-1-0 |title=History |publisher=Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref> Jekyll would come to power GitHub Pages.
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| 2008 || {{Dts|14 December}} || Userbase || The [[wikipedia:Sunlight Foundation|Sunlight Foundation]], an American [[wikipedia:501(c)(3)|501(c)(3)]] nonpartisan, [[wikipedia:nonprofit organization|nonprofit organization]] that advocates for [[wikipedia:open government|open government]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Marohn|first1=Kirsti|title=Website offers peek at politicians' deleted tweets|url=http://www.sctimes.com/story/watchdog/2015/04/09/website-offers-peek-at-politicians-deleted-tweets/25521423/|accessdate=17 April 2015|publisher=St. Cloud Times|date=April 9, 2015}}</ref> joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923073357/https://github.com/sunlightlabs |title=sunlightlabs (Sunlight Labs) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=Joined on Dec 14, 2008}}</ref> By September 2010, the foundation would have 97 software projects hosted on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sunlightfoundation.com/2010/09/09/tools-for-transparency-github/ |publisher=Sunlight Foundation |title=Tools for Transparency: GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |author=Scott Stadum |date=September 9, 2010}}</ref>
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| 2008 || {{dts|18 December}} || Product || GitHub announces GitHub Pages, a way for users to create custom websites.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/272-github-pages |title=GitHub Pages |publisher=GitHub |author=Tom Preston-Werner |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |date=December 18, 2008}}</ref>
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| 2008 || || Competition || [[wikipedia:Bitbucket|Bitbucket]] launches.
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| 2009 || {{dts|29 January}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Twitter|Twitter]] joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007015317/https://github.com/twitter |title=twitter (Twitter, Inc.) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=Joined on Jan 29, 2009}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|24 February}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub team members announce, in a talk at [[wikipedia:Yahoo!|Yahoo!]] headquarters, that within the first year of being online, GitHub has accumulated over 46,000 public repositories, 17,000 of which were formed in the previous month alone. At this time, about 6,200 repositories have been [[wikipedia:fork (software development)|forked]] at least once and 4,600 have been merged.
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| 2009 || {{dts|1 April}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007020110/https://github.com/facebook |title=facebook (Facebook) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=Joined on Apr 01, 2009}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{dts|20 April}} || Product || GitHub completes its transition to use [[wikipedia:GitHub Flavored Markdown|GitHub Flavored Markdown]] on the site. GitHub Flavored Markdown is a variant of the [[wikipedia:Markdown|Markdown]] markup language.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/417-gfm-everywhere |title=GFM Everywhere! |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |date=April 20, 2009 |author=Tom Preston-Werner}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{Dts|5 July}} || Growth (user) || GitHub reaches 100,000 users.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://quantimo.do/data-sources/github/ |title=GitHub |publisher=QuantiModo |accessdate=March 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/455-100-000-users |title=100,000 Users! |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |date=July 5, 2009 |author=PJ Hyett}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{Dts|27 July}} || Growth (repository) || [[wikipedia:Tom Preston-Werner|Tom Preston-Werner]] announces that GitHub has grown to host 90,000 unique public repositories, 12,000 having been forked at least once, for a total of 135,000 repositories.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/pita-threshold | title = The PITA Threshold: GitHub vs. CPAN | work = Dan Dascalescu's Wiki | first = Dan | last = Dascalescu | date=3 November 2009}}</ref>
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| 2009 || {{Dts|14 December}} || Product || The initial commit to the Semantic Versioning repository is made by Tom Preston-Werner.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/mojombo/semver.org/commit/ca645805ca206e83c7153c64f9bda54afff06262 |title=First commit |author=Tom Preston-Werner |date=December 14, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://semver.org/ |title=Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 |publisher=Semantic Versioning |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{Dts|January}} || Company || GitHub Inc starts to operate GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cloudswave.com/project-management-planning/m/github/ |title=Cloudswave}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|10 March}} || Product || GitHub introduces Compare View, a feature that allows users to compare commits in a [[wikipedia:Git|Git]] repository.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/612-introducing-github-compare-view |title=Introducing GitHub Compare View |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |date=March 1, 2010 |author=Ryan Tomayko}}</ref> In July, GitHub would add support for comparing across repositories.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/683-cross-repository-compare-view |title=Cross-Repository Compare View |publisher=GitHub |date=July 15, 2010 |author=Ryan Tomayko |accessdate=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{Dts|1 July}} || || [[wikipedia:Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] and [[wikipedia:JavaScript|JavaScript]] become the most popular languages on GitHub, with 19% and 17% of the hosted code, respectively.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2010 || {{Dts|24 July}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub hits 1 million hosted repositories. Of these repositories, 60% are regular repositories while the remaining 40% are Gists.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/685-one-million-repositories |title=One Million Repositories |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |author=Zach Holman |date=July 25, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/github-one-million/ |date=July 25, 2010 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects |author=Andy Brett |accessdate=February 24, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|12 August}} || Product || GitHub announces that its per-project wikis are now backed by [[wikipedia:Git|Git]]. The company also releases [[wikipedia:Gollum Wiki|Gollum]], the software powering these wikis.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/699-making-github-more-open-git-backed-wikis |title=Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |author=Rick Olson (technoweenie) |date=August 12, 2010}}</ref> On the same day, Gollum is declared to be version 1.0.0.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/github/gollum/releases/tag/v1.0.0 |title=Release v1.0.0 · github/gollum |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |author=Tom Preston-Werner}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|29 December}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Pinterest|Pinterest]] joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501105713/https://github.com/pinterest |title=pinterest (Pinterest) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=Joined on Dec 29, 2010}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{dts|19 April}} || Product || GitHub releases Redcarpet, a [[wikipedia:Markdown|Markdown]] parsing library based on Upskirt.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/832-rolling-out-the-redcarpet |title=Rolling out the Redcarpet |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |date=April 19, 2011 |author=Vicent Martí}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{Dts|20 April}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub announces that it is hosting 2 million repositories.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://github.com/blog/841-those-are-some-big-numbers |author=Kyle Neath |title = Those are some big numbers |publisher=[[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] |website=Git Official Blog |date = 20 April 2011 }}</ref><ref name="brave_new">{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@nayafia/we-re-in-a-brave-new-post-open-source-world-56ef46d152a3 |title=We're in a brave, new post open source world |author=Nadia Eghbal |date=January 28, 2016 |publisher=Medium |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=In 2011, there were 2 million repositories on GitHub. Today, there are over 29 million. GitHub's Brian Doll noted that the first million repositories took nearly 4 years to create; getting from nine to ten million took just 48 days.}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{Dts|2 June}} || Growth || [[wikipedia:ReadWriteWeb|ReadWriteWeb]] reports that GitHub has surpassed [[wikipedia:SourceForge|SourceForge]], [[wikipedia:Google Code|Google Code]], and [[wikipedia:CodePlex|CodePlex]] in total number of commits for the period January to May 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://readwrite.com/2011/06/02/github-has-passed-sourceforge |title = Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity |quote = During the period Black Duck examined, Github had 1,153,059 commits, Sourceforge had 624,989, Google Code and 287,901 and CodePlex had 49,839. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.linux.com/news/github-has-surpassed-sourceforge-and-google-code-popularity |title=Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{dts|23 June}} || Growth (employee) || At this time, GitHub has 33 employees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623070550/https://github.com/about |title=About |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=Hubbernauts Employed 33}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{dts|15 August}} || Product || GitHub begins using the [[wikipedia:Ace (editor)|Ace]] code editor when editing files on the web interface.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/905-edit-like-an-ace |title=Edit like an Ace |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |author=Chris Wanstrath |date=August 15, 2011}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{dts|October}} (approximate) || Competition || [[wikipedia:GitLab|GitLab]] launches.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/10/13/ship-it-faster-and-cheaper-gitlab-is-github-for-your-own-servers/ |title=Ship it faster and cheaper - GitLab is GitHub for your own servers - The Next Web |publisher=The Next Web |date=October 13, 2011 |author=Drew Olanoff |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{Dts|11 October}} || Product || The initial version (version 1.0.0) of Hubot, a [[wikipedia:chatbot|chatbot]] developed by GitHub and written in [[wikipedia:CoffeeScript|CoffeeScript]], is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-most-important-startups-hardest-worker-isnt-a-person/ |title=The Hardest Working Person At Silicon Valley's Most Important Startup Isn't a Person |publisher=WIRED |date=October 23, 2015 |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/github/hubot/releases/tag/v1.0.0 |title=v1.0.0 |date=October 25, 2011 |publisher=GitHub |author=Corey Donohoe |accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/14/at-github-you-dont-need-no-stinkin-office-but-there-is-a-nice-one-if-you-do/ |date=November 14, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=At GitHub You Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Office, But There Is A Nice One If You Do |author=Ron Miller |accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://hubot.github.com/ |title=HUBOT |accessdate=February 25, 2017 |publisher=GitHub}}</ref>
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| 2011 || {{Dts|1 November}} || Product || GitHub launches GitHub Enterprise. GitHub Enterprise is similar to GitHub's public service but is designed for use by large-scale enterprise software development teams where the enterprise wishes to host their repositories behind a corporate [[wikipedia:firewall (computing)|firewall]].<ref name="enterprise">{{cite web |url = https://github.com/blog/978-introducing-github-enterprise |accessdate = 13 July 2014 |title = Introducing GitHub Enterprise |publisher = GitHub }}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|17 January}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Google|Google]] joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007021759/https://github.com/google |title=google (Google) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=Joined on Jan 17, 2012}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{Dts|6 April}} || Userbase || The United States [[wikipedia:Consumer Financial Protection Bureau|Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]] announces that it will open source the software it writes or contracts with a third-party to write. The agency decides to host its source code on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/the-cfpbs-source-code-policy-open-and-shared/ |author=Matthew Burton |title=The CFPB's source code policy: open and shared |publisher=Consumer Financial Protection Bureau |date=April 6, 2012 |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/u-s-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-gets-open-source-publishes-on-github/ |date=April 9, 2012 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Gets Open Source, Publishes on GitHub |author=Scott Merrill |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{Dts|1 July}} || Financial || GitHub receives $100 million in a series of investment, primarily from [[wikipedia:Andreessen Horowitz|Andreessen Horowitz]].<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2012 || {{Dts|9 July}} || Financial || [[wikipedia:Peter Levine (venture capitalist)|Peter Levine]], general partner at GitHub's investor [[wikipedia:Andreessen Horowitz|Andreessen Horowitz]], states that GitHub has been growing revenue at 300% annually.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://peter.a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-development/|title=Software Eats Software Development|date=2012-07-09|author=[[wikipedia:Peter Levine (venture capitalist)|Peter Levine]]}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{Dts|1 August}} || Userbase || The [[wikipedia:source code|source code]] for the petitioning system [[We the People (petitioning system)|We the People]] as well as the mobile apps White House for iOS and White House for Android are released on GitHub.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2012 || {{Dts|10 September}} || || GitHub experiences service outage due to a poor database migration.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/14/github-explains-this-weeks-outage-and-poor-performance/ |date=September 15, 2012 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Says Database Issues Caused This Week’s Outage and Performance Problems |author=Alex Williams |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{Dts|18 October}} || Censorship || GitHub goes down due to a [[wikipedia:distributed denial of service|distributed denial of service]] attack.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/18/github-goes-down-with-major-disruption/ |date=October 18, 2012 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Goes Down With "Major Disruption" From DDoS Attack |author=Alex Williams |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2012 || {{dts|13 December}} || Growth (employee) || At this time, GitHub has 139 employees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213223837/https://github.com/about |title=About |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=Hubbernauts  139}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|3 January}} || Product || GitHub introduces ZeroClipboard to the site, which allows for copying long lines of text and hashes with a single click.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/github-replaces-copy-and-paste-with-zeroclipboard/ |date=January 3, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Replaces Copy And Paste With ZeroClipboard |author=Alex Williams |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|7 January}} || Product || GitHub launches Contributions, an addition to user profile pages that shows which repositories the user has been active in, as well as a calendar of activities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/07/github-introduces-contributions-a-new-way-to-display-on-profile-pages-what-developers-are-doing/ |date=January 8, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Introduces Contributions, A New Way To Display On Profile Pages What Developers Are Doing |author=Alex Williams |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1360-introducing-contributions |title=Introducing Contributions |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |author=Justin Palmer |date=January 7, 2013}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|14 January}} || User growth, repository growth || GitHub reaches 3 million total users. At this time, GitHub also has almost 5 million repositories.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/16/github-passes-the-3-million-developer-mark/ |date=January 17, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Passes The 3 Million Developer Mark |author=Alex Williams |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1382-three-million-users |title=Three Million Users |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |author=Rob Sanheim |date=January 16, 2013 |quote=Monday night, on the very first day of our all-hands winter summit this week, the three millionth person signed up for a GitHub account.}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|21 January}} || Censorship || GitHub is blocked in China using [[wikipedia:DNS hijacking|DNS hijacking]]. Confirming the block, a spokesperson for GitHub says: "It does appear that we're at least being partly blocked by the Great Firewall of China".<ref name="Protalinski-TC">{{cite web|last1=Protalinski|first1=Emil|title=The Chinese government appears to be blocking GitHub via DNS (Update: Investigation underway)|url=http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/01/21/the-chinese-government-appears-to-have-completely-blocked-github-via-dns|website=The Next Web|accessdate=9 April 2015}}</ref> The block would be lifted on January 23, 2013 after an online protest on [[wikipedia:Sina Weibo|Sina Weibo]].<ref name="Kan-CW">{{cite web|last1=Kan|first1=Michael|title=GitHub unblocked in China after former Google head slams its censorship|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2493478/internet/github-unblocked-in-china-after-former-google-head-slams-its-censorship.html|website=Computer World|accessdate=9 April 2015}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|26 January}} || Censorship || GitHub users in China experience a [[wikipedia:man-in-the-middle attack|man-in-the-middle attack]] in which attackers could have possibly intercepted traffic between the site and its users in China. The mechanism of the attack is through a fake [[wikipedia:SSL certificate|SSL certificate]].<ref name="claburn-IW">{{cite web|last1=Claburn|first1=Thomas|title=China's GitHub Censorship Dilemma|url=http://www.informationweek.com/software/social/chinas-github-censorship-dilemma/d/d-id/1108436|website=InformationWeek|accessdate=27 June 2015}}</ref> Users attempting to access GitHub received a warning of an invalid SSL certificate, which due to being signed by an [[wikipedia:Self-signed certificate|unknown authority]] was quickly detected.<ref name="martin-GF">{{cite web|title=China, GitHub and the man-in-the-middle|url=https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/china-github-and-man-middle|website=GreatFire|accessdate=27 June 2015}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|15 February}} || Product || GitHub open-sources Boxen, a tool that automates setting up [[wikipedia:macOS|macOS]] machines.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/15/github-open-sources-boxen-a-one-command-tool-to-install-github-com-on-newly-unboxed-macs/ |date=February 15, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Open Sources “Boxen,” A One-Command Tool To Ready Newly Unboxed Macs For Developers |author=Alex Williams |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|April}} || Product || GitHub adds support for the [[wikipedia:STL (file format)|STL file format]] for 3D modeling.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/18/github-adds-3d-modeling-features-that-make-it-a-printer-agnostic-choice-for-object-sharing/ |date=September 18, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Adds 3D Modeling Features That Make It A Printer-Agnostic Choice For Object Sharing |author=John Biggs |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |quote=Github, everyone’s favorite nerdery, added STL object file support – basically a system for uploading and rendering 3D models – in April.}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|5 April}} || Product || GitHub moves GitHub Pages to a dedicated domain, github.io. GitHub cites security reasons for the migration: to remove "potential vectors for cross domain attacks targeting the main github.com session" and mitigate [[wikipedia:phishing|phishing]] attempts. This migration reserves github.com for GitHub itself.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-io |title=New GitHub Pages domain: github.io |date=April 5, 2013 |author=Ryan Tomayko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/07/github-moves-pages-from-domain-over-security-concerns/ |author=Ken Yeung |date=April 7, 2013 |title=GitHub moves its hosted developer Pages to a github.io domain over security concerns |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|9 May}} || Userbase || United States president [[wikipedia:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] signs [[s:Executive Order 13642|Executive Order 13642]], "Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information". As part of this new Open Data Policy, data is released on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2013/05/opendata/ |title=Now You Can Fork U.S. Government Policy … On GitHub |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |date=May 9, 2013 |author=Robert McMillan |accessdate=March 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/open |title=Open Government Initiative}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|23 May}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub reaches 3.5 million users and 6 million repositories.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|31 May}} || Product || GitHub announces the release of Octokit, a set of client libraries for working with the GitHub API.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/31/github-announces-octokit-the-official-way-to-build-using-the-github-api/ |date=May 31, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Announces Octokit, The Official Way To Build Using The GitHub API |author=Alex Williams |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|15 July}} || Product || GitHub launches the ChooseALicense.com website to help users choose a [[wikipedia:free and open-source software|free and open-source software]] license.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://opensource.com/law/13/9/github-choosealicensecom-review |publisher=Opensource.com |title=choosealicense.com and GitHub's license picker |date=September 16, 2013 |author=Richard Fontana |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license |title=Choosing an Open Source License |author=Phil Haack |publisher=[[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] |date=July 15, 2013}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|15 July}} || Product || The initial version of [[wikipedia:Electron (software framework)|Electron]] (at the time called Atom Shell) is released by GitHub.<ref>[https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Earliest tagged release]</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sawicki |first1=Kevin |date=April 23, 2015 |url=http://blog.atom.io/2015/04/23/electron.html |title=Atom Shell is now Electron |work=Atom |accessdate=2015-12-02}}</ref><ref>https://github.com/atom/electron</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|7 August}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub reaches 7 million projects by their users.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|September}} || Growth (user) || GitHub reaches 4 million active users.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/github-hits-the-4m-user-mark-as-it-looks-beyond-developers-for-its-next-stage-of-growth/ |date=September 11, 2013 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Hits The 4M User Mark As It Looks Beyond Developers For Its Next Stage Of Growth |author=Ingrid Lunden |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|20 December}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] publishes a [[wikipedia:blog|blog]] post about its progress in [[wikipedia:open-source software|open-source software]]. At the time, Facebook has over 90 [[wikipedia:Git|Git]] repositories hosted on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://code.facebook.com/posts/604847252884576/2013-a-year-of-open-source-at-facebook/ |website=Facebook Code |publisher=Facebook |author=James Pearce |date=December 20, 2013 |title=2013: A Year of Open Source at Facebook |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=On our GitHub account alone, we now have more than 90 repos comprising over 40,000 commits and that have collectively been forked 15,000 times.}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{dts|22 December}} || Growth (employee) || At this time, GitHub has 234 employees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222062559/https://github.com/about/ |title=About |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=Hubbernauts 234}}</ref>
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| 2013 || {{Dts|23 December}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub announces it has reached 10 million repositories.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://github.com/blog/1724-10-million-repositories |title = 10 Million Repositories |publisher = [[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] |date = 2013-12-23 |accessdate = 2013-12-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/23/github-doubled-its-repositories-in-2013-from-5-to-10-million/ |date=December 23, 2013 |author=J. O'Dell |publisher=[[wikipedia:VentureBeat|VentureBeat]] |title=GitHub doubled its repositories in 2013 from 5 million to 10 million}}</ref>
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| 2013 || late in the year || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Microsoft|Microsoft]] joins GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://qz.com/239326/microsoft-might-finally-be-committing-to-open-source/ |author=Nikhil Sonnad |title=Microsoft might finally be committing to open source |publisher=Quartz |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |date=July 23, 2014 |quote=Late last year Microsoft finally made itself an account on Github}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|6 January}} || Acquisition || Easel, a browser-based web design tool, announces that it has been acquired by GitHub. GitHub would announce the acquisition several days later.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/09/github-acquires-y-combinator-alum-easel-a-browser-based-web-design-tool/ |date=January 9, 2014 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Acquires Y Combinator Alum Easel, A Browser-Based Web Design Tool |author=Frederic Lardinois |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.easel.io/blog/2014/01/06/easel-acquired-by-github/ |author=Easel Inc. |title=Easel Blog: Easel Acquired by GitHub |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |date=January 6, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1737-easel-is-a-githubber |title=Easel is a GitHubber |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 22, 2017 |author=Ryan Day |date=January 9, 2014}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|9 January}} || Product || GitHub launches their Bug Bounty Program.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/2302-bug-bounty-anniversary-promotion-bigger-bounties-in-january-and-february |title=Bug Bounty anniversary promotion: bigger bounties in January and February |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 24, 2017 |date=January 9, 2017 |author=Neil Matatall |quote=The GitHub Bug Bounty Program is turning three years old.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cw.com.hk/feature/how-and-why-start-bug-bounty-program |title=How (and why) to start a bug bounty program |author=Kristin Burnham |date=October 15, 2015 |publisher=Computerworld Hong Kong |accessdate=February 25, 2017 |quote=Shawn Davenport, VP of security at GitHub, launched the company's bug bounty program a year and a half ago, but the time it took to get there was much longer, he says.}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|12 February}} || Legal || [[wikipedia:WhatsApp|WhatsApp]] sends a DMCA takedown request to GitHub for alleged copyright and trademark violations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boingboing.net/2014/02/21/whatsapp-abused-the-dmca-to-ce.html |publisher=Boing Boing |title=Whatsapp abused the DMCA to censor related projects from Github |date=February 21, 2014 |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |author=Cory Doctorow}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014/2014-02-12-WhatsApp.md |title=dmca/2014-02-12-WhatsApp.md at master · github/dmca |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |date=2014-02-12}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|26 February}} || Product || GitHub releases the initial version of [[wikipedia:Atom (text editor)|Atom]], a [[wikipedia:free and open-source software|free and open-source]]<ref name=lifehacker>{{cite news|url=http://lifehacker.com/atom-the-text-editor-from-github-goes-free-and-open-s-1573153208|title=Atom, the Text Editor from GitHub, Goes Free and Open-Source|date=May 8, 2014|work=[[wikipedia:Lifehacker|Lifehacker]] | first=Alan| last=Henry}}</ref><ref name=TechCrunch>{{cite news|url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/06/github-open-sources-its-atom-text-editor/|title=GitHub Open Sources Its Atom Text Editor|date=May 6, 2014|work=[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]] | first=Frederic | last=Lardinois}}</ref> [[wikipedia:text editor|text]] and [[wikipedia:source code editor|source code editor]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.atom.io/2014/02/26/introducing-atom.html |title=Introducing Atom |work=Atom |accessdate=15 August 2015}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|17 March}} || Company || GitHub programmer Julie Ann Horvath alleges that founder and CEO [[wikipedia:Tom Preston-Werner|Tom Preston-Werner]] and his wife Theresa engaged in a pattern of harassment against her that led to her leaving the company.<ref name="Valleywag March 2014">{{cite web|last1=Biddle |first1=Sam |last2=Tiku |first2=Nitasha |title=Meet the Married Duo Behind Tech's Biggest New Harassment Scandal |url=http://valleywag.gawker.com/meet-the-married-duo-behind-techs-biggest-new-harassme-1545685104 |accessdate=March 17, 2014 |newspaper=[[wikipedia:Vallywag|Vallywag]] |publisher=Gawker |date=March 17, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317225437/http://valleywag.gawker.com/meet-the-married-duo-behind-techs-biggest-new-harassme-1545685104 |archivedate=17 March 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2014 || {{Dts||April}} || Company || GitHub releases a statement denying Horvath's allegations of harassment.<ref name="NYTResigns">{{cite web |url = http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/github-founder-resigns-after-investigation/?_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&_r=0 |title = GitHub Founder Resigns After Investigation |first = Claire Cain |last = Miller |publisher = The New York Times |work = Bits |date = April 21, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/21/github-denies-allegations-of-gender-based-harassment-co-founder-preston-werner-resigns/ |title = GitHub Denies Allegations Of "Gender-Based Harassment," Co-Founder Preston-Werner Resigns |work = TechCrunch |last = Wilhelm |first = Alex |date = April 21, 2014 }}</ref> However, following an internal investigation, GitHub would confirm the claims. GitHub's CEO Chris Wanstrath would write on the company [[wikipedia:blog|blog]], "The investigation found Tom Preston-Werner in his capacity as GitHub's CEO acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivity to the impact of his spouse's presence in the workplace, and failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office."<ref name="Follow up to the investigation results">{{cite web |url = https://github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-results |title = Follow up to the investigation results |date = April 28, 2014 }}</ref> CEO Preston-Werner would subsequently resign from the company.
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| 2014 || {{Dts|6 May}} || Product || GitHub fully releases the [[wikipedia:source code|source code]] of its text editor [[wikipedia:Atom (text editor)|Atom]]. Previously, many of its libraries and packages were open source, but the editor itself was not.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/06/github-open-sources-its-atom-text-editor/ |date=May 6, 2014 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Open Sources Its Atom Text Editor |author=Frederic Lardinois |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |quote=Today, after 10 weeks in public beta, it is making all of the editor available under the MIT open source license, including all of the packages and libraries that make allow it to support different programming languages.}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|16 May}} || || The [[wikipedia:Crunchies|Crunchies]] announces that GitHub is a winner in Best Bootstrapped Startup.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|17 July}} || Company || GitHub introduces a [[wikipedia:middle management|middle management]] system. Prior to this, GitHub was a [[wikipedia:flat organization|flat organization]].<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|7 October}} || Product || GitHub announces the GitHub Student Developer Pack, which gives students access to various premium services from GitHub and other tech companies.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/github-partners-with-digital-ocean-unreal-engine-and-others-to-give-students-free-access-to-developer-tools/ |date=October 7, 2014 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Partners With DigitalOcean, Unreal Engine, Others To Give Students Free Access To Developer Tools |author=Frederic Lardinois |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://education.github.com/pack |publisher=GitHub Education |title=GitHub Student Developer Pack |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1900-the-best-developer-tools-now-free-for-students |title=The best developer tools, now free for students |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |date=October 7, 2014 |author=John Britton}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|2 December}} || Censorship || [[wikipedia:Roscomnadzor|Roscomnadzor]], Russia's regulatory agency, blocks GitHub for hosting various copies of a suicide manual. Because GitHub uses [[wikipedia:HTTPS|HTTPS]], which encrypts data between a user's computer and GitHub, [[wikipedia:internet service providers|internet service providers]] (ISP) are forced to block the whole website instead of the pages in question. Complying ISPs included [[wikipedia:Beeline (brand)|Beeline]], [[wikipedia:MTS (network provider)|MTS]], [[wikipedia:MGTS|MGTS]], and [[wikipedia:Megafon|Megafon]]. Maxim Ksenzov, the Deputy Head of the Roscomnadzor, said in a statement that the block was due to GitHub not complying with earlier [[wikipedia:Notice and take down|takedown requests]] for the manual on October 10, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lunden|first1=Ingrid|title=Russia Blacklists, Blocks GitHub Over Pages That Refer To Suicide|url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/github-russia|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> GitHub was also momentarily blocked on October 2, 2014 until the original copy of the manual was deleted.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Лихачёв|first1=Никита|title=AliExpress, 2ch и GitHub попали в реестр запрещённых сайтов|url=http://tjournal.ru/paper/rkn-github-2ch|website=TJournal|accessdate=9 April 2015|language=Russian|trans-title=AliExpress, 2ch and GitHub put on the register of banned sites}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{Dts|31 December}} || Censorship || GitHub is blocked in India (along with 31 other Websites) over pro-[[wikipedia:ISIS|ISIS]] content posted by users.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenextweb.com/in/2014/12/31/vimeo-github-30-sites-blocked-india-content-isis/ |title=GitHub, Vimeo and 30 more sites blocked in India over content from ISIS |publisher=The Next Web |website = thenextweb.com |date=2014-12-31 }}</ref> On 10 January 2015, GitHub would be unblocked. Again, on 12 Sep 2015, GitHub would be blocked all over India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/india-blocks-32-websites-including-github-internet-archive-pastebin-vimeo/ |title=India blocks 32 websites, including GitHub, Internet Archive, Pastebin, Vimeo}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|28 January}} || Product || GitHub announces that it has doubled its maximum payout for its bounty program to $10,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://threatpost.com/github-doubles-down-on-maximum-bug-bounty-payouts/110730/ |title=GitHub Doubles Down on Maximum Bug Bounty Payouts |publisher=Threatpost |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |quote=Michael Mimoso |date=January 29, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|2 February}} || Userbase || The [[wikipedia:Office of Management and Budget|Office of Management and Budget]] releases budget data for fiscal years 2016 and 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/02/white-house-open-sources-budget-data-on-github/ |publisher=VentureBeat |title=White House open-sources budget data on GitHub |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |quote=Daniel Terdiman |date=February 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/WhiteHouse/budgetdata |title=GitHub - WhiteHouse/budgetdata: The data behind the President's 2016 Budget |accessdate=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|7 February}} || Growth (employee) || At this time, GitHub has 257 employees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207192324/https://github.com/about/team |publisher=GitHub |title=Build software better, together |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=There are 257 of us working at GitHub, from all over the globe.}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|March}} || Competition || Google announces that it would be closing down Google Code on January 15, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bidding farewell to Google Code|url=http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html|publisher=Google Open Source Blog|accessdate=12 March 2015|author=Google Project Hosting|date=2015-03-12}}</ref> Most projects on the site would enter read-only mode on August 24, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Information about Google Code's read-only transition|accessdate=25 August 2015|url=https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ReadOnlyTransition}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|26 March}} || Censorship || GitHub falls victim to a massive [[wikipedia:distributed denial-of-service|distributed denial-of-service (DDOS)]] attack that lasts for more than 118 hours.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-github-com|title=Large Scale DDoS Attack on github.com |publisher=GitHub |website=github.com |date=27 March 2015 |accessdate = 31 March 2015 }}</ref> The attack, which appeared to originate from [[wikipedia:China|China]], primarily targeted GitHub-hosted user content describing methods of [[wikipedia:Internet censorship circumvention|circumventing Internet censorship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/27/8299555/github-china-ddos-censorship-great-firewall|title=Last night, GitHub was hit with massive denial-of-service attack from China|publisher=[[wikipedia:The Verge|The Verge]] |website=theverge.com |date=27 March 2015 |accessdate = 27 March 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-coding-website-github-hit-with-cyberattack-1427638940|title=U.S. Coding Website GitHub Hit With Cyberattack|publisher=[[wikipedia:The Wall Street Journal|The Wall Street Journal]] |website=wsj.com |date=29 March 2015 |accessdate = 29 March 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/massive-denial-of-service-attack-on-github-tied-to-chinese-government/|title=Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government|publisher=[[wikipedia:Ars Technica|Ars Technica]] |website=arstechnica.com |date=31 March 2015 |accessdate = 1 April 2015 }}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|30 March}} || Growth (user) || GitHub reports having over 9 million users and over 21.1 million repositories, making it the largest host of source code in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://icee3.com/github-is-like-oxygen/ |title=GitHub is Like Oxygen}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|8 April}} || Product || GitHub announces Git Large File Storage (Git LFS). Git LFS allows users to store and work with large binary files in [[wikipedia:Git|Git]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/1986-announcing-git-large-file-storage-lfs |title=Announcing Git Large File Storage (LFS) |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |author=Rick Olson (technoweenie) |date=April 8, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://git-lfs.github.com/ |title=Git Large File Storage |publisher=[[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] |website=Git Large File Storage |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|30 April}} || || At the conference [[wikipedia:Build 2015|Build 2015]], Microsoft announces that [[wikipedia:Microsoft Visual Studio 2015|Microsoft Visual Studio 2015]] will have GitHub integrations, and that GitHub Enterprise would become available on [[wikipedia:Microsoft Azure|Microsoft Azure]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/30/github-enterprise-comes-to-microsoft-azure-github-launches-visual-studio-2015-integrations/ |publisher=VentureBeat |title=GitHub Enterprise comes to Microsoft Azure, GitHub launches Visual Studio 2015 integrations |accessdate=February 27, 2017 |author=Jordan Novet |date=April 30, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|19 May}} || Product || GitHub launches the GitHub Engineering blog, which hosts information about GitHub's engineering practices.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://githubengineering.com/hello-world/ |title=Hello World |publisher=GitHub |website=GitHub Engineering |date=May 19, 2015 |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |author=Sam Lambert}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|3 June}} || Company || GitHub announces the formation of GitHub Japan G.K., a subsidiary of GitHub, Inc., as well as its new office in [[wikipedia:Tokyo|Tokyo]], Japan. This new office is the first GitHub office outside of the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/04/github-expands-to-japan-its-first-office-outside-the-u-s/ |date=June 4, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Expands To Japan, Its First Office Outside The U.S. |author=Jon Russell |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/2017-announcing-github-japan |date=June 3, 2015 |author=Daisuke Don Horie |accessdate=February 23, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] |title=Announcing GitHub Japan}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|25 June}} || Product || GitHub releases version 1.0 of its [[wikipedia:Atom (text editor)|Atom]] text editor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/githubs-atom-text-editor-hits-1-0-now-has-over-350000-monthly-active-users/ |date=June 25, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub's Atom Text Editor Hits 1.0, Now Has Over 350,000 Monthly Active Users |author=Frederic Lardinois |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/06/github-atoms-code-editor-nerds-take-universe/ |title=GitHub Atom’s Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe |publisher=WIRED |date=June 25, 2015 |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|25 July}} || Financial || GitHub announces it has raised $250 million in funding in a round led by [[wikipedia:Sequoia Capital|Sequoia Capital]]. The round valued the company at approximately $2 billion.<ref name="startlin"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2015/07/29/github-raises-250-million-in-new-funding-now-valued-at-2-billion/ |title= GitHub raises $250 million in new funding, now valued at $2 billion |publisher=Fortune |date=2015-07-29}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|12 August}} || Product || GitHub launches a desktop client for working with the site, for [[wikipedia:macOS|macOS]] and [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2970272/github-launches-desktop-client-to-lure-more-developers.html |date=August 12, 2015 |author=Joab Jackson |publisher=''[[wikipedia:PCWorld|PCWorld]]'' |title=GitHub launches desktop client to lure more developers |accessdate=February 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/2046-github-desktop-is-now-available |title=GitHub Desktop is now available |publisher=[[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] |date=August 12, 2015 |author=Amy Palamountain |accessdate=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|15 August}} || Growth (employee) || At this time, GitHub has 330 employees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815045437/https://github.com/about/team |publisher=GitHub |title=Build software better, together |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=There are 330 of us working at GitHub, from all over the globe.}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|1 September}} || Growth (user) || At this time, GitHub has around 10 million users.<ref name="startlin"/>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|1 September}} || Growth (user) || Around this time, 10,000 users are reportedly joining GitHub per weekday.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/201303/will-bourne/2-reasons-to-keep-an-eye-on-github.html |title=2 Reasons to Keep an Eye on GitHub}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|22 September}} || Product || GitHub launches GitHub Classroom, a way for teachers to create and share programming assignments.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/09/github-open-sources-tool-teaches-students-code/ |title=GitHub Open Sources a Tool That Teaches Students to Code |publisher=WIRED |date=September 22, 2015 |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|24 September}} || || [[wikipedia:Chris Wanstrath|Chris Wanstrath]], co-founder and CEO of GitHub, is named as one of the [[wikipedia:40 under 40 (Fortune magazine)|''Fortune'' 40 under 40]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fortune.com/40-under-40/chris-wanstrath-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406125344/http://fortune.com/40-under-40/chris-wanstrath-31 |archive-date=April 6, 2016 |dead-url=no |date=September 24, 2015 |publisher=Fortune |title=Chris Wanstrath - 40 Under 40 |accessdate=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|1 October}}{{snd}}{{dts|2 October}} || Conference || GitHub Universe 2015 takes place in [[wikipedia:San Francisco, California|San Francisco, California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://githubuniverse.com/2015/ |title=GitHub Universe · October 1 - 2, 2015 |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref> GitHub Universe is GitHub's user conference; the company would continue to host the conference in subsequent years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/01/github-launches-support-for-u2f-security-keys/ |date=October 1, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=GitHub Launches Support For U2F Security Keys |author=Frederic Lardinois |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/github-universe-2015-ceo-chris-wanstrath-keynote-2015-10 |date=October 1, 2015 |title=GitHub, the $2 billion 'Facebook for programmers,' has a plan to get even bigger |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |author=Matt Weinberger}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{Dts|1 October}} || Product || GitHub announces a partnership with Yubico to allow [[wikipedia:YubiKey|YubiKey]] authentication on the GitHub website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fortune.com/2015/10/01/github-yubico-partnership/ |date=October 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.fo/QdRSr |publisher=Fortune |title=GitHub's newest partnership could do wonders for web security |archive-date=February 25, 2017 |accessdate=February 25, 2017 |author=Robert Hackett}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|3 December}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Apple Inc.|Apple]] open-sources its programming language [[wikipedia:Swift (programming language)|Swift]] and hosts it on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/3/9842854/apple-swift-open-source-released |date=December 3, 2015 |author=Jacob Kastrenakes |publisher=The Verge |title=Apple's new programming language Swift is now open source |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref> This also marks the beginning of Apple using GitHub, as the company did not host anything on GitHub prior to this.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401000000*/https://github.com/apple |title=Internet Archive Wayback Machine result, showing snapshots of Apple's GitHub organization page starting December 3, 2015 |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.fo/xMO92 |publisher=archive.fo |title=Apple's GitHub organization page as of July 9, 2015, showing no public repositories |date=July 9, 2015 |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |quote=This organization has no public repositories. This organization has no public members. You must be a member to see who's a part of this organization.}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|28 January}} || Growth (repository) || At this time, there are over 29 million repositories on GitHub.<ref name="brave_new" />
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| 2016 || {{Dts|28 March}} || Growth (user) || GitHub announces that [[wikipedia:Atom (text editor)|Atom]], a text editor it created, has hit 1 million monthly active users.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/28/githubs-atom-text-editor-hits-1-million-monthly-active-users/ |publisher=VentureBeat |title=GitHub’s Atom text editor hits 1 million monthly active users |accessdate=February 25, 2017 |date=March 28, 2016 |author=Jordan Novet}}</ref> GitHub knows this number because Atom comes with a package called <code>metrics</code> that tracks usage information using [[wikipedia:Google Analytics|Google Analytics]] and sends it to GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://atom.io/faq |publisher=Atom |title=A hackable text editor for the 21st Century |accessdate=February 25, 2017 |quote=In the same way that aggregate usage information is important when developing a web application, we've found that it's just as important for desktop applications. By knowing which Atom features are being used the most, and how the editor is performing, we can focus our development efforts in the right place.}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|5 April}} || Company || GitHub announces Spokes (called Distributed Git or DGit at the time), GitHub's application-level replication system for Git, which makes GitHub more resilient to server outages.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/04/github-now-three-places-keep-code-connected/ |title=Triple Play: GitHub's Code Now Lives in Three Places at Once |publisher=WIRED |date=April 5, 2016 |author=Cade Metz |accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://githubengineering.com/introducing-dgit/ |title=Introducing DGit |publisher=GitHub Engineering |date=April 5, 2016 |accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://githubengineering.com/building-resilience-in-spokes/ |title=Building resilience in Spokes |publisher=GitHub Engineering |date=September 7, 2016 |accessdate=February 25, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|9 May}} || Product || Version 1 of [[wikipedia:Electron (software framework)|Electron]] is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/05/javascript-conquered-web-now-taking-desktop/ |title=JavaScript Conquered the Web. Now It's Taking Over the Desktop |publisher=WIRED |date=May 12, 2016 |author=Klint Finley |accessdate=February 24, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.0.0 |title=electron v1.0.0 |publisher=GitHub}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|10 May}} || Product || GitHub introduces unlimited private repositories as it changes its pricing model from a repository-based one to a user-based one.<ref name="unlim1">{{cite web |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/3069275/application-development/github-ushers-in-unlimited-private-repositories.html |date=May 11, 2016 |title=GitHub ushers in unlimited private repositories |author=Serdar Yegulalp |publisher=InfoWorld |accessdate=February 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="unlim2">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/2164-introducing-unlimited-private-repositories |title=Introducing unlimited private repositories |publisher=GitHub |accessdate=February 24, 2017 |author=Kakul Srivastava |date=May 10, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|17 May}} || Growth (employee) || At this time, GitHub has 568 employees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517134616/https://github.com/about/team |publisher=GitHub |title=Build software better, together |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=There are 568 of us working at GitHub, from all over the globe.}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|29 June}} || Code analysis || All the [[w:Open-source software|open source code]] in GitHub becomes available in {{w|BigQuery}}, a {{w|Representational state transfer}} web service that enables interactive analysis of massively large datasets working in conjunction with {{w|Google Storage}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=All the open source code in GitHub now shared within BigQuery: Analyze all the code! |url=https://medium.com/google-cloud/github-on-bigquery-analyze-all-the-code-b3576fd2b150 |website=medium.com |accessdate=10 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|6 July}} || Userbase || [[wikipedia:Nike, Inc.|Nike, Inc.]] releases the [[wikipedia:source code|source code]] of several of its projects on GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/nike-releases-open-source-software-to-play-with-the-techies/ |date=July 6, 2016 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Nike releases open-source software to play with the techies |author=John Mannes |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.retaildive.com/news/nike-releases-open-source-code-on-github/422257/ |title=Nike releases open source code on GitHub |date=July 7, 2016 |publisher=Retail Dive |accessdate=February 28, 2017 |author=Dan O'Shea}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|7 September}} || || GitHub is ranked #14 on the [[wikipedia:Forbes|Forbes Cloud 100]] list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/cloud100/|title=Forbes Cloud 100|publisher=[[wikipedia:Forbes|Forbes]]|accessdate=31 October 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|14 September}}{{snd}}{{dts|15 September}} || Conference || GitHub Universe 2016 takes place in [[wikipedia:San Francisco, California|San Francisco, California]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://githubuniverse.com/2016/program/ |title=Program |publisher=GitHub Universe |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref> GitHub Universe is "the flagship user conference for the GitHub community".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://githubuniverse.com/2016/faq/ |title=Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=GitHub Universe |accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|8 October}} || Censorship || GitHub access is blocked by the Turkish government to prevent email leakage of a hacked account belonging to the country's Energy Minister.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/turkey-github-dropbox-onedrive-recep-tayyip-erdogan |title = Turkey blocked GitHub and Dropbox to hide leaks – reports }}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|24 December}} || Growth (employee) || At this time, GitHub has 592 employees.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224202025/https://github.com/about |publisher=GitHub |title=Build software better, together |accessdate=March 1, 2017 |quote=592 Employees worldwide}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|14 February}} || Product || GitHub launches the Open Source Guides at the dedicated [[wikipedia:domain name|domain name]] opensource.guide.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/blog/2318-announcing-open-source-guides |title=Announcing Open Source Guides |publisher=GitHub |author=Nadia Eghbal |date=February 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://fossbytes.com/github-open-source-contribution-guide/ |author=gdad-s-river |title=How To Contribute To Open Source? — GitHub Just Released A Massive Guide To Help You |publisher=Fossbytes |date=February 18, 2017 |accessdate=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|1 March}} || Product || GitHub launches a new Business service tier aimed at companies and other organizations. The service, which allows developers to more effectively collaborate and share their source code, offers an enterprise version of its tools that large companies could host in their own data centers, {{w|Amazon Web Services}} or Azure.<ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub brings its enterprise service to the cloud |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/01/github-brings-its-enterprise-service-to-the-cloud/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub launches Business tier hosted on GitHub.com, costs $21 per user per month |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/01/github-launches-business-tier-hosted-on-github-com-costs-21-per-user-per-month/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref> 
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| 2017 || {{Dts|3 March}} || Product || GitHub announces a new {{w|plugin}} to facilitate for {{w|Unity}} game developers to access {{w|Git}} and GitHub without leaving Unity. The extension allows game developers to integrate Git and Github into their workflow, even if they're versioning large binary assets.<ref>{{cite web |last1=SAWERS |first1=PAUL |title=GitHub launches Unity extension so game developers can easily manage their Git projects |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/03/github-launches-unity-plugin-to-for-game-developers/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Github for Unity extension offers smart Git integration |url=https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/292927/Github_for_Unity_extension_offers_smart_Git_integration.php |website=gamasutra.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|1 April}} || Competition || Microsoft shuts down {{w|CodePlex}} and recommends migration to GitHub. Brian Harry, the corporate vice president of Microsoft announces: “Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of amazing options come and go but at this point, GitHub is the de facto place for open source sharing and most open source projects have migrated there.”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Westlake |first1=Adam |title=Microsoft shuttering CodePlex, its own GitHub alternative |url=https://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-shuttering-codeplex-its-own-github-alternative-01480528/ |website=slashgear.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Avram |first1=Abel |title=CodePlex Shuts Down; Migration to GitHub Recommended |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/04/codeplex-github |website=infoq.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Broersma |first1=Matthew |title=Microsoft To Shut Down CodePlex & Tells Users To Migrate To GitHub |url=https://www.silicon.co.uk/software/microsoft-codeplex-github-208427 |website=silicon.co.uk |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=WILKINSON |first1=JACK |title=Microsoft announces it is shutting down CodePlex, recommends GitHub for open source projects |url=https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-announces-it-is-shutting-down-codeplex-recommends-github-for-open-source-projects |website=onmsft.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bodnarescu |first1=Florin |title=Microsoft starts shutting down CodePlex, GitHub welcomes the contributors to its platform |url=https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-starts-shutting-down-codeplex-github-welcomes-the-contributors-to-its-platform/ |website=neowin.net |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref>    
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| 2017 || {{Dts|16 May}} || Product || GitHub launches new GitHub Desktop Beta and GitHub package for [[w:Atom (text editor)|Atom text editor]]. Both releases provide developers with new ways of working with the GitHub software development platform and the open source Git distributed version control system, beyond the traditional command-line interface (CLI) and browser-based experience.<ref>{{cite web |title=New for GitHub: Atom Integration and a Desktop Client Beta |url=https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/05/16/github-atom.aspx |website=adtmag.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing Git Integration for Atom and GitHub Desktop Beta |url=https://github.blog/2017-05-16-announcing-git-integration-for-atom-and-github-desktop-beta/ |website=github.blog |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wagner |first1=Janet |title=GitHub Launches New GitHub Desktop Beta and Expands Atom's Git Functionality |url=https://www.programmableweb.com/news/github-launches-new-github-desktop-beta-and-expands-atoms-git-functionality/2017/05/16 |website=programmableweb.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|22 May}} || Product || GitHub announces GitHub Marketplace, a store for development tools that assist with tasks like continuous integration, code reviews, and project management. The purpose is to help developers easily find the right tools to improve and fine-tune their existing workflows.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Krill |first1=Paul |title=GitHub sets up a developer tools store, releases GraphQL API |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3197848/github-sets-up-a-developer-tools-store-releases-graphql-api.html |website=infoworld.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub launches Marketplace to help developers find the tools they need |url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/05/22/github-launches-developer-marketplace/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub throws open doors on 'app' souk |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/22/github_opens_app_market/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Madison |title=GitHub Marketplace, Tails reaches RC status, and block.one’s open-source software for EOS |url=https://sdtimes.com/block-one/github-marketplace-tails-rc-status-block-one-open-source-news-digest/ |website=sdtimes.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|2 June}} || Survey || GitHub publishes its 2017 Open Source Survey, an open set of data designed to help researchers, data enthusiasts and open-source members comprehend the overall needs of the community.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Madison |title=GitHub releases 2017 Open Source Survey |url=https://sdtimes.com/code/github-releases-2017-open-source-survey/ |website=sdtimes.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=HUGHES |first1=MATTHEW |title=Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how to write documentation |url=https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/06/02/free-software-is-suffering-because-coders-dont-know-how-to-write-documentation/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|5 June}} || Survey || Large GitHub survey of {{w|open source}} projects finds open-source software development is almost completely dominated by men, and that most programmers neglect to write [[w:Software documentation|documentation]]. The Survey of about 6,000 contributors also finds widespread harassment.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tung |first1=Liam |title=GitHub: Open source is dominated by men who just can't communicate |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-open-source-is-dominated-by-men-who-just-cant-communicate/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Justine |title=Just 3% of open source contributors are women, report finds |url=https://www.ciodive.com/news/just-3-of-open-source-contributors-are-women-report-finds/444174/ |website=ciodive.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sharwood |first1=Simon |title=The open source community is nasty and that's just the docs |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/05/open_source_developer_survey_2017/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|19 June}} || || The United States {{w|National Security Agency}} (NSA) launches an official GitHub page, sharing code depositories under its NSA Technology Transfer Program.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Tom |title=The NSA is sharing 32 open source projects on GitHub |url=https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3012269/the-nsa-is-sharing-32-projects-on-github |website=theinquirer.net |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Leghari |first1=Ali |title=National Security Agency has now a Github account |url=https://www.techjuice.pk/national-security-agency-has-now-a-github-account/ |website=techjuice.pk |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=HUGHES |first1=MATTHEW |title=The NSA (yes, that NSA) has a Github account now |url=https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/06/19/nsa-yes-nsa-github-account-now/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|June 28}} || || GitHub declares every friday "Open Source Day" as a new initiative to encourage people and organizations to contribute to open source projects.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kondrat |first1=Tomek |title=GitHub Declares Every Friday Open Source Day And Wants You to Take Part |url=https://www.xda-developers.com/github-declares-every-friday-open-source-day-and-wants-you-to-take-part/ |website=xda-developers.com |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=FRANK |first1=BLAIR HANLEY |title=GitHub declares every Friday open source day |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/27/github-says-fridays-are-for-open-source-work/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Verma |first1=Adarsh |title=Open Source Friday: GitHub Declares Friday As “Open Source Day” |url=https://fossbytes.com/open-source-friday-github/ |website=fossbytes.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|July 7}} || Product || GitHub releases Code Owners, a new feature that makes it easier to identify which people need to review changes that have been made to code in a repository. The feature automatically requests reviews from the code owners when a pull request changes any owned files.<ref>{{cite web |last1=SAWERS |first1=PAUL |title=GitHub now lets you automatically request reviews from code owners when you make a change |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/07/github-now-lets-you-automatically-request-reviews-from-code-owners-when-you-make-a-change/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref>  
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| 2017 || {{Dts|9 August}} || Product || GitHub releases an upgrade to its “hackable” Atom text editor, adding a native {{w|C++}} buffer and rewriting the DOM interaction layer.<ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub’s Atom editor gets a speed boost |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3214432/githubs-atom-editor-gets-a-speed-boost.html |website=infoworld.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref> 
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| 2017 || {{Dts|17 August}} || || GitHub CEO and co-founder {{w|Chris Wanstrath}} announces resignation for the second time and becoming executive chairman of the company.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Novet |first1=Jordan |title=The CEO of $2 billion start-up GitHub is stepping down |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/github-ceo-chris-wanstrath-is-stepping-down.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Peterson |first1=Becky |title=GitHub's CEO is stepping down for the second time |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-chris-wanstrath-to-step-down-become-executive-chairman-2017-8 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=RILEY |first1=DUNCAN |title=Chris Wanstrath to step down as CEO of software code host GitHub |url=https://siliconangle.com/2017/08/17/github-ceo-chris-wanstrath-step-replacement-found/ |website=siliconangle.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Konrad |first1=Alex |title=GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath To Step Down After Finding His Own Replacement |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/08/17/github-ceo-chris-wanstrath-to-step-down/#777ddf169ead |website=forbes.com |accessdate=25 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|14 September}} || Product || Github announces Atom-IDE, a set of packages designed to introduce more automation and functionality to the code-writing process.<ref>{{cite web |title=Github brings IDE automation features to Atom |url=https://www.itpro.co.uk/open-source/29473/github-brings-ide-automation-features-to-atom |website=itpro.co.uk |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub and Facebook Team up with Atom-IDE |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/09/atom-ide-github-facebook |website=infoq.com |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|17 November}} || Product || GitHub releases a new service that searches project dependencies in {{w|JavaScript}} and [[w:Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] for known vulnerabilities and then alerts project owners if it finds any.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tung |first1=Liam |title=GitHub to devs: Now you'll get security alerts on flaws in popular software libraries |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-to-devs-now-youll-get-security-alerts-on-flaws-in-popular-software-libraries/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Github Will Warn Developers About Vulnerable Dependencies in Their Projects |url=https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-will-warn-developers-about-vulnerable-dependencies-in-their-projects/ |website=bleepingcomputer.com |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=GHOSHAL |first1=ABHIMANYU |title=GitHub will now alert you of security flaws in your project dependencies |url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/11/17/github-will-now-alert-you-of-security-flaws-in-your-project-depedencies/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bressers |first1=Josh |title=GitHub’s new security scanner |url=https://www.csoonline.com/article/3237767/github-s-new-security-scanner.html |website=csoonline.com |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Elizabeth |first1=Jane |title=Keep your code safe with GitHub’s security alerts |url=https://jaxenter.com/github-security-security-alerts-139064.html |website=jaxenter.com |accessdate=26 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|31 January}} || Product || GitHub introduces Multiple Commit Authors, a new feature meant to improve collaboration from several developers on the same [[w:Commit (data management)|commits]] or pull requests and ensures every author gets attribution of their commits in their profile contributions graph and the repository’s statistics.<ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub Introduces Multiple Commit Authors |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/01/github-multiple-author-commit |website=infoq.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub Adds Crediting for Multiple Co-Authors on a Single Commit |url=https://thenewstack.io/github-adds-crediting-multiple-co-authors-single-commit/ |website=thenewstack.io |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|7 February}} || || {{w|Uber}} stops using GitHub for in-house code, alleging that {{w|hacker}}s behind the 2016 data breach used credentials found on the platform to gain access to an Uber’s [[w:Amazon Web Services|AWS S3]] bucket.<ref>{{cite web |title=Uber stops using GitHub for 'private' code following 2016 mega-breach |url=https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3026182/uber-stops-using-github-for-private-code-following-2016-mega-breach |website=theinquirer.net |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Uber is facing fresh, sharp rebukes from Congress for initially withholding details about a 2016 security breach |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/2/6/16980356/uber-congress-senate-commerce-committee-2016-security-breach |website=vox.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Uber quits GitHub for in-house code after 2016 data breach |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/uber_quit_github_for_custom_code_after_2016_data_breach/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|9 February}} || || {{w|Apple}} orders GitHub to remove a portion of {{w|iOS}} source code leaked online on the previous day. The leak could allow hackers to discover iOS vulnerabilities more easily and make creating {{w|iPhone}} [[w:iOS jailbreaking|jailbreaks]] simpler.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liao |first1=Shannon |title=Apple ordered GitHub to remove iOS source code leak |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16992626/apple-github-dmca-request-ios-iboot-source-code |website=theverge.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Apple orders GitHub to takedown iBoot code following leak |url=https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3026267/apple-orders-github-to-take-down-iboot-code-following-leak |website=theinquirer.net |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|29 February}} || Cybercrime || GitHub suffers and survives a record 1.35-terabit-per-second denial of service attack, which is considered to be the world's largest distributed denial of service attack to date. During the assault, the popular code sharing website's admins notice thousands of systems and devices slamming GitHub's web server. It would later be explained that the attackers hijacked something called “memcaching” — a distributed memory system known for high-performance and demand — to massively amplify the traffic volumes that were being fired at GitHub, resulting in a huge influx of traffic.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Russell |first1=Jon |title=The world’s largest DDoS attack took GitHub offline for fewer than 10 minutes |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/02/the-worlds-largest-ddos-attack-took-github-offline-for-less-than-tens-minutes/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub just suffered the world’s biggest DDoS attack—and barely blinked |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/f/610405/github-just-suffered-the-worlds-biggest-ddos-attack-it-barely-blinked/ |website=technologyreview.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Howell O'Neill |first1=Patrick |title=GitHub hit with record 1.35-Tbps denial of service attack, more attacks expected |url=https://www.cyberscoop.com/github-denial-of-service-amplification-attack/ |website=cyberscoop.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Thomson |first1=Iain |title=Gits club GitHub code tub with record-breaking 1.35Tbps DDoS drub |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/01/github_ddos_biggest_ever/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>  
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| 2018 || {{Dts|March 23}} || Survey || Github announces the discovery of over 4 million vulnerabilities located in 500,000 plus repositories, culminating scanning started in 2017 for known common vulnerabilities and exposures.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Abel |first1=Robert |title=Github announces 4 million vulnerabilities patched in half a million repositories |url=https://www.scmagazine.com/home/network-security/github-announces-4-million-vulnerabilities-patched-in-half-a-million-repositories/ |website=scmagazine.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Abel |first1=Robert |title=Github patches 4 million vulnerabilities in half a million repositories |url=https://www.crn.com.au/news/github-patches-4-million-vulnerabilities-in-half-a-million-repositories-487777 |website=crn.com.au |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tung |first1=Liam |title=GitHub: Our dependency scan has found four million security flaws in public repos |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-our-dependency-scan-has-found-four-million-security-bugs-in-public-repos/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|April 19}} || Product || GitHub launches GitHub Learning Lab, an app aimed at giving beginners a learning experience they can actively participate in, without leaving GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |last1=SAWERS |first1=PAUL |title=GitHub launches bot-powered learning lab for budding developers |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/19/github-launches-bot-powered-learning-lab-for-budding-developers/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Vaughan-Nichols |first1=Steven J. |title=Learn to use GitHub with GitHub Learning Lab |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/learn-to-use-github-with-github-learning-lab/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GitHub Learning Labs Now Open For Newbies |url=https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/11731-github-learning-labs-now-open-for-newbies.html |website=i-programmer.info |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Schafer |first1=Ian C. |title=GitHub launches learning and training lab for developers |url=https://sdtimes.com/github/github-launches-developer-learning-and-training-lab/ |website=sdtimes.com |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>  
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| 2018 || {{Dts|17 May}} || Partnership || {{w|Microsoft}} announces new partnership with GitHub and releases the integration of Visual Studio App Center and GitHub which allows users to seamlessly automate DevOps processes right from within the GitHub experience.<ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft's Making it Easier to Work with GitHub |url=https://www.petri.com/microsofts-making-easier-work-github |website=petri.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Woods |first1=Rich |title=Microsoft announces Visual Studio IntelliCode, Live Share, and more |url=https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-announces-visual-studio-intellicode-live-share-and-more/ |website=neowin.net |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Build 2018: Microsoft announces new partnership with GitHub, new Visual Studio Live Share, more |url=https://www.onmsft.com/news/build-2018-microsoft-announced-new-partnership-with-github-new-visual-studio-live-share-more |website=onmsft.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|4 June}} || Acquisition || {{w|Microsoft}} confirms acquisition of GitHub for US$7.5 billion. The deal is due to be completed before the end of the year. It is reported that Github would continue to operate independently.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Warren |first1=Tom |title=Microsoft confirms it’s acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17422788/microsoft-github-acquisition-official-deal |website=theverge.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of GitHub will provoke a developer backlash |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/f/611305/microsofts-75-billion-purchase-of-github-will-provoke-a-developer-backlash/ |website=technologyreview.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Dave |title=Microsoft buys Github code-sharing site for $7.5bn |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44351214 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft is reportedly talking about buying GitHub, a platform for software developers last valued at $2 billion |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/01/microsoft--github-acquisition-talks-resume.html |website=cnbc.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft’s GitHub Deal Is a Clean Break From Its Past |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsofts-github-deal-is-a-clean-break-from-its-past-1528139079 |website=wsj.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft’s GitHub Deal Is a Clean Break From Its Past |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-has-acquired-github-for-7-5b-in-microsoft-stock/ |website=wsj.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|27 July}} || Partnership || {{w|Google Cloud}} partners with Microsoft-owned GitHub to make a crucial element of modern software development, {{w|continuous Integration}}, fast and easy. In order to simplify continuous integration, Google Cloud Build is to be added to GitHub, which is connected to Google's Cloud Build, the company's new CI/Continuous Delivery (CD) platform.<ref>{{cite web |last1=HASSAN |first1=UMAR |title=Google Cloud Announces Collaborations with Accenture and GitHub |url=https://www.cbronline.com/news/google-cloud-accenture-and-github |website=cbronline.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Google Cloud Partners With GitHub on Software Development |url=https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/google-cloud-partners-with-github-on-software-development-1890900 |website=gadgets.ndtv.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SD Times news digest: GitHub + Google Cloud Build, Dynatrace’s support for GCP, and F# 4.5 |url=https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/sd-times-news-digest-github-google-cloud-build-dynatraces-support-for-gcp-and-f-4-5/ |website=sdtimes.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Go Cloud aims to cement Golang in the cloud |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3293417/go-cloud-aims-to-cement-golang-in-the-cloud.html |website=infoworld.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|19 September}} || Competition || Sharing platform {{w|GitLab}} announces having raised US$100 million to expand its suite of tools in competition for market share with GitHub. GitLab achieves a valuation of US$1.1 billion.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Weinstein |first1=Austin |title=Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/alphabet-backs-gitlab-s-quest-to-surpass-microsoft-s-github |website=bloomberg.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Weinberger |first1=Matt |title=Mark Zuckerberg's money manager invested $100 million in a hot startup — and it shows how Microsoft's $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition is sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/gitlab-valuation-microsoft-github-2018-9 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Armasu |first1=Lucian |title=Alphabet Bets On GitLab Following Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition |url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/alphabet-gitlab-microsoft-github-acquisition,37823.html |website=tomshardware.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|16 October}} || Product || Github launches Actions, a workflow automation tool aimed at allowing developers to not just host code on the platform but also run it. GitHub Actions allows [[w:continuous integration|continuous integration/continuous deployment]] (CI/CD) right from GitHub itself.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lardinois |first1=Frederic |title=GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool |url=https://techcrunch.com/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=FINLEY |first1=KLINT |title=YOU CAN NOW RUN SOME CODE HOSTED ON GITHUB |url=https://www.wired.com/story/you-can-now-run-some-code-hosted-on-github/ |website=wired.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Claburn |first1=Thomas |title=GitHub grabs a piece of the Actions: 'A project that will do for software development what we did for the pull request' |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/16/github_wants_actions/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Krill |first1=Paul |title=GitHub Actions to let developers do CI/CD in GitHub |url=https://www.infoworld.com/article/3313115/github-actions-to-let-developers-do-cicd-in-github.html |website=infoworld.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chan |first1=Rosalie |title=Here's a look at GitHub Actions, GitHub's new feature that's like 'Apple Shortcuts, but for code.' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/github-launches-github-actions-for-developers-2018-10 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|26 October}} || Acquisition || Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub officially closes, after getting approval from European Union regulators.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lunden |first1=Ingrid |title=Microsoft closes its $7.5B purchase of code-sharing platform GitHub |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/26/microsoft-closes-its-7-5b-purchase-of-code-sharing-platform-github/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lomas |first1=Natasha |title=Microsoft’s $7.5BN GitHub buy gets green-lit by EU regulators |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/19/microsofts-7-5bn-github-buy-gets-green-lit-by-eu-regulators/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Warren |first1=Tom |title=Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/26/17954714/microsoft-github-deal-acquisition-complete |website=theverge.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=SAWERS |first1=PAUL |title=Microsoft completes its $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/26/microsoft-completes-its-7-5-billion-github-acquisition/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|8 November}} || Growth (repository) || GitHub announces hosting over 100 million repositories. It also announces supporting 31 million developers, who collectively have created over 1.1 billion contributions.<ref>{{cite web |last1=HUGHES |first1=MATTHEW |title=GitHub now hosts over 100 million repositories |url=https://thenextweb.com/dd/2018/11/08/github-now-hosts-over-100-million-repositories/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Warner |first1=Jason |title=Thank you for 100 million repositories |url=https://github.blog/2018-11-08-100m-repos/ |website=github.blog |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gall |first1=Richard |title=GitHub has passed an incredible 100 million repositories |url=https://hub.packtpub.com/github-has-passed-an-incredible-100-million-repositories/ |website=hub.packtpub.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=JOHNSON |first1=KHARI |title=GitHub passes 100 million repositories |url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/08/github-passes-100-million-repositories/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|10 November}} || Financial || Microsoft announces having made US$1.3 billion in cash payments in connection to its acquisition of GitHub.<ref>{{cite web |title=MICROSOFT PAYS $1.3 BILLION IN CASH TO ACQUIRE CODING HOSTING START-UP GITHUB |url=https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/microsoft-pays-1-3-billion-in-cash-to-acquire-coding-hosting-start-up-github-5529351.html |website=firstpost.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft made $1.3 billion in cash payments in GitHub deal |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-m-a/microsoft-made-1-3-billion-in-cash-payments-in-github-deal-idUSKCN1NE24U |website=reuters.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2018 || {{Dts|3 December}} || Acquisition || GitHub acquires Spectrum, a community-centric conversational platform which launched in late 2017 and became home to over 5,000 developer and designer communities.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lobo |first1=Savia |title=GitHub acquires Spectrum, a community-centric conversational platform |url=https://hub.packtpub.com/github-acquires-spectrum-a-community-centric-conversational-platform/ |website=hub.packtpub.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=SHANAHAN |first1=DAVE W. |title=Community platform Spectrum, home to almost 5,000 developer communities, joins GitHub |url=https://www.onmsft.com/news/community-platform-spectrum-home-to-almost-5000-developer-communities-joins-github |website=onmsft.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{Dts|7 January}} || Product || GitHub opens its private repositories to non-paying users, who now get unlimited private projects with up to three collaborators, an amount being the only limitation.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lardinois |first1=Frederic |title=GitHub Free users now get unlimited private repositoriesGitHub Free users now get unlimited private repositoriesGitHub Free users now get unlimited private repositories |url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/github-free-users-now-get-unlimited-private-repositories/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=SAWERS |first1=PAUL |title=GitHub private repositories open to non-paying users |url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/07/github-private-repositories-open-to-non-paying-users/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Locklear |first1=Mallory |title=All GitHub users can keep their code private |url=https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/07/all-github-users-keep-code-private/ |website=engadget.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=BRIGHT |first1=PETER |title=Unlimited private repositories now available to free GitHub users |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/free-github-accounts-now-offer-private-repos/ |website=arstechnica.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Claburn |first1=Thomas |title=This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/07/github_free_private_repos/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{Dts|20 February}} || Product || GitHub facilitates researchers to look for bugs on its code-hosting site by removing the cap on its bug bounty program's top payout and offering new legal protections for white hat hackers.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Spadafora |first1=Anthony |title=Github raises bug bounty prize |url=https://www.techradar.com/news/github-raises-bug-bounty-prize |website=techradar.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tung |first1=Liam |title=GitHub bug bounty: Microsoft ramps up payouts to $30,000-plus |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/github-bug-bounty-microsoft-ramps-up-payouts-to-30000-plus/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wyciślik-Wilson |first1=Mark |title=GitHub widens the scope of its bug bounty program and increases rewards |url=https://betanews.com/2019/02/20/updated-github-bug-bounty/ |website=betanews.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Donnell |first1=Lindsey |title=GitHub Increases Rewards, Scope For Bug-Bounty Program |url=https://threatpost.com/github-scope-rewards-bug-bounty/142024/ |website=threatpost.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Millman |first1=Rene |title=GitHub build out its bug bounty programme and increases reward for spotted flaws |url=https://www.itpro.co.uk/safe-harbour/33040/github-build-out-its-bug-bounty-programme-and-increases-reward-for-spotted-flaws |website=itpro.co.uk |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{Dts|6 March}} || || Microsoft makes the source code for its Windows calculator available on GitHub,  encouraging developers to participate in the development of Calculator.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Warren |first1=Tom |title=Microsoft open-sources its Windows calculator on GitHub |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18253474/microsoft-windows-calculator-open-source-github |website=theverge.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Speed |first1=Richard |title=Microsoft flings the Windows Calculator source at GitHub |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/07/open_source_windows_calculator/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Parrack |first1=Dave |title=Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Calculator on GitHub |url=https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/microsoft-open-sources-windows-calculator-github/ |website=makeuseof.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Foley |first1=Mary Jo |title=Microsoft is open-sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-open-sourcing-windows-calculator-on-github/ |website=zdnet.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fagioli |first1=Brian |title=Microsoft makes Windows Calculator open source on GitHub |url=https://betanews.com/2019/03/06/microsoft-windows-calculator-open-source-github/ |website=betanews.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref> 
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| 2019 || {{Dts|22 April}} || Censorship/protest || A vocal group of {{w|Microsoft}} employees put forward a petition in defense of a trending GitHub repository they believe could be under threat of Chinese censorship. The repository, called 996.ICU, was established previously in late march by Chinese tech workers protesting extreme overwork under the gruelling {{w|996 working hour system}} commonly practiced in China.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liao |first1=Shannon |title=Microsoft workers pressure company to stand by embattled Chinese GitHub repo |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/22/18511088/microsoft-github-tech-censorship-996-repository-china |website=theverge.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Donovan |first1=Caroline |title=A Post About China's "996" Workweek Went Viral On GitHub. Now Microsoft Employees Want To Protect It From Censorship. |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/microsoft-petition-996-icu-workweek-china |website=buzzfeednews.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Menegus |first1=Bryan |title=Microsoft and GitHub Workers Take a Stand Against Grueling, Inhumane '996' Culture in China |url=https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-and-github-workers-take-a-stand-against-gruel-1834210579 |website=gizmodo.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Claburn |first1=Thomas |title=Fed up with 72-hour, six-day working weeks, IT workers emit cries for help via GitHub repo |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/microsoft_github_china/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Banjo |first1=Shelly |title=Microsoft Workers Criticize Block of GitHub Protest in China |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/microsoft-workers-criticize-block-of-github-protest-in-china |website=bloomberg.com |accessdate=1 May 2019}}</ref>
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