More Slowness Eradicated
Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other "write" DB operations are now much faster.  That is all.
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The New, Improved GitHub Gem
While at RubyConf this year, giving my talk and drinking like an idiot with nearly every internet-famous Rubyist out there, I had a great idea. Only my incredible humility prevents…
Brand new feature we don’t want you to use
That's right, in the past accounts could not be deleted. Previously we advised users to downgrade to the free plan and stop using their account, but some people wanted to…
PDF Receipts
We send an email receipt whenever we charge your credit card on GitHub. While this is sufficient for most, not all corporations are happy receiving a plain/text receipt, so we're…
GitHub Code Search
Update: GitHub Codesearch is now located at github.com/search Today we're unveiling a new feature on GitHub that we've been working on for a bit now that lets you search through…
Our RubyGem build scripts are now open source
The amount of people running into issues with our gem builder has been overwhelming, so we're releasing the code if some kind souls want to lend a hand making the…
Participation Graphs go Canvas
 I've converted our participation graphs (as seen above) to use Canvas instead of Flash. Linux users rejoice! This means the graphs should load quite a bit faster and not…
Network Graph: Better, Stronger, Faster!
 It's been almost 6 months since we released the network graph and since then it has become an indispensable part of the GitHub experience. Over that period I've been…
Repo Deletion for Everyone
Here's our latest feature: Did ya spot it? It's the delete button! No, we're not crazy. Prior to today, if you had a project that had been forked, you were…
Token Authentication
We've just added site-wide token based authentication. You can find your API token in your account page, front and center. Simply pass login and token to any URL which requires…
GitHub Languages
Edit: these features are no longer available. To go along with our new language graphs we've added some site-wide language pages. First, the top languages in GitHub as used by…
One more thing…
When do people usually commit to Rubinius?  What languages are used by gitbuilder?  Who committed how much to GitNub, and when?  Big thanks to Chris Neukirchen for…
Ubiquitous Gists
Mozilla's Ubiquity is pretty cool. We just pushed out support for commands in Gist If we detect that a Gist contains an Ubiquity command, we'll add the proper markup to…
Subversion Importing!
Double plus update: Check out our help documentation for full details on importing from SVN. Update: There have been reports of hanging on the import authors page and the import…
Submodule Display
We now detect and display submodules making it easy to see what other code is being referenced via our web interface.  If the submodule points to a repo on…