GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages allow you to publish web content to a github.com subdomain named after your username. With Pages, publishing web content becomes as easy as pushing to your GitHub repository.…
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The Fork Queue
I would like to introduce you to the Fork Queue, the first of two big features that rolled out today. As of a few minutes ago, everybody should now have…
Git Training
Thinking about moving to Git? Want to bring the rest of your team up to speed? GitHub now offers customized Git Training.  Visit the training page for more information.
Pushes!
You'll no longer see a flood of commit events in your dashboard. Instead? Push events.  Commit events will still appear on your profile and in all your RSS feeds…
Basic Auth Post-Receives
Want to make sure your post-receive hook only gets called by GitHub? Post-receive URLs now support HTTP basic auth.
Support, no longer a pain in our ass
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you guys are a pain in the ass. We love our users. Didn't you get the box of chocolates we sent you?…
More GitHub Gem Goodies
You can now pass @--learn@ to any GitHub gem command to see the @git@ operations being run under the covers. Hot off the presses: Your browser does not support IFrames…
Playing the Blame Game
One of the features I use a lot in git is 'git blame', which will show you who was the last person to change each line in any file in…
Recently Updated and Created Repositories
Edit: this feature has been replaced by https://github.com/trending You can now browse recently updated and recently created repositories for a specific language. Go nuts!
Multiple Post-Receive URLs
You can now add multiple Post-Receive URLs for a single repository. Also, the Post-Receive settings have moved to the 'Services' tab (where they belong).
Impact Graph Speedups
Impact Graphs got a nice upgrade today that has resulted in improved render times (except on the very first load after the recent deploy). Once a graph has been generated,…
Wiki Preview
More Slowness Eradicated
Creating comments, editing wiki pages, making Gists, and other "write" DB operations are now much faster.  That is all.
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…