‘Developers worked faster in 2021’
Developers finished their projects faster in the past year. This is one of the conclusions of GitHub's annual review of developments on its platform.
The annual State of the Octoverse report for 2021 shows developers were able to deliver their code faster, regardless of where and how they carrie...
Retool raises $20 million at $1.85 billion estimate
Retool Inc., a low-code software development platform vendor, just announced the collection of $20 million Series C from Stripe founders and other enterprises at a $1.85B pre-money valuation. It covers venture capital, software, and startups costs.
Retool Inc. announced the closure of a $20 mill...
European Commission expands its supply of open-source software
The European Commission is broadening its ability to share software developed and used by the European government. Source code will be offered in a new, central and public registry.
Today, the European Commission agreed to broaden the rules for publishing software used by the European government...
GitLab 14.5 released with infrastructure as code security scanning
The new release also offers group-level merge request approvals.
This week GitLab released its monthly update, v14.5. With this update, the company has made the GitLab Kubernetes Agent available to all users. This is why its core features along with the CI/CD Tunnel are now part of GitLab’s fr...
GitHub presents GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3
GitHub releases a trial version of GitHub Enterprise Server 3.3. The changes strengthen functionality -- particularly for security and CI/CD.
GitHub Enterprise Server is an instance of Microsoft's code hosting platform that can be deployed as a virtual appliance in both on-premises and cloud env...
GitLab plans an IPO, as revenue and losses rise
GitLab, a provider of cloud services for software developers to share code and collaborate on projects, announced on Friday that it plans to go public with an initial offering of stock.
The San-Francisco-based company, which counts GitHub and Atlassian as its competitors, did not reveal how much...
An EU-commissioned study in the impact of open source returns mixed results
The economic benefits highlighted by the study are enormous. However, the European Union is on the "back foot" when it comes to implementation. The study comes from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG Connect). The study's authors in...
Linus Torvalds says GitHub merges are ‘useless garbage’ as new NTFS support comes to Linux 5.15
Linus Torvalds plans to pull Paragon Software’s NTFS driver into the 5.15 kernel source. However, he complained about the use of GitHub merge in the submission, saying that it creates “absolutely useless garbage merges.”
Early last month, Torvalds made it known to Paragon Software that it ...
Microsoft planning to introduce Visual Studio Code for the Web
Microsoft looks ready to bring a code editor that runs entirely in the browser, named Visual Studio Code for the Web. It revealed all this in a post introducing the new service that was put up yesterday and then taken down later, possibly because it was published prematurely.
It is expected to r...
GitHub is transitioning users to 2FA
GitHub users are urged by the platform to enable two-factor authentication, as it seeks to change how accounts are protected from attacks.
GitHub’s Mike Hanley posted a blog this week saying that beginning August 13, GitHub stopped accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations...
Google unveils the Allstar GitHub app
The app provides for continuous enforcement of best security practices
This week Google announced the release of the Allstar GitHub application. The app enables what the tech giant calls "automated continuous enforcement of security best practices" in GitHub projects.
The new app works by ena...
GitHub Codespaces available to Enterprise users
To kick off the rollout of its browser-based coding environment, Codespaces, to a wider audience, GitHub is extending access to GitHub Team and Enterprise (cloud) plans.
GitHub is owned by Microsoft and has announced that internally, it transitioned from a macOS model to Codespaces, which is now...