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From its Monty Python origins to its dominance in the age of AI. Yes, we're talking about Python. 🐍

We sat down with creator Guido van Rossum to discuss its incredible trajectory in the 2025 Octoverse report. 📊

Learn how community and stability shaped a global powerhouse. 🚀
https://gh.io/AAyvkm9
Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, featured in an image with the text, "The creator of Python speaks"
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The U.S. PTO has proposed rules that would make it harder to challenge junk patents. 🛑

This puts the startups, developers, and open source organizations that power innovation at risk.

Speak up and share your concerns before the comment period closes on December 2. ⏳
Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents
Calling on developers and organizations to advocate against patent rules that would make it harder to challenge bad patents by the December 2 deadline.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Have you checked out this new feature for pull requests? No more switching back and forth between tabs during a review. 🎉

The more you know 💫
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-20-pull-request-files-changed-public-preview-november-20-updates/
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Today on Open Source Friday, we’re spotlighting @cilium.io!

Powered by eBPF, it brings modern networking, security, and observability to your cloud-native environments. 🐝

Set a reminder for when we go live. 🔔
https://gh.io/cilium
Promotional image for Open Source Friday featuring Bill Mulligan with the Cilium logo.
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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We discovered that 48% of accessibility audit issues could be prevented with better design documentation. 📉

So our internal team built a solution to bridge the gap—and now we’ve open sourced it. Meet the Annotation Toolkit.

Level up your design-to-code collaboration. ✨
https://gh.io/AAyr2l0
Level up design-to-code collaboration with GitHub's open source Annotation Toolkit
The Annotation Toolkit brings clarity, compliance, and collaboration directly into your Figma workflow.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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BRB, just adding weight sensors to the couch 💡

In our latest episode of the GitHub Podcast we talked to Franck Nijhof about Home Assistant: from intriguing use cases to its mission to build privacy-first, open-source smart home technology, powered by a passionate community.
LIVE from GitHub Universe: Privacy-First Smart Homes with Frenck from Home Assistant | The GitHub Podcast
In this episode, recorded live at GitHub Universe 2025, Andrea sits down with Frank “Frenck” Nijhof, a GitHub Star and project lead for Home Assistant, one of the most active open source projects on t...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Take a guess. 💭

In 2025, which country delivered the most GitHub open source contributors?

• Brazil
• Germany
• India
• United States
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Git 2.52 is here with support for tree-level blames, new repository maintenance strategies, performance enhancements, and much more. ✨

Check out highlights from the latest release.👇
https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-52/
Highlights from Git 2.52
The open source Git project just released Git 2.52. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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If your weekend ritual includes ☕ and a good listen, make it the Octoverse GitHub podcast episode.

TypeScript dethroning Python, vibe coding, 70M new repos, and one new dev joining GitHub every second—all unpacked with Andrea, Kedasha, and special guest Jeff Luszcz.
TypeScript’s Takeover, AI’s Lift-Off: Inside the 2025 Octoverse Report | The GitHub Podcast
Andrea and Kedasha sit down with data whisperer Jeff Luszcz, one of the wizards behind GitHub’s annual Octoverse report, to unpack this year’s biggest shifts.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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It’s beanie season. Naturally, we came prepared.

Keep warm from head to toe with our new GitHub Shop collection https://thegithubshop.com/collections/new-arrivals?utm_source=social&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=beanie
Person wearing a blue GitHub ugly holiday beanie smiling outdoors with a sunlit water backdrop.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Today on Open Source Friday, we'll chat with Laurent Cozic, the creator of @joplinapp.bsky.social! 📝

Learn about the powerful, private, open-source note-taking app with:
✨ End-to-end encryption
✨ Capabilities on desktop & mobile
✨ A community-driven plugin ecosystem

Set a reminder! 👇
gh.io/joplin
Open Source Friday graphic featuring Laurent Cozic, the creator of Joplin, the open source note-taking app.
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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When your dad breaks Minecraft.

And the internet.

Watch the full interview about the biggest security vulnerability of all time 👉 https://github.blog/open-source/inside-the-breach-that-broke-the-internet-the-untold-story-of-log4shell/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=minecraft
November 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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❗ Breaking: notifications from @ mentions in commit messages will be removed next month. 👀
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-07-removing-notifications-for-mentions-in-commit-messages/
A GitHub commit interface, displaying commit number 6767676 by user Lee Reilly, labeled as verified and authored 7 minutes ago. The commit message reads, "Various bug fixes and improvements. Don't @ me!" with the branch main indicated. The background features a red grid.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Nearly a billion commits later, the way we ship code has changed for good. 🚀 But it's more than just speed.

Here's what the 2025 Octoverse data reveals about how devs really work now. @cassidoo.co explains.👇
What 986 million code pushes say about the developer workflow in 2025
Nearly a billion commits later, the way we ship code has changed for good. Here’s what the 2025 Octoverse data says about how devs really work now.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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TODAY: We're live with Jelle Raaijmakers of Ladybird Browser! Learn how their team is building a brand-new web engine from scratch. 🛠️

Join the stream at 12 p.m. PT. ▶️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6_79RzntEQ h
Promotional graphic for Open Source Friday featuring Jelle Raaijmakers of Ladybird Browser.
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Typescript became the #1 programming language on GitHub. Who better to talk about this new ranking than creator, Anders Hejlsberg? 👀

Get his thoughts on this year’s Octoverse findings. 💭 ⬇️
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TypeScript’s rise in the AI era: Insights from Lead Architect, Anders Hejlsberg
TypeScript just became the most-used language on GitHub. Here’s why, according to its creator.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A new theme. A blank repo. Endless possibilities.

The #GitHubGameOff challenge has begun: https://github.blog/company/github-game-off-2025-theme-announcement
GitHub Game Off 2025 theme announcement
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 13th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme WAVES—literal, digital, or emotional. 👋🏻 🌊 📡
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November 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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New fear unlocked (just in time for Halloween): sentient Furbies 👀 #GitHubUniverse
Screenshot of a code editor displaying Python code with a small ASCII art image of a Furby integrated into the code. A diff is shown changing the variable `sentient` from `False` to `True`, and making the Furby's eyes change to Xs. A moment from the 2025 GitHub Universe Day 2 keynote demonstrating a choir of programmed Furbies. A close-up of a programmed purple Furby with the text "SOON".
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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🎃 Trick or treat (yourself) to some open source horror!

We dug through the GitHub Blog archives for the spookiest games to play or hack this Halloween.👇
https://github.blog/tag/halloween/
Illustration of three animated zombies wearing GitHub logo t-shirts in a spooky cemetery setting. Various tombstones with an Octocat tentacle coming out of the ground. Mona the Octocat as a mummy. Illustration of cartoon Octocats dressed in Halloween costumes while riding on a broomstick, with the moon in the background.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Write your developer horror story in 5 words or less. 🎃

We'll go first: Remote code execution.

https://github.blog/open-source/inside-the-breach-that-broke-the-internet-the-untold-story-of-log4shell/

October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Sometimes you catch nearly all the bugs but miss that really significant one. 🐛

Here's how one top security researcher finds those critical vulnerabilities. 🔍
https://github.blog/security/top-security-researcher-shares-their-bug-bounty-process/
Top security researcher shares their bug bounty process
For this year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to put the spotlight on a talented security researcher--@dev-bio!
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October 31, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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And that's a wrap for #GitHubUniverse: Two days of creativity, learning, and collaboration with developers from around the world. Let's do it all again next year Oct 28-29, 2026!

Missed it? Catch up on-demand 👉 https://githubuniverse.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=wrap_car
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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1.12 billion contributions. Over 180 million developers. This year, GitHub saw record growth, surging uses in AI, and significant shifts in programming languages.

What other stories do the numbers tell? Let’s dive into the data. This is Octoverse. 👇
https://gh.io/AAy5upr
Line graph titled "The top five programming languages on GitHub in 2025." It shows the trends of users of Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, and C# from January 2023 to July 2025. Each language is represented by a color, with TypeScript and Python coming in first and second, respectively. Chart titled "Tracking the top developer populations on GitHub (2020-2025)." It lists 10 countries in order: United States, India, China, Brazil, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Indonesia, Russia, and Canada. Each row shows the country's five-year trend, 2020 to 2025 developer count, and five-year compound annual growth rate percentage. Graph showing the total number of AI-related open source and public projects on GitHub, with total repos increasing from slightly above 500,000 in 2020 to over 4,000,000 after 2024. Graph titled "Growth in contributors to generative AI projects." It displays the number of distinct contributors from January 2024 to July 2025, which has fluctuated between around 70,000 and over 200,000.
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Yes, you can in fact hack a Furby with Copilot
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Take a little tour around #GitHubUniverse ✨
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM