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Nat Friedman
@nat

June 29, 2021

Nat Friedman

Open source goes to Mars

This morning, we watched in awe as the first Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, took flight in the thin Martian atmosphere. This is an incredible achievement for the teams at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL).
Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran

Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid.
No cookie for you

Good news: we removed all cookie banners from GitHub! No one likes cookie banners. But cookie banners are everywhere. So how did we pull this off? Well, EU law requires you to use cookie
GitHub is now free for teams

Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
npm is joining GitHub

We’re excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
GitHub and US Government developers

At GitHub, we believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Today, I wanted to share a message I sent to all employees yesterday that is related to this, as it is important that we share our views on immigration policy with the world and not just internally with employees.
Welcoming Semmle to GitHub

Today we’re announcing a big step in securing the open source supply chain: we’re welcoming Semmle to the GitHub.
GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

Since we introduced GitHub Actions last year, the response has been phenomenal, and developers have created thousands of inspired workflows. But we’ve also heard clear feedback from almost everyone: you want CI/CD! And that’s what we’re announcing today.
Building an interconnected community, together

Today, we joined hundreds of developers in Berlin for GitHub Satellite, our global developer conference. To celebrate our interconnected community, we launched GitHub Sponsors to help support open source maintainers and contributors, released new security features to enable more secure software development from start to finish, and introduced new capabilities that address the needs of enterprises and large organizations.
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