At GitHub Universe 2022 in San Francisco, GitHub – the world’s largest software development platform – made several announcements across its entire platform to give developers the tools to be creative, be happier, and to build the best work of their lives.
GitHub Copilot for businesses: GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that uses OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor. Very soon, businesses can purchase and manage seat licenses for GitHub Copilot for their employees. This will give businesses the proven benefits of core AI-assisted technologies, as well as added admin controls for various GitHub Copilot settings on behalf of an organization.
Because of how GitHub Copilot understands natural language and code, it gives developers a lot more than just a productivity boost. It helps them focus on business logic-over-boilerplate, and discover ideas they might not have otherwise considered. All from the comfort of their editor.
‘Hey, GitHub!’ enables voice-based interaction with GitHub Copilot: ‘Hey, GitHub!’ enables voice-based interaction with GitHub Copilot and more – all with the power of your voice! This offers the potential to bring the benefits of GitHub Copilot to even more developers, including those who have difficulty typing using their hands. It further reduces the need for a keyboard when coding within VS Code for now, but GitHub hopes to expand its capabilities through further research and testing.
Codespaces for all: Codespaces is generally available for individuals, enabling anyone interested in software development to get started building in seconds. All GitHub users will receive 60 hours of Codespaces for free every month, helping lower the barrier to entry for developers everywhere.
Code search & code view: Marking the biggest redesign in seven years, these new features enable developers to transform how they navigate on GitHub including:
New search engine that can access the world’s code in less than one second
New search interface
Powerful queries with suggestions, completions and the ability to filter results
Redesigned code view that integrates search browsing and code navigation
Welcome roadmap and tasklists to Projects: GitHub has launched over 100 new features and updates since it unveiled Projects at Universe last year. Looking ahead, the company aims to roll out roadmap which will provide a full picture of what’s being worked on, what’s next, and how those items span across time. Alongside that, tasklists is being introduced to provide support for complex hierarchies.
Launching the public beta of private vulnerability reporting: Today, vulnerabilities are reported to maintainers through inconsistent and sometimes unsafe channels (public Issues, Twitter, security@ inbox, etc.). If the disclosure happens publicly, the maintainer has no time to fix the issue before bad actors have a chance to hear about it. Through private vulnerability reporting, researchers have a private new way to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in open source repositories. Once reported, maintainers can collaborate on, remediate, and push a CVE, all within the platform.
Unveiling GitHub Enterprise 3.7: GitHub is announcing its latest version of GitHub Enterprise, highlighting 70+ features like a Security Overview dashboard, support for reusable Actions workflows, and fundamental security enhancements to the management console.
Updates to GitHub Actions: With over 10M builds a day on GitHub Actions, developers can now take advantage of larger hosted runners to support bigger codebases and workflows. GitHub Actions Importer is also available to GitHub Enterprise customers looking to migrate from their former automation tool to GitHub Actions to get up and running faster.
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, said: “Fifteen years ago, the first line of code was committed to build GitHub. Since then, our purpose has been to equip developers with everything they need to be their best. This mission has remained the same through every iteration of the GitHub platform. But as software continues to advance in all aspects of our work and life, running, maintaining, and building software for a global population creates immense complexity for developers.
GitHub has built the one, integrated platform that gives developers the tools to be creative, to be happier, and to build the best work of their lives. We are at a turning point, and it’s time for a new developer experience.”
GitHub Universe is GitHub’s annual marquee product and user conference. The two-day event brings together a global interconnected community of thousands of developers, industry thought leaders, and executives to hear what’s next from GitHub, and learn about the tools and concepts that are pushing the software industry forward.
