Project management software
Computer software to manage projects
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| 2024 | GitHub reported over five billion developer contributions to more than 500 million open source projects. |
| 2023 | Parts of Twitter's source code were leaked and uploaded to GitHub, first reported by the New York Times. Twitter filed a legal action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming copyright infringement and seeking to identify the GitHub user 'FreeSpeechEnthusiast' who posted the leaked source code. |
| 2021 | ispmanager 6 was released, featuring interface optimization, improved software updates, and resource monitoring. The new version included an updated APS repository and Ansible support, offering enhanced web server control panel capabilities for website owners and hosting providers. |
| November 3 2021 | Nat Friedman resigned as GitHub's leader, being replaced by Thomas Dohmke. |
| January 2021 | GitHub fired an employee who expressed concerns about colleagues following the January 6 United States Capitol attack, labeling some rioters as 'Nazis'. |
| January 2021 | Following the investigation, GitHub reached out to the fired employee and the company's head of human resources resigned. |
| November 2020 | GitHub Enterprise Server's source code was leaked online, reportedly due to an internal mishap where GitHub accidentally shared the code with Enterprise customers, which was framed as a protest against a DMCA takedown of youtube-dl. |
| July 2020 | GitHub stored a comprehensive archive of all active and significant public repositories in an abandoned mountain mine in Svalbard, Norway, as part of the Arctic World Archive. The 21TB of data was preserved on piqlFilm archival film reels using a matrix barcode, with an expected preservation timespan of 500-1,000 years. |
| July 2020 | GitHub established the GitHub Archive Program to ensure long-term preservation of open-source code. |
| June 2020 | GitHub changed its 'master/slave' branch terminology amid the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter movement, which reignited discussion about the ICE contract. |
| April 19 2020 | Chinese police detained Chen Mei and Cai Wei, volunteers for Terminus 2049 project on GitHub, accusing them of 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble' for archiving censored materials. |
| April 15 2020 | The npm acquisition by GitHub was officially closed. |
| April 14 2020 | GitHub made all core GitHub features free for everyone, including private repositories with unlimited collaborators. |
| March 2020 | GitHub announced the acquisition of npm, a JavaScript packaging vendor, for an undisclosed sum. |
| February 2020 | GitHub launched its operations in India, establishing GitHub India Private Limited. |
| December 2019 | An open letter from the open source community demanding GitHub cancel its ICE contract was shared, ultimately gaining over 700 signatures. |
| October 9 2019 | GitHub CEO Nat Friedman publicly addressed the ICE contract controversy, acknowledging the contract's value and pledging $500,000 to nonprofit groups supporting immigrant communities in an email and blog post. |
| September 2019 | GitHub acquired Semmle, a code analysis tool, expanding its technological capabilities. |
| July 25 2019 | GitHub blocked private repositories for developers based in Iran, leading to a broader sanctions policy affecting developers in Iran, Crimea, Cuba, North Korea, and Syria from accessing private repositories. |
| May 23 2019 | GitHub announced the public beta of GitHub Sponsors, a platform allowing monthly monetary donations to open-source projects, with zero fees and additional financial incentives for early adopters. |
| January 2019 | GitHub began offering limited private repositories at no cost, with a limit of three contributors per project. |
| October 26 2018 | Microsoft completed the acquisition of GitHub, with the platform continuing to operate independently under Microsoft's ownership. |
| June 19 2018 | GitHub expanded GitHub Education by offering free education bundles to all schools. |
| June 4 2018 | Microsoft announced its intent to acquire GitHub for US$7.5 billion, marking a significant milestone in the company's tech strategy. |
| March 19 2018 | GitHub restricted Gist uploads to logged-in users only, a measure implemented to mitigate spamming on the recent Gists page. |
| February 28 2018 | GitHub experienced the third-largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in history, with peak incoming traffic of approximately 1.35 terabits per second. |
| 2016 | GitHub launched the GitHub Campus Experts program to support and train university students in developing technology communities worldwide. The program provides students 18 and older with training, funding, and resources to run events and grow tech communities, requiring completion of an online training course with multiple modules to develop community leadership skills. |
| October 8 2016 | Turkey blocked GitHub to prevent email leakage of a hacked account belonging to the country's energy minister. |
| 2015 | GitHub opened its first international office in Japan. |
| July 2015 | GitHub raised $250 million in a series B round of venture capital, led by Sequoia Capital and including investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and IVP. The company was valued at approximately $2 billion. |
| March 26 2015 | A large-scale DDoS attack was launched against GitHub.com, lasting nearly five days and apparently originating from China, targeting content about circumventing internet censorship. |
| 2014 | Julio Avalos, then General Counsel and Administrative Officer, assumed control over GitHub's business operations and day-to-day management. |
| 2014 | ispmanager 5 was released, developed on the proprietary COREmanager framework with a new web server, plugin system, and orion theme style. The product was packaged in deb/rpm packages with data storage moved to SQLite or MySQL databases. |
| December 31 2014 | India blocked GitHub.com along with 31 other websites over pro-ISIS content, with the block lifted three days later. |
| December 4 2014 | Russia blacklisted GitHub.com due to user-posted suicide manuals, but withdrew the block after one day and GitHub began blocking specific content in Russia. |
| April 2014 | Tom Preston-Werner resigned from GitHub after the internal investigation found he had acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct and disregard of workplace complaints. |
| April 2014 | GitHub initially released a statement denying Horvath's harassment allegations. Following an internal investigation, the company later confirmed her claims. |
| March 2014 | GitHub programmer Julie Ann Horvath alleged harassment by founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner and his wife Theresa, which led to her leaving the company. |
| 2013 | By the end of the year, GitHub reached 10 million repositories. |
| January 16 2013 | GitHub passed 3 million users and was hosting more than 5 million repositories. |
| July 2012 | Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million in venture capital in GitHub, valuing the company at $750 million. |
| 2011 | GitHub doubled its repository count to 2 million. ReadWriteWeb reported GitHub surpassed SourceForge and Google Code in total number of commits from January to May. |
| 2010 | GitHub began hosting 1 million repositories. |
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