GitHub is now also a CVE CNA and can issue its own CVE numbers for bugs disclosed in projects hosted on the platform. ... It will only work for PHP projects coded to work with Composer projects.

The PHP team has confirmed to BleepingComputer that they plan on eventually decommissioning their git server in the upcoming days and moving to GitHub permanently. Update 29-Mar-21 7:22 AM ET ...

Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added a line that, if run by a PHP-powered website, would have allowed visitors with no authorization to execute code of their choice.

Before 2016, TypeScript was not a top 10 language in GitHub's rankings but it climbed to seventh position in 2018 and over the past year has shot up to fourth spot, eclipsing C#, PHP and C++.