GitHub releases Octoverse report

Oct 29

1. 00:45

   Simon Willison

   GitHub Octoverse 2026: Merged PRs Rise to 220 Million per Month

   In the Octoverse 2026 report, GitHub announced that in 2026 merged pull requests rose to 220 million per month in less than a year, commits rose to 7.38 billion per month, and the rate of new repository creation doubled to 30.3 million per month. The report also tallies repository data by industry, and separately counts public repositories whose names, descriptions, topics, or READMEs involve interoperability or reverse engineering. The methodology section explains that for country rankings, an LLM extracts ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes from user profiles to correct for VPN bias, while for industry classification, a fine-tuned multilingual embedding model is used to categorize public repositories created between 2022 and 2026 according to NAICS.

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2. 00:10

   heise online

   GitHub Octoverse report: TypeScript remains the most-contributed-to language, over 40% of PRs drafted by agents

   GitHub said in its Octoverse report on October 28 that Pull Requests merged over the past twelve months reached 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million per day, three times the figure for the same period last year. More than 40% of Pull Requests begin with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file receive eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million.

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