No Bug November 🐞 [Repositories Check-in]

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Is anyone still basking in all the learnings, releases, and inspiration from GitHub Universe? This month’s check-in has ways to relive all of that while continuing to celebrate code and community, starting with some of our awesome members.

Wall of Fame 🤩 : These folks make our category so great !

• @quintyn: for all the Git commands and possible variations to make it possible to copy changes from one branch to another in their answer. This was so helpful!
• @TzivyaFireman: Answered [the question][(https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/143126) on uploading multiple folders to the same repo with a detailed and informed response. We appreciate you sharing your knowledge!
• @ynng3: Gave a succinct and clear comment to what happens to releases on a deleted forked repository. I love how easy it is to understand.

📣 Announcements: The latest updates around GitHub and in the Community 🆕

• Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Calling all applicants for the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, a program designed to financially and programmatically improve security and sustainability of open source projects. Learn more and how you can apply via our blogpost.

🗳️ Repository Releases: All updates, info, releases, etc that are Repo-related!

• Persistent commit signature verification now in public preview: We’re introducing a powerful new feature designed to elevate the security and reliability of your repository’s commit history. Read more about what this entails in our changelog.
• Repository deploy keys are controlled by enterprise and organization policy [GA]: GitHub Enterprise Cloud enterprise and organization administrators can now configure policies to restrict the usage of deploy keys across all the repositories of their organizations, giving you more control and greater security over your deploy keys. Read the post to get more details.

🪐 Universe 2024: Recapping the world’s fair of software, GitHub Universe 2024 was an unparalleled gathering of the brightest minds, companies, and innovators in the industry.

• New from Universe 2024 - Get the latest previews and releases:
  Read our blog post to find out how we’re evolving GitHub and GitHub Copilot—and get access to the latest previews and GA releases.
• Universe Recaps: Watch the Day One video and Day Two video to relive and/review the most exciting announcements, key sessions, and insights shared during the event.
• Using your repository for RAG: Learnings from GitHub Copilot Chat: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a tool that can enrich questions sent to AI models with relevant data from specific knowledge bases, to help models tailor their answers to that domain. Watch @kimadeline’s session on YouTube to walk through some lessons learned while building a RAG workflow using GitHub Copilot Chat.

Did you have a favorite session or release from GitHub Universe? Let us know below!