GitHub is ready to save your eyes with dark mode, available now

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At its virtual GitHub Universe briefing today, GitHub took the wraps off of a whole slew of new features for developers to take reward of. The highlight, nonetheless, is something that will surely elicit a huge, collective sigh of relief (or cacophany of thank you): dark way. No longer will you lot have to shield your eyes from your screen if you just happen to open up GitHub in a night room.

GitHub'south dark manner is available now every bit function of a public beta. You can enable it in the "appearance" portion of GitHub's settings. Though, with this being a public beta, expect there to be at least some wonkiness involved.

Beyond simply being kinder to your eyes, GitHub is making information technology simpler for pull request authors to merge their requests after reviews and checks have passed. Pull request auto-merge will let authors opt in to accept their pull requests merged automatically in one case all reviews and status checks are completed. This new characteristic is set to launch in public beta starting adjacent calendar week.

GitHub repositories are also getting access to a new space for their communities to interact. Fittingly called "Discussions, the characteristic allows people to have ongoing conversations most a project in a dedicated infinite, ask questions, and more than. Discussions can be pinned, issues can be converted into discussions, and more.

Discussions is available at present in beta for all public repositories.

GitHub Unicerse is set up to run through Dec 10, with lots of discussions for developers to dive into. For more, you tin can check out the GitHub Universe page.