GitHub Octoverse 2026

At GitHub Universe, EVP Jay Parikh announced the 2026 Octoverse report, highlighting that merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million per month, commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, and the new repository rate doubled to 30.3 million per month. The report adds industry breakdowns and counts repositories involving interoperability or reverse engineering, and its methodology notes LLM-based extraction of ISO country codes from profiles to adjust for VPN bias.