GitHub Octoverse 2026: 17.9 billion code pushes in twelve months

According to GitHub's Octoverse report, developers pushed code 17.9 billion times over the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined.

By GennnAi·October 28, 2026·1 min read

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Commits across public and private repositories reached 34.3 billion, and merged pull requests more than tripled to 1.3 billion. As of September, developers start over 40% of pull requests with an agent, versus 17% in March. In September, 61% of GitHub Copilot users used more than one model. GitHub says it now serves more than 225 million developers, and public contributions reached 2.5 billion in 2026.

Source: GitHub Blog, published on October 28, 2026.