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GitKraken Boards: New Trello Importer
GitKraken Boards for task tracking now offers a Trello importer and board templates. Import Trello boards with complete card details into GitKraken Boards to level up your issue management.
GitKraken Git GUI v7.1: Trello Integration
Improve your Trello experience by integrating your issue tracker with the most popular Git GUI on the market and level up your project management.
How to Plan a Product Release
Planning a product release is complicated. GitKraken Boards for issue tracking and GitKraken Timelines for communicating milestones are free developer tools that will set you up for success from the start.
Announcing the GitKraken Suite
The GitKraken Suite is a set of free developer tools that helps your organization shift-left and optimize the planning and coding phases of DevOps.
GitKraken Boards: New Column Automation
Automation allows for less context switching and provides developers the ability to perform and track tasks and issues across platforms.
DevSecOps for the Public Sector
Wondering how to implement DevSecOps at a military or government organization? Find out best practices, strategies & tools for DevSecOps in the public sector.
Coronavirus Software Making a Difference
Development teams worldwide are stepping up to create COVID-19 trackers, maps, and more. If you’re working on a coronavirus-related project, apply to get GitKraken Pro free.
GitKraken Git GUI v7.0: Jira Integration
The GitKraken Git GUI now integrates with Jira Server, Jira Cloud & GitKraken Boards. Find out how to reduce context switching & streamline issue tracking!
2020 Trends in Software Development
What are the latest trends in the software development industry? Get 2020 insights on hiring, tools and technologies, managing software development, performance measurement, and more.
Best Tools for Remote Dev Teams
What are the best tools for collaboration, communication, and project management for remote development teams? The GitKraken Git GUI, Slack, Google Meet, and Glo Issue Boards top the list.
Top 10 Enterprise Tools for Developers
What are the best enterprise software tools for DevOps, automation, monitoring, issue tracking, and security? Here’s your list of the tools needed to reach DevOps success.
Best Courses to Learn Git
What are the best courses to learn Git online? Discover branching, how to use Git and GitHub, and more with these recommended courses for learning Git.
Common Challenges of Using Azure DevOps
Learn more about integrating Azure DevOps with GitKraken, including how to clone a repository, generate Git credentials, authentication, pushing changes, and more.
GitKraken v6.5: Fork & Perf Improvements
GitKraken is now 10% faster with 20% reduced memory consumption, and GitHub users can fork repositories directly through the GitKraken GUI.
CLI vs GitKraken GUI Speed Test
What are the advantages of using a Git GUI over the CLI? GitKraken will help you spend less time typing, will give you more confidence as a developer, and will improve your Git productivity.
Introducing GitKraken Timelines
It has never been this easy to communicate project milestones & goals. Find out how to get started with GitKraken Timelines, the free online timeline maker!
Critical Security Patch in Git and GitKraken
The GitKraken team actively monitors security channels to ensure our users are not prone to vulnerabilities and exposures. Please be sure to always update GitKraken to the latest available version.
Best Tools for Git
Git is the most popular version control system worldwide. What are the top software tools for developers using Git?
Axosoft Hosts Smash Bros. Tournament for Charity
Scottsdale tech company, Axosoft hosted two #AXOSMASH video game tournaments for the Phoenix tech community. All proceeds benefitted the #ItWasNeverADress nonprofit supporting women in tech.
Git Dos and Don’ts
The GitKraken Git Client simplifies Git commands and functions. This list of dos and don’ts will help you understand things like pull requests, Git LFS, repos, and more.
Track Project Milestones in GitKraken Boards
In GitKraken Boards you can now sync GitHub milestones and use dashboards to get a bird’s-eye view of board activity, including card count per column.
GitHub Pull Request Integration with Glo Boards
Track the statuses of your GitHub pull requests in Glo Boards! Link GitHub PRs to automate pull request management and streamline team workflow.
Best Developer Tools for Students
Computer science students often ask: What software tools should I be using to learn to code? Find out how you can get these 5 professional developer tools for free as a student!
How to Update Task/Issue Glo Cards in Slack
Glo Boards has always been convenient for updating tasks while working in development tools like GitKraken and VS Code. The Slack integration now gives developers yet another option to update issue cards without switching tools.
How to Host a Student Hackathon
Get the tools and tips you need to run a successful student hackathon, including what software to use, planning your timeline, raising funds, and more.
GitKraken Now Supports GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions are now more powerful than ever, and we are excited to announce support for GitHub Actions in both the GitKraken Git GUI and GitKraken Boards! Find out how to manage workflows and automate card actions…
Create Public Kanban Boards Using GitKraken Glo
This release includes exciting additions to developers’ favorite kanban tool: GitKraken Glo Boards! Including public boards, global search, card cover images, and more.
GitKraken v6.0: The Fastest GitKraken Ever!
The focus of the GitKraken v6.0 release is on speed and performance. Perf improvements allow rapid switching of repos in the form of tabs.
Using Git in Economics Research
DIME Analytics believes in teaching Git, and GitKraken to new researchers on the team through a focus on time and task management.
How to use Organizations & Teams in Glo Boards
Check out what we’ve been working on for GitKraken Glo Boards in 2019. We just released Organizations and Teams to help companies securely manage multiple users and boards!
Introducing the GitKraken Ambassadors
We’re happy to welcome over 60 professional and student developers from nearly 30 countries across the globe to our new program. Learn more about a few of them, the program and the perks!
How to Enhance Pull Request Descriptions Using Templates
To make a pull request as clear as possible, it should include relevant information about the proposed changes. GitKraken makes it painlessly easy to access your templates throughout your workflow.
Introducing Glo Marketplace
Learn about free apps for GitKraken Glo Boards that are now featured in the new Glo Marketplace: Import/Export/Sync Tools, Slack Integrations, Chrome Extensions, Screenshot Tools, Time Tracking, CI/CD Integrations, GitLab Integrations, IDE Integrations, and more.
Top Influencers in Software Development
Check out this list of our top 7 influencers in software development. These tech experts share their knowledge through podcasts, blogs, YouTube videos, + more.
Git CLI vs GUI
If you’re a software developer, there’s a good chance you’ve got an opinion on using the command line interface for Git operations. Many devs consider
GitKraken v5.0 – Interactive Rebase & GPG Signing
GitKraken now has more features to make your work experience even easier. Find out about new features like Interactive Rebase, GPG Commit Signing, and more…
Top Tech Conferences of 2019
Check out our list of top tech conferences software developers won’t want to miss in 2019. We bring you the when, what, where and why!
DevOps vs Agile
Learn how GitKraken can improve your organization’s DevOps AND Agile methods and discover more about the IT operations at Axosoft.
How to Enhance Your DevOps Workflow
In this article, we will show you how you can enhance your DevOps workflow using three dev tools: GitKraken, Bitbucket Server, and Jenkins.
GitKraken v4.2
In this release, we’ve added Bitbucket Server integration, File History and Blame View access, basic error-logging, new shortcuts, hover tooltips, and more. Find out more…
How to Build a Profitable Product
Axosoft Founder, Hamid Shojaee, was recently featured on the podcast Documentation Not Included. Hamid discusses building a product and all that entails. Check out the highlights or watch the recording!
GitKraken Boards vs Trello
Find out 10 ways GitKraken Boards outshines Trello for developers as an issue tracking and task management tool!
GitKraken v4.1
GitKraken is now stronger and smoother than a lumberjack on Timber. In this release, we’ve increased performance and significantly reduced memory consumption. Plus, GitKraken now supports GitHub, GitLab, and VSTS pull request templates. Find out more…
Saving Bandwidth (and Money) with Cloudflare CDN
We needed a solution for distributing GitKraken downloads and updates that was fast, cheap and required no downtime. Find out how Axosoft’s Director of IT used Cloudflare’s CDN to reduce bandwidth to the GitKraken release server by 100%!
Improving Your DevOps With GitKraken
In this article, learn how to solve common DevOps problems. James Quigley, Director of IT at Axosoft, shares his experiences as a DevOps engineer, the problems he encountered, and solutions for solving them.
GitKraken v4.0
Files can now be edited directly in the GitKraken Git Client, which means it’s easier than ever to start a project, create some files, and start coding! We’ve also added syntax highlighting, split view, and more…
GitKraken Reaches 1 Million Users
The GitKraken Git Client and Glo Boards just reached an incredible milestone of 1,000,000 users! Thank you to all of our users who made this possible. Now let’s get nostalgic and reflect on our journey together to reach one million…
GitKraken v3.6
When it comes to creating pull requests, GitKraken differentiates itself from other Git clients by providing more robust functionality. In this release, you now have the ability to add assignees, reviewers and labels to PRs. Also, you can monitor the status of PRs! Find out more…