Blog | Sourcegraph

FEB 23, 2023

Sourcegraph 4.5 release

Sourcegraph 4.5 introduces further support for Gerrit as a code host and a new Code Insights UI to make it easier to create repository-scoped insights.

FEB 15, 2023

Change a single character in hundreds of GitHub repos while staying in control

How we upgraded from actions/checkout@v2 to actions/checkout@v3 for GitHub Actions across all our repositories.

FEB 8, 2023

Notes on code security at Google: finding and fixing vulnerabilities in a massive codebase

Some interesting ways Google ensures their codebase stays secure, across billions of lines of code and ~30,000 software engineers.

JAN 30, 2023

Building conc: Better structured concurrency for Go

We built and released conc, an open-source library that makes it easier and safer to write concurrent code in Go.

JAN 20, 2023

Sourcegraph 4.4 release

Sourcegraph 4.4 introduces improvements to BitBucket Cloud support and a new background job dashboard for debugging.

DEC 16, 2022

Sourcegraph 4.3 release

Sourcegraph 4.3 introduces the fuzzy finder, search context favorites, webhooks for repository syncing, and faster and more reliable code insights.

DEC 15, 2022

Code Search at Google: The story of Han-Wen and Zoekt

At Sourcegraph, we're inspired by developers that make a difference. Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of Zoekt, an open source search engine for code based on Google's internal Code Search tool, is one of those inspiring developers.

DEC 8, 2022

Helping users find code by automatically running alternative queries

Discover how we made code search better by helping developers find and click on results that they would not normally see otherwise.

DEC 5, 2022

Sourcegraph and Backstage: Using the Sourcegraph search API to create an entity provider for your Backstage catalog

How to create a light, fast, and reliable Backstage ingestion provider for all your code hosts using the Sourcegraph API.

NOV 29, 2022

Sourcegraph 4.2 release

Sourcegraph 4.2 introduces the new audit log, executor secrets for server-side Batch Changes, and Smart Search to make it easier to find the search results you're looking for.

NOV 21, 2022

Ranking in a week

In just over a week, four developers designed and built a data pipeline utilizing Sourcegraph's wealth of source code data. The result is Sourcegraph's new search ranking system inspired by PageRank.

NOV 8, 2022

Rethinking search results ranking on Sourcegraph.com

Sourcegraph has overhauled the ranking algorithm to prioritize relevancy and code reuse for searches on popular OSS repos.

NOV 2, 2022

OpenSSL 3.0.7

OpenSSL 3.0.7 is available and addresses two security vulnerabilities. Here's what you need to know.

OCT 25, 2022

Migrating from Monaco Editor to CodeMirror

We migrated our search input from Monaco to CodeMirror6. It's been a delightful experience and we are now migrating our Notebooks and other functionality too.

OCT 25, 2022

Multi-version upgrades

Sourcegraph administration just got an order-of-magnitude quality-of-life improvement. Using a Sourcegraph 4.0 (or later) migrator utility, you can upgrade your on-prem installation of Sourcegraph from 3.20 directly to Sourcegraph 4.0 and beyond.

OCT 21, 2022

Code search tidbits: 4 underrated features

You can do some pretty wild things with Sourcegraph that you won't find in any other code search tool today. Here are 4 short-and-sweet tidbits of underrated search features that go a bit extra.

OCT 21, 2022

Sourcegraph 4.1 release

Sourcegraph 4.1 introduces new features for server-side Batch Changes and improvements to the code navigation reference panel.

OCT 20, 2022

Sourcegraph and Backstage: Bootstrapping Backstage catalog adoption with Sourcegraph Batch Changes

How to use Sourcegraph batch changes to rapidly bootstrap a Backstage catalog.

OCT 13, 2022

How Sourcegraph can save non-developers time and effort every day

Sourcegraph isn't just for software developers. Learn how product managers and analytics/business operations teammates use Sourcegraph as a powerful timesaver and cheat sheet that saves them 20-60 minutes multiple times per week. Everyone needs to navigate code and Sourcegraph makes codebases accessible to all.

OCT 5, 2022

Git vs. Perforce: how Salesforce engineering helped Sourcegraph scale to one of the largest monorepos

Sourcegraph is committed to making all the code in your organization discoverable, useful, and valuable. Here is how we helped Salesforce and how they helped us in return.