GitHub Octoverse 2026 reports sharp increases in pull requests, commits, and repositories

What happened

GitHub EVP Jay Parikh announced Octoverse 2026 at GitHub Universe, where Simon Willison reported that merged pull requests tripled in less than a year to 220 million per month. Commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, and new repository creation doubled this year to 30.3 million per month. The report also describes LLM-assisted country classification, embedding-based industry categorization, and text-based identification of interoperability or reverse engineering repositories.

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The story so far

GitHub EVP Jay Parikh announced the Octoverse 2026 report at GitHub Universe, highlighting figures that Simon Willison reported showed merged pull requests tripling in less than a year to 220 million per month. Monthly commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion, while new repository creation doubled this year to 30.3 million per month. The report also describes using LLMs to classify countries, embeddings to categorize industries, and text analysis to identify repositories related to interoperability or reverse engineering.