GitHub Octoverse 2026: merged pull requests triple to 220 million a month

GitHub Octoverse 2026

GitHub released its Octoverse 2026 report at Universe. Merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million a month, and commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion a month, with most of the growth in the second half of the year. New repositories doubled this year to 30.3 million a month.

Why it matters: The report spells out how GitHub uses LLMs to locate users and multilingual embedding models to classify industries, giving the repository activity numbers a concrete method behind them.