Blog | Sourcegraph

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.

OCT 4, 2022

Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, "why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph")

TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world's most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).

SEP 27, 2022

Sourcegraph 4.0

We've spent 9 years building the underlying foundation of code search to be fast, secure, and scalable across ~1011 lines of code for the world's most demanding software teams. Now, we're making Sourcegraph even smarter.

SEP 27, 2022

From code search to a code intelligence platform

Sourcegraph is starting to go beyond just code search, which helps you find matching lines in code. We want to help you find answers in code, and we call this code intelligence.

SEP 27, 2022

Sourcegraph Cloud: secure, scalable, dedicated instances for enterprises

Today, we're launching Sourcegraph Cloud: secure, scalable, dedicated Sourcegraph on the cloud for your organization. Sourcegraph Cloud is the best way to start using Sourcegraph on your organization's code.

SEP 27, 2022

Sourcegraph 4.0

Announcing Sourcegraph 4.0. The latest release includes over a dozen updates and new features, and it is the first step toward Sourcegraph becoming a code intelligence platform.

AUG 29, 2022

Revisiting the design approach to the Zig programming language

Zig is a general-purpose programming language that can act as a drop-in replacement for C / C++, letting you incrementally improve your code base.

AUG 22, 2022

Sourcegraph 3.43 release

Sourcegraph 3.43 introduces several new features for admins, including a newly redesigned user management page as well as annual forecasting for admin analytics.