Today, GitHub Enterprise gets what the company is unofficially calling a “Version 2.0” release, with major new features that make the on-premises code repository more enterprise-friendly. That includes support for deploying GitHub Enterprise in the Amazon Web Services public cloud, high availability and disaster recovery options, better support for LDAP and SAML, and updates to code review and project management.

GitHub is pretty much the closest thing Silicon Valley has to startup royalty (Complete with royal scandals): Its web-hosted Git repository service is what makes the development of so many apps possible. If you don’t believe that, ask the 7 million  developers who are building 17 million projects on the site. 

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