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GitHub Copilot: Critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests

Summary

GitHub reported a critical incident affecting Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests, opened at 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC and resolved at 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC (47 min). Actual write-operation disruption occurred from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, recurring from an earlier outage with the same root cause; mitigations were applied.

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Major incidentLabel: degradation (model (Jev), 44%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

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AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests
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After: We observed widespread impact across GitHub services from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, and are investigating the root cause. All systems have recovered. This incident is a reoccurrence of the incident from earlier in the day https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7. Durable mitigation is in progress. We will provide another update in 30 minutes.
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After: The degradation has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
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After: All systems have recovered. We have applied mitigations and do not anticipate another recurrence.
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After: On October 7, 2026, from 16:52 to 17:01 UTC, GitHub experienced a recurrence of the write-operation outage from earlier that day. Both outages shared the same root cause. Please refer to the combined summary covering both incidents, their impact, and our prevention measures: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Critical incident: Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests (this change)
GitHub reported a critical incident affecting Actions, Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests, opened at 2026-10-07 17:17 UTC and resolved at 2026-10-07 18:04 UTC (47 min). Actual write-operation disruption occurred from 16:52 UTC to 17:01 UTC, recurring from an earlier outage with the same root cause; mitigations were applied.
Major incident

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