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GitHub: Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

Silent editNot classified yetChanged 2026-11-13 16:53 UTCwww.githubstatus.com

Summary

Summary pending. The diff below shows exactly what changed.

Discussed on Hacker News

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264 points · 133 comments · posted 2026-11-04 10:00 UTC · posted 9 min after the vendor’s first update
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29 points · 16 comments · posted 2026-11-04 09:50 UTC · posted 1 min before the vendor’s first update

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What changed

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ChangedUpdateresolved2026-11-04 11:50 UTC#1

~~This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.~~

On November 4, 2026, beginning at approximately 09:35 UTC, customers experienced intermittent errors and delays across several GitHub services, including Pull Requests, Issues, APIs, Git operations, and Actions. The disruption was caused by a shared database reaching capacity. We restored service by switching to another database host. Recovery began around 11:24 UTC, and the remaining Actions impact was mitigated by 11:43 UTC. The incident was resolved at 11:50 UTC. We have since made changes to reduce database load, increased capacity, and added monitoring to help identify similar problems earlier. We are also improving our recovery procedures.

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How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.

Nov 4
Before captured 11:53 UTC
In the 2026-11-04 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on Nov 5, 00:43 UTC. Record hash 3f6915108a543e04…
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Nov 13
After captured 16:53 UTC
In the 2026-11-13 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on Nov 14, 00:41 UTC. Record hash 95698f9a46a4cec9…
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History of this incident

YesterdayFriday, November 13Fri, Nov 13

1 rewrite

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Wednesday, November 4

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Degradation
09:50Major incident
Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
GitHub reported major degraded performance affecting Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests and Actions, starting 2026-11-04 09:50 UTC. The incident was still open when archived, open for 0 min at the last update; GitHub was investigating and had stated no cause or fix.

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Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues on GitHub’s status page, changed 2026-11-13 16:53 UTC (change 8 of 8).

Title: Incident silently edited: Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues
Vendor: GitHub
Date: 2026-11-13 16:53 UTC
URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r7002f6a42e3aac

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