GitHub change history: Incident with Actions

GitHub Actions experienced critical degraded availability from 2026-08-06 15:22 UTC to 2026-08-07 02:04 UTC (10 h 41 min), causing failed or queued workflows on GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners. At peak, 71% of runs experienced infrastructure failures. Users with stuck Actions Runner Controller pods could delete them or redeploy the controller to create replacement runners.