Semaphore: Periodic authentication failure with GitHub repositories
Affected components: Semaphore
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.
- investigating
We are still looking into the cause of this issue, but as a temporary workaround, you can add the following environment variable to your jobs, which will cause them to immediately fail and not hang: GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 After they fail, you can rerun the pipeline, and only the failed jobs should rerun, allowing you to work through this issue until we have more information to share.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- identified
We have found that this is currently a wider situation impacting HTTPS operations, which is also affecting Semaphore and our users. You can read more about this in this thread: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/206581 As a workaround, you can configure git to use only HTTP/1.1, using the following command: git config --global http.version HTTP/1.1 Please also note that we are continuing to monitor and investigate this situation on our end.
- identified
We have found that this is currently a wider situation impacting HTTPS operations, which is also affecting Semaphore and our users. You can read more about this in this thread: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/206581 As a workaround, you can configure git to use only HTTP/1.1, using the following command: git config --global http.version HTTP/1.1 We are continuing to monitor and investigate this situation on our end.
- identified
We have found that this is currently a wider situation impacting HTTPS operations, which is also affecting Semaphore and our users. You can read more about this in this thread: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/206581 As a workaround, you can configure git to use only HTTP/1.1, using the following command: git config --global http.version HTTP/1.1 We are continuing to monitor and investigate this situation on our end.
- monitoring
There was a wider situation impacting HTTPS operations, which also affected Semaphore and our users https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/206581 The issue has since appeared to subside, but we're continuing to monitor the situation on our end.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
Archive proof
Rewindex commits each version of an incident it captures to a daily checkpoint, chains it to the day before, and has the checkpoint timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert. That proves this record existed by then and has not been changed since, by anyone, Rewindex included.
How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.
First version captured 18:53 UTC
In the 2026-10-19 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on Oct 20, 00:41 UTC. Record hash
36ec9aa9a88d1a1b…
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab).