GitHub outage, 7 October 2026

Incident with Git Operations, Issues, Actions and Pull Requests

Started
Resolved
7 Oct 2026, 18:04 UTC (after 48 min)
Impact
Critical
Affected
Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, Actions

Last update from GitHub

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

7 Oct 2026, 18:04 UTC

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