GitHub availability report: June 2026
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Mobile now supports fixing pull request merge conflicts with Copilot cloud agent, making it easier to unblock pull requests while you’re on the go. When a pull request has…
Editor’s note (July 1, 2026): Added more detail about which permissions stay under your control and the existing network domain controls. Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code are…
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GitHub Actions now issues read-only cache tokens to the default branch for workflow events that can be triggered without write permissions to the repository. This applies least privilege to the…
Organizations now have more control over who can use GitHub-hosted runners in Actions. Admins can now disable the standard labels for hosted runners such as ubuntu-latest, as well as add…
GitHub Actions now supports running steps concurrently using background. Previously, all steps in a workflow ran in sequence, with each step starting only after the previous step completed. Previously, you…
Custom images for GitHub-hosted runners are getting new capabilities that give you more flexibility over how you compose and manage your image-generation pipelines. You can now build custom images on…
More than 10,000 enterprises have used the GitHub Code Quality public preview to detect maintainability and reliability issues, enforce quality gates, and track code coverage. On July 20, 2026, Code…
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GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.21 enhances deployment efficiency, monitoring capabilities, code security, and policy management. Here are a few highlights in the 3.21 release: Organization custom properties are now generally…
In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview. With agentic workflows, you can automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates by leveraging coding agents inside…
Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes.
When a GitHub Actions job fails, Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max subscribers can now ask Copilot cloud agent to fix it in one click. Click the Fix with Copilot button…
Editor’s note (June 5, 2026): Removed the waitlist link and updated the links to the GitHub Copilot app. The GitHub Copilot app technical preview is now available to all existing…
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
GitHub Copilot can now run inside secure, isolated sandboxes, both locally on your machine and in the cloud. Sandboxed Copilot experiences provide isolated environments for Copilot’s tool execution locally as…
As announced in our recent blog post, usage-based billing for GitHub Copilot is now live for all users and Copilot code review consumes GitHub Actions minutes, in addition to GitHub…
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