GitHub availability report: September 2026
In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Actions workflow dependency lockfiles are now in public preview for GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, Team, and Free plans. Tags and branches can move after…
You can now review manual dismissals and reopenings of GitHub Code Quality findings in your organization or enterprise audit log. Findings may appear in either your repository’s default-branch backlog or…
GitHub’s context-aware secret classifier improves detection quality, raises weighted acceptance by 11.5%, and reduces median scan execution time by 86%.
Organization and enterprise administrators can now observe the impact of AI Scan for pull requests in security overview. New metrics show how many AI Scan findings were generated, resolved, the…
Screen readers can now navigate issue and pull request timelines as a list. When you move through a timeline, assistive technology can announce the list structure, item count, current position,…
Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it.
Secret protection should keep pace with the way you build software, whether you write code yourself or work with an AI agent. With our new purpose-built model, we’re bringing context-aware…
We’re rebuilding GitHub’s Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development.
Organization and enterprise administrators can now see AI Scan for pull requests enablement status in the security overview coverage view. The code scanning summary shows enabled and not enabled repository…
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You can now read, add, and edit comments on repository security advisories using the REST API, including advisories created from private vulnerability reports. Until now, the discussion on an advisory…
This changelog covers VS Code v1.136 through v1.140, shipped throughout September 2026. September’s releases streamline agent-driven development from implementation through pull request merge. Automations handle repeatable tasks, agent merge helps…
Weekly scheduled scans for code scanning default setup and GitHub Code Quality now start only after a push or pull request triggers an analysis, rather than counting every kind of…
Code coverage uploads from the GitHub Code Quality upload-code-coverage action no longer fail CI when you push a branch that doesn’t yet have an open pull request. Previously, the coverage…
Dynamic workflows are now available in Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot SDK. These let you define an orchestration in code to get the reliability and…
The new dashboard experience, previously available as a feature preview, is now the default view for everyone. The redesigned dashboard helps you focus on the work that matters most and…
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You can now use the generally available GitHub async merge API to merge individual or stacked pull requests, add pull requests to a merge queue, or merge pull requests directly.…
The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
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