GitHub Availability Report: August 2025
In August, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
In August, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Dependencies on issues are now generally available! You can now specify which issues are blocked by or blocking others, making it easy for teams to define work that must be…
Now generally available, GitHub Secret Protection users have the ability to configure which secret scanning patterns are included in push protection. This customization helps you to better meet your organization’s…
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As of July 17, 2025 usage of https://models.inference.ai.azure.com for GitHub Models inference and embeddings is officially deprecated. This change follows the launch of the GitHub Models API on May 15,…
Stay in flow with the latest updates to GitHub Issues and Projects. You can now duplicate issues across repositories and start new issues from anywhere in the GitHub UI. These…
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GitHub code scanning customers can now require a review process before dismissing alerts, helping you manage security risks as well as meet audit and compliance requirements. What’s new Provide a…
GitHub Team plans can now configure and enforce organization-level rulesets! Previously, this powerful governance capability was limited to Enterprise plans, but now Team plan customers can scale their use of…
Delegated alert dismissal allows you to require a review process before secret scanning alerts are closed. This helps you better manage security risk, as well as meet audit and compliance…
GitHub now automatically computes and displays SHA256 checksums (digests) for all uploaded release assets. These digests are generated at upload time, immutable, and let you verify that downloaded assets haven’t…
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To provide a secure and dependable experience on GitHub, we’re rolling out updates to rate limits for requests made without authentication. These changes will apply to operations like cloning repositories…
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Keep control over the security posture of your organization with delegated alert dismissal. With this feature, you can require a review process before alerts are dismissed in code scanning and…
GitHub’s Digital Public Goods Open Source Community Manager Program just wrapped up a second successful year, helping Community Managers gain experience in using open source for good.
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You can now more easily filter secret scanning alerts, with new filter options and advanced filtering. Enterprise and organization level list views now include a new menu with commonly used…
We’re excited to announce that persistent commit signature verification is now generally available! This powerful feature ensures that commit signatures are verified once at the time of the push and…
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.15 is now generally available GitHub Enterprise Server 3.15 is now available for download. Some key features & highlights you can find in this release include: Updated…
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