GitHub Availability Report: January 2021
Introduction In January, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Actions service. January 28 04:21 UTC (lasting 3 hours 53 minutes)…
Introduction In January, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for the GitHub Actions service. January 28 04:21 UTC (lasting 3 hours 53 minutes)…
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will provide a summary and follow-up details on how we addressed an incident mentioned in November’s report.
Introduction In November, we experienced two incidents resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for issues, pull requests, and GitHub Actions services. November 2 12:00 UTC (lasting 32…
In October, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact and degraded state of availability for multiple services.
In September, we experienced one incident resulting in significant impact to the GitHub Pages service.
Introduction In August, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime. This month’s GitHub Availability Report will dive into updates to the GitHub Status Page and provide follow-up details on…
Last month we introduced GitHub’s monthly availability report to address service disruptions and share our learnings with the community.
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
GitHub for mobile 1.1 adds some of the most requested features to improve commenting, issues, and browsing files. The top features include: Type “@” in issues, comments, and reviews to…
The multi-line code suggestions feature is now generally available to all GitHub users. With multi-line suggestions you can suggest a specific change to multiple lines of code when reviewing a…
GitHub Desktop 2.4 helps you get started working more quickly and helps keep you in your flow. It includes three primary features: Automated configuration of Git proxy environment variables Quickly…
GitHub for mobile is now generally available for all GitHub users on iOS and Android. Take GitHub to go with the new, fully-native mobile app. Quickly jump back into your…
Team Synchronization is now generally available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud organizations. With team synchronization, Enterprise Cloud organizations can synchronize Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) group membership to GitHub teams. We…
GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all things non-git, and its availability is critical to GitHub’s operation. The site itself, GitHub’s API, authentication and more, all require database…
GitHub.com suffered two outages early this week that resulted in one hour and 46 minutes of downtime and another hour of significantly degraded performance. This is far below our standard…
It hasn’t exactly been a good week for GitHub’s nines. Just under an hour of total downtime over the past week comes to 99.46% uptime – far below our standards.…
Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic’s latest model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. In early testing, Claude Opus 4.5 surpassed internal coding benchmarks while cutting token usage in half, making…
CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.23.5, introducing three new Java security queries…
GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse now includes an Auto option that selects the model on your behalf. Choose Auto from the model picker in Copilot Chat. This…
Enterprise and organization administrators can now configure MCP registries and enforce allowlist policies in the latest release of VS Code Stable, bringing these governance controls to the majority of Copilot…
GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini—the full suite of OpenAI’s latest 5.1-series models—are now rolling out in public preview in GitHub Copilot. Availability in GitHub Copilot OpenAI GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini will…
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