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.
You can now restrict who can dismiss pull request reviews directly in GitHub repository rulesets. This capability is generally available and gives you precise control over who can clear an…
Issue fields are now generally available for all GitHub organizations on Free, Team, Enterprise, and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency plans and will ship in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.23.…
Searching for pull requests using author: now shows pull requests opened by Copilot cloud agent on the user’s behalf. For example, searching with author:@me on github.com/pulls will return your own…
Issue fields are now available in public preview to all GitHub organizations on github.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. When you define typed metadata like Priority, Effort, or…
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You can now choose whether commit comments are enabled or disabled by default for repositories owned by your personal account. This makes it easier to manage commit comment behavior across…
GitHub repository rulesets now support two frequently requested features: adding individual users as bypass actors and renaming branches covered by organization rulesets. Add individual users as bypass actors You can…
Finding the right issue just got easier. First introduced in public preview in January and expanded to the Issues dashboard in February, improved search for GitHub Issues is now generally…
Repository admins can now disable comments on individual commits, a small but meaningful improvement for maintainers dealing with unwanted noise on old commits. A new “Commits” section in repository settings…
Issue fields are now available in public preview for select GitHub organizations. If you’ve been using labels like priority/p0 or severity/high to track structured data in issues, you know the…
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You can now assign issues to Copilot using both GraphQL and the REST API. You can also configure the target repository, base branch, custom instructions, and custom agents. GraphQL support…
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We’ve improved the GitHub Projects onboarding flow to help you get started faster, with options to connect and import items from a repository, set a default repository for new issues,…
All GitHub Enterprise Cloud enterprises now have access to unaffiliated users. An unaffiliated user is an enterprise member who belongs to the enterprise but does not have an association to…
CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which finds and remediates security issues in your code. We’ve recently released CodeQL 2.23.2, which introduces a new Rust security…
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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…
The remote GitHub MCP server now scans all of its tool call inputs in public repositories. If an exposed secret is detected, the call is blocked by default with clear…
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