GitHub Incident Affects Pull Requests, Issues, and API Requests

Originally published on GitHub Status — May 27, 2026

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Summary

GitHub experienced a significant service incident affecting pull requests, issues, git operations, and API requests, impacting developer workflows across the platform. The incident was tracked on GitHub’s status page and generated 246 points on Hacker News with 187 comments from affected developers. The outage highlights ongoing reliability challenges for the platform that hosts millions of software projects worldwide.

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