GitHub experienced a minor incident on September 20, 2026 affecting Pull Requests, lasting 1h 8m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Pull Requests
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 20, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests
- monitoring Sep 20, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC
The degradation affecting Pull Requests has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.
- monitoring Sep 20, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC
A git fileserver issue caused a brief delay in creating some merge commits - we've isolated the underlying server and already observed recovery.
- resolved Sep 20, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.