GitHub's most recent significant disruption to Git operations occurred on October 7, 2026, when two brief write-operation outages totaling 19 minutes affected pull requests, issues, Actions, authentication, and related services, with failure rates peaking near 9% for web and API requests. GitHub identified a shared root cause, applied mitigations, and confirmed full recovery with no data loss, while noting that read operations remained largely stable. Traders are monitoring the company's upcoming monthly availability report for deeper root-cause details and prevention updates, alongside ongoing infrastructure migrations to Azure that aim to reduce capacity-related risks. As of mid-October, all services report operational status following a minor Actions log delay on October 13.