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Apr 24, 2026 · Operations

GitHub Outage Hits Copilot, Webhooks, Actions and PR Merge Queue

In the early hours of April 24, 2024, GitHub suffered a global outage that knocked out Copilot, Webhooks, and Actions, later exposing a regression bug in the Pull Request merge queue that caused incorrect merges, with full service restoration completed by 05:43.