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17 Aug 2026, 11:04 PM	The Register	7.5	GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate GitHub reported a 50% error rate on repository content downloads starting 1340 UTC on Aug 17, 2026, with Copilot also experiencing degraded availability. This is the latest in a string of 2026 outages affecting Actions, Pages, and Issues, with GitHub's own May availability report acknowledging that AI-assisted coding and agentic workflows are adding infrastructure strain. Why: If your CI/CD, deployments, or Copilot-assisted workflows depend on GitHub availability, you need a fallback plan—mirror critical repos or cache dependencies externally—because these outages are recurring and GitHub has not yet fixed the underlying failure modes despite promising structural changes in June. github outage devops copilot availability

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17 Aug 2026, 11:04 PM

The Register

7.5

GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate

GitHub reported a 50% error rate on repository content downloads starting 1340 UTC on Aug 17, 2026, with Copilot also experiencing degraded availability. This is the latest in a string of 2026 outages affecting Actions, Pages, and Issues, with GitHub's own May availability report acknowledging that AI-assisted coding and agentic workflows are adding infrastructure strain.

Why: If your CI/CD, deployments, or Copilot-assisted workflows depend on GitHub availability, you need a fallback plan—mirror critical repos or cache dependencies externally—because these outages are recurring and GitHub has not yet fixed the underlying failure modes despite promising structural changes in June.