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Incident with Pull Requests

Incident Report for GitHub

Resolved

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.
Posted May 06, 2026 - 19:04 UTC

Update

Mitigations have been fully applied and we are seeing full recovery of functionality on Pull Request threads. We are continuing to monitor to ensure sustained recovery.
Posted May 06, 2026 - 19:04 UTC

Update

Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected although we are seeing partial recovery.

A mitigation is being applied to continue to accelerate recovery with complete recovery expected by 8:00pm UTC.

Top-level comments on pull requests still function and should remain usable during recovery. Opening and merging pull requests, actions, and other pull request operations remain functional.
Posted May 06, 2026 - 17:52 UTC

Update

Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected.

Top-level comments on pull requests still function and should remain usable during recovery. Opening and merging pull requests, actions, and other pull request operations remain functional.

A mitigation is being applied. Recovery is expected to be gradual, with complete recovery expected by 8:00pm UTC.
Posted May 06, 2026 - 16:20 UTC

Update

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.
Posted May 06, 2026 - 16:07 UTC

Update

Creation of new Pull Request threads (including line and file comments) continues to be affected. We have identified the cause of the issue and have started taking steps to mitigate this issue.
Posted May 06, 2026 - 15:55 UTC

Update

We are investigating failures for new thread creation on Pull Requests. Responses to existing pull request threads are unaffected.
Posted May 06, 2026 - 15:28 UTC

Investigating

We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests
Posted May 06, 2026 - 15:25 UTC
This incident affected: Pull Requests.