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🟠 Someone deployed a half-baked auth change that made GitHub forget how to GitHub. Web, API, Git, and Actions all threw tantrums while the deployment rollout happened in slow motion. Peak chaos: 10% of Actions runs just gave up and went home. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ May 28, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Elevated error rates across multiple services

// Status page says

May 28 , 19:07 UTC Resolved - On May 28, 2026, between 19:07 UTC and 19:16 UTC, multiple GitHub services experienced elevated error rates. This was due to a change that was partially deployed to an authentication service, causing errors for dependent services including the web experience, REST API, Git operations, and GitHub Actions. At peak impact, 10% of GitHub Actions runs failed to queue or encountered errors while downloading ac

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/11n51rf8tf27

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