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⚪ GitHub's CI/CD runners decided to take an unscheduled sabbatical, leaving queued jobs to timeout staring at an empty queue. The incident lasted nearly 6 hours across standard and larger runners. Your deployment dreams were deferred, but at least they're back now. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Feb 03, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Incident with Actions

// Status page says

Feb 3 , 00:56 UTC Resolved - On February 2, 2026, between 18:35 UTC and 22:15 UTC, GitHub Actions hosted runners were unavailable, with service degraded until full recovery at 23:10 UTC for standard runners and at February 3, 2026 00:30 UTC for larger runners. During this time, Actions jobs queued and timed out while waiting to acquire a hosted runner. Other GitHub features that leverage this compute infrastructure were similarly impa

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

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xwn6hjps36ty

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