Updated 11:52 a.m. Eastern on November 13, 2026
GitHub says it is continuing to investigate and monitor approximately 1% of merge requests timing out.
What is affected
The incident affects Pull Requests, with some attempts to merge timing out.
Official update timeline
We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Pull Requests
We’re investigating an issue with Pull Requests where some attempts to merge are timing out.
Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.
We’ve taken mitigating action to resolve the problem of merge requests timing out. This issue initially impacted 3% of requests and is now down to less than 1%. We continue to monitor recovery.
We’re continuing to investigate and monitor ~1% of merge requests timing out.













