GitHub Pull Requests Experience Merge Timeouts

GitHub is reporting an active service incident on its official status page.

Nov 13, 2026
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GitHub Pull Requests Experience Merge Timeouts

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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

, marked Investigating

We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Pull Requests

, marked Investigating

We’re investigating an issue with Pull Requests where some attempts to merge are timing out.

, marked Investigating

Pull Requests is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

, marked Investigating

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.

, marked Investigating

We’re continuing to investigate and monitor ~1% of merge requests timing out.

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