GitHub had a global outage starting 20:40 Thai time on 17 August 2026, affecting the website, API, Actions, pull requests, and SAML/OIDC/SCIM sign-in plus Copilot. At the latest report, about 20% of API calls were still failing and repository downloads were affected at about 50%. If your team deploys code, runs automated builds, or relies on GitHub logins, check whether your work is blocked and delay non-urgent releases until the status page shows full recovery.