GitHub's Bad Week: Commits Doubled, Capacity Didn't
A 7-hour, 47-minute outage, a certificate expiry, and a Copilot agent failure in one week โ and a postmortem showing monthly commits doubled since April.
A 7-hour, 47-minute outage, a certificate expiry, and a Copilot agent failure in one week โ and a postmortem showing monthly commits doubled since April.
Wiz researchers found a critical RCE in GitHub's git push pipeline on March 4. The fix on github.com landed 75 minutes later. The April 28 disclosure makes clear what nearly happened โ and why GitHub Enterprise Server admins still have urgent work.
GitHub posted just 90% uptime in Q1 2026 while adding 36 million new users in a single year. The vibe coding boom is straining infrastructure that was never designed for this scale.