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Incident with Pages GitHub

GitHub reported an incident affecting Pages GitHub service. The issue was identified and a fix was implemented. Users may have experienced errors or delays while accessing GitHub Pages during the incident.

Background

- GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that lets users publish websites directly from a GitHub repository. It's commonly used for project documentation, personal blogs, and open-source project sites. - This is an incident report from GitHub's official status page (githubstatus.com), which tracks service disruptions across GitHub's platform (code hosting, CI/CD, Pages, etc.). - On March 17, 2025, a degraded performance event affected Pages builds and deployments, meaning users trying to publish or update their GitHub Pages sites experienced failures or delays. - The incident lasted about 4 hours (16:55 to 20:58 UTC) and was caused by a configuration change that was subsequently rolled back. - GitHub status pages are widely followed in the developer community because millions of projects rely on GitHub for code hosting, collaboration, and site publishing. Even short outages can disrupt workflows or break CI/CD pipelines.

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