Outage in GitHub

Unauthenticated LFS requests for public repos are returning unexpected 401 errors

Resolved Minor
September 16, 2025 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted 36 minutes
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RESOLVED about 2 months ago - at 09/16/2025 06:30PM

This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 09/16/2025 06:02PM

Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 09/16/2025 05:55PM

A recent change to our API routing inadvertently added an authentication requirement to the anonymous route for LFS requests. We're in the process of fixing the change, but in the interim retrying should eventually succeed.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 09/16/2025 05:55PM

We are currently investigating this issue.

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