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Outage in Socket

GitHub Service Disruption Impacting Socket Firewall Downloads

Resolved Minor
August 12, 2026 - Started 15 days ago - Lasted about 1 hour
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Summary AI Generated

A GitHub service disruption lasting approximately one hour prevented customers from downloading GitHub-hosted releases, including Socket Firewall, affecting new installations and upgrades. Existing Socket Firewall deployments were not impacted. The incident was resolved after GitHub restored service.

GitHub is currently experiencing a service disruption that may impact customers attempting to download GitHub-hosted releases, including Socket Firewall. This is an upstream GitHub issue and does not impact the operation of existing Socket Firewall deployments. Customers attempting new installations, upgrades, or other workflows that require downloading a release from GitHub may experience failures until GitHub restores service. We are monitoring the incident and will provide updates as GitHub resolves the issue.

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RESOLVED 15 days ago - at 08/12/2026 10:59PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 15 days ago - at 08/12/2026 10:02PM

GitHub is currently experiencing a service disruption that may impact customers attempting to download GitHub-hosted releases, including Socket Firewall.

This is an upstream GitHub issue and does not impact the operation of existing Socket Firewall deployments. Customers attempting new installations, upgrades, or other workflows that require downloading a release from GitHub may experience failures until GitHub restores service.

We are monitoring the incident and will provide updates as GitHub resolves the issue.

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