GitHub, the open source software site, is currently down

Update: GitHub appears to be recovering from the outage. Original story below.

GitHub, the massive open source software repository, is currently down.

“All GitHub services are experiencing a major disruption,” we read on the GitHub service status page.

The outage began just after 4:00 PM PT, with GitHub noting, “We’re investigating reports of reduced availability for Actions, Pages, and Pull Requests.” The issue has since spread across the site, with the status page noting that GitHub suspects the issue is “a change related to database infrastructure that we’re working to roll back.”

At 4:45 PM PST, GitHub said it was reverting the changes it believed caused the current issues and was already “seeing improvements in the service health.”

It’s a rare outage for GitHub, which is used by millions of developers to host code for open-source projects. Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018, and its importance has only grown in the six years since.