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Oct. 19, 2026

GitHub may temporarily require authentication for public HTTPS clones and fetches

GitHub says unusual traffic may trigger temporary authentication requirements for some HTTPS clones and fetches of public repositories. An affected operation will fail with a message indicating that authentication is required. The protecti…

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Oct. 19, 2026

GitHub warns of CodeQL limitations with Xcode 27 and Swift 6.4

GitHub announced CodeQL compatibility changes: installing Xcode 27 makes traced extraction unavailable for C/C++, C#, Go, Java, Kotlin, and Swift. It may also be unavailable on macOS 27. GitHub attributes this to Intel code being removed f…

GitHub may temporarily require authentication for public HTTPS clones and fetches

GitHub warns of CodeQL limitations with Xcode 27 and Swift 6.4

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