GitHub resolves authorization failures and chat integration subscription deletions caused by feature flag
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Summary
GitHub experienced an incident from 14:49 UTC to 16:45 UTC where a feature flag caused authorization failures and accidental deletion of subscriptions for chat integrations (Slack and MS Teams). The feature flag has been disabled as a mitigation, restoring normal authorization behavior. GitHub is exploring options to restore chat integrations, and customers can manually re-subscribe their repos in the meantime.
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This was caused by a recently enabled feature flag, which has now been turned off as a mitigation.
This is also the cause of the chat integration issue, and we are exploring options to restore it.
In the meantime, customers can manually re-subscribe their repo.
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