GitHub builds are slow or flaky

DevOps and infra3 posts from 3 people3d active+11 post in the last 7 days, 0 the 7 days before (steady)

Posts per day3 posts, Oct 6 to Oct 21

The posts behind it

3, newest first

GitHub issuesOct 17 [Native Image] Unlinkable ServiceLoader provider crashes the builder: "reachable during compilation, but was not seen during Bytecode parsing"...JVM, but the native build dies on `XAShardingSphereTransactionManager. ()`. For now the workaround is adding `javax.transaction:javax.transaction-api`, which nothing in the application uses, just to get past the builder:...oracle/graal · linghengqianOpen ↗GitHub issuesOct 7 notFound() in a page serves an empty `__next_error__` shell (no root layout, no `lang`, no not-found UI) in the server HTML...at build time, and with a dynamic root layout (`app/[lang]/layout.tsx`). The obvious workaround is a `loading.tsx` above the page. It keeps the layout and `lang` in the HTML, but the response becomes status **200**, a soft 404, which is worse. As far as I can tell,...vercel/next.js · p11yadrianOpen ↗GitHub issuesOct 6 Metadata routes (`sitemap.ts`, `robots.ts`) send `public, max-age=0, must-revalidate` instead of `s-maxage` derived from `revalidate`...to the origin. These routes don't send an `ETag` either, so there's no 304 path. **Workaround** Overriding the header per path in `next.config.ts` works (single header since #70127): But every path has to be listed by hand, including each `generateSitemaps` child...vercel/next.js · cduffOpen ↗

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Evidence

3 posts from 3 people in 2 places, about 2 a week over 12 days. Mostly on vercel/next.js, oracle/graal. Tools named alongside: Vercel, AWS, Docker, npm.

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How it was grouped

Posts that state a pain and match the "ci-slow" rule about GitHub. First post Oct 6, 2026, latest Oct 17, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

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History

CorroborationOct 19, 2026unverified to corroborated

MomentumOct 19, 2026fading to steady

MomentumOct 14, 2026steady to fading

MomentumOct 13, 2026new to steady

AddedOct 8, 2026GitHub builds are slow or flaky (2 posts)