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PyPI incident: Slow updates to PyPI pages/API responses

PyPI reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Nov 12, 2025, 15:46 UTC. It was resolved after 39 min.

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Nov 12, 2025, 15:46 UTC
started
Nov 12, 2025, 16:26 UTC
resolved
39 min
duration
Minor
impact

Affected components

  • pypi.org - Backends
  • pypi.org - CDN
  • pypi.org - Email
  • pypi.org - General

Timeline

updates from PyPI's status page ↗
  1. resolvedNov 12, 2025, 16:26 UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoringNov 12, 2025, 15:50 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. investigatingNov 12, 2025, 15:46 UTC

    We are currently observing a slowdown in background requests processing for events on PyPI.org This could lead to stale web pages and API responses as the events system is not able to purge the caches. Our team is continuing to investigate.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in PyPI's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

How often does PyPI have incidents?

PyPI reported 3 incidents in the last 90 days, 1 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 6h 3m. See PyPI's uptime and incident history

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PyPI incident on Nov 12, 2025: Slow updates to PyPI pages/API responses · APIStatus.watch