GitHub's recent modification to the way archives are compressed led to widespread pipeline failures, as the change altered the checksums of archived packages, causing verification errors in developer and CI tools that rely on these checksums for security. This disruption, triggered by a Git update deployed by GitHub, was quickly retracted, but not before it affected productivity globally. To prevent future disruptions, developers are advised to proxy GitHub tarballs through Artifactory's VCS Repositories, which offer proxy and caching functionalities, ensuring stable and verified access to necessary components. By hosting local copies of critical elements, developers can safeguard against upstream changes or outages, with the option to use JFrog's free Cloud instance for this purpose.