# Stateless GitHub App installation tokens rolled out

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- Publisher: GitHub Changelog
- Author credit: Allison
- Category: IT
- Original publication time: 2026-10-02T22:18:23Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-02T23:50:57Z
- Original source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-02-stateless-github-app-installation-tokens-rolled-out
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-4ce371788dc0c71f8814

## The brief

GitHub says its stateless installation-token rollout is complete: newly issued GitHub App tokens now default to the longer format, roughly 520 characters rather than 40. Permissions, repository access scope and the one-hour lifetime are unchanged. Integrations must accommodate longer opaque tokens. GitHub will stop honoring the temporary X-GitHub-Stateless-S2S-Token header on November 30, 2026; existing tokens remain valid until expiration.

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