diff --git a/ci/behat-tags.php b/ci/behat-tags.php
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/ci/behat-tags.php
+++ b/ci/behat-tags.php
@@ -37,9 +37,6 @@ $skip_tags = array_merge(
 	version_tags( 'less-than-php', PHP_VERSION, '>' )
 );
 
-# Skip Github API tests by default because of rate limiting. See https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/issues/1612
-$skip_tags[] = '@github-api';
-
 if ( !empty( $skip_tags ) ) {
 	echo '--tags=~' . implode( '&&~', $skip_tags );
 }
diff --git a/php/commands/cli.php b/php/commands/cli.php
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/php/commands/cli.php
+++ b/php/commands/cli.php
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ class CLI_Command extends WP_CLI_Command {
 	 * Returns update information.
 	 */
 	private function get_updates( $assoc_args ) {
-		$url = 'https://api.github.com/repos/wp-cli/wp-cli/releases';
+		$url = 'https://github-api.wp-cli.org/repos/wp-cli/wp-cli/releases';
 
 		$options = array(
 			'timeout' => 30
Proxy Github API requests through `<URL>