Releasesby IbisDraft pull requests count toward pull request limits
UpdateyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 9, 2026
Maintainers are seeing more low-quality contributions in their repositories and need better ways to manage them. You can now configure pull request limits to also include draft pull requests. Previously, draft pull requests didn’t count toward a user’s limit.
Topics: Observability
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Every GitHub platform releaseTriage role users or higher can now archive pull requests
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