This is a large release seeing a few major new features and a slew of fixes. In January we spent a week cleaning out the backlog of community pull requests -- thank you for your patience as we got all that merged!

New Commands

Edit Issues and Pull Requests

gh issue edit and gh pr edit allow you to modify existing issues and pull requests. Both versions accept arguments to edit non-interactively and running without flags allows you to interactively edit. (#2915, #2940, #2949)

SSH Key Management

gh ssh-key list and gh ssh-key add are now live! You'll be prompted to refresh your auth token with increased scopes to use them. (#2990)

Issue Deletion

Issues can now be permanently deleted with gh issue delete (#2839)

New Features

PR Auto-Merge Support

pr merge now supports --auto. Instead of merging the pull request right away, the pull request will be automatically met once all requirements are met (#2980)

SSH Key Generation During Authentication

While running through the gh auth login flow, gh can now generate and upload SSH keys to GitHub on your behalf (#2892)

@me Syntax for Self Assigning Issues

When using gh issue create, the string @me can be used to self assign (#2004)

pr checkout Improvements

pr checkout now supports --force to force a checkout (#1953) and --detach to checkout a pull request in a detached head state (#2117)

And More

• repo fork: support git flags (#2282)
• pr merge: edit commit body when merging (#2980, #2810)
• pr merge: alert about unpushed commits (#2255)
• gist view: --files lists filenames in a gist (#2898)
• Configuration path can now come from environment (#2444)
• Display upgrade notice for brew users (#2929)
• Show whether or not branches are up to date with the default branch in gh pr status (#2952, #2988)
• Show progress while creating a new pull request (#2808)

Fixes

• Minimized comments no longer appear in comment lists (#2859)
• Issue and Pull Request templates are now listed as per the API and not local file system (#2539)
• Gist description dropped from single file raw view (#2888)
• Restore fork rename behavior (#2825)
• Clarify handling of git tags during release create (#2910)
• Explain how to link an issue in pr create (#2909)
• Improve repo create docs (#2908)
• Add more examples to api docs (#2951)
• Only fetch default branch when adding upstream remote (#2588)
• Consistently use success icon (#2799)
• write:org scope is now recognized as satisfying read:org (#2965)
• pr merge: do not show invalid merge methods (#2224)
• pr merge: avoid prompting to enter editor after editing phase is chosen (#2989)
• repo create: clarify prompt (#2962)
• gist: print friendly error when missing required argument (#2664)
• auth status: add fail message for non-existent hostname (#2785)
• config: refactor to use os.UserHomeDir() (#2740)
• issue create and pr create: project argument works alongside --web now (#2108)
• secret set: fix secret set --repos for repositories that have dashes #2844

Development Changes

• createrepo is now run via docker until Ubuntu repackages it (#2856)
• Display output of build commands (#2926)
• Deprecate run.SetPrepareCmd (#2858)
• Deprecate test package (#2801, #2803, #2828)
• Freeze time in issue view test (#2843)

As always, a huge thank you to our contributors and users!

Have a good one~