GitHub Release: cli/cli v2.104.0 (12.11.2026)

Protect private forks when deleting repositories

gh repo delete now warns when deleting a private or internal repository will also delete its forks. The additional confirmation is required even with --yes.

Non-interactive workflows and agents must explicitly accept the cascading deletion:

gh repo delete OWNER/REPO --yes --accept-cascading-deletion-of-private-forks

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Require confirmation before gh repo delete deletes private forks by @BagToad in #14858

🐛 Fixes

• fix(auth status): surface underlying rate-limit, server, and network errors in terminal output by @babakks and @Copilot in #15009


• fix(auth): skip token refresh when gh's state directory is not writable by @babakks in #14845

📚 Docs & Chores

• Use REST to apply issue triage labels by @BagToad in #15041


• Prevent repeated Dependabot triage assessments by @BagToad in #15002


• Apply issue triage labels directly by @BagToad in #15001


• Provide verified build versions to issue triage by @BagToad in #15000


• Use a synthetic namespace for triage fixtures by @BagToad in #14976


• Remove the accidental issue-triage model pin by @BagToad in #14972


• Add a fake GitHub API runner for reproductions by @BagToad in #14951


• Clarify which hosts use GH_ENTERPRISE_TOKEN by @BagToad in #14918


• Regenerate triage workflows with gh-aw v1.0.1 by @tidy-dev in #14910


• Test the ShowRefs option separator by @BagToad in #14879


• Fix local extension-install test path normalization by @bobrik in #14854


• Save Go caches only from trunk by @williammartin in #14840


• Add a private vulnerability report form by @BagToad in #14825


• Replace msgpack with a minimal node ID encoder by @tj-smith47 in #14801


• Test the Git client with real repositories by @williammartin in #14348

Dependencies

• chore(deps): bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.20.3 to 1.20.4 by @dependabot in #15040


• chore(deps): bump charm.land/lipgloss/v2 from 2.0.6 to 2.1.0 by @dependabot in #15039


• chore(deps): bump Go toolchain from 1.27.3 to 1.27.4 by @github-actions[bot] in #15028


• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.49.0 to 0.50.0 by @dependabot in #15010


• chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.24.0 to 0.25.0 by @dependabot in #14998


• chore(deps): bump the codeql-actions group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot in #14964


• chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.10 to 1.1.0 by @dependabot in #14963


• chore(deps): bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 by @dependabot in #14907


• chore(deps): bump charm.land/bubbletea/v2 from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 by @dependabot in #14906


• chore(deps): bump github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 by @dependabot in #14905


• chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.84.0 to 1.85.0 by @dependabot in #14878


• chore(deps): bump the codeql-actions group with 3 updates by @dependabot in #14824

New Contributors

• @tj-smith47 made their first contribution in #14801


• @bobrik made their first contribution in #14854

Full Changelog: v2.103.3...v2.104.0