Hello and welcome back to the command line. This is a doozy of a release, so strap in.

Precompiled extensions

We've made a significant change to gh's extension system. Now, extension authors can work in a precompiled language like Go and ship pre-compiled binaries of their extensions via release assets.

For a full tour of this new support, check out our demo video.

We've added scaffolding and helpers to make it a first class experience when working in Go, though of course any compiled binaries will work just fine as long as they are uploaded to a release with the expected naming scheme.

To assist with releasing precompiled extensions (Go or otherwise), we've created an action that helps automates the building and release process.

To get started, run gh extension create.

• fix binary extensions on windows by @vilmibm in #4717
• binary extension migration by @vilmibm in #4588
• make extension create binary aware by @vilmibm in #4718
• Extensions create 💅 by @mislav in #4802

go-gh

We've open sourced a small Go library called go-gh. Its goal is to make it easer for extension authors to take advantage of some gh features directly in Go code. Check out the repository to learn more or watch the precompiled extension demo.

New repo create interface

The gh repo create command now has distinct usages for creating a repository from scratch and creating one from a local git repository.

Create a new repository on GitHub from scratch and clone it locally with

$ gh repo create myrepo --public --clone

Upload an existing local repository with

$ gh repo create myrepo --source=path/to/repo --public

Breaking Changes:

• gh repo create will no longer automatically add a git remote to the local git repository in the current directory. To emulate old behavior when inside a local git repository, use gh pr create --source ..
• gh repo create will only prompt interactively when run with no arguments. Otherwise, all arguments should be passed explicitly.

For more information, see gh help repo create.

• rewrite gh repo create by @meiji163 @pxrth9 in #4578

Codespaces updates

• Fix codespace code command under WSL by @mislav in #4747
• Inherit API endpoint configuration from the Codespaces environment by @marwan-at-work in #4723
• Remove the default value from idle-timeout by @reybard in #4756
• Support listing and removing user Codespaces secrets by @joshmgross in #4714
• Support setting user Codespaces secrets by @joshmgross in #4699
• Add idle_timeout_minutes as possible cs create param by @reybard in #4741
• Adds a timeout context to the ssh waiter to prevent indefinite hanging by @reybard in #4635
• Rename errors from Live Share to generic codespace by @josebalius in #4705
• Add prebuild availability status to create codespaces by @adnamalin in #4737

Other new features

• Add command gh auth setup-git for setting up gh-cli as git cred helper by @despreston in #4246
• Add gh config list by @meiji163 in #4729
• Add new flag gh secret set --no-store to print the encoded secret by @sguzmanm in #4423
• Adding release download for.zip and .tar.gz archives by @lpessoa in #4489
• gh repo rename by @pxrth9 in #4450

Bugfixes

• Ignore scope suggestions for http 422 by @despreston in #4809
• pr diff color output fixes by @mislav in #4833
• PR merge should, after switching branches, pull by @pxrth9 in #4748
• Don't swallow duplicate SSH key error by @despreston in #4807
• gh pr merge fails to delete remote branch if $PWD is not a git repository by @pxrth9 in #4769
• Fix up bug in RemoveEntry and add tests for config_map by @samcoe in #4784
• Escape workflow information when generating URLs by @samcoe in #4760
• Confirm name change before creating a repo with special characters by @bchadwic in #4562
• encode gh browse output URL by @bchadwic in #4663
• add base repo resolution to gh repo archive by @meiji163 in #4654
• add base repo resolution to gh repo delete by @meiji163 in #4655
• Fix stack overflow in AddJSONFlags by @rsteube in #4614
• Fix rendering issue in "formatting" help topic by @pbnj in #4661
• fix branch flag on browse within dir by @bstncartwright in #4676

Docs, developer, and performance improvements

• Generate Go 1.17-style go:build directives by @mislav in #4838
• Bump github.com/itchyny/gojq from 0.12.5 to 0.12.6 by @dependabot in #4832
• some automation by @vilmibm in #4810
• Improve issue view re: overfetching, PR support by @mislav in #4803
• Improve queries in issue commands: no overfetching, support PR arguments by @mislav in #4794
• Bump github.com/mattn/go-colorable from 0.1.11 to 0.1.12 by @dependabot in #4804
• Replace shurcool/graphql with cli/shurcool-graphql by @samcoe in #4750
• update help for magic type conversion #4365 by @signalwerk in #4434
• fix angle brackets in man pages by @meiji163 in #4752
• Overhaul manual pages for the web by @mislav in #4675
• Fix CODEOWNERS for codespaces by @mislav in #4728
• Don't use gpg in Debian instruction by @TobiX in #4610
• Bump bluemonday to silence the security alert by @mislav in #4607

New Contributors

• @pbnj made their first contribution in #4661
• @reybard made their first contribution in #4635
• @bstncartwright made their first contribution in #4676
• @TobiX made their first contribution in #4610
• @adnamalin made their first contribution in #4737
• @signalwerk made their first contribution in #4434
• @lpessoa made their first contribution in #4489
• @sguzmanm made their first contribution in #4423

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.3.0