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Features

Add gh release commands for managing GitHub Releases #1552
Add gh pr checks command #1563
Add gh gist list/view/edit commands #1699
Improve resolving the base repository for all commands #1706

Additionally, gh pr create now prompts for where to push the current branch, including an option to create a fork, instead of trying to guess the head repository or automatically fork in the background.

Add gh pr create --head <branch> flag to explicitly set the head branch for automation and opt out of any forking/pushing functionality.
Add gh config set prompt disabled config setting #1639
Add gh help environment help topic listing all supported environment variables #1696
Add support for PAGER environment variable to enable a terminal pager program such as less, also supported through the pager config option #1630
Add gh auth login --web flag #1642

Bugs

pr merge --squash: add pull request title to the commit subject #1627
pr create: prepend body defaults to the selected template #1611
repo view: do not HTML-escape output #1657
issue list: fix misalignment due to Unicode and emoji characters #1677
Fix terminal color display under various color schemes #1631
Fix zsh completion script #1707
Fix opening the web browser under WSL #1708

Thanks

Thank you to all our open source contributors and everyone who has provided valuable feedback during the beta period! For specific shout-outs, as well as some examples of what's possible using GitHub CLI, check out our announcement post.