GitHub CLI 2.72.0
This release marks the public preview of several accessibility improvements to the GitHub CLI that have been under development over the past year in partnership with our friends at Charm including:
These new experiences are captured in a new gh a11y help topic command, which goes into greater detail into the motivation behind each of them as well as opt-in configuration settings / environment variables.
We would like you to share your feedback and join us on this journey through one of GitHub Accessibility feedback channels! 🙌
gh accessibility help topic highlighting GitHub CLI accessibility experiences by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10890closingIssuesReferences JSON field by @iamazeem in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10544TestRepo/repo-set-default by @aconsuegra in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10884Full Changelog: https://github.com/cli/cli/compare/v2.71.2...v2.72.0
Fetched April 8, 2026