v2.70.0

Accessibility

This release contains dark shipped changes that are part of a larger GitHub CLI accessibility preview still under development. More information about these will be announced later this month including various channels to work with GitHub and GitHub CLI maintainers on shaping these experiences.

Ensure table headers are thematically contrasting

cli/cli#8292 is a long time issue where table headers were difficult to see in terminals with light background. Ahead of the aforementioned preview, v2.70.0 has shipped changes that improve the out-of-the-box experience based on terminal background detection.

The following screenshots demonstrate the Mac Terminal using the Basic profile, which responds to user's appearance preferences:

<img width="1512" alt="Screenshot of gh repo list in light background terminal" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/87413dde-eec8-43eb-9c16-dc84f8249ddf" /> <img width="1512" alt="Screenshot of gh repo list in dark background terminal" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7430b42c-7267-402b-b565-a296beb4d5ea" />

For more information including demos from various official distributions, see cli/cli#10649.

What's Changed

✨ Features

• Update go-gh and document available sprig funcs by @BagToad in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10680
• Introducing experimental support for rendering markdown with customizable, accessible colors by @andyfeller @jtmcg in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10680
• Ensure table datetime columns have thematic, customizable muted text by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10709
• Ensure table headers are thematically contrasting by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10649
• Introduce configuration setting for displaying issue and pull request labels in rich truecolor by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10720
• Ensure muted text is thematic and customizable by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10737
• [gh repo create] Show host name in repo creation prompts by @iamazeem in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10516
• Introduce accessible prompter for screen readers (preview) by @BagToad in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10710

🐛 Fixes

• run list: do not fail on organization/enterprise ruleset imposed workflows by @BagToad in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10660
• Implement safeguard for gh alias delete test, prevent wiping out GitHub CLI configuration by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10683
• Pin third party actions to commit sha by @BagToad in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10731
• Fallback to job run logs when step logs are missing by @babakks in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10740
• [gh ext] Fix GitKind extension directory path by @iamazeem in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10609
• Fix job log resolution to skip legacy logs in favour of normal/new ones by @babakks in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10769

📚 Docs & Chores

• ./script/sign cleanup by @iamazeem in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10599
• Fix typos in CONTRIBUTING.md by @rylwin in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10657
• Improve gh at verify --help, document json output by @phillmv in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10685
• Acceptance test issue/pr create/edit with project by @williammartin in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10707
• Escape dots in regexp pattern in README.md by @babakks in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10742
• Simplify cosign verification example by not using a regex. by @kommendorkapten in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10759
• Document UNKNOWN STEP in run view by @williammartin in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10770

:dependabot: Dependencies

• Update github.com/sigstore/sigstore-go to 0.7.1 and fix breaking function change by @malancas in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10749

New Contributors

• @rylwin made their first contribution in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/10657

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cli/cli/compare/v2.69.0...v2.70.0