v2.40.0

Multiple Account Support

With the v2.40.0 release, multi-account support is introduced to gh for GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise and it is only the beginning!

Thanks to @gabe565 for his efforts to support multi-account capabilities with gh-profile extension for this long requested feature! ❤️

This release focuses on several specific use cases:

• adding multiple accounts for GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise with gh auth login
• switching manually between accounts for gh and git use with gh auth switch
• seeing multiple accounts with gh auth status
• logging out of accounts with gh auth logout

Future enhancements such as automatic account switching based on context and more git automatic git configuration will be planned based on community feedback.

For much more detail about the specific of multiple account support in this release as well as a discussion of the sharp edges, please see this doc.

Please provide feedback in our release discussion.

What's changed

• Better codespaces error handling when the display name flag exceeds 48 characters by @mateusmarquezini in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8361
• Better error handling in auth status when there are connection issues by @tal66 in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8337
• Filtering run list results by commit sha by @nelsonchen304 in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8350
• More informative pr merge output when running interactively by @ffalor in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8381
• Unification of doc mark-ups by @muzimuzhi in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8342
• Addition of progress indicator when installing an extension by @steiza in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8411
• Support for multiple accounts on a single host by @williammartin in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8425

Other technical changes

• Enhance discussion triage workflow by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8394
• Simplify triage workflow given GitHub Actions limitations on OSS pull requests by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8412
• andyfeller/triage the final enhancements by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8420
• Simplify git AddRemote to remove unused arg by @samcoe in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8392

New Contributors

• @mateusmarquezini made their first contribution in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8361
• @tal66 made their first contribution in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8337
• @nelsonchen304 made their first contribution in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8350
• @steiza made their first contribution in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8411

Full Changelog: https://github.com/cli/cli/compare/v2.39.2...v2.40.0

<hr /><em>This discussion was created from the release <a href='https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.40.0'>GitHub CLI 2.40.0</a>.</em>