GitHub CLI 2.83.2

Released: 2025-12-10

Release notes

FEATURE

Search terms no longer get mixed with background qualifiers

Your search words are now kept separate from the contextual qualifiers the tool adds around them, so those two pieces are less likely to be treated as one muddled request. This change specifically isolates a user-provided search query from its background qualifiers; the release notes do not claim any other search behavior changed. It is like giving a librarian one note saying “cookbooks” and another saying “in this branch only,” instead of accidentally making the restriction part of the title.

FEATURE

Installation information and license checks are clearer

People looking for installation sources can now see Debian and Ubuntu listed among unofficial packages; that is an information update, not a claim that new official packages were released. For development or releases, the process now errors when go-licenses, a license-checking tool, is absent from PATH, the list of places a terminal searches for runnable tools. The notes also add a proof of concept for PGP key rotation, testing how signing keys can be changed. Like a toolbox that immediately flags a missing wrench, while the door gains a useful directory of nearby shops.

FEATURE

Internal code and dependencies received routine maintenance

You do not need to change your everyday commands, but this release tidied configuration handling in a GitHub API client, removed an extra flag default from help usage, and replaced multierror with Go’s standard library. It also updated Go 1.25.4 and 1.25.5, the dev-tunnels SDK, and dependencies for cryptography, protobuf, gRPC, and terminal interfaces—the components the program relies on underneath. Two contributors made their first contributions in this batch. The notes do not promise a specific new feature from these changes, so routine maintenance and compatibility work is the accurate reading. Like servicing a car’s parts and wiring without changing the steering wheel.

Original changelog

Original changelogSearch terms no longer get mixed with background qualifiers
Isolate user-provided search query from contextual qualifiers by @babakks in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12170
Original changelogInstallation information and license checks are clearer
Add PGP key rotation PoC by @babakks in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12176
Add Debian/Ubuntu to unofficial packages by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12191
Error if go-licenses is not on the PATH by @williammartin in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12238
Original changelogInternal code and dependencies received routine maintenance
Refactor cfg out of CAPI Client by @williammartin in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12148
Remove extra flag default from help usage by @andyfeller in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12154
refactor: drop multierror in favor of std by @ferhatelmas in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12234
chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.43.0 to 0.45.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12165
chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12178
chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.36.9 to 1.36.10 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12037
chore(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 9.0.0 to 9.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12189
chore(deps): bump github.com/theupdateframework/go-tuf/v2 from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12100
chore(deps): bump github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype from 1.4.10 to 1.4.11 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12051
chore(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.75.0 to 1.76.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/11972
chore(deps): bump github.com/charmbracelet/huh from 0.7.0 to 0.8.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/11971
Bump Go to 1.25.4 by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12104
chore(deps): bump github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 from 2.9.0 to 2.13.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12246
chore(deps): bump github.com/hashicorp/go-version from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12247
chore(deps): bump github.com/google/go-containerregistry from 0.20.6 to 0.20.7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12245
Bump Go to 1.25.5 by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12250
Bump dev-tunnels SDK 0.1.13 to 0.1.19 by @sam-byng in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12285
@ferhatelmas made their first contribution in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12234
@sam-byng made their first contribution in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/12285