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Draft pull requests count toward pull request limits
Publisher description: 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.
github | Oct 8, 2026 | Allison
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You can now configure pull request limits to also include draft pull requests. Previously, draft pull requests didn’t count toward a user’s limit. That meant someone could open any number of drafts, even when you’d set a limit for other pull requests.
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