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Triage role users or higher can now archive pull requests
Publisher description: Users with the triage role or higher in a repository can now archive and unarchive pull requests.
github | Oct 8, 2026 | Allison
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We’ve also improved how archived pull requests become read-only. Archiving automatically closes the pull request and makes its conversation read-only. New comments, reactions, and automated comments are blocked while a pull request is archived.
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