GitHub ChangelogFriday · October 9, 2026FREE

Draft pull requests count toward pull request limits

GitHub's changelog for October 8, 2026 carries the title "Draft pull requests count toward pull request limits." The entry states that draft pull requests count toward pull request limits. That is the full extent of the information in the provided source text: a title, a publication date of 2026-10-08, and the statement that drafts are counted against pull request limits. The source does not specify which limits are involved, whether the change applies to all repositories or plan types, what the counting behavior was before this change, or when the behavior takes effect beyond the changelog date. It also does not describe any user-visible notification, error message, or configuration option associated with the change. Because the excerpt contains no additional detail, the only source-grounded takeaway is the counting rule itself: draft pull requests are included when pull request limits are calculated.