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@chrishenzie chrishenzie commented Dec 16, 2025

The GraphQL API can return null nodes in the projectItems connection, causing a runtime panic (nil pointer dereference) when the CLI attempted to access fields on these nil nodes. This crash occurs even with personal access tokens with full read access.

Adds a check to safely skip nil nodes in ProjectsV2ItemsForIssue and ProjectsV2ItemsForPullRequest.

Fixes #12325

The GraphQL API can return `null` nodes in the `projectItems`
connection, causing a runtime panic (nil pointer dereference) when the
CLI attempted to access fields on these nil nodes. This crash occurs
even with personal access tokens with full read access.

Adds a check to safely skip `nil` nodes in `ProjectsV2ItemsForIssue` and
`ProjectsV2ItemsForPullRequest`.

Signed-off-by: Chris Henzie <chrishenzie@google.com>
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Adding tests to ensure this works as expected, but it looks good to me 👍

Thanks @chrishenzie!

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@andyfeller andyfeller merged commit 6acf74e into cli:trunk Dec 22, 2025
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### [`v2.85.0`](https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.85.0): GitHub CLI 2.85.0

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#### What's Changed

##### ✨ Features

- Add gh browse --actions flag by [@&#8203;rneatherway](https://github.com/rneatherway) in [#&#8203;12091](cli/cli#12091)
- feat: allow git remote names in gh repo set-default by [@&#8203;majiayu000](https://github.com/majiayu000) in [#&#8203;12377](cli/cli#12377)

##### 🐛 Fixes

- Fix Debian CLI package link in installation guide by [@&#8203;andyfeller](https://github.com/andyfeller) in [#&#8203;12291](cli/cli#12291)
- fix: prevent panic when processing null project items by [@&#8203;chrishenzie](https://github.com/chrishenzie) in [#&#8203;12324](cli/cli#12324)

##### 📚 Docs & Chores

- chore: upgrade to `cli/oauth@v1.2.1`  by [@&#8203;babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#&#8203;12337](cli/cli#12337)
- ci: upgrade to GoReleaser `v2` by [@&#8203;babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#&#8203;12318](cli/cli#12318)
- CI: Update Azure Code Signing client to 1.0.95 by [@&#8203;BagToad](https://github.com/BagToad) in [#&#8203;12424](cli/cli#12424)
- CI: Update Azure Code Signing endpoint URL by [@&#8203;BagToad](https://github.com/BagToad) in [#&#8203;12425](cli/cli#12425)
- ci: tag per build job by [@&#8203;babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#&#8203;12428](cli/cli#12428)
- CI: Add shell specification for temporary tag creation on Windows by [@&#8203;BagToad](https://github.com/BagToad) in [#&#8203;12429](cli/cli#12429)
- Bump sigstore-go to v1.1.4 by [@&#8203;williammartin](https://github.com/williammartin) in [#&#8203;12289](cli/cli#12289)
- Update actions/checkout to v6 in extension workflow templates by [@&#8203;fchimpan](https://github.com/fchimpan) in [#&#8203;12393](cli/cli#12393)
- ci: enable noop linters by [@&#8203;babakks](https://github.com/babakks) in [#&#8203;12440](cli/cli#12440)

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- chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.18.0 to 0.19.0 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12274](cli/cli#12274)
- chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/text from 0.31.0 to 0.32.0 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12281](cli/cli#12281)
- chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/term from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12282](cli/cli#12282)
- chore(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cobra from 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12255](cli/cli#12255)
- chore(deps): bump github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 from 2.13.1 to 2.13.2 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12262](cli/cli#12262)
- chore(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 9.1.0 to 9.2.0 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12252](cli/cli#12252)
- chore(deps): bump github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 from 2.13.2 to 2.13.4 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12302](cli/cli#12302)
- chore(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.45.0 to 0.46.0 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12300](cli/cli#12300)
- chore(deps): bump actions/attest-build-provenance from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12339](cli/cli#12339)
- chore(deps): bump github.com/yuin/goldmark from 1.7.13 to 1.7.16 by [@&#8203;dependabot](https://github.com/dependabot)\[bot] in [#&#8203;12452](cli/cli#12452)

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- [@&#8203;majiayu000](https://github.com/majiayu000) made their first contribution in [#&#8203;12377](cli/cli#12377)

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