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You can close an issue when bugs are fixed, feedback is acted on, or to show that work is not planned.
Anyone can close an issue they opened.
Repository owners, collaborators on repositories owned by a personal account, and people with triage permissions or greater on repositories owned by an organization can close issues opened by others.
Note
You can also close issues automatically with keywords in pull requests and commit messages. For more information, see Linking a pull request to an issue.
On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
Under your repository name, click Issues.
In the list of issues, click the issue you'd like to close.
Optionally, to change your reason for closing the issue, next to "Close issue," select , then click a reason.
Click Close issue.