Not sure if this is related, I've noticed after upgrading to 1.22.3 (probably happened in an earlier release, we didn't use branches often before) that the merge PR does not delete the branch like it's supposed to. My question on the related side of things, is I've noticed I'm unable to delete a branch in any way it seems, did something change with a later release that would be preventing this? For example when going to the branches list on a repo, there used to be a delete button and it's just not there for me anymore. I can't even delete the branches remotely. This is true even on repos with no branch branches at all (as far as the button being missing from the branches page at least).

Not sure if this is related, I've noticed after upgrading to 1.22.3 (probably happened in an earlier release, we didn't use branches often before) that the merge PR does not delete the branch like it's supposed to. My question on the related side of things, is I've noticed I'm unable to delete a branch in any way it seems, did something change with a later release that would be preventing this? For example when going to the branches list on a repo, there used to be a delete button and it's just not there for me anymore. I can't even delete the branches remotely. This is true even on repos with no branch branches at all (as far as the button being missing from the branches page at least).

Can you reproduce this on demo site?

Seems the demo site is down/unreachable for me at the moment. I have narrowed this down to something having changed in branch protections, we have a '**' protection in place to require signed commits and that breaks Gitea doing branch deletion on merge along with the ability to delete them from the GUI. Seems branch deletion got thrown in there without a new option being added to branch protections to allow for that?