Add optional cleanup-preview workflow to preview changes page

 (#5117)

Co-authored-by: fern-api[bot] <115122769+fern-api[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Devin Logan <devinannlogan@gmail.com>

Author: fern-api[bot]

fern/products/docs/pages/changelog/2026-04-23.mdx

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+---
+tags: ["developer-tools"]
+---
+
+## Clean up GitHub Actions preview deployments on merge
+
+The [GitHub Actions preview workflow](/learn/docs/preview-publish/preview-changes#automate-with-github-actions) now has an optional companion `cleanup-preview.yml` workflow that deletes a pull request's preview deployment once the PR merges, so stale previews don't linger.
+
+To adopt this workflow, add `.github/workflows/cleanup-preview.yml` alongside your existing preview workflow.
+
+<Button intent="none" outlined rightIcon="arrow-right" href="/learn/docs/preview-publish/preview-changes#clean-up-preview-links-when-prs-merge">Read the docs</Button>

fern/products/docs/pages/preview-publish/preview-changes-locally.mdx

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 </CodeBlock>
 
 </Accordion>
+
+#### Clean up preview links when PRs merge
+
+To clean up preview links automatically after a PR is merged, add this workflow alongside the one above. It calls [`fern docs preview delete`](/learn/cli-api-reference/cli-reference/commands#fern-docs-preview-delete) with the PR's branch name as the `--id`, matching the identifier used when the preview was generated.
+
+<CodeBlock title = ".github/workflows/cleanup-preview.yml">
+```yaml
+name: Clean up preview links
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [closed]
+
+jobs:
+  cleanup:
+    if: github.event.pull_request.merged == true
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Fern CLI
+        uses: fern-api/setup-fern-cli@v1
+
+      - name: Delete preview deployment
+        env:
+          FERN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.FERN_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          echo "Deleting preview for branch: ${{ github.head_ref }}"
+          fern docs preview delete --id "${{ github.head_ref }}" || echo "Preview deletion returned non-zero — it may already be gone"
+```
+</CodeBlock>