Maintainers can now manage the availability of auto-merge in a repository

Over the past month, we’ve continued to improve the GitHub Issues beta as we work hand-in-hand with our beta users to make GitHub the place that developers can plan, manage and track their work. Here are some of the recent ships:

🗂 Improved filtering

Three new filtering options are now available:

• Find items that don’t match a query with -. For example -status:done
• Find items that have null values with no. For example no:status
• Find items based on state with is. For example is:open or is:issue

All of these new filtering options have type-ahead support in the filter bar and can be found in the command palette with cmd+k (on MacOS) or ctrl+k (on Windows/Linux).

📝 Draft to Issue conversion

You can now convert any draft issue in a project to an issue. Simply use the item menu or edit the assignee, labels, milestone or repository fields.

✨ Bug fixes & improvements

• Filtering is now possible over hidden fields.
• The scroll position is reset correctly when changing views.
• Hitting ‘enter’ on a cell keeps you in the same field and moves you to the row below.
• Fixed an issue with filtering against fields which contained emojis.
• Updates to dark mode colors.
• Adding a new item via ‘tab’ now focuses you on the second column in the table layout.
• The command palette now allows filtering across all fields.
• Fixed a bug where deleting a field being used for a sort or group by broke the view.
• Improved drag and drop to empty columns in the board layout.
• Draft issues are now included under the is:issue filter.

Learn about the Issues beta on the GitHub Issues page or in the FAQ.