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

Maintainers can now manage the repository-level "Allow auto-merge" setting. This setting, which is off by default, controls whether auto-merge is available on pull requests in the repository. Previously, only admins could manage this setting.

Additionally, this setting can now by controlled using the "Create a repository" and "Update a repository" REST APIs.

Learn more about managing auto-merge for pull requests in your 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).

all filters demo

📝 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.

Convert to issue demo

✨ 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.

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