As of last month, GitHub Advanced Security customers can enable push protection for push protection for any custom pattern defined at the repository or organization level. Now, customers can also protect patterns that they've defined at the enterprise level.
GitHub Issues – January 5th update
New year, new features and improvements! 🎆 We're making URLs in Projects more powerful with direct links to the project READMEs, project item side-panel, and adding items from repository pane.
📖 Access Project READMEs by URL
Project READMEs have been around for a while but in many of our customer calls, we found that you struggled to find them. With our latest release, we've added the ability for you to directly reference and share the README pane by URL.
With the README open, copy the URL in your address bar and share wherever it's needed. We suggest using this as the primary link when sharing a project because it drops your teammates directly into a view that provides valuable information about the project.
🔗 Automatically open an item in the side-panel via deep link
You can link to an issue in a repository and you can link to a project, but now you also have the ability to deep link to a specific issue in the project to open it in the item side-panel. Share context more quickly by directly sharing your view – project and opened item – with just one URL.
You can also deep link to the Add item from repository pane as an additional shortcut to make it even easier to bulk add items.
✨ Bug fixes and improvements
- Ability to delete all items from a board column with improved menu options
- Improved wildcard filtering
- Ability to specify the project title from the project template dialog
- Included
@todayin date suggestions - Fixed overflowing text in board item field pills
- Added
Closedlabel to a closed project - Updated aria label for removing a single select field value
- Corrected positioning when dragging board columns to the right
- Fixed empty field values in the item side-panel when there is data
- Ability to filter by item number in the board layout
- Added a fix to disable workflows when a project is closed
See how to use GitHub for project planning with GitHub Issues, check out what's on the roadmap, and learn more in the docs.
Since this is our last push to production for 2022, we wanted to take the opportunity and reflect on all the improvements shipped during this year – and boy, there were many of them! Along with General availability (GA) of Projects in July we delivered 210 feature releases 🚀. It’s been a year of listening to what you need to stay focused on code – and delivering on those requests.
Let's look at some of the highlights:
- We adapted the Project’s side-panel to keep issues front-and-center. Quickly read and leave comments, edit fields and react to issues and comments without leaving a project view.
- We simplified bulk adding issues to a project; you can expect to see more in 2023 as we make this process even sleeker. We also know you don’t need closed issues cluttering your views or the labor of manual archiving. GitHub’s solution: automated archiving.
- Productivity is all about improving micro-actions, so we also shipped branching your code directly from an issue – to get code and context tied together quickly.
- Want to keep up with changes to your Projects? Projects webhooks transmit events for any action taken on project items within your organization. But we didn’t stop there; the Projects GraphQL API was launched mid-year.
- We also help you to collaborate with your team from anywhere, anytime. If you haven’t already, join the GitHub Mobile Public Beta and make quick edits to your projects and issues while you’re on the go. For those collaborating in Slack: this year, we enabled you to create, track, and manage your GitHub issues directly from your favorite channel (learn more).
We also did a fair amount of polish and 🐛 bug fixing along the way, as you can see by this chart.
Our momentum was palpable at Universe 🪐 as we announced initial iterations on tasklists and roadmap. We have started the Private Beta rollout on these features and look forward to your feedback as you use them in the new year.
As the home of all developers, we strive to provide you with planning and tracking experiences that are adaptable, fast, and close to your code. We had a great 2022, and we want to thank you for all your feedback and support. For 2023, we already have an exciting roadmap planned, and the team is energized to bring it to life.
See you all after the Holidays 🎄.