GitHub Issues – January 19th update

We're back again with the ability to make a copy of your project and a new automation for Enterprise accounts.

🖨️ Get started faster by copying your project’s views, custom fields and draft issues

Whether you’ve spotted a project that seems to have everything you want for your next endeavor or your team has an optimized project you want to use on repeat, ‘Make a copy’ is here to help. Quickly copy the views, custom fields and draft issues of any existing project over to a new one. We’d love your feedback; drop us a line in our discussion.

🤖 Automatically add project items (Enterprise accounts only)

Let the robots take care of adding your relevant issues and PRs to your project! Configure the auto-add workflow to automatically add new items as they are created or updated in a repository and filter to just the items you want with is, label, assignee, and reason support.

At this time, auto-add will not bulk-add items that match the filter when the workflow is enabled and is only available for Enterprise accounts. We'd love to hear your feedback as you try it out!

✨ Bug fixes and improvement

  • Enabled sorting in board view
  • Stopped resetting the omnibar when focus is lost
  • Updated the + button to add a column in board view

See how to use GitHub for project planning with GitHub Issues, check out what's on the roadmap, and learn more in the docs.

Organizations and enterprises using branch protections may see false-alert flags in their security log for protected_branch.policy_override and protected_branch.rejected_ref_update events between January 6 and January 11, 2023.
These events were improperly emitted due to a change in the underlying logic that checks if branch protection criteria have been met.

No action is required from impacted users with regards to these events. GitHub has a policy to not delete security log events, even ones generated in error. For this reason, we are adding flags to signal that these events are false-alerts.

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In the spirit of continuing to improve our invitation experience, we are bringing a few more enhancements to the UI and APIs to better support invitation management experiences. From today onward, the following will apply:

  • Enterprise owners can view all failed user invitations across their enterprise;
  • Enterprise and Organization owners can take bulk actions on their corresponding "People" pages in order to delete or retry failed invitations;
  • Outside collaborators will now be reflected within the failed invitation pages;
  • Enterprise owners can add multiple existing enterprise members to organizations via the UI at https://github.com/enterprises/<enterprise>/people; and
  • Invitation pages within organization and enterprise "People" pages will display invitation source information.

To learn more, read about inviting users in an organization.

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