Following our opt-in preview last year, we are excited to release sub-issues, issue types and advanced search for issues to everyone! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who opted-in and gave us feedback on these new additions. We will be rolling out these changes incrementally and expect all users to have access by the end of this week.
🔗 Break down and nest issues with sub-issues
Sub-issues allow you to break down and organize issues within a parent-child hierarchy. You can create sub-issues from any issue and use their nested structure to track progress and understand remaining work. You can also easily track sub-issues progress within your projects.
Learn more and share feedback on sub-issues.
📁 Organize your work with issue types
Issues types allow you to classify and manage your issues with a shared and consistent language across all repositories in an organization. You can quickly understand the progress of your bug backlog, find all of the high level initiatives teams are working on, and understand the breakdown of work in a project.
Learn more and share feedback on issue types.
🔍 Find exactly what you’re looking for with advanced search
From the repository issues page, you can build advanced searches using the AND and OR keywords and parentheses for nested searches. This allows you to build more complex filters to find the exact set of issues you’re looking for.
Learn more and share feedback on advanced search for issues.
🎨 Issues UI updates
All these new features are based upon an update to the issues front end, designed to be fast and familiar. This means there are no new UI patterns to slow you down, but we did include a few tweaks to speed you up, including:
- The issues index page has a new filter bar with autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
- Creating multiple issues is faster with a ‘create more’ option to quickly get back to the creation screen.
- Issue form and templates are now presented in alphabetical order based on file name, making it easier for you to set just the right order.
- Easily share the URL to an issue with a new ‘copy link’ button.
- On long issues, selecting ‘load more’ will now fetch 150 events instead of 50.
Learn more and share feedback on the updated issues UI.
👀 Not ready yet?
Head over to your account’s feature preview page to switch between the new and old experiences. Due to the incremental roll out of the new experiences over the course of this week, you may find you only have access to the feature preview toggle once the roll out has completed.