Pull request merge experience – April 3 update

Today we’re announcing recent fixes and enhancements to the improved pull request merge experience that became generally available earlier this month.

🆕 Status checks grouping preference

You can now choose to show the list of status checks as a single flat list or grouped by status. Click the settings gear and choose either “Group by status” (the default) or “No grouping“.

Image showing the new merge experience status checks section expanded with a new settings gear menu opened and showing 2 options for controlling how status checks are grouped (no grouping or grouping by status)

Recent fixes

Some of the noteworthy fixes that have landed in the last few weeks:

  • The time since a status check started (e.g. Started 2s ago) now updates consistently.
  • The Draft section was previously hidden for users without write access, making it difficult to know that the pull request was not ready for review.
  • A tooltip was previously not appearing when hovering over a truncated status check’s name, making it difficult to differentiate status checks with similar, long names.
  • Various fixes related to updating the pull request branch by rebasing.
  • Various improvements to performance, especially when there were a significant number of status checks.

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To ask questions or provide feedback, join the discussion within GitHub Community.

GitHub Issues: Dashboard updates

🌐 New and improved Issues dashboard

You’ll now see an updated Issues dashboard page at github.com/issues, allowing you to easily find and create issues across repositories and organizations. This page can be accessed through the global navigation menu under Issues.

These improvements include:

  • A new filter bar with autocomplete and syntax highlighting to make building searches fast and easy.
  • The ability to perform advanced searches using AND and OR keywords as well as nested searches. For example, (org:github AND type:bug) OR (org:dizzbot AND has:sub-issue) allows you to find issues across multiple organizations. Note that a space between filter fields acts as an AND search.
  • The ability to create issues directly from this page by selecting New issue and choosing a repository.
  • A new Recent activity view in addition to the Created by me, Assigned to me, and Mentioned views. This view finds relevant issues that involve you.

Issues dashboard "Recently viewed" page

✍ Tell us what you think!

Join the discussion in GitHub Community.

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

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Copilot Chat on github.com adds support for images

Image showing a command to convert an architecture diagram photo into a Markdown file

The immersive mode of Copilot Chat on GitHub now supports image upload and analysis when using 4o, adding powerful multimodal capabilities to your development workflow. This feature was previously exclusively available on VS Code and Visual Studio.

✨ What’s new?

  • 🔗 Image upload & analysis: Upload, paste, or drag images directly into Copilot conversations.
  • 🧠 Visual context understanding: Ask questions about code screenshots, UI designs, system diagrams, and more.
  • ⚡ Image to code: Generate HTML files based on images and preview them in the side panel.

With so much of the software development lifecycle happening through images, diagrams, and other visual artifacts, we hope this release brings you closer to communicating and collaborating with Copilot in ways that mirror how you naturally think and work.

💬 Let us know what you think using the in-product feedback option or pop into the GitHub Community at any time.

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