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.

False-alert flags will appear in audit logs due to a bug in branch protections

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.

an audit log entry with the flash message displayed above it

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Invitation Enhancements

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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