GitHub Projects – January 26th update

This week, we’ve shipped a new experience for creating issues directly from Projects, improved sorting by custom fields across all layouts, and fixed a few bugs.

📝 Create issues in a snap with the new issue creation dialog

Create new issues quickly and easily by clicking the + icon on the omnibar and selecting Create new issue. Add labels, select a milestone, and assign to a teammate without ever leaving your project.

🗂 Sorting by field values on the board layout

Sort by field values on the board layout to easily organize your work items within your board columns. Select a sorting field from the view configuration menu to reorder items within each column, and move your items freely between columns while still maintaining the sorted order.

✅ Tasklists (Private Beta) improvements & bug fixes

Tasklists is currently in Private Beta but we’re letting folks in as fast as we can, join the waitlist!

We’ve recently shipped a major refactor to tasklists, so bear with us and help us by reporting problems you run into!

🐛Tasklists bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where transferring Issues broke tasklists
• Stopped inserting superfluous newlines around tasklists
• Stopped showing duplicate labels on tasklists

✨ Tasklists enhancements

• Edit history now reflects the changes made to the tasklists in Markdown
• Tasklists preserve inserted Markdown instead of callously disposing of all “non-tasks”
• Support for bold, italicize, strike text out, link and code formatting
• Ability to @ mention people in tasks