GitHub Issues & Projects – September 7th update

Today’s Changelog brings you updates to project templates and historical charts, sticky group headers, and color improvements!

🔗 Project templates updates

We’re continuing to make improvements to project templates for organizations (public beta). 👏

You can now view the project template that was used when a project was created. Once a template is used to create a new project, you can find and link back to the template from the project settings page in the “Templates” section. This allows you to reference the history of how a project was created and view any improvements made to the template since then.

You can also now use the CLI to mark a project as a template for members of your organization to use when getting started. The command will look like this:

gh project mark-template 1 --owner That-Lady-Dev

Check out the documentation for more details, and as well as the project CLI documentation to see all the possibilities of interacting with your projects from the terminal.

Be sure to drop a note in the feedback discussion to let us know how we can continue to improve project templates.

📜 Sticky group headers

Group headers are now sticky when scrolling through your project view. For example, if you have swimlanes on your board, scrolling to other columns and items will maintain the group name in view, making it easy for you to keep your place.

🎨 Updated colors for single select fields

The colors for single select fields have been updated, so you’ll now see the same colors within the field picker and on your project views.

➕ Create issues in board repository groups

You can now create issues when grouped by Repository on the board layout. Click Create new issue or start typing the title to get started.

📊 Updates to historical charts

Historical charts (available for GitHub Team and Enterprise Cloud plans) now show the state changes of your project items over time, allowing you to see how items have been opened and closed over time. This allows you to visualize the progress of your items over time, showing how much work has been completed and how much is left to do.

Historical charts no longer support a Group by field.

✨ Bug fixes and improvements

• Included the Slice by field configuration when you copy a project or use a project template
• Improved the contrast of the roadmap today marker
• Fixed the alignment between the filter bar and board columns
• Fixed a bug where you could not copy a project or use a template if there were invalid disabled workflows
• Fixed a bug where the view configuration menu alignement shifted when resizing a window
• Updated the error message when setting a large column limit on board columns

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

Questions or suggestions? Join the conversation in the community discussion.