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Evolving GitHub Issues [GA]
Value Prop
The Issues experience is evolving to include a range of highly requested enhancements including sub-issues, issue types, advanced search for issues, and increased item limits in Projects.
Sub-issues introduce a hierarchical structure to GitHub Issues, allowing users to create, discuss, and manage issues more effectively. This addresses a common request from both large and small customers and is one of our top priorities to resolve enterprise-level challenges.
Issue types allow users to classify and manage issues with a shared and consistent language across all repositories in an organization. Users can customize their issue types and use them consistently for tracking and reporting, such as bugs, tasks, or features.
Issues advanced search allows users to build advanced queries using the AND and OR keywords, as well as nested queries using parentheses. This allows users to understand their issues in a more complex way and find exactly what they're looking for and unlock more advanced reporting.
Increased item limits in Projects mean that you can now have 50k items in a project, compared to the previous limit of 1,200 items.
Expected Outcome
This is a large improvement to the current Issues experience. Together, these additions make it easier than ever to break down and nest issues, organize your work with a shared language, visualize and understand progress of how work is progressing, and categorize and find just the right issue in GitHub.
Can someone on Github side explain why this closes the Dependencies/Blockers Issue: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/956 I don't see in the description any explicit support for marking a task as being dependent or blocked on another.
Check out our dedicated sub-issues feedback discussion, share your thoughts and help us shape this feature or create a new discussion if needed!
🚢 This has shipped: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-08-evolving-github-issues-and-projects/
Leaving open for the GHES release.