The new GitHub Issues β May 5th update (original) (raw)
Today's Changelog introduces several updates to the projects (beta), including the highly requested side-panel, and other improvements!
π₯ Direct editing and comments with side-panel
You spoke, and we listened!
This first iteration of the new side-panel in the new projects includes all of the functionality you're used to: editing issue descriptions as well as modifying labels, assignees and milestones.
Directly from the side-panel, you can nowβ¦
- π¬ read and leave comments
- βοΈ edit project custom fields
- π€ react to issues and comments with emojis
Check out the projects side-panel by enabling in your feature preview. Once you try it out, we would love to hear your feedback in the corresponding feedback discussion!

π Improvements to adding items under filtered views
We've improved the experience working within filtered views! Now when you add a new item to your filtered view, instead of disappearing, projects automatically matches the metadata of the new item to the metadata of the row above it.

π€©β€οΈπ More Emojis! β¨π₯π₯³
Coming soon! We've added the ability to access the GitHub emoji picker from anywhere in projects. Once launched, type : into any project text field to check it out.