
GitHub Enhances Productivity with New Issue Management Features
July 19, 2025 | By Rongchai Wang
In a move to further improve its platform’s functionality and user experience, GitHub has rolled out significant updates aimed at enhancing user productivity and workflow management. The new features aim to streamline issue management processes, allowing users to duplicate issues across repositories and create new issues from anywhere within the GitHub interface.
The introduction of the ‘Duplicate issue’ option allows users to quickly replicate any issue. This feature appears at the bottom of the right sidebar in an issue. By selecting this, users open a new issue form prefilled with the original issue’s details, such as title, description, assignees, labels, type, projects, and milestone. This enhancement aims to simplify the process of reusing issue formats or recurring tasks without the need for manual copying and pasting, thereby increasing efficiency.
Furthermore, GitHub now enables users to create a new issue from any page within the platform. A ‘New issue’ button located in the header opens the issue creation modal instantly, empowering users to capture ideas or tasks as they arise without disrupting their workflow.
Additionally, GitHub has announced that all issue queries will default to using advanced search from September 4, 2025. This change follows the earlier introduction of opt-in support for advanced issue searches via the API. The update includes several improvements, such as the ability to close issues programmatically as duplicates using the REST API and the removal of the GraphQL field Issue.timeline, which is replaced by Issue.timelineItems.
Moreover, within a project, issues are now ordered alphabetically when sorted by the ‘Parent issue’ field, and users can reorder fields from the custom fields menu on the projects settings page.
Source: Blockchain.News