Stay in flow with the latest updates to GitHub Issues and Projects. You can now duplicate issues across repositories and start new issues from anywhere in the GitHub UI. These updates help you streamline your workflow and keep projects moving.

Duplicate an issue to any repository

You can now quickly duplicate any issue 🎉 with the new Duplicate issue option, which appears at the bottom of the right issue sidebar.

Here’s how it works:

  • Click Duplicate issue to open a new issue form prefilled with the original issue’s content. This includes the title, description, assignees, labels, type, projects, and milestone.
  • Change the destination repository before creating the duplicated issue, making it easy to copy issues across repositories.
  • Edit any details before creating the new issue to fit your workflow.

This feature helps you:

  • Reuse issue formats or recurring tasks without manual copy-paste.
  • Split large issues into smaller, actionable items.
  • Create similar issues across multiple repositories.

Let us know what you think and share your feedback in the discussion within the GitHub Community.

Create issues from anywhere in the GitHub UI

You can now create a new issue from anywhere while you’re using GitHub. Just use the New issue button in the header to quickly open the issue creation modal no matter which page you’re on. This helps you capture ideas or tasks as they come up, without interrupting your workflow.

Following the opt-in support for advanced issue searches using the API, all issue queries will use advanced search by default on September 4, 2025. This means that after this date:

Additional improvements

  • In a project, issues are now ordered alphabetically when sorting or slicing by the Parent issue field.
  • Select Reorder fields from the custom fields ... menu on the projects setting page to determine the order of custom fields on a project item and in field lists.
  • Close issues as duplicates programatically via the REST API.
  • GraphQL field Issue.timeline has been removed. You can use Issue.timelineItems instead. Please see the GraphQL API documentation for details.

Tell us what you think!

Join the conversation within GitHub Community, or select Give feedback from the project ... menu to share your feedback!

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