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New GitHub Features for Issues Tracking — and Memories of Its Past

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2024-10-18 21:00:08

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On Oct. 1, GitHub launched a public beta for a “major evolution of issues and projects,” promising highly requested enhancements that “make it easier than ever to break down work, visualize progress, categorize and find just the right issue in GitHub.”

As one of the most popular code-hosting sites, any changes at GitHub — now owned by Microsoft — will ultimately affect millions of organizations, and over 100 million developers. So it’s worth taking a look at exactly what’s being introduced — and how developers are reacting today.

Just 14 months after GitHub launched in 2008 — when it had a mere 100,000 users, according to CNBC — it launched its first issue tracker.