Test a new look for issues

We have changed how issues look by migrating them to a unified framework for work items to better meet the product needs of our Agile Planning offering.

These changes include a new drawer view of issues opened from the issue list, issue board, or child or linked items, a new creation workflow for issues and incidents, and a new view for issues.

For more information, see epic 9584 and the blog post First look: The new Agile planning experience in GitLab (June 2024).

Feedback

Find a bug or have a request? Leave feedback in issue 523713.

New features

The new issues experience includes these improvements:

• Drawer view: When you open an issue from the issue list, the issue opens in a drawer without leaving the current page. The drawer provides a complete view of the issue.

  To view the full page instead, either:

  1. Select View in full page at the top of the drawer.
  2. Open the link in a new tab.

  To always open issues in the full page view on the Epics page, in the top right corner, select Display options () and turn off the Open items in side panel toggle.

• Issue controls: All issue controls, including confidentiality settings, are now in the top actions menu. This menu stays visible as you scroll through the page.

• Redesigned sidebar: The sidebar is now embedded in the page, similar to merge requests and epics. On smaller screens, the sidebar content appears below the description.

• Parent hierarchy: Above the title, you can view the entire hierarchy this item belongs to. The sidebar also displays the parent work item (previously called “Epic”).

• Change type: You can change between different types of items:

  1. From the top actions menu, select Change type.
  2. Select the new type: Issue, Task, Incident, or Epic. When you change an issue to an epic, the epic is created in the parent group because epics can only exist in groups.

• Development: Merge requests, branches, and feature flags related to this item are shown in a single list.

• Issue list on projects: The project issue list is powered by work items. It adds new capabilities like:

  • Filter tasks by their parent issue, in addition to filtering issues by epic.
  • Filter by custom statuses.
  • Configure display preferences for metadata such as assignee, labels, milestone, dates, health status, comments, iteration, blocked or blocking status, and popularity.
  • Bulk edit state and parent of any work item type.

Work item Markdown reference

You can reference work items in GitLab Flavored Markdown fields with [work_item:123]. For more information, see GitLab-specific references.