Issue fields: Structured issue metadata is in public preview

Issue fields are now available in public preview for select GitHub organizations.

If you’ve been using labels like priority/p0 or severity/high to track structured data in issues, you know the limitations: no types, no validation, no consistency across repositories, and no way to report on them. Issue fields replace unstructured text in the issue body and label-based workarounds with typed, org-wide metadata that’s searchable, reportable, and consistent across every repository.

Out of the box, every organization gets four fields preconfigured and pinned to the right issue types: Priority, Effort, Start date, and Target date. Create a bug, and you’ll see Priority and Effort in the sidebar. Create a feature and you get all four.

From there, organization admins can customize everything:

• Four field types: Single select, text, number, and date, with up to 25 fields per organization.
• Pin fields to issue types: Control which fields show up for bugs, features, tasks, your custom types, or issues without a type.
• Search and filter: Find issues by field values across repositories.
• Projects integration: Add issue fields as columns in project views to group, filter, and sort. This is currently only supported in private projects.
• Timeline events: Track who changed which field and when.
• Full API support: REST and GraphQL APIs for field settings and values, plus field_added and field_removed webhook events for GitHub Actions.

Issue fields is rolling out to a selection of organizations. To request access for your organization, comment in the community discussion with your organization name and use case.

To learn more, see the issue fields documentation.