Get a clearer view into large initiatives and epics

If you’re running cross-team projects with hundreds of sub-items, visualizing the work that actually matters to you may have been a challenge. We’ve made several improvements to the issue and initiative timeline to help with that.

More filters and ordering options. You can now filter the timeline to show only the issues assigned to you, or narrow it down to work that’s currently in progress. New ordering options let you sort by last activity, created date, or title.

More events on the timeline. The activity timeline now shows a fuller picture of what’s happened in an issue or initiative and includes everything where the effort is actually coming from. This makes it easier to understand the amount of activity without having to dig through each sub-item individually.

Better performance. Large initiatives and epics with hundreds of issues now load faster.

To see the improvements, navigate to the overview of any issue or initiative and explore the updated timeline.

More updates

  • Configurable file exclusions are now available in settings > pull requests > file exclusions. The file paths matching gitignore-style rules will be excluded from PR size calculations (lines changed, additions, deletions).

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