GitHub Issue Fields reach general availability

GitHub announced that Issue Fields reached general availability (GA) on 2 July 2026 for all organizations on Free, Team, Enterprise and GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency; it also ships in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.23.

Key points

• Issue Fields attach structured, typed metadata to issues: Priority, Effort, start/target dates and custom values.
• Field values now render directly on a repository's issues list; public projects are supported with visibility controls for non-members and logged-out users.
• Fields are accessible through GitHub's MCP server, so AI tools like Copilot can read and set values; field names now support non-English characters.
• Every org gets four default fields (Priority, Effort, Start date, Target date); 40,000+ orgs adopted the feature since the May public preview.
• The same release caps stored edit history at 100 entries per issue, PR or comment.