We're consistently expanding the capabilities of projects (boards & tables) on GitHub, and we've got a handful of exciting updates and improvements launching today.
When you are in the board layout, you can now pick any single select or iteration field to use for columns.
column field. 
No more disappearing items. When you add an item to a view with a filter, those fields will now automatically be set.

With our new presence indicators we continue to evolve the real-time experience in projects, you can see who on your team is making updates to the same projects you are. Presence indicators are currently only enabled for organization owned private projects.

Other changes include:
manage access settings page.See how to use GitHub for project planning with GitHub Issues, check out what's on the roadmap, and learn more in the docs.