Issue boards now show complete epic hierarchies

Release notes

You can now view all issues from child epics when filtering by a parent epic in Issue Boards, bringing consistency with how the Issues List already works. This improvement helps you better track and visualize your complete epic hierarchy without missing any issues nested in child epics, making your project management workflow more efficient and reliable.

Summary

Currently the epic filter in the Issues Board doesn't return the issues from child epics, only the issues directly assigned to an epic are returned.

It is not consistent with the results from the Issues list which is returning those issues (from child epic). See issue #9029 (closed)

Example:

As an example, we have a parent epic named Epic A using the following epic tree:

In this example Epic A has no issues directly assigned but both child epics have issues.

If we apply the search filter Epic=Epic A in the Issues List we can see issues from child epic listed:

If we apply the same filter Epic=Epic A in the Issues Boards no issues are shown:

Expected behavior

In Issues Board , when you apply the filter Epic, it should show the issues directly assigned to the epic and all issues assigned to the child epics.

Issues Board and Issues list should return the same search results.

Issue blocked

This issue is blocked by the boards migration to Apollo.