Issues search: Support AND/OR operators and wildcards for firstRelease filter

[vlad-ko]

Problem Statement

When trying to filter issues by firstRelease in the Issues view, there's no way to:

1. Use wildcards (e.g., firstRelease:com.example@1.2.*)
2. Use boolean operators (AND/OR) to match multiple releases

This makes it difficult to answer questions like "show me all new issues introduced in releases 1.2.0 OR 1.2.1".

Current Behavior

Issues Search:

• firstRelease filter works for exact matches
• Attempting to use AND or OR operators results in error: "Boolean statements containing 'OR' or 'AND' are not supported in this search"
• Wildcards do not work

Discover:

• Supports OR operator for release field (e.g., release is X or release is Y)
• However, firstRelease is not available as a queryable field in Discover
• This means filtering by release in Discover returns events from issues that may have existed prior to those releases, not just issues
  introduced in those releases

Expected Behavior

One of the following:

1. Support OR operator in Issues search for firstRelease (e.g., firstRelease:X OR firstRelease:Y)
2. Support wildcards in Issues search for firstRelease (e.g., firstRelease:com.example@1.2.*)
3. Add firstRelease as a queryable field in Discover

Use Case

As a mobile developer, I want to see all new issues introduced across a range of related releases (e.g., 1.2.0 and 1.2.1) to assess the impact
of a feature rollout. Currently, I have to:

• Run separate queries for each release version
• Manually combine the results
• Or use Discover with release filter, which includes issues that existed before those releases

Screenshots

[Screenshots available - redacted for privacy]

Observed errors:

• "Boolean statements containing 'OR' or 'AND' are not supported in this search"
• "The OR operator is not allowed in this search"

Environment

• Sentry SaaS
• Project: Android

[linear]

ENG-6488

[getsantry]

Auto-routing to @getsentry/product-owners-issues for triage ⏲️

[shashjar]

marking this issue as an improvement and moving it into the backlog under the issues product area