diff --git a/.github/workflows/upstream-dev-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/upstream-dev-ci.yml
index 5e9f06a0c..6cc3dd994 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/upstream-dev-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/upstream-dev-ci.yml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
     name: failure-issue
     needs: [upstream-dev]
     if: |
-      needs.upstream-dev.testresults != 'success'
+      needs.upstream-dev.outputs.testresults != 'success'
       && github.repository == 'UXARRAY/uxarray'
       && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -84,13 +84,20 @@ jobs:
           issue_body="${issue_body//\{\{RUN_URL\}\}/${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}}"
           issue_body="${issue_body//\{\{DATE\}\}/$(date -u)}"
 
-          # Check for existing open issue with same title
-          issue_title="🤖 Upstream testing failure"
-          existing_issue=$(gh issue list --state open --label "CI" --search "\"$issue_title\" in:title" --json number --jq '.[0].number // empty')
+          # Prefix used for identity/matching; date suffix is for display only
+          title_prefix="🤖 Upstream testing failure"
+          issue_title="${title_prefix} ($(date -u +%Y-%m-%d))"
+
+          # Find existing open issue whose title starts with the fixed prefix
+          existing_issue=$(gh issue list --state open --label "CI" --json number,title \
+            --jq '.[] | select(.title | startswith("'"$title_prefix"'")) | .number' \
+            | head -n1)
 
           if [ -n "$existing_issue" ]; then
             echo "Found existing open issue #$existing_issue, updating it..."
-            echo "$issue_body" | gh issue edit "$existing_issue" --body-file -
+            echo "$issue_body" | gh issue edit "$existing_issue" \
+              --title "$issue_title" \
+              --body-file -
             echo "Updated existing issue #$existing_issue"
           else
             echo "No existing open issue found, creating new one..."