Linear Changelog

Multi-level sub-teams

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:45:41 GMT

Structure your teams in Linear to match how your organization works.

Teams can nest up to five levels deep, making it possible to represent divisions, departments, groups, squads, and more. Sub-teams inherit workflows and settings from their parents at every level, so you can maintain consistency while giving each unit flexibility in how they work.

Multi-level sub-teams are available on the Enterprise plan. Learn more in our docs.

Project and initiative comments

Projects and initiatives now support comments in their activity feed, giving teams a place for high-level discussion alongside updates. Conversations stay attached to the work itself, making it easier for both people and agents to follow and reference.

Use comments to:

provide lightweight feedback that doesn’t belong in an inline comment or formal update
discuss open questions and resolve threads once decisions are made
capture meeting takeaways and mention @Linear to update docs, revise descriptions, and create issues

Fixes

Web forms for Linear Asks

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:35:00 GMT

Linear Asks allows you to capture internal requests and bring them into Linear so the appropriate team can work on them. Previously, we’ve enabled intake through Slack and email.

Now we’ve added custom web forms as well.

Teams can create a dedicated Asks page with forms for the types of requests they handle, like feature requests, bug reports, data pulls, or HR and IT tasks. Forms are powered by issue templates, so teams control exactly what information gets collected. Every submission becomes an issue in the team’s triage inbox, where it can be fielded by a team member or routed with Triage Intelligence.

Anyone in your company can create an ask, even if they don’t have a Linear account. After submitting an ask, submitters can follow up through a synced email thread on the issue.

Web forms for Linear Asks are available on the Enterprise plan. Learn more in our documentation.

Fixes

Introducing Linear Agent

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:30:00 GMT

Try Linear Agent

We’re excited to share the next major step in Linear’s evolution. For the vision behind Linear Agent, read the letter from our CEO, Karri.

As execution accelerates, the bottleneck in product development shifts toward judgment: deciding exactly what to build and where your team’s time, attention, and tokens are best spent.

Your workspace already contains much of the context needed to drive good product decisions, but getting to it means reading through threads, combing the backlog, reviewing customer requests, and piecing together what’s relevant.

Linear Agent brings all of that context within reach.

Built directly into Linear, and accessible everywhere, Linear Agent understands your roadmap, issues, and code. It can help you synthesize context, make recommendations, and take action.

For example, when starting a new project, instead of manually researching past feature requests, you can ask Linear to find related issues, group them by relevance, and pull the right ones in. From there, ask it to extract common requirements across customer requests and scope out a starting point for your spec — all in a few minutes.

Linear Agent is powered by frontier language models and fully grounded in the context of your workspace. Use it to supercharge your everyday workflows:

In Slack, send: “@Linear Make issues based on the discussion here and assign them to me”
When writing a project update, tell it: “I’m writing an update for this project. What’s changed recently, and what should I include?”
When planning your next cycle: “Read this backlog and pull out repeated themes that we can prioritize”
When you come back from time off and need to know what’s going on: “Is anything at risk or falling behind that I should be aware of?”

Linear Agent works with you wherever you are. Open a chat from the bottom-right of the desktop app (shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + J) or the mobile app, or mention @Linear in any comment or reply. It’s also available in Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Skills and Automations

As you use Linear Agent, you’ll find workflows worth repeating. When a conversation gets you to a good result, you can ask Linear to save it as a reusable skill. This is especially useful for recurring workflows, like catching up on projects or drafting issues from meeting notes. Run a skill from the skills menu in any chat or with a slash command. Linear will also automatically use skills when it thinks they are applicable.

You can also trigger agent workflows automatically when issues enter triage. Every new issue adds context to your workspace, and Linear can intelligently help you refine, synthesize, or act on it.

Automations are available on Business and Enterprise plans.

Code Intelligence (coming soon)

We’re also announcing Code Intelligence, a capability that extends Linear Agent’s understanding to your codebase. Once enabled, it supports code-aware tasks like diagnosing app functionality and designing technical specifications.

Non-technical teammates can ask questions they’d normally have to track down an engineer to answer — how a feature works, who owns a system, what recently changed — and get a reliable response.

Code Intelligence is coming soon to Business and Enterprise plans.

Availability and pricing

Linear Agent is now available in public beta for all teams. Agent and Skills are included on all Linear plans. Automations and Code Intelligence are available on Business and Enterprise.

During the beta period, all features are available at no additional cost as we refine and expand the product.

At general availability, we expect chat functionality — in-app, in comments, Slack, and Microsoft Teams — to remain included in the base seat price. High-volume compute capabilities like Automations and Code Intelligence may move to usage-based pricing beyond a certain threshold.

We’ll provide clear advance notice before any pricing changes take effect. Reach out if you have any questions.

Improvements

UI refresh

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:00:44 GMT

Introducing a calmer, more consistent interface.

We’ve visually refreshed Linear’s interface design to make it easier to scan information, navigate between workflows, and stay focused.

A few highlights:

Headers, navigation, and view controls are now consistent across projects, issues, reviews, and documents, making it simpler to orient yourself and move between workflows
Icons across the app have been redrawn and resized
Navigation sidebars are slightly dimmer, allowing the main content area to stand out

Learn more about our design process on our blog.

Additional launchers for AI coding tools

We recently gave you the ability to open issues directly in your AI coding tools with all of the context they need to take a first pass.

We’ve now expanded the list of supported tools. In addition to popular options like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex desktop, you can also now open issues in:

Amp
Codex CLI
Devin
Factory
Lovable
Netlify Agent Runners
Warp
Windsurf

Enable your tools in preferences, and launch them from any issue using the dedicated shortcut or with ⌘ Opt . (Mac) or Ctrl Alt . (Windows/Linux).

Mobile agent sessions

Work with your coding agents on the go. After delegating an issue to an agent, open its session in the Linear mobile app to see realtime reasoning or review past sessions. For agents that support it, you can also send additional messages in the session to help steer the work.

Multiple parents for sub-initiatives

Sometimes a sub-initiative contributes to multiple high-level goals. This is common in goal setting frameworks like OKRs.

Sub-initiatives can now belong to multiple parent initiatives in Linear, allowing you to express how work rolls up in different ways across your org.

Available on Enterprise plans.

Send comment on `Enter` preference

As part of our design refresh, we’ve made commenting across Linear more lightweight. You can now select between sending comments with just the Enter key or with ⌘/Ctrl Enter in preferences.

Improvements

Deeplink to AI coding tools

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:42:23 GMT

Starting an issue used to mean manually creating a feature branch. Now it means assembling the right context so your coding agent can take a first pass. We’ve made this much easier to do in Linear.

You can now launch your preferred coding tool directly from a Linear issue, with a prefilled prompt that includes the issue ID and all relevant context: description, comments, updates, linked references, and images. No copying or reformatting required.

Open in a coding tool by pressing Cmd Option . (Mac) or Ctrl Alt .(Windows/Linux) to launch your most recently used tool, W then O to choose from your enabled tools, or by clicking the button next to the issue identifier.

Supported tools:

Claude Code
Codex
Conductor
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
OpenCode
Replit
v0
Zed

Prompt templates can also be customized to add standing instructions for how your agent should approach issues. For example, you may always want your agent to give you a detailed plan before writing any code.

Configure your personal coding tools, prompt template, and more in preferences.

Linear in Notion’s Custom Agents

Create and update Linear issues and projects using Notion’s new Custom Agents. Flexibly and seamlessly connect your workflows across both tools.

API

Advanced filters and share issues in private teams

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:15:11 GMT

Refine your searches, views, and dashboards with advanced filters. Combine multiple AND/OR conditions to define exactly what you want to see.

For example, track high-priority bugs for prospective customers in a single view by combining Priority, Label, and Customer status filters.

Subscribe to a view to get notified when issues match your conditions, or use advanced filters to power targeted dashboards.

Get started by choosing advanced filter from the filter menu, or use AI filter to describe what you’re looking for in natural language.

Share issues from private teams

You can now share individual issues from private teams with specific users outside of the team. This is especially useful when bringing collaborators on to solve individual problems for highly sensitive teams, like security or HR. You can assign them a specific issue from your team without giving them access to the rest of the team’s data.

Shared issues will have a banner prominently displayed to indicate who that issue is visible to.

Private issue sharing is available on Enterprise plans. Learn more in our docs.

Create projects and initiatives on Android and iOS

Capture ideas on the go by creating new projects and initiatives on Linear’s mobile apps. Write project summaries and properties to express your intent, then build out full descriptions and milestones later.

Gemini Enterprise connector

Gemini Enterprise users can now create issues from Gemini, and access data from their existing issues and projects. Learn more in our docs.

Improvements

Linear MCP for product management

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:56:53 GMT

We’ve expanded Linear’s MCP server with support for initiatives, project milestones, and updates. These allow product managers to keep plans up to date and communicate progress from other tools like Cursor and Claude.

Newly added MCP tools:

Create and edit initiatives
Create and edit initiative updates
Create and edit project milestones
Create and edit project updates
Manage project labels
Support for loading images

We also improved performance and reduced token usage through better tool documentation, and added broad support for loading Linear resources through URLs.

Deprecation of `/sse` MCP endpoint

SSE as a transport was deprecated starting with protocol version 2024-11-05. As all modern clients now support the more reliable HTTP streams, Linear MCP is fully removing SSE support. To switch, update your endpoint from https://mcp.linear.app/sse to https://mcp.linear.app/mcp.

Deprecation errors for SSE will be rolled out gradually over the next two months.

Nested sub-issues

Issue lists can now show sub-issues as a nested hierarchy. Turn on this display option from any issue list view.

Retired teams

Teams form and disband as organizations evolve. When a team is no longer active, its issues and projects still hold useful context, but shouldn’t clutter your workspace.

We’re introducing the ability to retire teams, giving you a clean way to wind a team down while preserving its project and issue history.

Retired teams are read-only and hidden from the sidebar, but their issues, projects, and documents are still accessible. When retiring a team, you can choose to cancel any remaining open issues or move them to another team. Retired teams can be restored at any time.

Admins, workspace owners, and team owners can retire a team from its settings page.

Improvements

Time in status

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:55:00 GMT

Time spent in individual statuses is now tracked and available throughout Linear. Hover over any issue’s status indicator to see the cumulative time it’s spent in each status. You can use this to spot where things are getting stuck, identify bottlenecks, and optimize your development process.

On lists and boards, you can see how long items have been in their current status. Order by time in status to surface blocked work, or filter by conditions like In Review > 7 days to catch issues that have fallen through the cracks.

In Insights and Dashboards, analyze the time spent in any status and slice by time period or other attributes to see how performance changes and differs across your workspace. Use this to quickly uncover systemic bottlenecks and outliers.

Time in status is available as a display option in views, and as a new measure in Insights.

Jira Epic sync

We’ve upgraded our Jira integration to support bi-directional syncing between Jira Epics and Linear projects. Changes to properties like status, target date, and description automatically reflect in both applications, so you don’t have to update them manually.

Configure the Jira integration from your Linear workspace’s integration settings.

Fixes

Customize your navigation in Linear Mobile

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:53:19 GMT

Now you can customize Linear Mobile to fit your daily workflow.

Personalize the bottom toolbar to prioritize the features you use the most. Rearrange the main navigation items, or pin specific projects, initiatives, and documents for quick access. For example, you can choose Pulse to stay up to date with work across your teams, or My issues to manage your assigned tasks.

To pin specific projects, initiatives, or documents, open the item and use the ••• menu in the top-right.

Available today in the App Store and Play Store.

Redesigned timing charts in Insights and Dashboards

Timing charts in Insights and Dashboards have been redesigned to make it easier to spot workflow trends and bottlenecks.

Timing charts now use a logarithmic scale by default so outliers don’t visually flatten the rest of your data. Percentile metrics also display by slice, allowing you to compare across different dimensions or track changes over time. We’ve also removed issue limits to support analysis across much larger datasets.

Linear Agent for Slack on all plans

We’ve made Linear Agent for Slack available on every plan, including Basic and Free. Update your Slack integration, then create issues or ask questions by mentioning @Linear in Slack.

Linear Code Reviews (Private Beta)

Linear Code Reviews is now available in private beta. We’ve brought code reviews directly into Linear, with support for both traditional PR workflows and agents output.

Join the waitlist to request early access.

Fixes

Team owners

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:02:03 GMT

We are introducing a new team owner role to give teams more control over their team settings. Alongside this new role, we’re adding team permissions so you can choose who can manage team settings, labels, templates, and membership — either any team member or only team owners. This empowers teams to define their own policies, while ensuring workspace owners and admins retain control over workspace-wide settings.

You can also control access and require an invite to join a team. Issues and projects of any team will still remain visible to everyone, and workspace owners and admins can always manage the settings for any team.

Configure these permissions on your team’s Access and permissions page. Team owners and permissions are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in the docs.

v0 by Vercel MCP connector

Access your Linear data from v0 to generate prototypes, dashboards, and internal tools. After connecting Linear’s MCP server, you can pull context from Linear issues, projects, and discussions when building in v0. Learn more.

Improvements

Linear agent for Intercom, Zendesk, Gong

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:10:29 GMT

The Linear agent can now handle the tedious work of turning customer conversations into actionable issues. Available through our Intercom, Zendesk, and Gong integrations, the agent parses conversations and automatically files issues with the relevant details. This ensures your product team gets the right customer context while your customer-facing teams spend less time manually filing issues.

From Intercom and Zendesk, use the Linear agent to turn support tickets into issues with a single button click. The agent analyzes the full conversation and files any relevant bugs or feature requests — even from long, multi-topic threads. Issues are created with concise summaries, key details, and include relevant screenshots. When a conversation contains several distinct requests, the agent can automatically create multiple issues at once.

The new Gong integration brings a fully self-driving issue creation workflow to customer calls. The Linear agent reviews each transcript to capture product feedback and feature requests and automatically routes them to Linear. No prompts or clicks required.

Every issue filed by the Linear agent is routed to the relevant team’s triage queue and attributed to the right customer. With Triage intelligence, duplicate requests are automatically merged into existing issues, keeping your backlog clean without losing important customer context.

The Linear agent is included with the Intercom and Zendesk integrations on Business and Enterprise plans, and with the Gong integration on the Enterprise plan.

Linear agent in Slack workflows

The Linear agent for Slack now works inside Slack workflows. You can already mention @Linear in any Slack thread to turn conversations into issues using natural-language prompts. With this update, the Linear agent can also be invoked by automated steps in Workflow Builder, allowing bots to request @Linear to create issues and take actions.

Warp agent

Users of Warp can now delegate issues to the Warp agent directly from Linear. Assign an issue to Warp and the agent will create a plan and start working on implementing it.

You can follow how the agent is progressing against its plan, steer it further, or review the PR once the agent finishes. You can always open the remote session in Warp to take over directly. Warp cloud agents are available to paid Warp users. Learn more and install the agent.

Fixes

OpenAI Codex agent

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:00:52 GMT

OpenAI Codex users can now delegate issues directly to the Codex agent without leaving Linear.

Codex can answer questions about your codebase, fix bugs, or take a first pass at issues in your Triage queue. Assign issues to the Codex agent, and it will use the full issue context, automatically choose the right repo, and start working on a solution.

Engineers can fully delegate well-defined issues to Codex, so they can stay focused on more complex projects. Follow Codex’s reasoning as it works on the issue or just review the summary when the task finishes. When you’re ready, open the Codex task on web to review the code changes and turn them into a PR.

Codex gives every team engineering-level help — without consuming actual engineering time. Support teams can ask Codex to explain how the code works when triaging bug reports. PMs and designers can use Codex to prototype new ideas, or even handle small coding tasks like updating copy or fixing UI issues.

You can assign multiple issues to Codex and it will work on them in parallel. You’ll receive inbox notifications when Codex needs your input or when work is ready for review.

To get started, add the Codex agent to your Linear workspace. You’ll be asked to connect your ChatGPT account when you delegate an issue to Codex for the first time. You must be on a ChatGPT paid plan and connect your Github account to use Codex. Learn more in our docs.

Workspace owners

Enterprise plans now have a new Workspace owner role, the highest permission level in Linear. Workspace owners have exclusive control over billing, security settings, OAuth app management, audit logs, and workspace exports. This change enables admins to continue to handle everyday management needs while limiting who has access to the most sensitive settings in your Linear workspace. Learn more in the docs.

Initiatives in Google Sheets

Linear’s Google Sheets integration can now sync initiatives in addition to projects and issues. Initiatives sync to their own dedicated Google Sheet with properties including owner, teams, description, health, and target dates.

Use this sheet to power external analysis and workflows for high-level planning. To get started, enable the Linear Google Sheets integration from your Linear workspace settings and toggle on Sync initiatives.

Improvements

Form templates

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:25:02 GMT

Form templates are a new type of issue template that support form fields. Use these templates to collect specific issue details upfront so work is actionable from the start.

Form templates are useful for teams that require specific details in every request, like bug reports that need repro steps and environment details, security incidents that should capture severity and when the incident occurred, and IT or HR requests for new equipment or onboarding details.

You can specify generic fields like text input, dropdowns, and checkboxes, as well as issue property fields like priority, customer, and label groups. Name each field, add descriptions to give submitters clear instructions, and mark any field as required.

When creating an issue, form templates appear to users as fillable forms. Any user in your Linear workspace can create templated issues in Linear or through the Slack integration.

With Asks, you can add form templates to Slack channels and let everyone in your Slack workspace turn their requests into Linear issues — even if they don’t have a Linear account.

Form templates are available on all plans, and can be used in Asks for teams on Business and Enterprise plans. To create a form template, add a new issue template and choose Form. Any issue templates previously used with Asks have been converted to form templates. Learn more in our docs.

Mermaid diagrams

Build modifiable diagrams like flowcharts and sequence diagrams natively in Linear. Create a new diagram by typing /diagram in a text field or searching for mermaid as the language in a code block. See the official Mermaid docs for more on the syntax.

Figma Make connector

Access Linear issues, projects, and documents from Figma Make to design prototypes with full context. You can also create and manage Linear issues and projects without leaving Figma — turning your prototypes into tracked work. All tools supported by Linear’s MCP server are accessible in the connector. Learn more in our docs.

API

Pulse on mobile

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:54:00 GMT

Pulse is now available in Linear’s iOS and Android apps. Stay up-to-date on the progress of your projects and initiatives, no matter where you are.

Pulse brings relevant updates from across your Linear workspace into a single unified feed, so you can quickly see what’s happening. For me shows you a personalized feed of project and initiative updates most relevant to you. Popular and Recent surface updates from across your entire company, helping you stay informed beyond your immediate focus. Leave a comment on any update, or react with an emoji.

Updated Progress Graphs

Initiative, project, and cycle graphs have been refreshed to make progress and activity trends clear at a glance.

Progress graphs for projects and cycles now include a bar chart to highlight completed issues, providing a clear view of momentum over time.

Initiative graphs have been redesigned to highlight the most active projects at any given time. Each curve represents the rate of completed issues within a single project, rising during periods of high activity and leveling off during quieter periods or after project completion. Hover over the x-axis to see your most active projects in a given week.

Initiative and project views now include an activity indicator. It highlights which efforts are most active across your workspace, so it’s clear where your team is spending time.

Datadog integration

Datadog users can now automatically create Linear issues from Datadog monitor notifications. This ensures that any critical alerts from Datadog are translated directly into tracked and actionable work in Linear. Learn more in our docs.

Improvements

GitHub Copilot agent

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:50:00 GMT

GitHub Copilot users can now work with the GitHub Copilot agent directly within Linear.

Delegate any issue directly or mention GitHub Copilot in a comment, and the agent will use the full issue context to start an implementation in a draft PR.

You can follow Copilot’s progress on the Linear issue or on the PR in GitHub. You’ll get notified if the agent needs your input or when the work is ready for review. Prompt Copilot to make further changes by adding comments to the PR.

GitHub Copilot agent can handle lightweight tasks in your backlog like quick bug fixes, small refactors, or UI polish so your team can stay focused on complex projects. Track all issue delegated to GitHub Copilot and other agents from My Issues or create a custom view.

To get started, add the GitHub Copilot agent to your Linear workspace. You’ll be prompted to link your individual GitHub account when you delegate an issue to GitHub Copilot for the first time. Check out the GitHub documentation to learn more.

Fixes

Linear agent for Slack

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:27:56 GMT

Creating issues has never been easier. Mention @Linear in discussions on Slack, and the Linear agent will create issues informed by your conversation’s context. Use natural language to specify issue details or simply let the agent infer what’s needed.

Linear agent for Slack is available now on all plans. Update your Slack integration, then create issues by mentioning @Linear in Slack.

Learn more in our docs.

Fixes

Mobile app redesign

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:39:58 GMT

We’ve refreshed our iOS and Android apps with a new visual design system. Both now use a custom frosted glass material that adds depth and contrast to the UI.

Navigation has been rebuilt with a new bottom toolbar for quick access to core workflows. You’ll also now find a “Create Issue” button at the top of every screen.

Update now in the App Store and Play Store.

Factory agent

Users of Factory AI coding agents can now access them directly within Linear. Delegate an issue to Factory to spin up a remote workspace and launch a coding agent.

Factory’s remote workspaces allow you to create custom development environments for coding agents, so you can delegate several Linear issues simultaneously to run in consistent, isolated environments. Learn more about Factory in our Integration Directory.

Issue SLAs now available on Business plans

Workspaces on the Business plan can now use SLAs to set clear expectations on when time-sensitive work should be completed.

SLAs apply automatically to issues based on configurable rules. When an SLA is at risk or becomes breached, issue subscribers receive immediate notifications. Learn more about SLAs in our docs.

Improvements

Label descriptions and archiving

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:43:20 GMT

Label descriptions and archiving

Labels let you organize issues and projects in ways specific to your team or workspace. They can be used to define custom views and dashboards, or in Triage and SLA rules. We’ve made significant improvements to label functionality and management.

Label descriptions

Add descriptions to labels to clarify their purpose and when they should be applied. Hover over a label from anywhere in the app to read its description. Label descriptions also help inform Product Intelligence on when to suggest a particular label.

Archiving labels

Archive labels when they are no longer needed, but you wish to preserve historical data. Archived labels remain visible on issues and projects where they were previously applied and will continue to work in filters, insights, and views.

Label management

We’ve shipped a series of quality of life improvements for managing labels. You can now easily update labels in bulk, merge multiple labels together, and see triage and SLA rules that they affect.

Fixes

Issue discussion summaries

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:03:50 GMT

Discussion summaries now appear on issues with substantial activity. Read these summaries to understand what’s happened in an issue without reading every comment.

Summaries capture decisions, blockers, debates and their resolutions, and key people involved. When new comments are posted, summaries automatically regenerate to reflect changes.

Citations point back to specific comments that support the summary’s claims. Hover over a citation to view the source material and click through to read the original comment. Issue discussion summaries are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in the docs.

Updates tab on projects and initiatives

Visit the updates tab to see the history of all updates and changes to a project or initiative. Write new updates from this page and share the link with anyone in your workspace so they can track progress.

Updates appear in chronological order along with any changes to properties such as the target date, members, and milestones. On initiatives, display updates from sub-initiatives and projects, so you can see all relevant information in one place.

Sentry Agent

Use the Sentry Agent to run a root cause analysis on any Linear issue linked to Sentry. Once assigned to an issue, the Sentry agent will analyze the related stack trace, logs, events, and other metadata and share its findings. You can use this analysis as additional context when fixing the problem, either manually or using a coding agent.

Date mentions

Add date mentions in project descriptions, issues, and documents by typing @ followed by a date expression like @tomorrow, @October 12th, or @next Wednesday. Date mentions always resolve to the correct calendar date.

Fixes

New to Product Intelligence: Auto-apply triage suggestions

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:04:31 GMT

This feature has been renamed to Triage Intelligence

Let Product Intelligence take the first pass at triage and automatically apply suggestions to issues.

Set up rules to automatically accept suggestions for individual issue properties, or only for specific values. For example, you can configure triage suggestions to always apply the suggested team and assignee but only automatically apply specific labels like bug.

Properties that have been automatically applied are clearly marked in the suggestions header. Hover over them to review the reasoning or to make changes.

By letting Product Intelligence take the first pass, you can dramatically reduce the time it takes to triage issues. Your team can focus its attention fully on solving problems, rather than being continuously interrupted.

You can configure Triage suggestions at the workspace or team level. It is part of Product Intelligence, which is available in Technology Preview to anyone on the Business and Enterprise plans.

To get started, ask your workspace admin to enable Product Intelligence or learn more in the docs.

OAuth improvements

We’re moving OAuth apps to use short-lived access tokens for user-initiated OAuth. These new tokens will be valid for 24 hours and paired with refresh tokens.

Starting October 1st, 2025, all newly created OAuth apps will issue refresh tokens by default. Existing apps will have until April 1st, 2026 to migrate to the new refresh token system.

We also added support for the client_credentials grant type for apps that use OAuth tokens for direct server-to-server communication and cannot support a user-initiated OAuth flow involving refresh tokens.

View the updated OAuth developer documentation to learn more.

Fixes (24)

Salesforce integration

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:18:40 GMT

Linear’s Salesforce integration connects customer cases and account data from your CRM with product work in Linear.

Escalate customer cases to the product team by creating Linear issues or linking existing ones — directly from Salesforce. Customer-facing teams can submit feature requests, share product feedback, and report bugs affecting existing customers or impacting new opportunities.

Linear issue details are surfaced directly in Salesforce and updated in realtime. This lets you keep track of development progress, close the loop with customers when issues are completed, and engage prospects as soon as their feature requests ship.

Salesforce account data also syncs with Linear. Product teams can view customer requests alongside details like revenue, tier, and company size, helping them prioritize the most impactful product work.

Any Salesforce case field can now be used to filter issues in Linear. Create custom views and stay updated with view notifications, or create Triage rules based on Salesforce case fields to automatically prioritize and route issues.

The Salesforce integration is available as a paid add-on to the Enterprise plan. Contact sales to learn more and request a trial.

Sync customer data

Customer attributes can now be synced from external data sources like Zendesk, Intercom, Front, or Salesforce.

Map attributes in Linear — like revenue, tier, status, customer owner, and company size — to corresponding attributes in your external system of record. Linear automatically syncs updates from your external data source, ensuring data in Linear always stay up to date.

To get started, head to customer requests settings and select a source. Customer data syncing is available on Business and Enterprise plans for Zendesk, Intercom, Front. You must have the Salesforce integration (add-on to the Enteprise plan) in order to sync customer data from Salesforce.

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Cursor background agents

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:34:16 GMT

Assign issues to Cursor and launch background agents from within Linear.

You can now add Cursor as an agent in your workspace. The Cursor agent can work alongside your team to make code changes or answer questions. When an issue is delegated to Cursor, it will use the full issue context to create a plan and start working on an implementation.

Engineers can fully delegate well-defined issues to Cursor without leaving Linear. Describe the task in plain language and Cursor will automatically create a branch, draft a PR, and notify you when the work is ready for review. If the code changes need further refinement, you can continue prompting by commenting on the issue or take over the work directly in the Cursor app with a seamless handoff.

Cursor background agents can be used by your whole team—not just engineers. Team members can directly ask Cursor how the code functions to investigate customer issues, rather than escalate all of those questions to engineering. Designers and PMs can specify quick prototypes to validate new ideas, or even ask the agent to handle small UI fixes, copy updates, or other polishing tasks.

You can monitor all issues delegated to Cursor and other agents from the My Issues view and you’ll be notified when an agent needs your input or when their work is complete.

To add Cursor to your Linear workspace, enable the integration. You’ll be asked to link your individual Cursor account when you delegate an issue to Cursor for the first time. Check out the Cursor documentation to learn more.

Initiative views

Build curated lists of initiatives that can be shared with the rest of your team. Views can be created by filtering on properties—like owner and teams—or by specifying specific initiatives that you want to include.

Create an initiative view by going to your workspace’s views page or by filtering your initiatives list and saving it as a new view. Initiative views are available on enterprise plans.

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Product Intelligence (Technology Preview)

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:06:44 GMT

This feature has been renamed to Triage Intelligence

Product Intelligence streamlines your product operations with AI assistance for routine, manual tasks. Today we are previewing the first of its capabilities: automating the overhead of triage intake.

When activated, Product Intelligence examines all issues sent to Triage and does the tedious parts of the intake process for you. It will research past and existing issues for context, making informed suggestions on which team, projects, and assignee to route the new issue to. It also identifies related issues and likely duplicates.

You can accept or dismiss the suggestions, or hover over them to see the reasoning behind the match.

If you want to give Product Intelligence more context to steer its behavior, you can add additional guidance at the workspace, team, or sub-team levels.

Product Intelligence transforms intake from an inconsistent, research-heavy process into an automated approval flow. Because suggestions are based on your issue data, they will improve over time as you accept and dismiss them. The more you enrich your data, the more precise future suggestions become.

Product Intelligence is available in Technology Preview to anyone on the Business and Enterprise plans. To get started, ask your workspace admin to enable it in Product Intelligence settings and learn more in the docs.

Mobile: New search experience

Mobile search now uses our hybrid semantic search engine to find comprehensive results beyond just keyword matching. When you open search, you’ll see recently viewed issues, projects, and documents, along with navigation shortcuts. Start typing to filter the recently viewed list or press Enter to search across all of your issues, projects, and documents.

Customize Asks email auto-replies

Linear Asks helps internal teams manage workplace requests from Slack and email. For Asks over email, choose when an automated reply is sent, and customize the exact message. Go to Asks settings and select an intake email to configure your custom replies.

Attio integration

Share user feedback and sync customer details from Attio and into Linear with their integration. Create customer requests from any company, person, deal, or call from within Attio and add them to Linear projects and issues.

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Agent Interaction Guidelines and SDK

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:19:00 GMT

Since the launch of Linear for Agents, teams have started using agents to accomplish real work inside of Linear. We’ve seen developers build agents that can write requirements, scope issues and projects, perform QA, fix bugs, and build features. From those early explorations, we’ve learned a lot about what makes agent collaboration work well — and where there’s still room to improve.

Agent Interaction Guidelines

We’ve distilled the learnings from our agent partners into a new framework called the Agent Interaction Guidelines (AIG). These principles and practices help developers design agents that integrate more naturally into human workflows.

If you’re building agents and thinking through similar challenges, we encourage you to use AIG as a reference. AIG is a living document, and we expect to continually add to it as we learn more in practice.

Agent Interaction SDK (Developer preview)

To put the AIG principles into practice, we are also releasing a developer preview of our new Agent Interaction SDK. The Agent Interaction SDK gives developers a structured way to define how agents communicate status and progress. Now, developers can define how agents should communicate with the users using our SDK, and Linear renders the appropriate UI automatically.

Here’s what’s new in the Agent Interaction SDK:

Agent Delegation

Assignment now reflects accountability. When a user delegates an issue to an agent, the user remains the primary assignee, while the agent is added as a contributor working on the user’s behalf.

Agent Session

Agents can share a rich status indicating whether they’re actively working, waiting for input, have encountered an error, or completed their work.

Agent Activity

Agents can expose detailed activity like their reasoning steps, tool usage, prompts for clarification, and final responses.

These updates give agent developers a structured, semantic way to communicate agent behavior, while giving users realtime visibility into what agents are doing — all within Linear where teams already manage their work.

The Agent Interaction SDK is available as a developer preview, and developers can start implementing the new capabilities today. To build your own agent, check out the Developing agents doc and join the #api-agents channel in our Community Slack for support.

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Dashboards

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:55:58 GMT

Create dashboards to track key metrics for your team or workspace.

Dashboards let you combine data from different insights into a single page view. Use them to monitor operational health across teams and workflows or build reporting dashboards to show how resources are spent across initiatives and projects.

Dashboards are modular and customizable. You can display insights as charts, tables, or single-number metrics, depending on your needs. Dashboards can be filtered to target a specific team or scope. Drill into specific insights and segments to view the underlying issues and examine patterns or outliers. From there, take action—assign work, update statuses, or triage directly from the issue list.

You can share dashboards with your workspace, to a specific team, or kept private as personal dashboards. To create your first dashboard, go to the Dashboards tab under Views or start from an existing insight and choose Add to dashboard.

Dashboards are available on the Enterprise plan or with an enterprise trial starting today. Learn more in the docs and watch the demo video below.

Quick navigation in Settings

Navigate between pages in Settings using the command menu (Cmd/Ctrl K). From anywhere else in the app, use O then S to find and open a specific Settings page.

Notion AI Connector

Search across Linear projects and issues directly from Notion AI. Once you’ve set up the integration, Notion AI will have access to all project and issue details including the title, description, assignee, creator, and issue comments.

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Email intake for Linear Asks

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:16:37 GMT

Turn any email thread into a trackable issue with Linear Asks.

Asks helps internal teams manage workplace requests from Slack and email. Create designated email addresses – such as helpdesk@, legal@, or ops@ – and any messages sent, forwarded, or cc’d to those addresses will create an issue in the selected team’s triage queue.

Comments sync both ways with the original email thread, so you can respond to the sender without leaving Linear and email replies will appear as new comments.

Asks is available on Business and Enterprise plans. To get started, go to Asks settings and create your first intake email.

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Sub-initiatives

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:29:43 GMT

Large enterprise companies can now organize strategic initiatives into a hierarchical structure that reflects how they plan and manage work.

Initiatives can now be nested up to five levels deep, making it possible to represent cascading goals, workstreams, and OKRs. Each initiative has a dedicated page that displays its projects and sub-initiatives together, giving initiative owners a central place to track progress, post updates, and share context.

Sub-initiatives are available on the Enterprise plan. Learn more in the docs.

Copy Developer Docs as Markdown for LLMs

Any Docs page can now be copied as Markdown, so you can feed the full content into an LLM. This is particularly helpful for developer documentation—for example, when you’re building an integration or working with the Linear API. Use the ⌘⌥C shortcut or the Copy page button in the top-right corner to copy the page content. You can also fetch the raw Markdown by appending .md to the URL (e.g. https://linear.app/developers/agents.md).

Improvements

Project labels

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:39:43 GMT

Organize projects across your workspace with project labels. Apply labels to categorize projects with custom attributes, so you can group, filter, and view them in ways that are unique to your organization. Project labels work with custom views and are available within Insights as slice and segmentation options.

Project list views now support label groups as an explicit display property, giving each group its own dedicated column.

Create and manage project labels in your workspace settings.

Collapsible grouping headers

You can now collapse grouping headers in issue and project views. Use the toggle button, double-click, or press T while hovering over a group to collapse and expand groups. Hold Opt/Alt to toggle all headers at once.

Editing performance

We’ve improved editing speed for large collaborative documents by as much as 50x. Table editing is now also significantly faster.

Series C fundraise

We’re happy to announce that we’ve raised an $82M Series C at a $1.25B valuation led by Accel. We remain focused on making product development and coordination across teams and tools effortless. Read more on the blog.

Fixes (7)

Asks fields and Triage routing

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:31:00 GMT

Asks fields

Customize your intake forms for Asks. Let users set priority, customer, or due date and allow them to upload files when submitting new Asks. Additionally, you can expose any label group as a dropdown field to help with up-front categorization.

Asks fields can be added to any existing issue template.

Triage routing

Automatically route Triage issues to the right team or assignee based on predefined rules. You can create triggers from nearly any combination of parameters including the priority, creator, template, project, due date or SLA status, then choose how the issue should be processed. Use rules to:

Assign issues to specific members or agents
Mark specific issues as high-priority
Move issues to their appropriate teams

Configure Triage rules from Team settings > Triage.

When combined, Asks fields and Triage routing eliminate manual work and help you scale intake workflows. Users fill out what they know and automations send the issue to the right team or assignee.

Asks is available on business and enterprise plans. Triage routing is available on enterprise plans. To try either of these features, start an enterprise trial.

ChatGPT Deep Research integration

Access your Linear data in ChatGPT. Ask questions, analyze trends, and get insights across your entire workspace when running deep research queries. Available for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers.

Linear MCP server available in Cursor 1.0

Linear now supports Cursor’s one-click MCP server installs with OAuth2 based authentication. Install Linear from Cursor’s Tools directory or open Cursor directly.

Fixes (16)

Linear for Agents

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Build and deploy AI agents in Linear that work alongside you as teammates.

Agents are first-class users in Linear. Assign them to issues, add them to teams and projects, and @mention them in comments – just like any other member of your workspace. Each agent has a full user profile and is clearly identified as an app user, so you can see what they are working on and track their progress.

Today, we’re launching with a first set of agents, each designed to support a different part of the product development lifecycle:

Devin scopes issues and drafts PRs
ChatPRD writes requirements, manages issues, and gives feedback
Codegen builds features, debugs issues, and answers codebase questions

For a full list of available agents, head over to our Linear for Agents page. We’ll continue adding more to our Integration Directory over time, including upcoming agents from partners like Sentry and Intercom, which will be available very soon.

In addition to deploying third-party agents, you can also build your own. Agents you create can be used privately within your own workspace or submitted to the Integration Directory to share with the broader Linear community. To get started, check out the new Agent API in our Developer Docs and join the #api-agents channel in our community Slack to connect with other developers building agents.

LLM summaries for document content changes

We now generate AI summaries for document changes, so you can quickly see what’s been updated. These summaries appear in inbox, email, and Slack notifications for document and project description changes. We automatically filter out minor changes that fix grammar, styling, or typos.

Sortable column headers

Click on a column header in any list view to re-order the list by that column. Click again on a sorted column header to update the sorting direction. This is supported on lists views such as projects, initiatives, and the members page in settings.

Fixes

Custom feeds in Pulse

Thu, 15 May 2025 16:20:10 GMT

Create custom feeds in Pulse to focus on a targeted subset of updates. Filter recent updates by author, team, project, initiative, status, and more—then save as a personalized custom feed for future access. These custom feeds are only visible to you and not shared with others.

Projects in Google Sheets

Our Google Sheets integration now supports syncing project data in addition to issues. Projects sync to their own dedicated Google Sheet and include all key project properties like status, priority, target date, lead, customer request count, etc. Use this sheet to power external analysis and workflows.

To get started, enable the Linear Google Sheets integration from settings and toggle on Sync projects. To get an idea of how to use the synced sheet, see a basic example here.

New media players

We’ve redesigned our video player and added a new audio player to improve the media experience in Linear. Drop a video or audio file into an issue, document, or comment to try it out.

Both players support custom controls for adjusting the playback rate, changing volume, and downloading the file. Dozens of new keyboard shortcuts let you control the playback including:

Seeking ←→ by percent 1234567890 and by frame ,.
Volume ↑↓ and mute M
Playback rate <>
Fullscreen F and picture-in-picture P

Mobile apps: Customer requests

The latest mobile release brings full support for viewing customer requests on the go. Browse requests linked to projects and issues, open customer pages to view all of their requests and mark them as favorites.

Also available on the Android app:

You can now save drafts for project and initiative updates
Pulse audio is now supported

Update now on iOS and Android.

Keyboard shortcuts

Linear MCP server

Thu, 01 May 2025 16:02:04 GMT

Your AI models and agents can use our official MCP server to access your Linear data in a simple and secure way.

Connect to our MCP server natively as a new Claude Integration, or by using the mcp-remote module in Cursor, Windsurf, and other clients.

We’re following the authenticated remote MCP spec, so the server is centrally hosted and managed. It has tools available for finding, creating, and updating objects in Linear like issues, projects, and comments — with more functionality on the way.

We’re excited to see how you and your agents use Linear data to power your workflows. If you have questions, feedback, or requests for new MCP tools, please let us know.

We want to thank our partners at Cloudflare and Anthropic for helping us get up and running. For anyone in the community looking to build their own MCP server, Cloudflare provides excellent guides and hosting options.

Setup Instructions

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Customer Requests on projects

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:12:36 GMT

We recently introduced Customer Requests to allow you to bring the voice of your customer directly into your issues. Now customer requests can be added to projects as well, so you can capture product feedback and connect customer needs with your roadmap and planning processes.

Add a customer request from the project overview page and a new Customers tab will appear. In one consolidated view, you’ll see requests captured at the project level as well as those related to issues within the project. Filter and sort these requests to focus on the most relevant feedback as you build features and make product decisions.

Use customer requests to align your planning process to real demand. In any project view, you can display and organize projects by customer count and revenue. To target a specific segment of customers, filter by attributes like customer size or status.

Customer subscriptions

Stay informed about the customers you care about the most. Open a specific customer page and select the bell icon to subscribe to notifications.

You can be notified when the customer submits new requests, when one of their requests is marked as important, or when any of their requested issues and projects ships. Access notifications and review requests from desktop, iOS, and Android.

Fixes

Introducing Pulse — your personalized feed for what’s happening across your company

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:43:09 GMT

Introducing Pulse — your personalized feed for what’s happening across your company

Today, we’re launching Pulse, a new way to stay in sync with your product organization through a personalized, realtime feed of updates and discussions.

As companies grow, answering the simple question “What’s happening right now?” becomes increasingly hard. Information is spread across tools, projects, and teams, making it difficult to get a clear, high-level view.

Pulse changes that by bringing relevant updates from across your Linear workspace into a single unified feed. It’s tailored to the workstreams that are most relevant to you, and makes it easy to dive deeper into the projects, initiatives, or teams behind each update.

Tailored for you

You’ll see your own personalized feed inside Pulse called “For me”, showing updates from projects and initiatives you are subscribed to or a member of. “Popular” and “Recent” show updates from across your entire company, providing a broader perspective and helping you stay informed about what’s happening beyond your immediate focus.

A personal AI-generated summary of updates will be delivered daily or weekly to your Linear inbox. You can read it or listen to your Daily Pulse as a short audio digest for catching-up on the go. Audio is available on desktop and iOS, with Android support coming soon.

Pulse is available today on all plans. To enable it for your workspace and change the frequency of your inbox summaries, head to Pulse settings.

Pulse extends Linear’s vision of being the source of truth for your product organization by providing information that is timely, visible, and actionable.

Improvements

New search

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:26:59 GMT

New search

We’ve completely overhauled Linear’s search with a new engine built from scratch. Under the hood, we replaced the traditional keyword-based search index with a new hybrid semantic search, which combines AI vector embeddings with keyword-matching. Even if you don’t use the exact phrasing from an issue title or description, the hybrid engine will infer what you mean and find the results you are looking for.

Search is also more comprehensive. When you look for an issue, for example, Linear search will pull in context from attached customer requests, comments, and linked support tickets.

New search will be rolling out to all Linear users over the coming weeks. You’ll receive an in-app notification once it’s available in your workspace.

Quick filters for search

Available now: quickly narrow your search by @-mentioning teams, users, status, and other properties. This will automatically create and apply a filter to your search without your hands leaving the keyboard.

Granular permissions for API keys

Personal API keys now support fine-grained permission controls. Instead of keys inheriting all your permissions, you can tailor access to specific use cases.

Restrict keys to individual teams you have access to (public or private)
Set keys to read-only or write-only
Limit permissions to specific actions such as creating issues

This is a more secure approach since it minimizes each key’s access surface. Configure permissions when creating new API keys or manage existing ones in Settings > Account > Personal API Keys.

Fixes

Collapsed issue history

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:05:06 GMT

Collapsed issue history

When there’s a lot of activity in an issue, it’s easy to lose track of important changes. To reduce clutter and keep the issue activity feed focused, we now group similar consecutive events and collapse older activity between comment threads.

Sub-issue display options

Customize how sub-issues appear when viewed from parent issues. For example, update the list to only show properties relevant to you or hide completed sub-issues to focus on remaining work. Your preferences will be applied across all issues you view.

Project group order

When viewing issue lists grouped by project, customize the order in which these groups are displayed.

Mobile improvements

We’ve made several improvements to Linear on iOS and Android. Download the latest version from their respective app stores.

Custom views attached to projects and teams appear as tabs, giving you quick access to your most important issues
From a team’s cycles view, easily navigate between current, upcoming, and all cycles for that team
We’ve added native support for initiative updates from your Inbox. Comment or react to updates directly from the notification
Long-press on reaction emojis to see who reacted to a comment, issue, or update

Fixes (25)

Collapsible sections

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:47:27 GMT

Collapsible sections

Keep long documents and descriptions tidy with collapsible sections. Conceal supporting details and notes so that they’re hidden by default but available to anyone who wants to read them. Create a collapsible section by typing the command /collapsible, using the text shortcut >>>, or selecting text and applying formatting.

Initiative grouping

We’ve added new grouping options for Initiatives. Group initiatives by team, owner, and health to scan and navigate larger lists of product initiatives efficiently.

Graphite integration

Graphite users can now connect Linear issues directly to pull requests. From Graphite, create new Linear issues, link existing ones, and view all Linear issues associated in the Graphite sidebar. Learn more

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Sub-teams

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:50:25 GMT

Sub-teams

Sub-teams let you build a team hierarchy in Linear that mirrors your organizational structure, making team relationships clear and navigable to workspace members.

Define team hierarchies

Create parent teams and nest sub-teams under them to group teams by function, department, or product area. When a team grows large enough for specialized work to emerge, split it into sub-teams to provide focus without disrupting ongoing work or losing visibility.

Simplify administration

Standardize processes across multiple teams with shared settings. Sub-teams inherit workflows, cycles, and labels from their parent team. These settings are configured in a single place, reducing administrative overhead and enabling you to maintain consistent processes across teams as you grow.

View and manage work across multiple teams

Create views at the parent team level to see projects and issues from every sub-team. Members of any sub-team automatically have access to their parent team, enabling cross-team visibility. With shared workflows, cycles, and labels, teams can collaborate more effectively, understand dependencies, and coordinate timelines—all while maintaining their individual focus areas.

Sub-teams is available on Business and Enterprise plans. Go to Team settings > Team hierarchy to set up parent and sub-team relationships and learn more in the docs.

Reminders on projects, initiatives, and documents

Set reminders on issues, projects, initiatives, or documents so you can revisit them at a later date. Schedule reminders from the contextual menu of each page or use the keyboard shortcut H. You’ll receive reminder notifications in your Linear Inbox. Pending reminders are labeled at the top of their respective page, and they can be modified or canceled from there.

Mobile app: Team projects and navigation

View and update your team’s projects from the mobile app. Dive into a project to create issues, view and edit the project overview, or post updates. A new navigation menu lets you quickly switch between views of your team’s projects, issues, cycles, and Triage.

Improved Billing Settings

We’ve updated the billing page to give you more visibility into your Linear subscription. See scheduled plan renewals, active discounts and trials (with their expiry dates), and a complete invoice history.

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Initiative updates

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:02:15 GMT

Initiative updates

Keep up-to-date on strategic product work using initiative updates.

Write initiative updates to report on progress and summarize work across multiple projects. Important changes like revised target dates are automatically appended to updates. From the initiatives list, monitor health across all initiatives, quickly read individual updates, and leave feedback.

Configure initiative updates to cross-post to Slack for additional visibility. Comments and reactions sync bi-directionally and appear in both Linear and Slack.

The latest initiative and project updates now display in their respective overview tabs.

Schedules for project & initiative updates

Set expectations for how often project and initiative updates should be posted. Align updates with specific meetings or change the frequency of updates for individual projects and initiatives as needed.

Project leads and initiative owners will get a reminder in their Inbox when they need to share an update and follow-up reminders if the deadline has passed and the update is still missing.

Copy Issues as Markdown for LLMs

Copy issues and documents as Markdown with Cmd Opt C, or from the command menu. When copying an issue, this command captures its full context — including title, description, comments, and customer requests — in a structured format for use in AI chat tools.

Copy multiple issues at once by selecting them on a list or a board and using the same command.

Invite and assign

You can invite team members to Linear and assign them to an issue at the same time. They’ll see any assigned work in their Linear Inbox when they log in for the first time.

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Pull Request reviews (alpha)

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:11:21 GMT

Pull Request reviews (alpha)

Your development speed can only be as fast as your code review cycle, yet the tools we use to manage pull request (PR) reviews are complicated and unreliable. It’s hard to know which PRs need attention and easy to miss a request to review a PR.

We are making your PRs visible in Linear to streamline the review process. You’ll receive notifications in your Linear Inbox whenever you are asked to review or need to take action on a PR. Get early access to this feature by joining the public alpha.

Reviews section

See all of your open PRs and PRs you need to review in a new Reviews section in the sidebar. Flip through the list to read descriptions, check status, see related issues, and add comments—all without leaving Linear. Comments sync bi-directionally, so they’ll appear in both Linear and GitHub no matter where the comment is made.

Notifications

Notifications appear in your Linear Inbox whenever you need to take action on a PR, so you don’t have to juggle multiple notification streams across different tools.

PR authors receive notifications for new comments, when builds fail, and when someone has left a review
Reviewers receive notifications when someone requests their review and for comments in threads they’re participating in
Anyone mentioned in a PR comment within Linear will receive a corresponding mention in Github and vice versa

Join the alpha

Go to Settings > Account > Connected accounts to enable Pull Request reviews for your personal account. This is an open alpha release available on all workspaces that have enabled the GitHub integration.

This feature is still in development. We’re seeking feedback early since pull request reviews are such a critical part of engineering workflows. Next, we’re planning to add support for merging PRs from Linear, viewing code diffs, and to add the same functionality to the GitLab integration. Read more in the docs and share feedback in the #pr-reviews-alpha channel in the community Slack.

Sub-grouping in issue lists

Use sub-groups to organize a list of issues across two properties. For example, you can group your current cycle by assignee and then sub-group by status. This sub-grouping configuration allows you to see what everyone is working on and the progress they are making.

Table improvements

Tables in Linear got several upgrades. Here are some new functionalities we added:

Add lists within table cells by pasting, converting text to a list, or using Markdown
Rearrange table columns and rows with drag and drop
Select table cells with Shift Arrow

Fixes

Personalized sidebar and new settings pages

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:00:17 GMT

Personalized sidebar

Linear’s application sidebar now supports customization to better fit your personal workflows. You can reorder items, hide items you don’t use often, and decide how unread notifications should be shown: with a count or dot.

The Workspace section includes new links to Teams and Customers (if you’ve enabled Customer requests). You can also hide items you don’t need frequently behind a More menu.

To customize your sidebar, right-click on a specific item to update it or select Customize sidebar to show all options. You can also drag & drop to reorder items.

New Linear settings

We redesigned Linear’s settings pages from the ground up so they are easier to navigate and manage.

The new design includes separate sections for:

Account — Personal settings, notifications, and preferences
Features — Configuration for workspace-level features such as Initiatives, Customer requests, and SLAs
Administration — Workspace settings and configuration (admins only)
Your teams — A list of teams you’re a member of and their settings

Team settings pages

We’ve consolidated all of a team’s settings into a single view to make them easier to control and update. When you go to your team’s settings page, you’ll now see a summary of what features have been enabled and basic details about the configuration, such as the number of templates, team members, and your cycles schedule. Select the specific setting to view and update the full configuration.

Improved admin tools

To make managing your workspace easier, user and team lists have been converted into data-rich table layouts. This lets you filter and sort any column to find what you are looking for. We’ve also added more information to these views so you get a better sense of activity.

To improve access visibility, we’ve added an admin-only API section where you can view and control all OAuth applications and webhooks connected to your workspace.

Simplified notifications

We’ve also refined how Inbox notifications work. The Notifications page is now organized by channel: desktop, mobile, email, and Slack. For each notification channel, you’ll be able to customize which types of messages you want to receive from a streamlined list of options. We also added these controls to mobile push notifications, so you’ll have the ability to control your notification schedule from the desktop application.

See when issues were added to cycles

Get better at planning cycles by understanding whether issues were planned, added when a cycle was already underway, or added afterward during cooldown. Apply the Added to cycle filter to get a sense of scope creep or use Insights to see trends from past cycles.

Fixes

Customer Requests

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:46:40 GMT

Customer Requests

Customer feedback is often scattered across support tickets, Slack messages, and calls – outside the product team’s workflow and sometimes entirely out of reach. This creates a disconnect between what gets built and what customers actually want.

We’ve built Customer Requests in Linear to close this gap and integrate the voice of the customer directly into the product development process.

Add customer requests to issues from the tools you already use, including Intercom, Zendesk, Front, Slack, and Linear Asks. Requests are visible and actionable for the engineers and designers working on these issues, and can be used by product managers to prioritize issues by customer attributes.

With Customer Requests, you can:

Track feature demand across your customer base
Filter requests by customer revenue, size, and tier
See the features that specific customers have requested and what you’ve delivered for them
Give your team full context about who needs each feature and why

Enable Customer Requests today to bring customer focus to all of your teams. Learn more ->

Recurring Issues

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:13:34 GMT

Recurring Issues

Create recurring issues for repeating tasks. Recurring issues can be set to a daily, monthly, weekly, or yearly schedule. Each new instance of the issue is automatically created when the previous one reaches its due date.

View and manage all of your recurring issues from team settings and learn more in the docs.

Fixes

Improvements for SLAs, templates, and Jira & GitHub Issues Sync

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:55:41 GMT

Improvements for SLAs, templates, and Jira & GitHub Issues Sync

This week we improved a few features that weren’t quite living up to their potential. They each had small limitations that were annoying and prevented some teams from using them well, or at all.

Business Day SLAs

SLAs are a great way to ensure consistency in responding to issues and bug reports. Now you don’t have to worry about SLA deadlines landing on a weekend or coming in on Monday morning with a bunch of broken SLAs. Confidently set SLA parameters and trust that they will behave the way that your team needs. Configure your SLAs to follow business days from settings or update individual issues by selecting the SLA and typing “n business days” in the custom option.

Nested sub-issues in Templates

Templates can help you standardize processes and automate issue creation. You can now add multiple layers of nesting in issue templates to create issues at the level and granularity you need. Spec out project templates in full detail by adding sub-issues to project tasks.

Improved notifications for Jira & GitHub Issues Sync

We now indicate when issues sync (or fail to sync) with Jira or Github Issues. You can bidirectionally sync Linear issues with Jira and GitHub Issues, for instance to manage open source projects from Linear. Previously it was hard to tell if a Linear issue you were looking at successfully synced or if there had been errors. This information is now clearly visible in banners on Linear issues.

Improvements

New team issues page

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:59:23 GMT

New team issues page

Team pages have been restructured to help you focus on your most important issues.

The main views — All Issues, Active, and Backlog — now appear as tabs at the top of your team issues page. You can also create and add custom views as tabs to support your team’s specific workflows and build shared context.

For example, you can create custom views for high-priority bugs, quick wins, or quality improvements. Navigate between views quickly using keyboard shortcuts: press [1] for All Issues, [2] for Active, [3] for Backlog, and [4-9] for your custom views.

New Zapier integration: Instant triggers and new actions

We’ve rebuilt the Zapier integration for improved speed and reliability. Upgrade now to access instant triggers, which update immediately after actions are taken in Linear (previously, updates could take 1-5 minutes).

We’ve also added a trigger for project creation, support for templates during issue creation, and several brand new actions: create a project, add an attachment, and update existing issue.

With these updates, you can create automated workflows such as:

A form that anyone can fill out to propose and create new projects
Create a corresponding Google Doc for every new project
Link an issue to every file posted into a Slack channel

To upgrade, go to Zapier and update each Zap to use the the latest Linear integration (v4.4 or above). Earlier versions of the integration will be deprecated on April 24, 2025 (in 6 months), so create an issue to upgrade before that date.

Improvements

Document subscriptions

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:38:48 GMT

Document subscriptions

Never miss an important change with document subscriptions. Get notified about revisions to documents, project descriptions, and initiative descriptions including:

New comments and replies
Content changes
Document moves or deletions

You’ll be auto-subscribed to:

Documents you create
Project descriptions when you’re a lead or member
Initiative descriptions when you’re the owner

For project documents, you can also subscribe team members. Manage subscriptions using the bell icon at the top of any document, project description, or initiative description.

Pull request preview links

Preview links associated with your pull requests are now accessible directly from Linear issues.

Preview links are automatically detected for popular platforms like Vercel and Netlify if you have connected Linear with your GitHub repository. We also support custom preview links: pull request descriptions and comments are parsed for any markdown links ending with “preview”. Multiple previews for a single PR are available in a dropdown menu, with icons and customizable names for easy identification (e.g. mobile and desktop previews). Learn more in our documentation.

Improvements

Introducing Linear Mobile

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:26:48 GMT

Introducing Linear Mobile

Linear Mobile has arrived.

Bring the speed and power of Linear to your pocket with our fast, compact, and fully native iOS and Android applications.

Use the app to stay informed about important updates, file issues on the go, and unblock your team whenever necessary. Linear Mobile is purpose-designed for “away from keyboard” workflows, so you can move product work forward, no matter where you are.

Read more and download it today for iOS and Android.

Fixes

Auto-close parent and sub-issues

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:07:00 GMT

Auto-close parent and sub-issues

Streamline your issue workflow with auto-close for parent and sub-issues. This new automation can be enabled in two ways:

Parent auto-close

When all sub-issues [2] are marked as done, the parent issue [1] will also be marked as complete automatically.

Sub-issue auto-close

When the parent issue [1] is marked as done, all remaining sub-issues [2] will also be marked as complete.

These automations will work in tandem with your existing git workflow automations and can be enabled under Settings > Team > Workflow.

Reverse sort ordering

You can now reverse the sort order of issues or projects in Linear. Open the Display options on any view to change the ordering direction. Reverse sort order is available for all views except those ordered manually or by status.

Improvements

Slack channel notifications for custom views

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:36:07 GMT

Slack channel notifications for custom views

You can now receive Slack notifications for any custom issue view in Linear. Use custom views to select any subset of your issues that you’re interested in, and then set up Slack notifications to keep your team up to date when issues are added to the view, marked closed, or canceled.

Examples include:

High priority bugs
Issues blocking other work
Issues moved from one team to another

Learn more in the docs and configure notifications from the bell icon in the top right of any custom view.

HIPAA compliance

In addition to SOC2, Linear is now compliant with HIPAA. Request a BAA (Enterprise plans only).

New and noteworthy

Convert milestones to projects

You can now convert milestones into projects. This will bring over the milestone description and inherit the properties of the parent project, including initiatives and project priority.

Auto-detection for links

We’ve simplified the process of linking to external resources. Just attach a URL and we will auto-detect if it matches an existing integration like Slack or Github.

Arm build for Windows

We now offer an Arm build of Linear for Windows. Make sure you’re running the correct architecture for the best performance – the new build is available on our download page.

Fixes

Project dependencies

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:25:12 GMT

Project dependencies

You can now create and visualize dependencies between projects. Easily identify blockers and critical paths when planning out your work.

Add project dependencies directly from the timeline or from the project overview page. If a blocking project ends after its dependencies are set to start, the connecting line will turn red and receive an indicator badge.

When you move a project around on the timeline, its dependencies will automatically adjust to compensate.

Projects that have already started will remain in place
Hold Shift to shift the full dependency chain of projects
Hold Cmd/Ctrl to ignore constraints and just move a single project

Persisted drafts

Drafts have a new home in Linear. You will now find any issues, comments, and project updates that you’ve started writing but haven’t yet published in a dedicated drafts page, accessible from the sidebar (only when you have existing drafts). Drafts are saved across all clients, so you can start an issue or a comment on one device and finish it on another.

Search improvements

We redesigned search to make it much faster and easier to find results.

By default, results will include all matching issues, projects, and documents which you can view at once or by content type
Results now show up in a split view, so that you can jump through them without losing context

Improvements

Priority for projects

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:59:14 GMT

Priority for projects

We’ve improved how prioritization works in Linear. You can now give projects a priority level, ensuring the most important projects are always in focus. Project priorities use the same scale as issues (Urgent, High, Medium, Low, or No priority).

Micro-adjust priority

Sometimes you want to indicate that a specific piece of work is more important than another one, even if they share the same priority level. You can now do this by micro-adjusting the priority within a list of issues or projects.

On any view ordered by priority, simply drag & drop an issue or project above other ones to indicate it is more important. The exact position will be saved globally across your workspace, so that anyone else looking at a view ordered by priority will see these issues or projects in the same relative positions.

If the moved item is dragged above an issue or project with a different priority level, it will adopt the priority level of the item right below it. By default, items without an assigned priority level are now always sorted last. Learn more by visiting the docs or watch Sagan from our product team walk you through how to micro-adjust priority.

GitHub Enterprise Server

We’ve expanded Linear’s pull request support to self-hosted GitHub Enterprise Server. You can now install the new integration to link Linear issues with a GitHub instance that’s hosted in a custom URL. The integration doesn’t require new firewall rules and is designed to fulfill the security requirements of our most demanding customers who decide to host GitHub themselves.

GitHub Enterprise Server will support the majority of the functionality of our existing GitHub integration with the exception of issue syncing and commit linking. GitHub.com and Enterprise Cloud users should use our existing GitHub integration and the new one is only meant for Enterprise Server customers.

Fixes

Introducing Initiatives

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:25:12 GMT

Introducing Initiatives

Today, we are launching a new feature called Initiatives. With Initiatives, you can align projects with larger, strategic product efforts and monitor their progress at scale. Initiatives provide a canonical entry point for your company’s most important streams of work.

Initiatives are an evolution of what we set out to achieve with Roadmaps and will directly replace them. All of your roadmap data, views, and favorites will be replaced 1:1, so that none of your workflows will be affected.

One place for your most important product work

When you navigate to Initiatives, you’ll find a list of all active initiatives in your workspace. Use initiatives to plan and manage strategic streams of work that span multiple projects and longer timelines, such as major launches, product goals, or company-wide objectives.

From the Active view, you’ll access key details for each initiative, including status, target date, associated teams, and owners. Additionally, you’ll see a health column with indicators that summarize project health, highlighting any efforts that may need attention.

Health indicators show the status of projects: on track (green), at risk (yellow), and off track (red). A gray indicator appears in the health column when a project within the Initiative lacks an update. Select a health indicator to view and discuss related project updates.

Plan strategically

During your planning process, utilize the Planned section to capture ideas and develop strategic plans. When you’re ready to advance an initiative, update its status from Planned to Active.

Each initiative has a dedicated overview page where you can link to resources, create related documents, and provide a detailed summary including notes, research, and GTM ideas. At the bottom of the overview page, you can add and view projects associated with the initiative. Navigate to the Projects tab to display the projects in your initiative on a timeline, board, or list view. You can also create custom project views and pin them to the top of the Initiative page.

Plan and build in a single, purpose-built system

With the addition of Initiatives, you can now plan and track your entire product development process in a single system, where all details of your work remain current and consistent. Trace the impact of a single issue up to company-level initiatives and understand the realtime progress of your plans.

A new home for your projects

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:56:41 GMT

A new home for your projects

We added a new Projects page that acts as a single home and entry point for all of your projects. It is easy to access from the sidebar and by default shows you a view of all of the projects in your workspace.

If you have a specific slice or view of your projects that everyone should be looking at, you can create and save that view right from this page. It will be pinned to the top of the Projects page, making it easier to share important views with others and keep everyone aligned. You can now create and attach views to team Projects pages, too.

Here are some examples of views you may want to attach to Projects pages:

Product pipeline: Show all projects by status on a board view
In progress: List out active projects for a single team or across multiple teams
Launch calendar: Highlight major marketing releases on a timeline

Asks for Enterprise

We’ve made improvements to Linear Asks to better support different customer use cases.

On the Enterprise plan, we support granular channel-specific controls. Enterprise users can now also connect multiple Slack workspaces to the same Linear workspace for both the Asks and Slack integrations. This lets you use Asks to manage requests in your internal Slack workspace while also using Asks to triage customer requests from a public or community Slack workspace.

On the Business plan, we added support for a streamlined offering that lets you enable Asks for all public channels. Anyone can create an Ask by selecting a template or reacting to a message with the ticket emoji 🎫.

⌘F for desktop app

You can now press Cmd/Ctrl F to search for text within issues, documents, and projects.

Improvements

Passkeys: A fast and secure way to log in to Linear

Thu, 30 May 2024 15:01:39 GMT

Passkeys: A fast and secure way to log in to Linear

Linear now supports Passkeys as a login method in addition to email and SSO options. Passkeys are a new standard enabling secure and fast login without having to rely on passwords. They are supported by all major browsers, mobile operating systems, and many password managers like 1Password.

To set up Passkeys on your account, head to Security & Access settings. You’ll be able to register several devices if you wish. You can log in to Linear on your browser or mobile app using passkeys today and we’re looking to add support to our desktop application later this year.

In addition to adding Passkey support, we also added email-based security notifications for new sessions, API keys, and other security options. These notifications will help you keep track of activity on your account and you’ll always see the active sessions listed in your security settings.

IP restrictions

Linear Enterprise customers now have the option to enable an extra security layer for accessing Linear by restricting workspace access to their private network. When enabled, all direct user access to Linear, including web, desktop, mobile, and API access, will be limited to the set of configured IPs. Be careful, don’t lock yourself out.

Table improvements

You can now resize tables in the text editor by adjusting the column width. Hover over any column border and then click and drag to change the size. Large tables will overflow the document boundary and allow horizontal scrolling.

Improvements

European Union data hosting

Thu, 23 May 2024 14:47:47 GMT

You can now choose to store your data in the European Union or the United States when creating a Linear workspace. This change also builds the foundation for us to support hosting data in other regions in the future. You can learn why we chose to make this change now and how we designed and built the technical architecture in this blog post.

To store your data in the EU, select the option when creating a new workspace (we set the default storage location based on your system timezone). The data storage location cannot be changed for existing workspaces. Learn more in the docs.

Fixes

The next generation of Linear projects

Thu, 02 May 2024 14:33:00 GMT

The next generation of Linear projects

We’ve redesigned projects from the ground up. You can now start projects in Linear when they are just an idea and centralize all of your project work in Linear through research, planning, and execution.

Closing the gap between planning and building

When planning a project, information often gets scattered across multiple platforms like docs, Slack channels, Figma files, and spreadsheets. This fragmentation can lead to data getting misplaced or outdated once work starts, placing a heavy burden on team members to keep project resources accessible and updated for everyone involved. Keeping stakeholders informed throughout the project’s lifecycle is challenging.

Our new project design closes the gap between planning and execution. Now, you can now start, plan, and execute your projects entirely within Linear. All project information is consolidated in one place, making it easy to find what you need and establish a clear understanding of priorities and progress. Syncing data between planning documents and issues is now automated, removing the hassle of manual updates.

Project Overview

When you open a project in Linear, you’ll now see an Overview tab. At the top you’ll see project properties including the status, lead, team members, target date, and a quick description. You’ll also see any documents that have been created in the project as well as links to artifacts such as specs, design files, and meeting notes.

Collaborative, rich-text project descriptions

Project Overviews also have a project description that you can use while building out your project. During early phases of project development, you can use this space to jot down notes and ideas. Later, it can be transformed into a formal brief with a detailed description of the project. The text editor supports our full suite of functionality, such as building tables, @-mentioning teammates, issues, projects, and documents, as well as adding comments.

Milestones with descriptions

You can now build out a project’s milestones directly from a project Overview page. Individual milestones support a detailed description with rich text editing and collaborative features.

Turn text into issues and documents

To make the switch from building and planning easier, we’ve made it possible to turn text into issues or documents in a single click. Simply highlight text or a list of bullets to turn it into issues in the project. If the text is in the milestone description, issues will automatically be created under that milestone. You can similarly highlight text and turn it into a document linked to the project.

Attach views

You can now attach views to projects so that important issues are easy to access. They will show up as tabs pinned to the top of the project.

New & Improved

Editor improvements

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:28:00 GMT

Editor improvements

We’ve made multiple quality of life improvements and bug fixes to the editor to create a smoother writing experience, whether you are creating an issue or drafting a project spec. You can now drag to re-arrange videos and drop images from outside Linear. We’ve also added support for GraphQL and improved TSX and JS support in code blocks. Read through some of the 70+ fixes and improvements we made to the editor below.

A table of contents now automatically appears in documents that have at least two headings. This makes it easier to navigate long documents—like detailed project specs or meeting notes—to find what you need.

Mobile beta

Invites for our mobile beta are continually rolling out to iOS users. Pre-orders are still open if you’d like to join the waitlist for iOS or Android: https://linear.app/mobile.

Editor Improvements

Swimlanes

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:51:37 GMT

Swimlanes

Swimlanes bring a powerful new way to visualize your projects and issues on the board view. This highly requested feature allows you to group cards into rows based on different dimensions and instantly see how work is distributed across teams, projects, assignees, and other properties.

Use swimlanes to:

View a high-level overview of the roadmap by quarter or team
Use simple drag-and-drop to reorganize, reassign, or update issues
Understand resource allocation across members of your team
Review work per project or assignee during a stand-up

To create swimlanes, open the display options from any issue or project board view and select grouping by Rows.

Protip: You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and update cards on board views without using your mouse. The following shortcuts are especially helpful when using swimlanes:

Move to the left ⌥ ← or right ⌥ → column
Move to the top ⌥ Shift ↑ or bottom ⌥ Shift ↓ of the group
Move up ↑ K, down ↓ J, right →, and left ←
Collapse/expand row T

See all shortcuts by opening searching for board in the keyboard shortcuts list.

New UI

Last week we revealed a refreshed design for Linear’s interface. We redefined the foundational layers of the application’s design to improve the hierarchy, balance, and density of all interface elements. You can read about the changes and the design process in-depth in our two-part series:

New & Improved

Welcome to the new Linear

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:00:00 GMT

Our new macOS app icon

Welcome to the new Linear

Today, we are revealing the result of many weeks of work redesigning Linear’s interface. You can read about the changes we made and the design process in-depth in our two-part series:

We have redefined the foundational layers of Linear’s design to improve the hierarchy, balance, and density of all interface elements. As you use the application, you will see improvements across every view.

Whether you heavily rely on favorites and folders or prefer a minimalist approach, your sidebar should feel better and less cluttered now.

New sidebar

Tabs, headers, filters, and panels are adjusted to reduce the visual noise and clutter. The current view, available actions, and meta properties are now presented more clearly.

New navigation headers

The Inbox has a new look with increased density and better contrast.

New inbox

The default dark and light themes have increased contrast. If you are feeling nostalgic, you can still apply the Magic Blue theme to the improved UI from the command menu or settings. We have also built a new theme generator that lets you easily adjust the themes.

New light and dark themes

Custom statuses for projects

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:19:07 GMT

Custom project statuses

You can now create custom statuses for your projects. Custom statuses help you share more context about where a project is in its lifecycle and what steps are needed to move the project forward. Go to workspace settings > projects to create or modify statuses under the categories: Backlog, Planned, Started, Completed, and Canceled. If your workspace has any paused projects, they’ll now be assigned a Paused status under the Planned category.

Here is how we are using custom project statuses internally at Linear:

We have three different Backlog statuses to communicate how early a project concept is and how seriously we’re exploring the idea.
Under the Planned category, the Ready status indicates which projects are ready for engineering to pick up while Accepted signals there is scoping work left to be done.
We’ve created a Maintenance status to capture evergreen projects as well as projects that have shipped but are still actively being worked on (e.g. to incorporate changes based on customer feedback).

Triage responsibility integrations and API

If you use Triage responsibility to manage who reviews incoming issues on your team, you now have more options available for setting custom rotations. You can now link to schedules from OpsGenie and Incident.io, in addition to PagerDuty. Alternatively, you can use the API to build your own connections to schedules in other applications.

Improvements to document comments

Open comments are now displayed next to documents and always visible until they’re resolved. You can view a document’s resolved and deleted comments by selecting the checkmark icon at the top right of the page.

New & Improved

A new era for the timeline

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:00:00 GMT

Milestones on the timeline

A new timeline design layers in details to give a more accurate overview of project progress.

Milestones will now appear on project bars as long as they have a target or completion date. Represented by diamonds, milestones indicate status and can be hovered over or clicked on to show details. Milestones near each other collapse into a set, like on a map app.

You can change a milestone’s target date from the timeline view by dragging it to a new date. Select individual milestones to move them, or if they appear together, hold shift to drag all milestones to a new date. Dragging a project to change its start and target date will move the milestones along with it, but you can hold Cmd/Ctrl to keep milestones in place. Right-click on the project to add a new milestone.

A new chronology bar makes it easier to navigate the roadmap and understand where you are in time. When you move your mouse, a cursor line will appear to indicate the exact date. You can now also choose to display week numbers instead of dates.

You can now display team cycles on the timeline, too, which appear below the chronology bar.

And we’ve added a few more settings to make working with the timeline easier:

A display option to show the project list, which can be hidden with Shift [ to get more space
Shortcuts to leap to Today or change the zoom to Year, Quarter, or Month
Offscreen project indicators that show the dates of the project and can be dragged to reorder
A display option to hide prediction bars to reduce clutter and take cleaner screenshots for status reports

New & Improved

Create issues via email

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:58:00 GMT

Create issues via email

Bring your email-based workflows into Linear by turning emails into issues.

Quickly create bug reports and feature requests from customer emails
Forward reports to general emails like security@ to specific Linear teams
Automatically turn email notifications from service providers into issues

Set up a unique intake email for your team so that any emails sent or forwarded to that address will go to Triage or your team’s default workflow status. You can also create unique intake emails for individual templates to automate the issue creation process further and apply specific fields. Learn more and generate intake emails from team or template settings.

AI-generated issue titles in Slack

When you create Linear issues using the Slack integration or with Asks, we now pre-populate the title with AI-generated summaries to save you one step in the issue creation process.

Linear Mobile (Private Beta)

Linear Mobile is now in private beta for iOS and Android. Pre-order to join the waitlist: https://linear.app/mobile.

Google Calendar integration

Sync your status in Linear with out-of-office events from Google Calendar. If someone tries to assign an issue to you or mentions you in a comment when you are OOO, they’ll see that you are unavailable and for how long.

/shrug

Typing :) will now convert to 🙂 and :joy: to 😂 automatically. Type /shrug to get the universal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Project update comments

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:34:18 GMT

Project update comments

You can now comment on project updates to discuss changes and ask follow up questions. Comments sync bi-directionally across Linear and Slack, so everyone can chime in on one thread — even teammates who don’t have a Linear account.

You can now also:

Subscribe to receive updates from specific projects
Copy project updates as markdown for easy sharing
Disable progress report metrics on individual updates

Tables

A long-standing feature request, Linear now support tables in issue descriptions, documents, and comments. Add a table using the /table command.

Branch-specific workflow automations

Set custom workflow automations based on particular target branches with our GitHub and GitLab integrations. For example, you can set up your workflow so that when a PR is merged to…

staging -> the issue status will change to In QA
main -> the issue status will change to Deployed

You can also override a default rule in a particular branch with no action if desired, so that issues linked to a change in that branch will not change status. Branch rules can also be specified using regex (e.g., ^fea/.* can set automations for all of your feature branches). Update your configuration in your team’s Workflow settings.

New & Improved

Project timeframes

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:10:52 GMT

Project timeframes

Use broad date ranges as project start and target dates instead of specific ones. This lets you plan project timelines at your current level of certainty, such as next month, quarter, or year, when they more accurately reflect product timelines.

Plan ahead by selecting more flexible target dates
Filter your view to just the timeframe that matters (e.g. Q2 projects)
See roadmaps in different time resolutions (e.g. group by month)
Communicate launch timelines to colleagues

Customize cycle dates

You can now customize cycle start and end dates to coincide with planning meetings and match the rhythm of your team.

Choose the exact start date when activating cycles
Edit the start or end date of individual cycles to work around holidays
Navigate between individual cycle pages with Opt/Alt + J/K
Issues completed during cooldowns are now attributed to the previous cycle

New & improved

Jira Sync

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:11:51 GMT

Jira Sync

We’ve upgraded our existing integration with Jira to support two-way syncing and added support for more fields including synced comment threads. If you work with colleagues who use Jira, or need to keep a Jira project updated while working on issues in Linear, Jira Sync makes this seamless and efficient.

Enable Jira Sync to link Jira projects to Linear teams. Any issues created in the linked Jira project will appear in Linear and vice versa. Updates to an issue title, description, assignee, status, label(s), and priority will sync immediately across both applications. Use the synced comment thread in Linear to see and reply to comments posted in Jira.

To start syncing issues from your Jira project, set up the integration in settings. Existing Jira Link users can follow these instructions to enable bi-directional syncing. The integration syncs newly created issues only; to import existing Jira issues into a Linear team, use our migration assistant.

GitHub Issues Sync

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:07:45 GMT

GitHub Issues Sync

We’ve heard your feedback that you would like to manage issues for open source projects in Linear. With GitHub Issues Sync, your OSS issues can now be synced bidirectionally between GitHub and Linear. This lets you triage and discuss your community requests in the same place as all of your other work.

Issues in linked GitHub repositories will show up in Linear.
Title, description, status, labels, assignee, and comments on the GitHub issue will sync across both applications.
Reply to GitHub issue comments from Linear via the synced thread or have separate, private discussions in the issue with your teammates.

To start ingesting issues from your OSS repository, set up the integration in GitHub Integration settings.

Integrations gallery

You can now browse and search for all integrations, including those made by third parties, in the new integrations gallery in workspace settings. Individual integrations settings pages have been updated to include screenshots, a detailed description, and configuration instructions.

Improvements & Fixes

Inline comments

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:16:43 GMT

We’ve made several editor improvements that make it easier to collaborate on work directly in Linear.

Inline comments

You can now create comments on project documents. Select any text and press the comment button that appears or use the shortcut Cmd Option M.

Notifications go to the document creator and anyone mentioned
Reply to the comment or resolve it with a single click
Access the full comment history from the header

Collaborative editing

All documents and issue descriptions in Linear can now be edited by multiple people at the same time. You’ll see input cursors whenever someone else is editing or viewing the text. All changes are instantly saved and synced to everyone else in realtime.

Slash commands

Type / into the editor to see a list of actions you can perform, including creating lists or headings and uploading files. This is available when writing issue descriptions, comments, documents, and project updates.

Improvements & Fixes

New Git automation: Ready for merge

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:01:15 GMT

New Git automation: Ready for merge

You can now add issue status automations for pull requests that have passed checks and are ready to be merged. This new workflow step is available for both GitHub and GitLab and can be configured in your team’s Workflow settings.

Linear will capture both approvals and passing checks/pipelines according to your repository’s branch protection rules. For example, if you require two approvals and specific checks to pass, Linear will update the issue status only when those conditions are met.

The new status automation can be combined with a View Subscription to subscribe to all new issues that are marked as ready for merge which can be helpful for QA workflows. It also allows you to differentiate between issues in code review versus issues that have been approved.

Improved authentication controls

We shipped significantly improved controls to manage your authentication sessions. The new Security & Access settings page lists all authenticated desktop application and browser sessions with security information such as location, IP address, and last seen status. This makes it easier than ever to audit access to your account. You’ll also find a list of all OAuth integrations you have granted access to.

To enable this level of granularity we completely reworked how Linear handles sessions behind the scenes. As a result, we now also allow better control over session length so you won’t get logged out by surprise.

Fixes & improvements

Resolve comments

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:26:13 GMT

Resolve comments

You can now resolve comments in threads to keep discussions focused and decisions clear.

Resolve the first comment to collapse all replies. Choose specific comments to hide all replies except that one so that you can highlight key details or decisions made. Resolve comments from the ··· menu, by right-clicking on any comment, or by submitting your current reply with ⌘ ⌥ Enter.

Asks improvements

We’ve added two new features to Linear Asks based on your feedback:

Auto-create Asks by mentioning the @Linear Asks bot
Mark Asks as urgent from Slack to signal they need a fast response

Linear Asks

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:38:48 GMT

Introducing Linear Asks

Let everyone in your Slack workspace turn their requests into Linear issues — even if they don’t have a Linear account. Found a bug? Have a question? Just create an Ask to send your request to the relevant Linear team. Eliminate cluttered channels and reduce context switching.

Streamline intake with workflows, templates, and automations
See realtime updates in Slack and get notified when your Ask is complete
Receive requests in Linear in a shared team inbox
Apply SLAs to time-sensitive requests

Asks is available on the Plus plan and can be enabled in settings. Try Asks and other Plus features for 30 days with a free trial.

Learn more ↗

Triage responsibility

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:44:31 GMT

Triage responsibility

You can now enable triage responsibility to define how incoming issues and requests are handled in Triage. When an issue is added to Triage, you can either notify or assign the issue to specific workspace members. We recommend notifications for most product teams, but assignment works well for teams that typically handle small requests that anyone can pick up. If your team uses PagerDuty, you can connect a PagerDuty schedule to automatically rotate who is responsible for triage.

Triage responsibility is indicated in issue history, so anyone can easily see who was responsible for handling an issue. We recommend this feature for any team using Triage.

To start using triage responsibility, go to your team’s Triage inbox and click the unassigned icon in the header or to the team’s triage settings page.

Sidebar filters & Insights everywhere

We’ve added overview sidebars across all views in the app, including My Issues, team issue views, and project views. Previously only available on custom views and roadmaps, sidebars show you essential details about the set of issues or projects in your view and let you apply quick filters. Open the sidebar from any view with Cmd/Ctrl I.

Linear Insights is now also available across all issue and project views for Plus plan members.

View subscriptions

Subscribe to get notified of key changes in the views you care about most. Opt-in to receive a notification when issues are added to the view or when issues are completed or canceled. This makes it easy to track your most important custom views such as high-priority bugs or issues ready for review. You can also enable notifications in the current cycle, backlog, label views, and user profiles. Subscribe to notifications directly from the view and manage subscriptions in notification settings.

Also new:

💼 Set a default project template for a team
👆 Swipe gestures to close sidebars on touch devices
🗂️ Filter projects and issues by template

Fixes

Resize images

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:10:14 GMT

Resize images

Images can now be resized in issue descriptions, documents, and comments. Hover over an image to reveal handles on either side and drag the image to the desired size. If there are multiple images in a description, they will snap to the size of other images to make alignment easier.

Editor improvements

Editor content can now be moved around using just keyboard shortcuts. Use Option/Alt Up/Down to move paragraphs, list items, and lines of code up or down. Select multiple lines of content to move them as a group.

Linear now supports hard line breaks in descriptions and comments. Try Shift Enter to create a line break but remain in the same paragraph.

Improvements & Fixes

Project templates

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:06:06 GMT

Project Templates

You can now create standard templates for projects. You’ll be able to define basic details such as the project name, description, lead, project members, project status, and associated roadmaps. You can create pre-defined milestones, for instance, so that every project includes Alpha, Beta, and GA milestones (e.g. this makes it easy to filter for all projects actively in beta), and also create standard issues for the project. Issues created in a project template can be assigned to different teams and milestones as well. This feature is particularly useful for workflows that require a standard set of tasks.

To create or edit a project template, go to the Templates section in your team or workspace settings. When you initiate a new project, you’ll have the option to apply one of these templates from the project creation modal, in the same way you do for issue templates.

Series B

Last week we announced our Series B fundraise, led by Accel, with participation from Sequoia Capital, 01Advisors, and some of the world’s best product builders and operators including the founders of Slack, Vercel, and Supercell. We didn’t have to raise a new round, but it gives us the capital and confidence to build and grow for many years to come. Thank you for building with Linear. We’re committed to our focus on building intuitive, high-quality, and magical software and helping you do the same. Read the full post on our blog.

Improvements & Fixes

Mentions

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:46:31 GMT

Mentions

We’ve made it easier to link issues, projects, and documents in Linear. Simply type @ and the name of the object that you want to link in the description or comment, just as you would mention a teammate. As you type, you’ll see matching items appear as options in the search, which we’ve also improved so that the most relevant issues show up.

View explore mode

It is now easier to get started with views. You can make a new view to explore issues without the need to save it first. You can use filters to see a view of issues or projects, configure display options, and even see Insights (if you’re on the Plus plan). This makes it easier to build views, letting you adjust the view incrementally until it meets your need. We’re also utilizing AI to create a prefilled name and description for your view when you’re ready to save it.

The new creation flow also opens up the option to explore data temporarily, so you can answer questions and create one-time reports without cluttering up your workspace with views you’ll never use again. You can share these exploratory views with your coworkers.

Improvements and Fixes

Project progress reports

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:44:38 GMT

Progress reports for projects

Project updates now include a concise overview of changes in a project since the last project update. Below the project health and written summary, you’ll see key metrics around issues completed, progress toward milestones, as well as changes to target dates, project leads, and teams involved in the project. This makes it easier to see progress at a glance and spot when a project might be at risk.

These new progress reports are included in project updates shared to Slack if you have set up the notification in project update settings (we highly recommend it). This makes it easy to communicate progress to stakeholders across your organization.

Project boards

Whenever you’re looking at a list of projects, you can now view it in a board layout in addition to the list and timeline views. The board layout supports the same display options as lists and can be grouped by roadmap or by project status, project lead, or project health. We’ve added flexibility so that you can configure different properties to appear on different layouts. For example, a view of this quarter’s projects seen in the board layout can show multiple properties while the list view can be kept simple and only show the project status, health, and lead.

Issue reactions

You can now add emoji reactions to issues to provide quick feedback or celebrate a win. A button to add a reaction is available below the issue description, right above where you would add sub-issues. The issue’s creator will receive a notification for reactions to their issue. All standard emojis as well as any custom emojis you have imported from Slack are available to use.

Slack integration improvements

The Linear Slack integration now lets you link a message to an existing Linear issue in addition to creating a new issue from a message. Select the “Link existing issue…” action from the overflow menu for any message in Slack to search across all issues currently in your Linear workspace. You can search by ID or title of the issue.

Improvements and Fixes

Similar Issues

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:21:00 GMT

Similar Issues

We now use AI to surface existing issues in your workspace that may be duplicates or related issues. When creating a new issue, you’ll see possible duplicates appear under the issue modal. If it’s a duplicate, you can quickly turn your issue draft into a comment on the canonical issue instead.

If your team uses Triage, you’ll see similar issues appear above the issue title when the triage issue matches other issues in your workspace. You can take quick actions to mark the triage issue as a duplicate of the similar issue (with the keyboard shortcut 2) or reference the similar issue in the triage issue.

If you use our Zendesk or Intercom integrations, you’ll also see related issues appear whenever creating a linked issue from the integration, so that it’s easy to review issues related to the customer problem or feature request.

Overview sidebar for Views and Roadmaps

We added sidebars to custom views and roadmaps that show you essential details and let you quickly filter issues. On custom issue views, the overview will show you how issues are distributed by assignee, label, and projects. On project views, you’ll see how projects are spread across leads, teams, roadmaps, and project health. Similarly on individual roadmaps, you’ll see a breakdown of projects by leads, team, and project health. Select a value in the table to filter the view or roadmap to just those issues or projects.

View Owners

You can now assign an owner to custom views. You’ll see the owner displayed when looking at views in a list and in the overview sidebar for any issue or project view. By default, the creator is the view owner but you can change the owner from the overview sidebar.

Rich embeds

We’re making improvements to the editor, starting with adding more control over how links appear. When adding an external link, we now give you the option to insert it as an ordinary link, a preview with thumbnail, or a rich embed where possible, including Figma, Loom, and Descript.

Improvements and Fixes

Templates for Slack, Intercom & Zendesk

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:54:02 GMT

Slack templates

You can now apply a template when creating an issue from Slack, so that it is easier to follow best practices and capture information for issues such as bug reports and feature requests.

Add templates to your Slack integration from workspace template settings or the Slack settings page. You can make up to 5 issue templates available in your Slack integration, which any Linear members in your Slack workspace can view and apply when creating issues from Slack. If you have a default template set for your team, it will show up as an additional (6th) template option after the team has been selected.

When using a template, any fields set in the template will be pre-filled for you such as the assignee, label, project, status, and description. If your issue template has sub-issues, they’ll be created automatically with the parent issue and can be edited in Linear.

Intercom & Zendesk templates

We’ve also added templates to Intercom and Zendesk to make it easier to follow your existing workflows and file high quality bug reports and feature requests coming for your customers.

Like with Slack, you can choose up to 5 issue templates to add to your support integration. Enable the desired templates for your integration from workspace template settings or any team template settings page, or from the templates section in the Intercom or Zendesk settings pages. Once enabled, they’ll become available in those applications in the Linear sidebar under Templates. When applied, the template will pre-fill available fields such as title, description, status, and label as well as create sub-issues when applicable.

Improvements and Fixes

Slack Sync

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:36:57 GMT

Slack sync

You can now bi-directionally sync comments, shared files, and important status changes between Slack and Linear.

When you choose to sync a Slack thread with a Linear issue, any message or file posted in the Slack thread will automatically cross-post to a comment thread in the Linear issue and vice versa. Linear also posts updates to the synced thread when the issue is completed, closed, or opened. This keeps everyone following along in Slack updated.

You can sync an issue with a Slack thread anytime you create an issue from a Slack message using the More actions menu. To link an existing issue to a thread, post the issue link as a reply to the thread you want to sync and then select Sync thread from the quick actions menu.

This update reduces context-switching between Slack and Linear and keeps conversations aligned across both applications. Anyone in your Slack workspace can reply and see issue updates in synced threads, and messages they post in Slack will be visible in Linear as well.

Slack sync also works in shared Slack channels. If you have a shared channel set up with a customer, for example, you can use Slack sync to keep people outside of your Linear workspace updated on bugs or features they’ve requested.

You may need to reinstall your workspace’s Slack integration to access this update. Learn more in our documentation.

Breadcrumb navigation

Linear now features breadcrumbs at the top of most pages as a way to navigate through the product. As you move through Linear, your path will be displayed. Select a breadcrumb to move back to the previous page.

Improvements and Fixes

Figma x Linear

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:35:59 GMT

Figma x Linear

Streamline work across design and engineering with the new Linear plugin for Figma. The plugin creates a deep integration between Figma designs and Linear issues, allowing you navigate tasks in their spatial context. This makes collaboration between engineers and designers easier and more frictionless than ever before.

When you run the plugin you get an overview of all Linear issues that have been linked to the respective page in Figma (you can use filters and sort options to narrow the list down those issues that are most relevant to you). When you select an issue, it instantly takes you to the corresponding element on the Figma canvas.

Create new issues or link to existing ones directly from Figma without leaving the canvas. Issues can be connected to frames, sections, and pages of your design. When you update an issue from either Linear or Figma, the changes immediately get synced across both applications. This keeps everyone aligned and focused.

To use the plugin, install it in Figma. You can also take a tour of the plugin at our interactive Figma release page.

Linear has been built on Figma since day one and we’re excited to launch the plugin at Config as an official Figma partner.

Improvements and Fixes

Burn-up charts

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:31:09 GMT

Burn-up charts

Linear Insights now includes burn-up charts, or cumulative flow diagrams, that show how streams of work have changed over time. Unlike other Insights, burn-up charts display your historical issue data so that you can analyze and detect patterns across specific time windows.

For example, you can create a burn-up chart to investigate how well you’ve been managing bugs over time.

In this snapshot, we are looking at issues with the label Bug across all engineering teams. You can see the overall bug growth by looking at the top level issue count. By segmenting by Status type, you can compare the ratio of closed to open bugs and see if you are fixing bugs faster than you are creating them. Look for spots where bugs get stuck in Triage or another workflow step.

Apply different segments to your burn-up chart to explore:

How effort has been allocated across teams
Changes in the type of work your team has focused on
If your backlog is under control
How scope has increased in a specific project

By default, burn-up charts show data in monthly increments. Adjust Insights settings to plot the data week over week, include archived issues, or to expand the view to fullscreen. Burn-up charts based on large data sets can take a bit longer to generate. We are working on performance improvements to get them to the same speed that you are used to from other Linear features.

Insights is now out of beta and available to all Plus plan customers. Learn more about the feature and sign up to a free 30-day trial to try Insights and see if it is right for your team.

Improvements and Fixes

AI Filters

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:39:09 GMT

AI Filters

Today we’re releasing AI Filters. Describe the issues or projects you want to see in a few words, and the corresponding filters will be applied using AI. You can chain multiple requests together to quickly find the issues you need.

Here are some prompts you can use to quickly build views:

Issue Views

Open bugs with SLAs
Open issues assigned to me
What are Jacob and Sarah working on?
Show me everything that belongs to the design team that is overdue

Project views

Open projects 3 months past their target date
Completed this quarter
Open projects Raissa is part of

Access AI Filters from the Filter button or by pressing F on any issue or project view. You can filter for any field that is available in the regular filter menu. To filter across all issues in your workspace, create a custom view shared with all teams and then filter on top of it.

AI is powerful and at times can be unpredictable. If you’re not getting the results you expect, try rephrasing your query. We’re working hard to improve the feature and make it more accurate.

AI Filters is part of an ongoing set of experiments from our AI Skunk Works team to explore how artificial intelligence can help to make Linear faster and more effective. Expect to see more from the team in the coming months.

Improved navigation

We have made several improvements that made it easier to navigate within the app and utilize the new desktop tabs feature.

Interactive Popovers

Now, when you hover over links, properties, and controls for issues, projects, roadmaps, and views, an interactive popover will appear. The popovers share more context about the linked item as well as key details and metrics. For instance, when you hover over the project property that shows up on an issue, a popover will appear that includes the project name, description, project health, and percentage completion. Hovering over the PR link on an issue will show you PR details including who reviewed it.

Click on the popover title to navigate to the corresponding page. Interactive popovers are accessible across the app from list views, board views, and sidebar controls.

**`⌘` + Left Click to open a new tab**

For even more convenience, you can now use ⌘ + Left Click to open the page in a new tab on your browser or desktop. We’ve also added the ability to use ⌘ + Left Click to navigate to a corresponding page. For example, clicking on a project link will open a dropdown to change the project, while ⌘ + Left Click will open the corresponding project page in a new tab.

Right-click contextual menus

All links and controls for for issues, projects, roadmaps, and users now have a right-click contextual menu.

Project Views

Fri, 26 May 2023 16:00:00 GMT

Project Views

Today we’re introducing project views. Project views let you create custom views of projects according to properties such as status, project health, team, and target date range. This allows you to better track projects and share this information with other members of your Linear workspace.

Here are a few examples of project views that you can create:

At Risk projects: See which projects are currently at risk to quickly spot projects that need attention.
Quarterly review: Look at projects completed last quarter and compare that to last quarter’s planned roadmap.
Upcoming releases: Create a list of projects that are coming up for release by filtering for specific milestones (e.g. Alpha, Beta, GA).
Projects across roadmaps: Filter by roadmap to create a view of projects across different roadmaps.

Project Views can be created from the Views page or by saving a filtered project or roadmap view. See more example project views in the docs.

Desktop Tabs

The Linear desktop app now supports organizing work across multiple tabs. Tabs in Linear closely mirror the tab management features you’re accustomed to in web browsers, including pinned tabs, drag to re-arrange, and a host of keyboard shortcuts. You can even use the command menu to search across your tabs by pressing T.

To get started, open a new tab with Cmd/Ctrl Tor by holding Cmd/Ctrl and clicking a link. If you don’t see tabs in your desktop app yet, you may need to restart your app or download version 1.18 from linear.app/download.

My Activity

We’ve built an activity log that shows you a historical list of issues that you’ve interacted with in some way. Go the Activity tab in My Issues to see issues where you’ve added a comment, reacted to a comment, changed its status, linked a pull request, or created, updated, or deleted the issue. This should make it easier to find issues you’ve touched earlier but are not able to find through search or the recently viewed issues dropdown in the desktop app.

By default, the activity log orders issues by the activity date. You can change the ordering, grouping, and apply filters like any other view to focus or find the issues you need.

Improvements and Fixes

Issue Drafts

Thu, 11 May 2023 21:30:46 GMT

Issue Drafts

Drafts offer a way to store issues that you’re not ready to create yet. Save an issue you’re composing as a draft by using Esc or clicking the X icon and choosing Save draft when prompted. Your draft retains the issue’s title, description and properties.

Saved drafts will persist on logout and are available across devices, unlike the existing feature that minimizes one issue you’re composing when clicking elsewhere in Linear. Access your saved drafts by opening a new issue and clicking the Drafts button.

Keyboard shortcut trainer

There are many keyboard shortcuts in Linear that can help speed up your workflow. To help build habits of using some of the most valuable shortcuts, we’ve added a lightweight trainer. Trainer hints trigger when clicking certain buttons and menus in Linear’s interface, and can be turned off by clicking on a hint or by using the toggle in Preferences.

Improvements and Fixes

Improved Drag & Drop

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:16:00 GMT

Improved Drag & Drop

Easily reorganize your issue lists by dragging and dropping issues into different groups regardless of your chosen ordering method.

To try this out, click and hold an issue within a group and drag it to another group; the issue will automatically be placed in the new group and update accordingly. On a page grouped by status for example, dropping an issue into a new group will move that issue to the new group and update its status automatically.

Vercel integration

Vercel released their official Linear integration. It allows Vercel users to convert feedback from comments on Preview Deployments into actionable Linear issues.

When leaving comments on Vercel Preview Deployments you’ll have the option to Convert to Issue which will prompt you to create an issue that will appear in your Linear board under a selected project. Your comment screenshots and replies will also appear in your issue.

Fixes & Improvements

Project Milestones

Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:15:44 GMT

Project Milestones

Every project is a journey. You might have a clear end goal in mind, but the path to get there is shrouded in a fog of uncertainty, making it challenging to navigate and stay on track.

To shine some light into the fog, we are introducing Project Milestones — a new way to divide and organize work within projects.

Milestones mark important points in a project’s lifecycle that the team needs to synchronize on. They make these key moments legible and break the project down into more granular phases.

Creating project milestones in Linear is easy: All you need is a name and a target date (the latter is optional). You can then assign issues to it (⇧+M is the fastest way to move an issue to a milestone).

The project side-panel contains an overview of your milestones with progress data for each of them. Click on a milestone to instantly see all issues associated with it.

Milestones are also visible on roadmaps, highlighting the stage each project is currently in and how much progress has been made. This gives you a better understanding of what’s going on across multiple streams of work.

We designed Milestones to answer a fundamental question that every project team faces: “Where are we?”

Milestones act as reassurance that you are still on the correct path, but they also give you a sense of how far you have come. They are a reflection point. So you can look back and celebrate what you have achieved, before taking the next step towards your final destination.

Triage notifications

We’ve added notifications for when an issue is added to a team’s triage queue. These will allow you to stay up to date and respond quickly to issues in your team’s triage queue. You can easily subscribe to these notifications from the team’s header in the sidebar, the command menu, or the “Teams” section in your notification settings.

Once subscribed, you can triage issues directly from your inbox. You can also receive the notifications across all the other regularly available notification channels.

Label group support for Views and Insights

You can now group issues by “Label group”. This will let you pick a label group in the View options and group issues based on the labels inside that group.

Because an issue can only have one label from a group, you are sure each issue will only appear once in the list, unlike when grouping by “Label”.

This feature is also available on Insights where you can select it as a Dimension or Segment, even on scatterplot charts.

Fixes & Improvements

Linear Insights

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:16:23 GMT

Linear Insights

Today, we are excited to launch Linear Insights into public beta.

Insights offers instant analytics for any stream of work. Aggregate, segment and visualize data across your entire workspace. Spot trends, remove blockers, and make better decisions.

To learn more, head over to the new Linear Insights website, where you can find exact specifications and interactive use cases.

Insights is available in public beta to all workspaces on the Linear Plus plan.
You can sign-up to a free 30 day trial to see if Insights is right for you.

Improvements & Fixes

[API] GraphQL responses now include a list of deprecated fields used in the request under
[API] We are now correctly clearing issue description if empty string is passed to issueUpdate mutation
Improved the No priority icon to be more easily distinguishable from the High priority icon
Your last selected quick filter tab will now be remembered even after you close the application
Added ability to clear recent searches
Added sorting by project name
Snoozing and reminder actions will now have titles that better represent the input you typed in
Tweaked the project health icons
Clarified copy on error message when attempting to link a Discord message in a private channel
[Desktop] It’s now possible to create a new project from File => New project

Fixed a problem with service worker not being registered and and desktop push notifications not working in Firefox
Fixed a bug where completing or canceling an issue linked to a Front conversation did not always reopen the Front conversation if that setting was toggled on
Fixed an incorrect page title appearing when editing a template
Fixed incorrect hover states for workflow icons in the list component
Removed accidentally exposed developer actions from command menu
Fixed a bug in Inbox where inputs could lose focus when a new notification came in
Fixed an issue where the filter buttons clickable area on project page was too big
Fixed Add a member button not appearing in certain cases
Fixed a problem where an issue’s project wasn’t immediately set to none when the project was deleted and you were looking at the issue
The inbox now correctly displays when issues were marked as duplicates rather than indicating that they were canceled
Fixed order of items in quick filters section
Fixed a bug where some users were having trouble integrating Linear with Notion.

SLAs

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:11:21 GMT

Service-level agreements (SLAs)

Use SLAs to set guidance on when time-sensitive issues should be completed. This gives your team more controls to ensure important issues stay top of mind.

SLAs can be applied to issues manually, or automatically via a set of admin-configurable rules. Linear’s default rules apply SLAs for high priority and urgent issues, but you can also substitute or add criteria to rules such as team, project, or label.

When SLAs are at risk of being breached or become breached, subscribers receive a notification immediately. To receive similar notifications for issues you are not subscribed to, you can enable additional SLA notifications options in your notifications settings.

SLAs are available to all workspaces on the Linear Plus and Linear Enterprise plans.

Improvements & Fixes

API: Fixed a bug causing the OAuth token revoke endpoint to not properly recognize tokens passed in the Authorization header with the Bearer prefix
Fixed a problem with page search losing focus when typing
Improved returning from link toolbar to formatting toolbar in editor. By hitting esc the link toolbar will be closed and formatting toolbar will be shown again
Better calendar date detection for snooze and reminder actions input
The issue filter for dates from a month ago will now properly show up as “1 month ago” rather than “28 days”
Improved search results when filtering for nested actions, you can now type .e.g “label bug” or “assign tom”
Improved download speeds for user uploaded attachments
Fixed a bug causing the OAuth application form to clear when toggling webhooks
Improved edit roadmap modal, added “select all” button
“Today” button on roadmap page is moved next to “Zoom” control
Fixed an issue where the correct issue state would not always be shown for issues in the command menu
Fixed an incorrect warning on the project timeline view when a project is created in a completed state
Guests will now be able to access Figma integrations as expected
In Inbox you can now delete all notifications for done/cancelled issues
We fixed a bug where creating a team by copying settings from another team would cause label groups to be lost in the new team
Fixed a bug that allowed team members who are not admins to see suspended users in the members list
Changed the order of action for a comment moving emoji reactions before comment reply
When navigating the inbox and removing items, we now select the next item relative to the way you have been going through the list
Fixed “Go to archive” keyboard shortcut,G X, not working on list views
Fixed merging team label groups into workspace label group
Text formatted as inline code can now also have strike through formatting
Opening a GitHub PR related to an issue will now assign the user if the issue is unassigned
The edit issue shortcut has been changed to Option E from E. The old shortcut will be repurposed for notification archiving in Inbox view to match popular email applications
Projects and Cycles detail panels can be resized
Collapsed sidebars will now close automatically if the cursor leaves the app
Comment replies notifications are sent only to those users who participated or mentioned in a thread
It’s now possible to link URLs when creating an issue
Prevented users from losing their comment edit when refreshing or closing the page
Improved performance in inbox
Added “None” option for Show completed issues menu
It is now possible to update your Workspace’s address from within billing settings. Updated address details will appear on future invoices.
Improved team archive page performance.
Typing “today” for a date action will now provide a a match for today rather than a year from today
Fixed a problem with long label names being overflown in create issue suggestions
Project selector now sorts projects by relevance. Completed projects are also available in the list.
Fixed a bug where projects would not be ordered correctly when using manual ordering and grouping by team on a roadmap
Fixed an issue where a combination of or and in filters would exclude elements incorrectly
It is now possible to see just triaged issues in triage view
Fixed a bug with workspace issue templates creating sub-issues in triage status
Tweaked text selection colors across the app to better match the current theme.
Improved the UI for editing issue relations on smaller screens
We improved the relevance of results in the command menu
Fixed a problem with page search (⌘ f) losing focus
Issue states that have the same name but different type are now grouped separately
The confirmation dialog when deleting a label now shows how many issues the label will be removed from
Fixed a bug where comments on linked Linear issues were sometimes not syncing to Front conversations
Fixed link being opened twice when clicking on “Open in…” in the attachment modal

OpenAI in-app Help

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:19:43 GMT

OpenAI powered in-app Help

Today, we’re releasing an upgraded in-app help center to Beta. In addition to some design tweaks, we added the ability to use OpenAI’s GPT-3 model to ask questions from our documentation. You can also still use regular keyword based search for both docs and keyboard shortcuts.

We’re excited about the possibilities to help Linear users quickly learn about concepts and features. You can try the beta today by pressing ? inside the application and typing your question.

The new intelligent help search was built in collaboration with Relevance.AI who are also a Linear customer.

HMAC signed webhooks

To improve security of Linear’s webhooks, we added HMAC based signing of webhook messages which can be used to verify their authenticity. You can get the signature secret from your webhook settings, which is available for both regular and OAuth webhooks, and use it to calculate SHA256 based signature of the content for verification.

import { LinearWebhooks } from "@linear/sdk";

const webhook = new LinearWebhooks("SECRET");
if (!webhook.verify(rawBody, request.headers['linear-signature'], body.webhookTimestamp) {
  throw "Invalid signature";
}

Read more in our developer documentation.

Improvements & Fixes

When copying the current view URL (using Shift+Cmd+C), any additional applied filters are now included in the copied URL
Improved command / contextual menus navigation by allowing to loop through items with ⇥ and ⇧⇥
You can now use X to select in split view
We now import comments when using the migration assistant for Asana
The Shortcut and Jira importers will now import due dates
Non-admin users can now trigger Google Sheets export
We narrowed the OAuth scope for our Google Sheets integration
You can now connect multiple Notion workspaces to the same Linear workspace
notion:// and craftdocs:// deeplinks are now supported as editor, issue, and project links
Project health badges now change color as they age
The status type filter is now available in more contexts
Tweaked some colors in translucent panels in dark themes
Issue titles in lists will now only have a tooltip if the title overflows
Improved the copy of duplicate relations on the original issue. It now reads duplicated by instead.
The urgent priority icon now tones down in color when the issue has been completed
When hovering over a pull request attachment on an issue, we now show the repository the pull request was created in
We only let you choose from open and recently completed projects when creating an issue from Slack or Discord to make it easier to find the relevant project
Improved calendar date matching when typing dates via command line actions, such as reminders
We now collapse multiple dashes into one in the generated git branch name
Issue preview popovers in the editor now work correctly when the team identifier has been changed
Adds a signature key field to the webhook form and signature and timestamp headers to outgoing webhook requests
Improved scroll restoration when navigating to projects and back to project list/timeline
Added a popover showing comment information when hovering a comment link
Added Create issue button for No project, No assignee, No label group headers
Improved restoring a scroll position when navigating back in settings section
Added an info text on list and board views when completed issues are filtered out because of view options

The desktop app will no longer potentially trigger firewall warnings on Windows
Fixed a bug where personal view options would revert to an incorrect value after saving as default
Fixed a bug that caused a failure when attempting to create new issues from Slack
Adding a link attachment with quotes in the title no longer causes an error
Fixed a bug causing a less relevant time suggestion to show above more relevant ones when setting reminders
Next is now used properly when indicating upcoming days of the week when setting a reminder for a date
Fixed Cmd+Shift+C conflict: the command toggles code formatting if the editor is focused, and otherwise copies the current page’s URL
Fixed a problem where issues were reordered automatically even when manual ordering was selected
Label picker should now be fully visible on mobile
Fixed a bug where creating issues from views with certain filters could result in ___null___ property values
Fixed smart links parsing when importing from Jira
Fixed a problem with some comment notifications not scrolling to the comment and not being marked as read when clicked
Lists in text inputs are no longer forced to have an empty paragraph afterwards
Creating an issue from another issue will now default to the same project
Fixed a bug where clicking on a comment did not scroll to it when on the same page
Fixed comment emoji reactions not visible on focus
Fixed comment actions not visible on focus
Fixed a problem with middle mouse click not opening links in the browser
Fixed authentication problems in Safari’s pinned tabs

Threaded Comments

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:29:07 GMT

Threaded Comments

Send threaded comments to answer questions or give feedback while leaving the main comment feed focused on the work at hand.

To start a thread, press the arrow icon on an existing comment or use the Shift+R shortcut. To collapse threads when viewing an issue, use Shift+X or the command menu.

When a threaded comment is sent to an issue you subscribe to, you’ll receive a notification to your inbox.

Improvements & Fixes

It’s now possible to clear last applied filter using Shift+ F and clear all filters using Shift+Cmd+F in all filterable views: issues, projects, teams, and inbox
In triage’s view options, you can now order by priority, last updated date and due date
Increased prominence of triage actions menu when viewing issues in triage status from your inbox
Added a toggle to unsubscribe from issues you accept or decline from the Triage action buttons
You can now choose to show issues in Triage on label views in View options
Added support for importing the newer style of GitHub projects to Linear
Emoji are now more consistently sized across browsers and platforms
We now allow admins to initiate an email change for a user in their workspace from within the members page in workspace settings. The user will still have to verify access to the new email address before the change goes through.
Fixed a problem when printing an issue page
The Find in view text input is now correctly unfocused when closed
Fixed a bug where you couldn’t add sub-issues from the full-screen issue creation page
Fixed a problem where our user mention scrollbar wasn’t dismissing on Safari
Fixed a bug where too many sub-issues would be created after switching between templates
Fixed a problem with inbox comment notifications not being marked as read under certain conditions
Fixed Cmd/Ctrl + K not working to link a text selection when editing a sub-issue
Fixed visual flickering when rendering the names of parent issues
Fixed a problem with the project selector offering projects from a different team when editing a team-level template
All URLs that are used in project/cycle description are now converted to clickable links when rendered in a sidebar or list divider
Fixed a problem with triage/inbox lists jumping when selecting first element in the list
Fixed a bug preventing Slack notifications from being sent for new issues if they included large attachments
Fixed a problem on iOS devices where opening a Figma preview would break view scrolling
The desktop app will now correctly reload all windows when clearing application data
Fixed a bug with Open in desktop tooltip being shown on phones and tablets
Revised minimum height of the create issue modal, so it doesn’t get squashed when using horizontal orientation on phones and tablets
Fixed a problem with opening URLs in issue descriptions on iOS devices
Fixed an issue where undoing an issue action in a modal view could action the incorrect issue
Fixed the graph of the current cycle incorrectly displayed on the list of cycles on mobile device
If you have issues in multiple active cycles these will now be grouped together under a Current cycle heading on the My Issues view
Pasting text from OneNote, Word, and other Microsoft Suite products will no longer paste as an image

Issue Reminders

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 18:30:33 GMT

Improved time travel capabilities

Productivity software is the closest thing we have to a time machine.

It provides us with information from the past, for the future we want to build, so that we can make the most out of the present moment. Linear is no different. On the surface, it’s an issue tracker. But under the hood, it works more like a time travel device.

Roadmaps, for example, are not a map of the terrain you are in today. They are an atlas for the world you are trying to create in the months ahead.

An issue might be filed based on a bug you are experiencing in the present moment, but it’s also a conversation starter with your future self to make sure it will eventually get fixed.

Even the sync-engine is all about time management. By synchronizing information in real-time across all users, it ensures that no one gets stuck in the past.

Today, we are announcing two upgrades to Linear’s time travel abilities: Issue reminders and an improved date picker UI.

Issue Reminders

One of Linear’s most popular features is the ability to snooze notifications. With Issue Reminders we are bringing the same capability to all issues.

You can now set reminders for any issue by pressing H or searching for remind in the command menu.

Set a time or a date, like “4pm” or “next Tuesday”, and Linear will deliver a new notification to your Inbox at the specified time. You can also add email, desktop and Slack notifications from your notification settings.

This allows “present you” to focus on the task at hand, without having to worry that “future you” will forget about the issue.

Improved date picker UI

To make selecting the right point in time even faster, we are shipping an improved date suggestion picker. Try “tomorrow”, “on Friday”, “in 3 hours”, “next week”, “6pm”, “Jun 5”, or “next Cycle”.

The improved date picker is available for snoozing inbox notifications, Triage issues, and the new issue reminders. It is designed for the future, but available from today.

Improvements & Fixes

[API] Demoting admins to members and promoting members as admins is now only allowed for workspaces with a paid subscription
Users in workspaces not using SAML can now update their own email login credentials from the Profile page, without writing into support
We’ve started transitioning notification emails to send from notifications@linear.app instead of notifications@mail.linear.app
All newly created workspaces now have Roadmaps enabled by default
Audit log now includes more information about user requests, including user agent, in the API in requestInformation field
Added support for hiding columns like No assignee or No project on Board
Added a view option for showing/hiding archived items in search
Added support for opening a collapsed sidebar by moving the cursor close to the left edge of the app
When creating an issue with /linear in a Slack thread, you can now optionally choose a channel to post the bot message that displays the issue’s details
In Slack, unfurls and notifications now contain an issue’s project if it belongs to one
Improved order of command line actions
Fixed notification text for project member notifications
Added missing border on project card in inbox notifications
Link actions now appear when you search add link in the command line
Pressing Esc on Settings will now re-open the previous page instead of the default page of the workspace
Clicking on a comment timestamp from Inbox or Triage now properly copies the comment URL instead of opening the issue in full view
Fixed misaligned group headers in roadmap view
Fixed a problem with due date indicators showing the wrong icon if done date was the same as due date
Fixed a problem when issues in a custom workflow state called Triage would end up in Triage queue
Fixed an issue where it was not possible to type a space character in context menu filters
Fixed a bug where the input for a comment on an issue in the Slack mobile app was often unresponsive
Fixed an issue where some contextual menus wouldn’t close when an input in the background had been edited
Fixed a problem with the create issue dialog showing the discard warning when trying to switch to full-view editing mode
Fixed an edge case where an issue could reference itself when marking another issue as a duplicate of it
Fixed text layout overflows for some specific languages
Fixed a problem where a label with a space could not be created via the command menu
Fixed a regression in search results not properly showing spaces and an incorrect font-size
Fixed a bug preventing editing labels on imported issues
Fixed a bug where issue mention popovers didn’t show any content if the issue was archived
Fixed a bug where it wasn’t possible to change teams when creating a custom view
Fixed a bug where a long group header name would cut off action buttons for a group in a board view
Fixed a bug where pasting an embedded YouTube video from one issue into another would throw an error
Fixed inability to open roadmap context menu in tabs by using Ctrl + Left click
Fixed a bug which caused roadmap tabs to not function correctly and onboarding modals to show up too many times

Collapsible Sidebar

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:49:32 GMT

Collapsible sidebar

You can now fully collapse Linear’s sidebar to focus on a specific issue, project, or view.

To experience this zen, press the [ keyboard shortcut, click on the sidebar border, or search “Collapse” in the command menu.

To expand a collapsed sidebar, use the [ shortcut again, click on the top-left sidebar icon, or search “Expand” in the command menu.

Polishing Season wrap

The end of 2022 also marked the end of our first Polishing Season. In total, we polished 228 different aspects of the app, ranging from UI inconsistencies and bugs to improved animations and new keyboard shortcuts. Many of these fixes were flaws and points of friction that you reported. Thank you!

Improvements & Fixes

[API] Added scope to projects in the API
Added a feature to collapse link attachments on issues. Collapsing and uncollapsing can be accomplished by clicking the toggle icon or using Ctrl Shift L
Improved the behavior of nested checkboxes. Nested checkboxes can now be checked and unchecked independently from their parent. Checking a parent checkbox will no longer automatically check all of its children
Improved select and filter functionality in workspace members settings page
Added the ability to use Set due date and Set parent issue shortcuts in the fast issue creation modal
When marking an issue as a duplicate of another, any related issues will now reference the canonical issue
We now support the Intercom integration for users on the app.eu.intercom.com and app.au.intercom.com domains in addition to the default app.intercom.com domain
Revised our DPA (data processing agreement) and made it available through the command menu
Issue creation can now be undone with Cmd/Ctrl Z, as can editing an issue title and description
Label filters now show the label group and are sorted based on the group
Adding links to issues now counts as updating the issue and will reset the auto-archive clock
Labels in label groups can now be selected by using and Shift Enter
You can now navigate directly to team setting pages from the command menu
Archived issue dependencies will now correctly load
Fixed a bug where we didn’t always show an accurate timestamp for when a GitHub pull request attached to an issue was closed
Fixed a bug in the Front integration where we would post internal notes multiple times per conversation if the linked issue was attached to multiple conversations
Fixed a bug where incorrect issue statuses would be shown in command menu search results
Fixed a regression where long lines of text without whitespace would not wrap properly in comments without closing the contextual menu
The text toolbar is now better positioned and does not appear beneath scrollbars on Windows
Adding a label to a group is now undoable
Fixed a problem with workspace issue templates showing incorrect available labels
Improved filtering by Height attachments to match more issues
Filtering context menus now also works when a sub-menu is open
Fixed some links incorrectly opening a new desktop app window
Removed a duplicate header for some project notifications
Fixed a redirect path after a document is deleted to now redirect back to the corresponding project
Minor changes to copy icons for consistency throughout the app. The same icons are now used for the same copy action
Esc now correctly un-zooms an image in the issue creation modal
Opening the emoji picker will now always focus the search input
Added preview tooltips for project and document mentions in the description and comments
Command and contextual menus now always have selected items sorted at the top of the list
When selecting a sub-action in the command menu, we now correctly set the selection to the first element in the list
Fixed a bug preventing configuring Slack project notifications when only the channel for project updates was set
Added notifications for when you are added to a project as member or lead
Multi-select contextual menus now have checkboxes that can be used to toggle the entries without closing the menu. Shift Enter can also be used to toggle the entry
The open project command (O P) now shows the current issue’s project and makes it easier to navigate to issue’s project using keyboard shortcut
When changing the labels of an issue, the contextual menu no longer re-orders instantly, but waits until the contextual menu is re-opened
Improved auto-linking of issue identifiers in comments and descriptions
Added tooltips to clarify numbers appearing in Roadmap Details
Fixed a problem where backgrounded Chrome tabs could stall loading of the client
Removed a separate Edit button on issue view. The Edit action is still available in the … menu or using the E shortcut
Fixed a bug where creating issues from a view filtered by a label group would cause an error
[Desktop] Windows application now automatically hides the menu bar. It can be toggled on using Alt.
Active cycle has been renamed to current cycle to prevent confusion with active issues in the sidebar
We now return a more informative message to users on GitHub connect errors
Fixed an error with the Zendesk integration causing it not to load when the viewed ticket only had attachments and no content

Rewind 2022

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:38:49 GMT

Linear Rewind 2022

A busy and productive year is coming to an end. To help you celebrate everything you built and shipped this year, we are releasing Rewind 2022 - a visual summary of your 2022 in Linear.

You can generate your personal rewind or create a rewind for your entire workspace. Please note that we need a certain amount of data to create meaningful reports, so if you are new to Linear you may not be able to create a rewind yet.

Linear Rewind is private by default - only you and members of your workspace can see it. All graphs in the report can be copied and shared. Please consider who you choose to share them with, since they might contain sensitive company data.

We’re releasing our own Linear Rewind publicly. You can view it here.

Fixes & improvements

Polishing season

Improved the initial render performance for teams with a lot of issues
Added a new shortcut to open the latest shown toast notification Cmd+Option+O
Added a new shortcut Shift+V to show View options
[Desktop] Added a new shortcut Cmd+Y to open the Recently viewed dropdown
Cmd+Shift+C no longer adds an issue to the active cycle, and instead copies the current URL. You can always add an issue to the active cycle (or any other cycle) using Shift+C
Added a new command line action to open the keyboard shortcut cheat sheet
It’s now possible to create developer tokens for your OAuth apps for testing and other purposes without going through the OAuth code exchange
Clarified the error state when an invited user has no public teams to access
Resizable panels in Linear now have better hover indicators
The fast sub-issue creation flow now pre-fills the properties chosen for the last sub-issue to the next sub-issue
Improved animation when closing a draft issue to point to the sidebar rather than the bottom of the page
You’ll now be notified if you are removed as an assignee from an issue
Converting an issue to a project now adds an entry to the issue activity
The backdrop of the fast creation modal now fades in correctly and the animation has been tweaked to be more natural
Improved error handling when changing active cycle dates
The loading spinner in the search bar now spins clockwise (forwards, to the future!)
Dates over a year ago will no longer include the day when shown in lists
The desktop app now supports playing videos using the HEVC codec (iOS and macOS)
Added a warning before discarding new edits on a project update
We now explicitly remove labels that don’t exist on the new team if you switch teams when accepting an issue in Triage
You can now use a date picker to choose a custom date for snoozing triage issues. You can still use the keyboard to specify custom dates for snoozing
Improved Slack unfurls for issue comments
Recently viewed roadmaps are now prioritized in the Open roadmaps list
You can now favorite an issue from the right click context menu
All copy actions in context menus are now grouped into one Copy... group
[Desktop] You can now navigate within Recently viewed dropdown using arrow keys
You can now toggle empty groups when grouping by project in issue views
Sub-issues in a different projects no longer block the archival of a parent issue
Added the ability to show/hide Triage issues on My Issues page
Changed styling around issues in board views to increase contrast on light themes
[Desktop] Added ability to open documentation, help center and keyboard shortcuts guide from the native help menu
We’ve made it easier to find and filter issues with attached Help Scout links via the Links filter
Added a tooltip for Focus grouping on My issues page
On mobile, the sidebar will now properly open above any details pane
When grouping by roadmap, groups are now ordered according the tabs on the Roadmaps page
Admins can now change what name will appear in your invoices through the billing page
Dropped official support for older Safari versions. Please upgrade to at least Safari 14.1 (MacOS) or Mobile Safari 14.5 (iOS)
Low priority notification digest emails outside work hours are now delayed to the morning of the next working day. You can disable this functionality in your notification settings
Improved the consistency of styling in the issue creation editor
Replaced links to connect Git integrations with buttons on team workflow settings page
Discord autocomplete will now return better results based on your input
Added two new filters; past cycles and future cycles. These will match all cycles in the past/future and complements previous/upcoming filters which only match the last and the next cycle
Dialogs no longer close when pressing down on the content and releasing on the backdrop. A slight delay has been added to recognizing presses on the background to make sure dialogs aren’t accidentally closed
Imported labels will now be matched on workspace labels as well as team labels and regardless of case
Added a confirmation step when assigning more than 15 issues to yourself
Improved Escape shortcut behavior so it deselects selected text on an issue page before going back to the issues list
You can now see the assignee name when hovering the avatar of issues on the board
Issues viewed in a narrow window will no longer show as overdue when they have been completed
Fixed an issue where filters on the labels page would not correctly update
Fixed a regression where middle clicking did not open a new desktop window
Fixed a problem with the assignee dropdown showing an incorrect selection when opened
Fixed a bug where error messages during workspace creation didn’t display correctly
Standardized sizes of avatars shown in project change actions menus
Made all buttons sizes and highlight states consistent across all toolbars
Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong GitHub repository to be selected when importing two repositories with the same name
Fixed a bug when creating issues from Intercom where the assignee field was overwritten after selecting a label
Fixed populating new workspaces with your email domain’s logo
Fixed a bug where the assignee wouldn’t be notified when an issue was auto-closed
Emoji reaction shadows are no longer cut off
Fixed rendering bugs causing content to flicker when appearing
Fixed a bug where links would show the wrong URL when editing them
Fixed checkboxes being displayed twice in Safari with certain themes

We are also doing a live AMA about Polishing Season this Friday (6pm CET, 12pm EST, 9am PT). If you have a question for our team, join us on Slack or Twitter.

Polishing Season 2022

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:46:00 GMT

Polishing Season 2022

Every product has bugs. More than we can ever fix. Papercuts, usability issues, imperfections. We all have a long backlog of fixes and improvements we intend to get to someday.

Polishing season is about turning that “someday” into “today”. It’s about dedicating time to quality work. To replace flaws and friction with polish and delight.

For the rest of the year, polishing will be our sole focus. No new feature work, just quality of life improvements.

To make the most out of it, we would love to get your input. Tell us what we should fix. Tell us what we should improve. Tell us what would make your life easier.

Arc Integration

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:28:05 GMT

Arc integration

Today, we welcome Arc to the growing list of Linear integrations.

Arc is a new, next-generation browser from our friends at the Browser Company. Like Linear, Arc is fast, beautifully designed, and features a keyboard-first design - which is where this new integration comes in.

Linear users can now create new issues directly from Arc. Simply hit ⌘ t to access Arc’s command bar and type “New Linear issue” to directly open Linear’s issue creation modal.

This integration is pre-built into Arc and doesn’t require any extra setup or configuration. You can learn more about the integration here.

Fixes & Improvements

Fixed opening documents on small screens
User avatars now have more different colors
Fixed a bug where error messages during workspace creation didn’t display correctly
Added roadmap names to issue export (CSV and google sheets)
Urgent issues in the Triage list are now marked with urgent priority icon.
Fixed styling inconsistencies in the issue creation modal
Fixed a problem with opening custom views from the views list on mobile devices.
When filtering for “is not” active cycle the filter will now match issues that have no cycle as well. The same goes for “is not” previous cycle and “is not” upcoming cycle. Existing custom views will not include this behavior change, it will only be in effect for newly created filters. You can remove/add the filter to an existing view to get the new behavior.
If importing from a GitHub personal repo, you will now longer be shown the option to import organization level projects, which would lead to an error.
Marking a notification as unread won’t immediately revert to marked as read if you open it nearly at the same time.
Improved the roadmap/projects view on mobile screens
Fixed a bug where roadmap tabs would not behave correctly after renaming roadmaps
All context menus and command line have a new way to jump up and jump down: Arrow Up Cmd/Option to jump to the first item, Arrow Down Cmd/Option to jump to the last item.
Fixed a problem with context menu items not being properly focused when being outside of the viewport.
Fix bug where a toggle in team estimate settings wouldn’t update correctly.
Fixed a bug where issues could be created into old cycles
Improved the teams chart in the roadmap details pane
The small pulsating animation used for highlighting new features or updates has been replaced with a more static indication. The animation was simply too expensive.
Uploaded retina quality screenshots are now displayed at their real size.
Fixed a bug causing images to not be properly imported from Jira.
Fixed a bug where empty groups would display when grouping by team on project views.
Fixed filtering by previous cycle while in cooldown period.
Fixed a problem with inability to save sub-issue state in workspace issue template.
After creating a roadmap, we now show all projects in the roadmap.
We now correctly apply the “show empty groups” view option in project/roadmap views.
Un-snoozed notifications will now show the time at which they were un-snoozed when they are unread.
Fixed a problem with an initially selected item not being visible in the context menu list.
Fixed a bug where menus wouldn’t close correctly.
Fixed a problem with an initially selected item not being visible in the context menu list.
Notifications generated by actions taken by third-party applications will now display more accurate actor information.
Fixed a bug where ordering on roadmap pages would not work correctly in some cases.
Editing date filters now respects the current value when opening the date picker.
Improved error message when entering unsupported url attachment.
Fixed a bug where creating custom views from label pages didn’t work.
Fixed a crash when editing roadmaps.
It’s now possible to drag and drop multiple projects on list views.
The custom view menu now includes a “Duplicate” option.
You can now open the native context menu by holding Alt while secondary clicking.
Added option to open a page for a label group.
It’s now possible to add/remove multiple selected projects to a roadmap.
Made it possible to change roadmap owner

Label Groups

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:24:59 GMT

Label Groups

After a successful Origins beta with customers, label groups are now available for everyone. This feature creates one level of nesting in workspace and team labels, giving you more options and structure when organizing issues. Internally we’ve created label groups such as Issue Type, Component, and Integrations.

We’ve worked hard to ensure that label groups are properly supported in functionalities across Linear including filters and support integrations. This should give you more flexibility to create the views you need and build powerful analytical reporting (apply for early access). For example, it’s now easy to create a view that filters for all Integrations labels, showing sub-labels automatically.

To create a label group, head to Label settings for your team or workspace. Please note that labels within groups are exclusive, so when applying labels to issues only one label from each group may be applied. We look forward to hearing your feedback on this new feature.

Fixes & Improvements

[API] Fixed a bug where we weren’t respecting null values explicitly passed in for auto-prune properties during team creation
[API] Roadmaps now have a field for their associated projects
Improved first rendering performance for teams with a large number of issues
Filtering by members will no longer show guests if you are not filtering in one of their assigned teams
You will be redirected to another organization if possible when logging back in after you schedule an organization for deletion
Command menu no longer closes if you drag and select while ending your select outside the menu
GitHub pull request automation now takes team reviewers into consideration as well when determining what state an issue should be moved to
Fixed a bug that disabled opening links from embeds such as Loom and YouTube in the desktop app
Fixed a bug where the link editor would not appear when a link within a list was selected
Fixed a bug that would unnecessarily delete the local database when a team was deleted
Improved wording of notifications
We now show a command menu item to jump to advanced search when there are no quick results
Added a set of new icons that you can use for teams, projects, and custom views
Improved inline search for characters with diacritical marks
linear.new now opens issue creation in a modal over the full page
Fixed a bug where adding an issue relation from an issue in a private team to an issue in a public team could cause crashes for users outside the private team
Stopped automatically pre-populating an issue comment with Intercom conversation details when a Linear issue is linked to an Intercom conversation as an attachment
Fixed a bug when applying a template would remove currently assigned labels
Fixed Airbyte issue export for large payloads
Added the ability to copy a roadmap link using the contextual menu
Added the ability to select a favorited project as a default home view preference
Improved undoing actions on the projects list page
Added the ability to include project and status when creating issues via the Sentry integration
When grouping projects by status, the statuses are now ordered with In Progress on top, similar to issue statuses
After changing the workspace URL, old workspace URLs now redirect to the new URL
Cmd/Ctrl Shift A now selects all issues within a group
CSV exports now contain information about related roadmaps
Mitigated problems with Safari 14 where local database operations would fail frequently
You can now find teams in all menus by searching the identifier
Made it easier to find the Contact support and Send feedback actions through the command menu
You can now open an issue in the full window from Triage & Inbox by searching for Open full issue view in the command menu
Fixed a bug where adding emoji would not work on the first click
Renamed a few actions: Merge issue to Mark as duplicate of, and Duplicate issue to Make copy as new issue
Fixed a bug where certain keyboard shortcuts were triggering even though some keys had been released
Fixed a bug with copying a link in a comment when the link has bold/italic/strike-though styling
It’s now possible to group projects by team. We also updated the design of group headers in roadmap views.
Intercom and Discord issue search will now show most relevant issues in the correct order
We fixed a bug where issues where moved back to their In Review workflow state if linked pull requests received comments after they were merged or closed
Improved keyboard focus behavior in the due date modal selector
Projects now default to the current user as the lead
Fixed a bug that would let you post empty project updates
Fixed a bug where roadmaps that contained private projects from other teams couldn’t be edited
Updated styling in the issue creation modal
Added ability to order projects on a roadmap by target and start dates
Projects list can show both start and target dates
Fixed Slack emoji importing not working
Improved project create modal layout on small devices
You can now filter labels on the labels settings pages by whether they are in use or not
The transparent sidebar now follows the theme when using a custom theme
Roadmaps section is now protected for guest users
We now persist the approved or changes requested state of a review on the pull request attachment even if the reviewer left additional comments afterward
The list of team members you can assign an issue to in the Zendesk app is now sorted alphabetically
If you are an admin, you can now invite new user directly for each Team Members page in the Settings
Added the ability to re-order roadmap tabs
Fixed a problem with the Create workspace page where the form didn’t give visual feedback if the organization name didn’t pass validation on API side
When setting a parent issue, the sub-issue is now automatically moved to a parent’s project when it’s possible
Fixed the styling of the board/list toggle
Fixed a bug with video scrolling that dragged the whole video instead
Changed the styling of the Today marker on roadmap timeline
The search icon in the sidebar now leads to the full advanced search
Quick search can be access through the / or Cmd/Ctrl K shortcuts
You can now choose when to automatically add comments to Front conversations or reopen Front conversations based on activity in linked Linear issues
Drag and drop on a board grouped by label now works correctly for workspace labels
Fixed a bug causing the Jira migration assistant form to occasionally be cleared unexpectedly
Fixed a problem that would cause Safari 14 not be able to process model deletions correctly

2022 Release: Built for Scale

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:06:00 GMT

2022 Release: Built for Scale

We are excited to announce our 2022 release.

Our focus this year has been to scale Linear to new levels. To power not just the thousands of startups that are building with Linear, but also the wave of large, established companies that have migrated their teams off of the bloated legacy tools of the past.

Today, we are launching a wide range of new and upgraded features. We’ve improved roadmaps,, upgraded Cycle analytics, added a Notion integration, and enhanced the GitHub integration among other changes. This release page includes a preview of our upcoming Analytical Reporting feature and better label management.

Head over to our release page to see the complete list of new features.

Roadmaps

When you open Linear, you will see a new version of Roadmaps that lets you create multiple roadmaps, each with their own list of projects. Create roadmaps to roll your projects up into initiatives, product lines, or company goals — just like you may have done with milestones. Each roadmap can be customized with projects from any number of teams and individual projects can be part of different roadmaps.

On the Roadmaps page, quickly navigate between different roadmaps or view all projects in the workspace. Each roadmap can be grouped, filtered, and ordered in any way you want. In the right sidebar, we’ve added analytics so you can quickly see which teams contribute most to the roadmap’s projects, which projects are being worked on most actively, and how close projects are to being completed.

If you were using milestones previously, they have now been converted to roadmaps. Because they provide very similar product grouping functionality, we made the decision to remove milestones in favor of further developing roadmaps. To help with the transition, we converted existing milestones to roadmaps.

We are still actively developing these features so we are very interested in your feedback. If there’s something you miss about milestones that isn’t solved by roadmaps, we want to hear about it. Please reach out.

Notion integration

You can now bring the magic of Linear into your Notion workspace. Paste a link to a Linear issue, view, or project in Notion to immediately see a detailed preview of your data directly in Notion. This integration is opt-in and enabled by members of your workspace individually.

Pull request review status

We’ve added more detail to GitHub pull request and GitLab merge request links on issues. When your PR or MR is being reviewed, we’ll show you the avatars and review states of the three most recent reviewers. Get a better sense of how the review is going without leaving Linear.

New Linear interface theme

We gave the application interface a fresh coat of paint. Modals and popovers now have a beautiful glass effect, where the content underneath shines through. The dark theme was updated with new colors and a more saturated look that puts more focus on the content. We hope you enjoy it and would love to see remixes done using Linear’s custom themes.

If you’re a fan of the original dark theme, it’s still available as Classic Dark theme in settings. The Light theme remains unchanged in this update. We also added a preference to turn off translucent interface components in case they have a negative performance in older devices.

Intercom & Zendesk customizations

We’ve added customizable settings to our Zendesk and Intercom integrations to better support your customer support workflow. In Zendesk, you can now choose when to automatically add internal notes to Zendesk tickets or reopen Zendesk tickets based on activity in linked Linear issues. In Intercom, we’ve added a setting for whether you want a conversation to automatically reopen when a linked Linear issue receives a comment. Go to Zendesk or Intercom settings to update your integration.

Enterprise grade security

We added support for SCIM provisioning alongside SAML authentication. This simplifies management of user accounts for IT admins in larger organizations as it centralizes it in their identity provider system.

Upon enabling SCIM, the system will synchronize accounts between Linear and your identity provider and keep them that way. It syncs user information such as names and their current status, and whether they have the application access enabled or not. SCIM is available on Enterprise plans.

For Plus and Enterprise customers, we’ve enabled domain claiming so that you can claim the domain you own and not allow other workspaces to white-list it.

Sync-Engine upgrade

We have been making performance improvements to our Sync-Engine, specifically with larger workspaces in mind. First-time users should see considerable improvements in startup times when they load the application. You should also see significant improvements in startup times if you’re loading Linear for the first time in a while. More performance optimizations are in the works, stay tuned.

Fixes & Improvements

Rolling out label groups in beta to Linear Origins
After 9 months, Linear’s Slack app has been officially approved and is now discoverable in Slack’s app directory
The illustration in the empty project screen now adapts better to the selected theme
Label creator and date of creation are now available in the settings screen to help you better manage labels
It’s now possible to filter labels by name in the workspace and team label settings pages
Fixed a problem where an admin who was not part of a team could accidentally archive a status that was still assigned to issues
It’s now possible to click a full row on Cycle and Project details to filter on a specific assignee, label, or project
Improved the Inbox empty state when filters are applied
Fixed a bug where select organizations would not receive reminders to post project updates
Improved focus management while navigating sub-issues
We held an impromptu Figma AMA while mitigating a DDoS attack

Faster sub-issue creation

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:36:28 GMT

Faster sub-issue creation

Previously, when you created issues in Linear, it wasn’t possible to add sub-issues unless you opened the issue in full screen editing mode. We’ve improved the issue creation flow so that you can quickly add sub-issues from the modal as well.

Press Cmd + Shift + O to add sub-issues and start breaking the parent issue down into smaller chunks of work.

This new fast sub-issue creation flow is also available in full-screen issue creation flow. Press V to open the full screen editing view, then use the shortcut to add sub-issues without needing to save the issue first.

Templates with sub-issues

We’ve added sub-issues to issue templates. Now, you can break down your issue template into smaller sub-issues. This works for both team and workspace level templates. To apply a template, use Ctrl Option Shift T from the modal or Option C from the full screen view.

Calendar preferences

If you prefer that your calendar starts on Mondays, now it can in Linear. We’ve added a personal preference for what you’d like the first day of the week to be in the date picker. Date pickers across the application will respect this choice. Visit your account preferences to customize this setting.

New website

After months of explorations (our design file became so big, it broke Figma), we finally shipped a new homepage: www.linear.app/homepage

Fixes & Improvements

[API] Added an option to filter projects on slug ID
[API] Your user account will no longer be subscribed to issues when creating comments using actor=application via an OAuth application
Fixed a bug preventing proper mapping or inviting by email when migrating users from another system in the Migration Assistant
Fixed a bug where we showed a zero-count link badge on an issue in a view if it had no links attached to it
Fixed a bug in the team selector in the invite members dialog
Long emoji names are now properly truncated when shown in suggestions
Choose when to automatically reopen Intercom conversations that are linked to a Linear issue
Fixed a problem with some keyboard shortcuts not working in some views including My Issues and Views
Fixed an issue that would prevent typing a space character in some filters
Fixed an unnecessary prompt when closing an issue that had not been changed
Improved handling for Escape in full-screen issue creation and fixed double confirmation
Improved logic when applying a template when using linear.new with a template ID defined
Fixed an issue where snoozed notifications would not immediately disappear from the Inbox
Improved position of the Settings Back button in the desktop app
Fixed a double scrollbar on project details on Firefox
Fixed support for the Europe/Kyiv timezone and fixed the spelling of Kyiv in the timezone selector
Fixed an issue that caused some editor content such as user and document mentions not to be indexed in search
Fixed a bug where tooltips would take too long to open
Fixed errors when running out of disk space and navigating to an issue whose comments hadn’t yet been loaded
Issues now have an Open in new window option and shortcut in the desktop app
Guest users will now be suspended if your workspace cancels your subscription
Fixed a problem where comments and issue history would take longer to load if a user was removed and then re-added to a private team
Fixed a bug where notification filters would show up multiple times in the list
Fixed a problem with the duplicate issue action duplicating only one level of sub-issues
Fixed a bug where the icon input in project details was partially hidden
Fixed a problem where clients would retain ghost issues when issues were moved from a public team to a private team
Fixed a bug where the Started value would be wrong in the legend of cycle or project graphs
Fixed a bug where project names would get too little space in roadmap lists
Fixed a problem launching Linear in private mode on Firefox
Fixed a bug causing the Slack welcome message to occasionally be posted unexpectedly
Improved logic around applying templates to existing issues
All projects are now accessible through the O P shortcut
Fixed an issue where the header area became undraggable when a list was scrolled
Fixed project reminders being sent even if reminder frequency was set to never
Slack notifications will now show the correct actor if the action that generated the notification was taken by a third-party application

Graph improvements & Cycle capacity

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:22:27 GMT

Graph improvements

We’ve enhanced graphs on project and cycle views. They now have separate lines for Started and Completed issues and show you more details around what types of issues were completed.

Previously, the progress line in graphs reflected the sum of completed issues and partial completion of any started issues. This could be confusing, so we’ve split them into their own lines. This lets you see exactly what is being worked on and what is done.

On top of that, we’ve added additional content to the cycles graph and sidebar. We show you how much scope was added or removed since the start of the cycle. You can see how a cycle’s issues break down by project, label, and assignee, as well as what percentage of issues in those categories have been completed. We are also introducing interactions with those graphs, you can now hover over them to see the exact values of scoped, completed and started issues over time.

Cycle capacity

We’ve added functionality to help you plan your cycle. Cycle capacity shows how many issues or estimate points you should be able to fit into the cycle based on your team’s velocity.

The capacity is calculated from the completed issues or estimate counts from your three previous cycles. If no cycles have been completed yet, we calculate a very rough estimate on capacity based on your team size.

Fixes & Improvements

Cmd/Ctrl N in the desktop app now opens the new issue interface. To open a new window use Shift Cmd/Ctrl N .
Some element borders are now thinner on retina displays
Fixed paging over archived issues
Comment drafts are now persisted across navigations and reloads
You will now be prompted to save comment draft changes before navigating away
Fixed a missing link from a board issue widget to a cycle
When creating custom views with Triage issues, the view now correctly shows all issues before the view has been saved
Roadmap now opens the All tab by default
Improved copy in collection filters
Project and cycle are now inherited from the parent issue when converting a checkbox list to sub-issues
When two links are added to an issue in quick succession, they will now be shown as two separate entries in the issue history log
Logos for integrations will now be better displayed when they are used as the avatar for issue actions
Fixed overflowing text in project lists
The character = will now be removed from Git branch names if it is present in an issue title
Fixed a crash when passing description to the new issue url (linear.new)
Selected issues in the list can now be exported as CSV
Issue search results can be exported as CSV
We will now only include the first message from an Intercom conversation in the comment body when linking an existing issue to an Intercom conversation
Ctrl A / Ctrl E shortcuts now work correctly on macOS for text blocks that contain mentions and links
A Windows shortcut to move cards between columns on a board Alt →/Alt←changed to Ctrl →/Ctrl←

Fixes & Improvements

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:55:41 GMT

Fixes & Improvements

At the bottom of every Linear changelog lives a long bullet point list of smaller changes. We call this list Fixes & Improvements. The items on this list usually don’t get a lot attention, because they don’t look as exciting as the big, new features that we highlight at the top of the changelog. But that doesn’t mean they are not important. On the contrary.

Fixes & Improvements, as the name suggests, contains two different types of work:

Fixes are bugs that we squash. They are negative things that we remove from the app.

Improvements are similar to bugs but different. Like bugs, they are imperfections. Unlike bugs, we don’t remove them. Instead we turn them into something positive. They are negative user experiences that we can turn into user delight. They are little big details. Internally, we call them Quality of Life improvements and we think they are incredibly important.

Here are some of the fixes and improvements we shipped last week. May they improve your life and the lives of engineers, designers and PMs around you.

Allow bulk changing estimates on issues from different teams, if estimate configuration is the same across all teams
Fixed ordering of users on members page
Fixed missing state filters on the My issues page. Added a new Completed issues - Past day view option
Released linear.app/brand to make it easy to download assets
Fixed notifications and Slack messages not properly sent when posting a new project update
Fixed a small glitch on Safari when the bottom scrollbar was behind issue cards
Fixed a problem with the Mark as blocking shortcut on issue page
Fixed a bug causing Intercom conversations that were assigned to teams to become unassigned after the conversations were reopened by Linear
Guests will now be able to install third-party applications if they have already been installed on your workspace, or if you have third-party application approvals turned on for your workspace and the application has been approved
Long issue activity lists are collapsed by default and show only last thirty items
Added the option to order issues by estimate
Fixed a problem where the notifications screen would not correctly display desktop notification subscriptions
Fixed a bug where pasting text from a code editor wouldn’t work
It’s now possible to copy a link to a specific project update
Fixed a bug that was preventing non-admins from creating third-party applications approvals
You can now select multiple labels when creating an issue from Intercom
Improved a11y when creating labels using the command menu. Colors are now displayed as names, rather than hex values.
Fixed a bug where same comment was posted multiple times in the Front application when conversations were reopened
Fixed an issue where under rare conditions moving an issue with labels to another team would fail
We now hide teams that you haven’t joined by default in the team selector for new issues
Added a view option in the notification inbox to hide read notifications
Displays short dates with year if in a different calendar year.
Notifications for third-party application approvals will now be automatically deleted when somebody responds to the request
Fixed an error where inputting a number would yield no search results if an organization had more than thirty two teams
Fixed an issue where updating a documents icon would not be reflected locally until a refresh
Added the ability to group projects by status and by lead when the workspace isn’t using the “Roadmap” feature
[API] Going forward IssueHistory entries will correctly reflect if they were created by an OAuth application when the token used to create the entry uses application actor authorization

Third-party Application Approvals

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:00:00 GMT

Third-party Application Approvals

We’ve been working on improvements to how third-party applications are managed at the workspace level. Admins on the Plus plan will now be able to approve or deny requests to install third-party applications from other members.

Visit your workspace application settings to turn on this feature. All existing installed applications on your workspace will be automatically approved. Once application approvals have been turned on, team members will have to request approval during the authorization flow, providing an optional reason for why they would like to install the application into your workspace. If an application has been previously denied, they will see a message to that effect, along with the reason why the application was denied, if one was provided. Admins will then receive a notification about the new request and can choose to approve or deny the request. These notifications can be configured in your notification settings. Once the request has been answered, the original requester will also be notified of the response.

From the application settings page, you can also deny a previously approved application, approve a previously denied application, or revoke authorization for an installed application. Learn more about third-party application approvals here.

Fixes and Improvements

[API] Added support for fetching, creating, and updating project updates to the API
Fixed a bug that would prevent creating labels with a space in some situations
Fixed a bug not showing Slack channel names
Issues related by mention in comment now correctly adds the comment author as the person adding the relation too
Replaced inline editing of title/description in a project/cycle sidebar in favor of modal editor
Selected projects can now be copied as markdown
It’s now possible to apply fast filtering on labels and projects on a cycle page, like assignees
Improved keyboard accessibility for view options dropdown
It’s now possible to convert selected list to a sub-issues list using the editor toolbar button
Fixed priority ordering on a project page, now team priority ordering setting is taken into account
We improved the display of custom links on issue lists and in filters
Creating a sub-issue from command menu no longer leaves the command menu open
It’s now possible to create issues directly from more board columns with the “+” button
Video uploads in an unsupported browser format will now show an error message
Fixed “apply template” shortcut in the issue create modal
Fixed a crash when using inline search in Inbox
Completed issues in future cycles will be moved to the currently active cycle
The project name is now shown next to documents when opening them from the command menu
When converting an issue with sub-issues to a project, the original parent issue is moved to a newly created project as well

Board Ordering

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:32:52 GMT

Board Ordering

We are adding the option to choose between different board ordering preferences. Previously, it was only possible to order issues on a board manually. With this change you can now order issues on your board by priority, creation date, due date, or many other options.

You can find these Board Ordering choices in the “View Options” in the right uper corner of your issues view.

When issues are orderdered by a specific property, you are able to drag them between different columns of your board. The position of the issue within a column is determined automatically. This ensures that the order of your issues is consistent across list and board layouts.

Cycle Descriptions

We are adding the ability to add short descriptions to cycles. When planning a cycle, use the description field to specify a goal or focus area of the cycle so that everyone on your team is aligned.

Fixes & Improvements

[API] OAuth apps can now provide a custom avatar URL when creating Comments or Issues with a custom user name
[API] You can now specify createdAt dates in the past when creating issues and comments
It’s now possible to filter by team in inbox even when using project updates
Fixed a few places where the outline for focused elements would be truncated
Reduced the amount of “New version available” messages you’re likely to see
Improved logic when duplicating an issue with sub-issues, now all children inherit a team and a project from the parent issue
Improved accuracy of search results when querying an issue number without the team identifier
Default milestones are no longer created when Roadmap feature is being toggled on
Correctly display integration logos and names in the inbox if those are responsible for sending the notification
Fixed bug where Shortcut imports could be missing stories that were not in projects
Issues snoozed from the API are now correctly hidden when the “Show snoozed” filter is disabled
Document suggestions with the same name now include the associated project name
We improved the search matches when searching for issue identifiers while mentioning an issue
Fixed a bug where using the “match any filter” option with a state filter would yield incorrect results
Fixed intercom integration showing an error for conversations without linked issues
Improved error handling when commenting on an issue
Links to issues in private teams no longer include the issue title in the URL
We now show instructions when attempting to enable desktop notifications in Brave with push service disabled
Users can now be filtered by username in more places across the app.
Unassigned Intercom conversations will now remain unassigned after they are reopened by Linear
Updated formatting for Intercom notes produced by the Linear Intercom integration
It’s now possible to filter by estimate even if some teams in the view have estimations disabled
Fixed a problem when pasting content into placeholders
Fixed a bug where clicking refresh in a Figma embed would open the Figma link
Fixed a styling issue when accepting triage issues on small screens
Fixed styling issues in cycle and project badges on boards when using a larger font style
Fixed an error that caused archived issues to be selectable when referencing active issues
Fixed a bug where filters would not be correctly applied on inbox
Fixed project updates notifications not properly marked as read in the inbox
Fixed images in issue descriptions synced using Jira Link not transferring over properly
Fixed long threads of comments being cut offinwhen printing the issue page
Fixed a problem where cycle history wasn’t correctly calculated when the team had estimates disabled
Fixed the styling of new issues in board views
Snooze actions now appear when typing “remind” in the command menu
Completed issues are no longer reopened if a linked GitHub PR is edited
Cycle details now have tooltips detailing the exact time when a cycle starts and ends
It’s now possible to select items from the different columns on a board
Fixed copying branch name from issues with special characters in issue titles
If issue creation fails for some reason, we recover the issue so that you can try again
Fixed an issue where you weren’t able to close certain modals when text inside was selected
Fixed an issue where project update reminders were sent to some orgs with the never setting
Linear issues created automatically by the Sentry integration now correctly links from Sentry to Linear
Issues imported from GitHub will no longer sometimes lose images in their descriptions
Fix a bug showing the emoji reaction button on the wrong comment when hovering one with the cursor
Improved CSV export and handling of null values
Changed minute marker in short date format from ‘m’ to ‘min’ to avoid ambiguity with ‘mo’ (month)
Escape key in fullscreen issue editor now unfocuses the editor
Fixed “Delete team…” option showing to users that do not have permissions to do so in contextual menu
The “Copy image” action is now correctly disabled on browsers that do not support it

Project Updates

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 18:42:01 GMT

Project updates

Today, we’re releasing Project updates to everyone, alongside enhancements to our Slack and Inbox notifications.

Project updates are short status reports that keep everyone informed about the progress and health of your projects. They appear directly on the Roadmap and your team’s Projects page, giving you a clear and structured overview of all of your projects.

These updates can also be shared to Slack, which we recommend as an easy, lightweight way to keep teammates and stakeholders updated. Slack notifications for project updates can be configured at the workspace, team, and project levels.

For your workspace, set all project updates to post to a single Slack channel. We recommend using a dedicated channel to reduce noise. We use #product-updates as the channel name internally. Configure this in workspace project updates settings.
At the team level, send project updates to the same Slack channel where you send issue-related notifications. Configure this in team notification settings.
At the project level, post project updates to the dedicated Slack channel where other project notifications are sent. Configure this in project settings by clicking the bell icon from any project page.

We recommend project leads post updates at a regular cadence to keep everyone up-to-date. At Linear, we share project updates once a week. Reminders can be set up for project leads at a specified cadence and weekday under workspace project update settings. These will be sent out for all ongoing projects, but project leads can opt-out or pause reminders on a per project basis.

Get started right now by posting an update to any of your ongoing projects.

Teams page

We are rolling out a new Teams page, which you can access from the sidebar when your workspace has multiple teams. This page replaces the collapsible Other teams section with an overview of all teams that are part of your Linear workspace and their status. Additionally, you can now sort the Your teams section in the sidebar. Drag and drop them into any order you prefer.

Teams you have joined will always be available in the sidebar for quick access, just as before. You can still access other team’s issues and views by clicking into the team from the Team’s page. This will open up an Exploring section in your sidebar, under which you’ll see the active team. Favorite views from teams you’re not part of if you’d like them to be easily accessible from your sidebar.

If you don’t see a Teams page yet, stay tuned as we roll it out to everyone over the next few weeks.

CSV export for views

It is now possible to export issues as a CSV report from any view, including team, project, cycle, and custom made views. From the view, type Cmd/Ctrl K and search for the export action. You’ll find the action in the drop-down menu, too, if the view has one. The file will be saved to your local file system as soon as the export is finished.

Fixes & Improvements

[API] We’ve started enforcing our GraphQL API rate limits for personal API keys. For more information check out our documentation on rate limits.
[API] History entries can now be queried with trashed issues
Fixed a formatting bug causing some Slack notifications to not be delivered
Admins can now adjust the teams a guest has been invited to before the invite is accepted
The clarity of language in notifications for due dates has been improved
Custom protocols are now supported in issue attachments. It is now possible to attach URLs starting with http, linear, slack, obsidian.
Fixed a problem where archived cycles would not correctly calculate their metrics
The team menu now has more functionality, such as changing visibility and delete. We also added icons to make it easier to quickly scan the menu
We‘ve added an Unread status to project notifications along with the option to only show unread updates in the feed
Fixed padding issues on modal issue views on mobile devices
Improved the animation for several popover menus
Issues not completed during the cycle are now displayed above those that were completed when viewing past cycles
Pressing the ↓ key in an issue title field now focuses the description field
Template settings pages now show when and by whom a template was last updated
Fixed an issue where some favorites would not be correctly removed when removing the target of the favorite
Copy link in Loom embeds now works in the desktop application
Fixed some newer emojis sneaking into branch names
Fixed an issue where some reactions would be added to comments while the emoji picker was not opened
Fixed a problem with sub-issues shortcuts in split view (Inbox and Triage)
Fixed inaccuracies in the project completion graph when issues were recently completed or canceled
If a workspace requires signing in with SAML, but you use another method, we‘ll now guide you to the correct login URL
Improved order of @mention search results
Fixed an issue where you couldn‘t select project and issue notifications at the same time in the inbox using the keyboard
You can now filter your workspace members settings list by guest status
Added a button to rotate the Airbyte integration API key
Fixed an issue when the Edit issue shortcut didn‘t focus on the description field properly
Fixed an issue where hitting Return would not move between the title and description fields on templates
Fixed an issue where undefined could appear in the title when creating an issue from a Slack bot user
Multiple fixes to notifications for comment @mentions: removing mentions will only remove the notifications for that specific comment. If the user has a mention in another comment in the same issue that notification will no longer be deleted. We also now notify users of mentions that were added during a comment edit
You can now have up to 500 notifications in the Inbox
Added notifications on mentions in project updates
Fixed default role for invitations to organizations without any subscriptions. It now correctly shows Admin
We now better retains focus in lists after removing items
Fixed a problem when old issues were being re-opened by new PRs if the GitHub repository was reset
The Jira link integration will now correctly map completed statuses in Linear to those in Jira in more cases
Clicking the Issue ID on issue pages will now copy the ID to the clipboard
Workflow description is now shown in a tooltip when the group header is hovered
Fixed which team is selected as default for new issues on multi-team project pages
Fixed linked commit formatting on activity view
Fixed an issue where opening the contextual menu in the Inbox would clear the selection

Guest accounts

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:00:00 GMT

Guest accounts

Previously, the only way to limit visibility within your Linear organization was to create private teams. We’ve now added another option to limit team visibility: guest accounts.

This team role is ideal for contractors or other workspace members who should only have access to a subset of Linear teams. Guests have full access to team information for all teams which they have joined, including viewing and creating projects as well as creating, editing, and commenting on any issues. They will not be able to see or discover any other teams in the workspace or have access to those issues. Guests can be part of one or multiple teams.

Read more about inviting guests here. Guests are paid seats and are available on any of our paid plans.

Fixes & Improvements

Customers on our Plus plan are now able to configure SAML SSO for their workspace themselves
Project updates will now be sent to workspace and project Slack channels if both are configured
Fixed an issue where a notification would report the wrong issue creator
Projects are no longer moved to Started when issues inside of them are started or completed. You’ll have to manually set the project status to Started.
Fixed a problem where you could not set the upcoming cycle as an active cycle, even when an active cycle did not exist
Fixed the priority issue sorting in multi-team custom views
Added additional information about a cycle in the cycle sidebar: cycle name, status and dates
Added Current user as an option for the Subscribers issue filter
Fixed a bug where the button to apply templates to documents didn’t show up
Fixed a bug where the sub-issue title would be prepopulated with the issue of a previously created issue
Fixed formatting issues in Slack when mentioning user groups
Fixed an issue where the Connect GitHub button was shown to non admins
Migration assistant for Jira will not fail anymore if any of the users have invalid email address

Project Updates Preview

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:41:44 GMT

Project Updates [Preview]

We are introducing a brand new concept in Linear called Project Updates. These are short status reports that keep everyone informed about the progress and health of your projects.

Project Updates consist of two components:

A health indicator that provides a high-level signal of the current state of your project.
A rich text description for more in-depth information on the progress of the project.

Project Updates appear directly on the Roadmap and your team’s Projects page, giving you a clear and structured progress overview of all of your projects at a single glance.

You can also automatically share updates to Slack for enhanced visibility. Add these notifications and customize which Slack channel they go to in Slack integration settings.

Project Updates can be posted by any member of the project. We recommend a weekly cadence for these updates to keep everyone up-to-date. To help you get into the habit of posting updates regularly, project leads can set up reminders that show up in their inbox at a specified interval.

When subscribing to personal notifications for a project, you can now choose to receive notifications for issue and project updates or just project updates if you only want to know how the project is doing. Update your project notifications by selecting the bell icon in individual projects.

Enable and configure Project Updates and reminders in Project Updates Settings. We are still working on the last tweaks to this feature and would appreciate any feedback to help make it the best it can be. Watch this video to learn more about project updates and feel free to let us know what you think by sending us a message (? in the app) or in our community Slack.

Grouping and Ordering for My Issues

We added new grouping and ordering view options on the My Issues page.

My Issues was built as a curated view meant to display your most important and relevant issues. It did not let you adjust grouping or ordering and instead ranked issues based on our custom grouping algorithm that puts issues such as blocking and urgent ones at the top of the list. It also only supported list view.

We’ve turned this curated view into a grouping called Focus, which remains the default grouping for My Issues. You can additionally group issues by status, priority, project, and cycle as you can in any other view in Linear. When issues are grouped by status, priority, project or cycle, you can enable the board layout. You can also choose whether you want to see sub-issues in the view and if you want to see issues that were completed a long time ago.

Workspace Applications

We know that access and data controls are important, so admins on the Plus plan will now see a new Applications page in settings. You can review and manage which third-party applications have been installed and have access to your workspace from this page. You will also be able to see who has granted access to these applications. We have additional improvements planned in this space soon.

Fixes & improvements

You can now connect multiple GitHub organizations to your Linear workspace through the pull request integration
It’s possible to mention projects in comments and descriptions using the “+” prefix
Added a confirmation when navigating away from the New issue page
Tweaked the color of hovered/active rows in the light theme to add more contrast
Fixed a bug where hidden columns would not work correctly when switching between different groupings
The naming of issue related actions (change/set estimate, change/set priority, etc) is now more consistent
Drafts for sub-issues are now automatically saved when navigating away, and users will be prompted before cancelling a sub-issue draft
You can now duplicate views. When viewing a custom made view, open the command menu (Cmd/Ctrl K) and then search for the duplicate view action.
Improved the default values applied when creating new issues so that they more often match issues already visible on the screen
When issues are converted to a project, all issue subscribers become project subscribers
Updated the notification settings layout with sub-sections
We’ve removed the creator as the default assignee when creating issues from Slack
We now automatically disconnect the GitLab integration and notify admins when access is forbidden
Fixed branch name generation for issues containing semicolons
[API] Notification actor is available in the GraphQL API

Sub-issues Improvements

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:58:22 GMT

Sub-issues improvements

Sub-issues have received a major upgrade and now include features like bulk selection, templates, duplicating a parent and its sub-issues, turning checklists into sub-issues, adding existing issues and even converting to a project.

Learn more about sub-issues in our short video guide.

Airbyte Integration

With the new Airbyte integration you can load your Linear data into any data warehouse, lake or database in minutes. Create custom analytics and dashboards for your company and update it on any schedule through Airbyte.

This integration is available to users on the Linear Plus plan.

Quick access to team-specific Views

We added a new Views link to the Team section of the sidebar. Views is the place where you can find all custom views that have been shared within that respective team. By adding it to the sidebar, you’ll get faster access to all the Views that are most relevant for you and your team.

Fixes & Improvements

Parent issue is preserved when duplicating a sub-issue
Fixed a problem where you could see two toasts informing that there’s a new version of Linear
Zoom button on Roadmap page is extracted out view options dropdown.
Added new action to create a sub-issue from a template
You will now see a welcome message when opening the Linear Slack integration’s message tab for the first time
Upcoming cycle has a consistent link /team/cycles/upcoming
Sub-issue template selector has search input if there are many templates
You can now join any team directly from the command menu
Fixed hiding columns grouped by priority in board view
Fixes an issue when user tries to archive already removed notification
Grouping by priority now includes all priorities, including empty ones.
Documents can now be edited directly inline, and we removed the separate document edit mode
Fixed a bug where status groups would be incorrectly ordered in multi-team views
Each team’s section in the sidebar have a new link to see all views shared with this team
Fixed an issue where vertical lines for months and weekends would not be visible anymore on the timeline
Renamed titles in issue’s history can now be selected
Non-bold text pasted from Google Docs will no longer be bold.
Fixed an error that could happen when starting to edit an issue description, causing a keypress to be lost
A separate board link in the sidebar is removed in favor of the list/board toggle in all team views
Typing the slash command /linear help in Slack will now provide you with helpful information about the Linear Slack integration
Fixed a problem that could potentially make clients drop into offline mode and not try to recover from it
Grouping by cycle now includes all cycles for the selected teams, including empty cycles.
Scrollbars now have the correct appearance in dark themes
There’s now a button to go to the assignee from the issue details pane
Fixed a problem where checking checkboxes in issues and comments would either not save correctly or not propegate to other users.
Fixed a problem where figma embeds would not correctly get a preview image
Fixed a bug that would cause navigation confirmation prompts when navigating from issues with Figma embeds
Improved app startup performance
Fixed an issue where an issue draft would get lost if you resized your screen

Integration directory

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:00:38 GMT

Integration directory

We made a decision early on to share our API publicly and prioritize support for creators using it. This has made it easy for companies to integrate Linear with their existing workflows and favorite tools as well as build Linear integrations for their customers. Creators in our community use the API, webhooks, and OAuth to build internal automations and apps, public integrations, and the occasional side project..

This week, we’re launching the Linear Integration Directory, which features the most popular add-ons and integrations that you can use with Linear. Search for your favorite applications or scroll through the categories to discover new tools. You can also build your own and submit to the directory.

Fixes & Improvements

Added the ability to create a sub-issue from a comment
Workspace labels can now be added to workspace issue templates
Currently selected text will be used to prefill title in fast issue creation
It’s now possible to toggle the hardware (GPU) acceleration off for the desktop app
Improved the action to subscribe/unsubscribe to issues when targeting multiple issues
Fixed an issue using Google sign-in when Linear is installed to the iOS homescreen
Fixed a bug where the formatting toolbar would be unusable in the contact support dialog
Now uses correct color to highlight inline editing fields
Fixed a bug where an issue limit exceeded warning would show up for users who did not exceed their limit
Fixed command menu focus in combination with inline editing
Fixed a bug where creating an issue from the full page failed
Ctrl Enter now saves and exits when editing a description
Filter components now show up immediately upon page load
Fixed an issue where Intercom links didn’t properly link to issues
Fixed the A11Y label for the favorite button
Improved keyboard navigation for sub-issues

Inline editing

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:47:40 GMT

Inline editing

Editing and creating issues should be as fast and seamless as possible, so now we are introducing inline editing, which means that you can edit the issue title and description directly on the issue page. Just click on the issue description or title to start editing. Your changes are saved automatically.

We also updated the full-screen issue creation view with support for changing teams and applying templates, just like in the issue creation modal.

These changes are rolling out to all users over the coming days.

Fixes & Improvements

The navigation sidebar can now be toggled with Cmd/Ctrl \ or from the command menu on smaller devices
Fixed a bug where milestones would show up on the roadmap unexpectedly
Fixed a bug where the next notification wouldn’t be selected after one notification was deleted
Fixed a bug where the columns in the roadmap list view would resize incorrectly
Fixed a bug causing issues to not be moved to the proper state when a draft PR was opened
We fixed an issue where selected checkboxes were hard to see on some themes
It’s now possible to get “new issue” URLs for workspace templates
Improved the Issue Migration Assistant to support importing a larger number of issues (>10k)
Added a team setting that lets you choose if issues added or moved to a column go to the bottom or top
Improved performance of long comments threads rendering
Fixed a problem where an admin wasn’t able to access the settings of a team they were removed from until a refresh
Fixed mentions and emoji suggestions overflowing the screen when opened too close to an edge
Dragging over to a favorite folder now auto-expands to allow easier placement inside
Customers can now pay via ACH direct debit in the U.S. and SEPA in Europe (reach out to billing@linear.app)
Reactions can now be undone and redone
Fixed an issue where moving up/down while viewing an issue using keyboard shortcuts would not persist after a refresh
When loading up the issue page as the first page, layout better preserved
Updated the new toolbars design across all views
Clicking the + button on issue status rows on views with multiple teams will now immediately open the issue creation modal
Linking a draft GitHub pull request to an issue will now move the issue to the draft PR state even if the issue has already been started
Added the ability to switch between cycles and custom views by holding ⌘ and then clicking on the name of the cycle or view
Fixed an issue where pressing Enter from the sub-issue title did not move to the description field
Added support for Unicode 14.0 emojis 🫠

Combined Board and Issue view

Thu, 26 May 2022 20:16:00 GMT

Combined Board and Issue view

As part of streamlining the sidebar, we have combined the team Board and Issue views. We have removed the Board view option and now let you switch between board and list layouts in the Issue view by toggling the buttons in the top right corner. You can also switch layouts using the Cmd/Ctrl B shortcut. This works for any view that supports boards, including Active issues, Backlog, and custom views.

To make the board the default layout for a team or custom view, toggle the layout to board and then open view options and select Set as default. Anyone visiting that view in your workspace will now see the board view (and any other options you’ve configured).

You can now also use grouping in view options to group your board issues by status, assignee, project, priority and cycle. The default grouping for the Backlog view is by priority to help with backlog prioritization.

Triage issues in views

Triage issues are now available in project, label, user, and custom views as well as the All issues view. Previously, we excluded triage issues from these views unless you filtered for that specific workflow status. To show or hide triage issues in those views, simply open view options and toggle the button. Most of the time, you won’t want to show triage issues in other views until they’ve been reviewed and updated, but in some cases it’s good to show them so that they don’t get lost in the mix.

Templates and labels for Slack

We’ve made a few large improvements to our Slack integration. If your team has a default template set, the issue creation modal will be pre-filled with that template when you create an issue using the /linear command. If there are different templates set for team members and non-members, the app will choose the template based on the issue creator’s team membership. You can now select labels for your issues along with the existing issue fields. We’ve also improved our search results when querying for issue fields such as assignee, labels, and team name from Slack.

Fixes & Improvements

[API] Fixed a server error when querying webhooks without a label
Fixed a problem that could cause clients to crash at startup
Team labels can now be converted to workspace labels
Fixed a bug where issue defaults could be incorrect after navigating between custom views
Issues created from the empty state on “Active issues” now default to an active status
Items in our RSS feeds are no longer duplicated
Controls for snoozed issues are now shown in full screen
Favoriting the active or upcoming cycle now dynamically links to the correct cycle
The toolbar has a new design across all views
Navigating to team settings now ensures the navigation items are visible in the sidebar
Improved the format of the Discord /linear wrap command
Fixed an issue where the offline badge would be shown when there were a large number of outstanding transactions
Submitting a subissue with ⌘ Shift Enter will now copy all properties to a new draft
Middle click/⌘click in the desktop app now opens a new window correctly
Fixes an issue where quoting identifiers in search would return more results than if you didn’t use quotes
We now correctly distinguish between MR open and MR review request in the GitLab integration and move the issue to the corresponding issue status
Using the migration assistant for Jira or Shortcut will now import comments. Additionally, you can now import comments when using the migration assistant without adding or inviting the users that made the comments
Issues created from Slack will now include message content in the message link
Project roadmap no longer renders progress graphs. To quickly see the progress, press Space to peek into project details
The Zendesk integration now supports embedding internal notes from Problem tickets
When grouping a view by project, assignee, or cycle, you can now click on the group header to open a corresponding project, user, or cycle
Added support for preserving Jira ticket numbers when importing data to a new team
Fixed a bug causing Shortcut imports to sometimes be missing issues
Fixed an issue where team priority sort order preference was not respected in custom views
Fixed an issue where the placeholder text was not removed when uploading an image into an otherwise empty issue
Project links now show a more relevant icon based on the link URL
Slightly optimized application idle CPU usage
Added a Created tab on the user page where you can find all issues created by a specific user
Fixed a problem where viewing the billing page would incorrectly update the billing email address to the email address of the current user
Added the ability to switch between cycles and custom views by holding ⌘ and clicking on the title
Archived projects are now correctly shown in search results
Added ability to save custom view options as default for every user

Discord integration

Thu, 05 May 2022 19:34:00 GMT

Discord integration

We want to make it as fast and easy as possible to track your team’s ongoing work with Linear. Discord has increased in popularity especially among Linear’s web3 customers and today we’re excited to add it to our growing list of integrations.

We’ve included three commands in the integration. With the /linear issue command you can create new issues directly from Discord and they will be automatically linked to the channel where the issue was created. Use the /linear search command to quickly search for Linear issues from Discord and display a quick overview of the issue in channel. The /linear wrap command will provide you with a summary of your in progress and completed issues for the day, allowing you to keep your team up to date.

Once the Discord integration is enabled, you will also be able to link any Discord message to an issue from Linear. Go to your workspace settings to enable the integration, or read more about the integration in our documentation.

Fixes & improvements

Optimized local client database usage for large workspaces
Added a preference to change the text size in the app
Fixed a bug with the Shortcut migration assistant causing issues to be imported from multiple workflows
Fixed a problem where some menus would have too much padding
Fixed a bug where checkboxes in menus would not render correctly
Fixed an error when trying to accept a triage tickets into another team and assigning a label
Fixed API error when querying for comments that are not associated with a user
It’s now possible to display characters that are normally interpreted as markdown within inline code
Improved margin around uploaded emoji
We now show a toast after moving an issue from triage
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to navigate to bold links in the desktop app
--, ->, <-, and ... will no longer be replaced with ligatures when typing in code blocks
Added ability to change completed issues visibility on users’ page
Improved drag’n’drop in Board view
Pasting links over selected text will no longer create embeds
Searching for issues from Intercom will now use our new, improved search

Search

Thu, 28 Apr 2022 18:54:00 GMT

Search

We’ve spent the last couple of months rebuilding search from the ground up. The UI has been refined. We’ve improved how we display results as well as the accuracy, for instance for words split with / or _. You can now reliably use "phrase matching", -negative keywords AND boolean operators in your search queries.

Not only that, but results will show comments, documents, and projects as well as issues.

Emoji Icons

We’ve learned that some of our customers are heavy emoji users so we’ve added the ability to set emojis as icons for teams, projects, and custom views. You can even upload custom emoji, individually or by importing emoji from Slack (find this option in workspace settings) to give your Linear a more personal touch.

Feature pages

Still need to convince your team to finally make the switch over to Linear? We just added a brand-new set of Product Pages to our website with an extensive list of all of Linear’s features and product specifications. Already convinced your team to make the switch? You might discover new features you haven’t used yet (or just enjoy some of the little design details we sprinkled on top of the page ✨).

Fixes & improvements

The Zapier integration has been updated to support paginated fetching of users, labels
New application icon for Windows client
Added a new tabs section on the Views page to simplify browsing long lists
Fixed a bug where the issue create modal would stay open after an issue had been created
Fixed a data discrepancy problem with teams that have large number of issues
Fix the keyboard shortcut for assigning projects in the issue create modal
Fixed a crash that could happen during startup
Fixed some bugs in search term highlighting that would mix up words
We now display the full due date in lists and boards
The Create more toggle while creating issues will now retain the previously applied template, if any
API: Fixes an error when attempting to load teams for a user without any team memberships

Project backlog & grouping

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:30:00 GMT

Project backlog & grouping

Today we’re introducing the project backlog. We want to make it easier to structure, prioritize, and plan upcoming projects inside of Linear – to build a place where ideas grow into fully planned projects.

The project backlog provides a great overview of your project ideas, along with the tools you need to plan and prioritize your upcoming work. We also added a new view where you can find a complete list of past, current, and future projects.

It’s now also possible to group projects in your roadmap by status, project lead, milestone, or no grouping at all.

Favoriting default views

We’ve added the ability to favorite all default team views, giving you easy access to the views that you use frequently and greater control of your sidebar. To favorite your teams’ backlog, active issues, all issues, board, active cycle, upcoming cycle, or triage views, just click the star. If you have a lot of favorites, try our new favorite folders feature to organize them. Combined with favoriting custom views, projects, cycles, and issues, this change makes Linear fit your workflow even better.

OAuth Actor Authorization

By default, all Linear API authentication methods treat the authenticating user as the API actor. Most of the time this is fine and each user has to authorize their own access.

Linear now also supports OAuth Actor Authorization which allows performing certain API actions as the application instead of the user authorizing the application. To enable the actor authorization, add the actor=application parameter to your OAuth authorization URL. The setting is tied to the authorization and its access token. In this mode, all created issues, comments, and linked attachments will be created as the application.

In addition to creating resources as applications, you can also add an optional user name to go with the application to have it rendered in “User (via Application)” format. This will help identify the user that performed the action via the 3rd party system.

Fixes & improvements

Zapier integration has been updated to support paginated fetching of users, labels and other Zap triggers. Issues and comments are also now created as the Zapier application instead of the user authorizing the application.
Applying a template after drafting an issue will now append instead of overwrite
Shortcut migrations will now properly import stories that are not part of a project
Project status icons have a new hexagonal design
Improved the planned project status icon to be consistent with issue status icon design (thanks for the feedback, Diogo)
Removing an issue from a project will now also remove its sub issues
Fixed incorrect dates in Google Sheets exports that could be one day early
Fixed an issue where the desktop app was not draggable if your inbox was empty
Fixed the issue detail pane not updating the correct issue when editing properties
Website navigation is now more accessible for keyboard users
More actions can be successfully completed while offline
Triage and Inbox navigation buttons now work on smaller screens
Pressing Esc will no longer navigate the issue view when an image is expanded
Archived issues can now be updated immediately after being restored
Issue activity now displays the status the issue was changed from
Desktop navigation is re-enabled for the Windows desktop app
Fixed drag-n-drop to empty columns (no priority, no assignee, etc)
Creating issues from the My Issues page will automatically mark you as the assignee

Hackweek

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:52:00 GMT

Hackweek

Every so often we run a hackweek at Linear. For a few days, we put down product work and build out smaller features, improvements, or ideas. This hackweek’s theme was Magical Moments, but you could work on whatever you wanted, in teams or solo, with the goal of improving the product, creating customer delight, or building something for the team.

VS Code extension

Our Linear Connect extension makes it easy to build other VS Code extensions by providing an authentication provider that takes care of the OAuth flow to the Linear API. You usually won’t use or install that extension on its own, but rather as a dependency in another extension.

To show you how easy it is, we built an extension called Linear Open Issue that opens the current Linear issue based on the Git branch you’re on. Give it a spin!

Easter eggs

Magic tricks sometimes require a secret spell and these hackweek projects are no different. Some hackweek projects have already been released but are hiding deep down in a corner of the Linear app waiting to be discovered. A magic trick stops being magical once you know how it works, so we won’t tell you where to find them but we’ll give you a little hint: open any issue and then try Konami code 🤫.

Other hackweek projects are still in flight and will trickle into the app over the next few weeks. You’ll see more accessibility improvements, some sparkle to the website, and a long-awaited integration.

New Select component

We rebuilt our Select component that is used across all views in Settings. This new implementation uses Radix primitives under the hood. Using this library made our select components compatible with W3C accessibility requirements, enhanced keyboard support for navigating between select items, and made all selects to match a currently selected interface theme. More accessibility improvements are coming, stay tuned.

Cycle iconography

We improved the iconography for cycles. They now better represent their cyclical nature and progress can be more easily tracked with the new icons. We added these progress icons to titles and cycle pages, so you can see how your cycle is going with a quick glance.

API change: Improved upload asset security

Not related to hackweek, we’re making a change to how uploaded images are accessed to improve Linear’s security. So far we relied on obfuscated high-entropy URLs to secure uploaded assets. On April 20th we’ll start requiring authentication for opening any Linear hosted assets for API users on uploads.linear.app. If you display comment or issue images in your system, you’ll need to pass the same API authentication headers to access the images as you would when making a GraphQL API call. We expect this to have a minimal impact for the majority of Linear’s API users.

Fixes & improvements

[API] Fixed incorrect historic calculations of cycles that have issues with 0 estimates
[API] Fixed filtering using a null-constraint within an OR logical operator
Workspace security settings have been moved from the “Members” section into their own section accessible for workspace admins
Triage issues will now appear in the “My issues” view
Added the Cmd+Shift+’ shortcut to copy issue title
Project name input is now always correctly focused when opening the create project dialog
Milestones can now be deleted even if there are projects in them
Added an option to select a custom date for snoozing notifications
Fixed display of GitHub linkbacks messages when containing HTML characters
You can now search for an assignee from the Slack integration issue creation or assign dialogs with only two characters
If an issue has multiple attached open pull requests, the issue will only be moved to the review status when the last pull request is marked as in review
Improved accessibility of custom select components
Fixed a regression in application startup performance for many workspaces
Our PWA now uses the new desktop icon
It’s now possible to format message when contacting Linear support from the application
Failing to open mail links will now offer to copy the email address to your clipboard
Fixed an issue where changing checkboxes in a document wouldn’t be saved
Adding issue attachments on mobile will no longer cover the available options with the software keyboard
Improved background colors for code blocks in issue descriptions & comments
Improved behavior when converting plain text into a code block
Embed links will no longer expand inside of code blocks
Project graphs are now not drawn when the project has been started and completed within the same week
We fixed some text mysteriously going missing when pasting from issues as plain text in other apps
Fixed an issue that might have made the client think that issue archive transactions were hanging for a long time
Fixed a regression where assignees would not be correctly subscribed to the issue
We now use consistent emoji fonts across the application
Cycle and progress icons now display the progress more clearly
Fixed an issue where you could not initiate an action immediately on closing a modal
Pull requests will no longer be linked with issues on close if they were not already linked with an issue
Fixed “Add to cycle” when issues from multiple teams are listed
Improved rendering performance in desktop app
Linear onboarding is now better optimized for mobile devices
Improved validation of URLs when creating attachments
It’s now possible to toggle the transparent sidebar from the Cmd/Ctrl+K menu
Status filter now only includes issue statuses that are part of the view
More icons and images across the app have alternative text
Fixed some places where styles differed in the issue template editor
We improved the search results surfaced inside of Front when linking an issue

Favorite folders

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:00:00 GMT

Favorite folders

We’ve added folders to your Favorites section to keep it tidy and well-organized. You’ll see the option to create a folder by hovering over the word Favorites in your sidebar. To add favorites to a folder, open the folder and then drag and drop them in. You can open favorites from your sidebar or with the shortcut O then F.

Fixes & Improvements

Zoomed images inside of modals can once again be closed with a click
Introduced a new tab component. Tabs are both nicer to look at and more A11Y friendly.
Fix where moving an issue to another team would redirect to an unrelated issue
When navigating to an issue, keyboard shortcuts for scrolling work automatically
Improved the cycle order when grouping by cycle
It is now possible to add links to authenticated URLs onto issues
Stale issues with a future due date will no longer be automatically closed after the configured time period
Lists and ordered lists can now be changed into to-do lists automatically
Webhooks will now be correctly sent when a project is deleted
Improved the styling of sidebar popovers when transparent sidebar is enabled
Fixed an issue where users imported from JIRA could have invalid email addresses on account
[Front integration] It’s now possible to reload and logout from Front integration when error messages are displayed
Errors when writing operations to the local database will no longer fail the entire operation if the client is online
Fixed an issue with the GitHub commit integration moving issues that had already been completed back to the merged status
Increased contrast for banners in the sidebar
Workspace labels are now available in the Intercom integration
Fixed shortcuts to move items between columns when board isn’t grouped by workflow state
Our README page tells a new story in a fresh coat of paint
Keyboard shortcut D has temporarily been added back for deleting inbox notifications as we research other options
Esc key to exit image zoom no longer also exits an open modal at the same time
Fixed an issue where scrollbars could be rendered over the content
Documentation search will now automatically open when ?q is part of the URL
Changed position and labels of the Save and Reset buttons in view preferences
The Set parent issue action is now performant in organizations with many issues
Fixed issue where a duplicate workspace URL wasn’t handled correctly when creating a new workspace

New desktop app

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:02:00 GMT

New desktop app

We released a new version of our desktop app. In addition to under-the-hood updates, we’ve made visual changes to the application and other small updates to make the app feel more native-like. This includes a translucent sidebar for macOS, which can be customized in account settings. To celebrate the release, we worked with @Gavmn to create a new icon.

You can download the app here if you haven’t already. Existing users should receive the update automatically.

Improved board navigation

We’ve added more keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to move issues on the board view. We already supported moving issues to the top or bottom of a column with ⌥ ⇧ ↑ and ⌥ ⇧ ↓. Now you can also move issues one position up or down with ⌥ ↑ and ⌥ ↓. To move issues between columns, use ⌥ → and ⌥ ←. These keyboard shortcuts work to move a single issue or groups of issues.

Help Center

We’ve upgraded the help center to make it easier to find and access information when you need it. To open the help center, press ? from anywhere in the app or by typing help in the command line. It will bring up a sidebar with a search box and three key sections: articles from the Linear Guide (our user documentation), workspace and team settings links, and keyboard shortcuts related to your help center search. We pre-fill the results on some views, for example, showing you cycle-related articles and shortcuts when you open the help center while viewing cycles. From here, you can also access links to go to the Slack community, view the changelog, and send us a message.

Fixes & improvements

Added ability to copy URLs of multiple issues in the clipboard
Improved performance of the command menu
Improved the look and feel of code snippets across our website
Ordering and grouping issues by status now have issue states sorted in the same order
Duplicating an issue in a team with a default template no longer displays the default template instead
Fixed a problem with actions being triggered while modal views are open
Fixed a problem where filtered cycles were not pre-selected cycle when creating an issue
Fixed the users’ suggestions popup logic to show only active team users
Fixed missing prompt message when closing a new issue with pre-filled data
Fixed the notifications email digest being sent too frequently
Fixed a bug where project board views would show statuses from other teams
Fixed parsing of code blocks when creating a new Linear issue from a Slack message
Fixed a bug causing issue imports of stale issues to appear not imported with comments
Active issues created from Slack will now be properly added to the team’s active cycle if that setting is enabled
Clarified the pricing structure of paid Linear plans
More images across the documentation, changelog, and blog now display alternate text
Fixed duplicate actions sometimes appearing
Disabled git integration settings for non-admin users
Fixed a bug that caused issue creation through Sentry to fail if no priority was set
Fixed a bug where the app could use a lot of CPU
Fixed triage issue snoozing
Clicking the button to upload files will no longer remove focus from the input
Added possibility to copy a list of issues as a markdown list
When a comment is edited and a mention to a user is added, that user is now correctly subscribed to the issue
When searching for issues in an action, issues with quotes and other special characters in their title will now be matched more accurately
You will no longer lose item focus in list view when performing actions
⌘ ← and ⌘ → history navigation events no longer fire while text inputs are focused in the Mac app
Find more information across our website navigation
Teams in context menus are now filterable by their identifier
Improved the transition-animation of the command menu
When moving multiple issues, the Toast now links the issues that were moved and the team that the issues were moved to
Linear is hiring to bring magic back to software through our new Careers page
Setting due dates on issues is now undoable
You can now assign workspace labels via the “Add labels...” action to multiple issues from different teams
Toasts won’t close as long as you hover them with your cursor
Images across our website load significantly faster
Fixed a sync problem that would occur under specific circumstances and could get clients out of sync
Updated notification wording to make it more clear when issues were auto-closed by Linear
Added support for yaml and xml in code blocks
[Zapier] Added priority filtering for new and updated issue triggers
[Zapier] Fixed setting issue priority on the create issue action
[API] Empty teams will no longer mistakenly return members
[API] Exclusive filters will now also match null references
[API] Error messages for invalid queries are now more versatile and consistent
[API] User queries now support filtering by active and admin properties
[API] Fixed an issue where issues created with a cycle but no status would be removed from the cycle

Sidebar update

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:26:00 GMT

Sidebar update

Last week, we pushed out changes to the sidebar navigation which added team icons and sub-menus, with the goal of making it easier to navigate team views. This improved the experience for many users, but added more steps for users who frequently navigate to views such as the board and backlog. We like to ship fast but realized we moved a bit too quickly this time, so we spent the last few days iterating on the design to improve the experience for those users.

The improved design features team icons but brings back views that were moved to sub-menus. You can once again access any view in the sidebar in one click. We’re still working on additional improvements. Watch out for them in future changelogs and please keep sending us your feedback. We’re listening.

Conversation previews

When debugging, it’s often helpful to refer to the original user report. It can contain key details for identifying the problem. It also makes it easy to contact the customer if more information is needed or to let them know that the issue has been fixed.

To make it even easier to include this information in Linear issues, we’ve added rich issue attachments to our support integrations with Front, Zendesk, and Intercom. In addition to linking to the original support ticket or conversation, we now display a modal directly in Linear with the original user request and key information such as the ticket creation date, subject line, and ticket type. We’ve kept the feature that lets you auto-fill the issue description with the user request when creating Linear issues but doing so is no longer necessary.

When linking additional support tickets to a Linear issue, we now create an activity item and display related comments directly underneath it. This makes it easier to read the comments in context and differentiate them from other comments in the issue’s activity feed.

Our API has been expanded to also support rich issue attachments. When creating attachments, you’ll be able to define a list of attributes, or messages, which will be displayed in the attachment modal. Read more in our API documentation.

Automated Sentry issues

You can now configure your Sentry integration to automatically create Linear issues based on Sentry alerts. Try it out today by creating a new Sentry alert or adding a Linear action to an existing alert. We recommend enabling Triage with this feature, so that newly created issues from Sentry will go there and can then be reviewed and prioritized by your team.

Fixes & improvements

Fixed a bug where snoozing issues in Triage also hid them in other views
Workspace admins can now delete comments from all users on paid plans
Triage view will now allow un-snoozing issues that have previously been snoozed
Fixes highlight of an active cycle sidebar item
Zendesk and Front integrations now allow including issue description through a personal preference when filing a new issue
Changes default grouping of “All issues” view to group issues by status
Fixed a bug where issues could get stuck in completed cycles
Fixed a bug causing the GitHub commit integration to sometimes fail
Fixes “blocked content” issue when attempting to embed loom videos without the “www.”
Fixed linking more than one Front conversation into an issue from within Linear
Updated icons in toast popups
Fixed an issue where the issue create modal would throw away issue drafts
Linked customer support tickets, and other links, now appear in the issue history
Fixes a problem with project summary popover not being closed when choosing project color
Fixed a bug that was causing comments to be created when attaching files to the drafted comment
Added team icons in all menus, dropdowns, and other UI elements
[API] Fixed a bug where issues created without an explicit status set would fail if the team had disabled triage
[API] Fixed passing base64 encoded images in issue description

Github commit linking

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:13:00 GMT

GitHub commit linking

Our GitHub integration just got better with the addition of the ability to trigger workflows from commit messages. Simply add magic words (e.g. closes ENG-123) to your commit messages and we’ll move the issue to In Progress when the branch is pushed and Done when the commit is merged to the default branch.

To avoid needing access to your codebase, this new functionality requires a small amount of additional setup. Admins can head over to settings to enable the feature for your team.

Inbox filters

We recently overhauled filters for issues and projects and now we’ve also added filters to the Inbox. While we encourage you to keep your Inbox clean, it can sometimes be useful to filter out notifications for a specific team, project, or priority. You can also filter by notification type. Just like when filtering issues, you can combine and modify filters.

New sidebar & team icons

We released the new sidebar design in preview a couple weeks ago and have now enabled it for everyone using Linear. We show fewer links in team sections and added sub-menus, making it easier to navigate. We also added the shortcut Alt/Option and click on a team or section name to collapse or open it. Teams now have icons which you can update in team settings. If your team name matched a keyword, we paired it with a related icon, otherwise they’ve been assigned the default icon.

SOC 2 Type II

In October we announced the completion of our SOC 2 Type I audit, an independent review which verified the effectiveness of our security controls. We are now happy to announce that we have completed the SOC 2 Type II audit, which confirms the security of our systems throughout an ongoing monitoring period.

Security continues to be a top priority at Linear. We’re committed to providing a secure and trusted environment for product teams. Thanks again to Vanta for helping us monitor our processes at all times.

You can read more about our security practices and how to receive a copy of the SOC 2 Type II report in our Security Documentation.

Fixes & improvements

Added a new shortcut ⌘ + Shift + P to set a parent issue. In the resulting list you now can also remove the relation.
Fixed inability to save a new team icon
Notifications of auto-closed issues aren’t posted as Slack notifications anymore but they are still available in the Inbox
The “Set parent issue” action is now more flexible and allows reparenting in bulk, even if some selected issues already have a parent
Triage issues are now sorted above completed issues in custom views
Fixed the alignment of badges in issue cards on the board
Fixed the inability to switch labels by clicking on a title on the label page
Fixed a missing shortcut tooltip on “Add issue...” buttons
We will now correctly show all Jira projects when setting up the Jira Link integration, and we will check for sufficient Jira permissions before allowing the integration to be created
Fixed Zendesk integration’s ticket re-opening automation to work with host mapping (custom domains)
Projects progress graphs no longer show impossibly good progress if a project is completed early
Fixed a crash when opening view options on small screens on the triage page
Fixed keyboard shortcuts sometimes targeting the parent issue while creating a sub-issue
When changing a team’s identifier and there’s a conflict with the old identifier of a different team, you can now choose to delete the old identifier
Fixed an issue where due date filters would not work correctly
The Sentry integration now allows applying workspace labels
Removed non-functional view options from inbox
Embedding a Figma link for a file (without a specific frame) no longer results in a broken image
Issues in completed cycles will now automatically move to the current cycle if they are moved to a started or unstarted status
In list view labels are now condensed into a single badge if there are too many
The shortcut O then D to open a list of documents now works everywhere
Fixed an issue where some docs were not properly displayed in suggestion search
GitHub links on PRs will now be properly formatted even if some linked issues have descriptions and others don’t
The contextual menu no longer blocks keyboard shortcuts (including browser shortcuts)
Added the ability to filter notifications in Inbox
Fixed a bug where formatting with markdown syntax could remove a space between words
Error messages are now more descriptive for issueCreate mutation failures in the API
Fixed using Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to save a document title change would not persist the change
Links in the editor are no longer broken up by bold and inline code
Fixed an issue where Escape would not navigate back on issues with Figma embeds
Project names now always show inside the bars in the roadmap timeline
Alt/Option+ click now quickly toggles read status on notifications in the Inbox
Fixed some multi-select actions in custom views
Fixed hiding columns on boards when grouping by project
Notifications now show an icon for urgent issues
Allows Cmd/Ctrl+K (and Cmd/Ctrl+R) while a contextual menu is open
Holding the Alt or Option key while opening or closing a sidebar section will now open or close any section including favorites
Remapped the delete notification action from D to Backspace. Remapped the delete read notifications from Cmd/Ctrl + D to Shift + Backspace.
Fixed text content of descriptions/documents/comments not being cleared when deleted by user

Linear preview: New sidebar & team icons

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:33:00 GMT

Preview: New sidebar & team icons

We’ve improved the design of the sidebar and condensed the immediately visible views, making it easier to navigate. Team sections now show fewer links: Issues, Projects, and when enabled Cycles and Triage. Hovering over these Issues or Cycles will show sub-menus for related views such as backlog and upcoming cycle. As a bonus, you can now Alt/Option and click on a team name or on Your teams or Other teams to expand or collapse those sections.

You may have noticed that we added new icons a few weeks ago. As part of this preview, we’ve added icons to teams. Hopefully, this will make it easier to recognize teams and give them a unique identity. You can choose any color, though we’ve gone ahead to assign icons and generate random colors for them. If your team name matched a specific keyword, we paired it with the most appropriate icon, otherwise we gave it the default icon. To differentiate team icons from project icons, the color of team icons is applied to the background of the icon.

The new sidebar design and team icons are available as a Linear Preview feature. To enable it for your workspace, ask an admin to open the command menu with Cmd/Ctrl+K and search for “Preview”.

Split View for Triage

A couple weeks ago we released Split View for Triage as a preview feature and we’ve now enabled it for everyone using Linear. The new interface for Triage allows you to view your list of issues side by side with the focused issue, making it easier and faster to go through your issues and take actions with more context.

Fixes & improvements

[API] When filtering users, you can now filter for the authenticated user using { isMe: { eq: true/false } }
[API] Fetching templates for a team now also includes workspace templates
Fixed a bug where user initials in the default avatar might be incorrect
Fixed an issue where workspace labels would get removed when an issue was moved between teams
When creating a workspace label, you can now choose to merge any team labels with the same name into the workspace label
Added a button to go back to today in the project timeline view
Added the option to filter assignee and creator by current user
Fixed a bug where the upcoming cycle filter would not work during cool-down periods
Completed states are now sorted in ascending order in lists
Issues are now un-snoozed when they’re moved out of Triage
Completed projects no longer show the current date in their completion graph
Tooltips disappear as you start typing
You can now edit project link labels and urls without first deleting them
Fixed a bug that didn’t allow relations to be added to an issue if the issue title began with the word “edit”
Tall videos now have a max display height
Double clicking ↑/↓ navigation in Inbox or Triage will no longer resize the desktop window
We improved the interactions around cutting, copying, and pasting nodes in the editor
We improved the interactions around moving and copying images in the editor
Fix roadmap projects not correctly positioned when opening the page using keyboard shortcuts.
Fixed a bug which prevented multiple notifications from being deleted or snoozed

Link with Jira

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 09:17:00 GMT

Link with Jira

If moving your whole company to Linear all at once is not feasible, or if your company prefers to gradually switch to new software, Link can help you stay informed during this adjustment period. Rather than cutting over immediately with an import, Link allows you to stay up to date with teammates using other software while you are transitioning to or trialing Linear.

Link currently supports Jira. Enable Link to connect Jira projects to Linear teams so that issues created in the project are also created and linked in Linear. Once you complete those linked issues in Linear, they will be marked completed in Jira so that your teammates stay informed of updates. You can also preview the linked Jira issue within Linear by clicking on the link. Head to Settings > Integrations > Jira Link to turn on this integration. To learn more, check out the Link docs.

Workspace labels

Many teams use the same set of labels to annotate their issues. Previously you would have to manage these labels on a per team basis, which can get unwieldy if your workspace has a lot of teams.

Now you can create workspace labels which are automatically shared across all teams.

Document templates

This month brings templating to project documents. Like issue templates, you can create project templates in settings either at the team or workspace level. For example, you could create an organization-wide template for Project Specifications.

Both issue and document templates now also include placeholders to make them easy for others to fill out. While creating or editing a template, turn text into a placeholder by highlighting it and selecting the Aa option in the toolbar.

Preview: Split view for Triage

Last month we introduced a new two column layout in the Inbox, making it easier to go through and manage your notifications. Today we’re bringing the same layout to Triage.

The left-hand column shows the list of issues. You can scroll through and take actions on issues from this list just as you could previously. The right-hand column opens up the focused issue, so that you can review and update it without moving to a new view and losing context. This should feel similar to how you experience most email application interfaces and we hope this lets you review triage issues in a more productive way.

The new Triage design is available as a Linear Preview feature. To enable it for your workspace, ask an admin to open the command menu with Cmd/Ctrl+K and search for “Preview”.

Fixes & improvements

Our changelog and blog now have RSS feeds. Subscribe at the link in the header👆
Fixed an issue that would cause some line breaks to be lost when pasting from Slack
Added the option to order issues by status
Fixed a bug where the default assignee when creating an issue was sometimes incorrect
Linking to pages on the Linear website is now possible from within app issues and comments
Improved design of filters in the light theme and filters that contain a lot of selected options
Added the ability to filter issues by project status
Fixed a bug when using tab & multi-select in lists
Duplicating an issue now opens the normal issue modal rather than opening a new page
When adding labels to issues, they will now be sorted alphabetically regardless of case
You will now be notified if navigating away from an edited comment that has not been saved
The keyboard shortcut O no longer opens an issue so as to not conflict with other actions using the O key
Fixed a bug where notifications would disappear if a user re-assigned the issue
Suspended members will no longer be shown as issue subscribers
Fixed an issue that would prevent moving closed issues to the previous cycle during a cooldown period
Todo items are no longer removed when pasting contents into an empty item
Fixed a problem where sidebar items would be focused when using keyboard shortcuts in a list
Fixed a bug that caused navigation arrows not to show after opening an issue using the keyboard
When moving issues between teams with different estimate scales, we’ll now update the issue to the closest estimate of the new scale
It’s no longer possible to lose an image upload by saving an issue before the upload is complete
Added a little easter egg
Fixed the animation in the icon palette
Fixed a crash when creating views from boards with hidden columns
Improved animation and layout of toasts
Remapped the delete notification action from D to Backspace. Remapped the delete read notifications from ⌘ D to Shift Backspace
Fixed a visual bug in Safari on suspended user avatars
Fixed a crash in inbox and a crash when searching for spaces
When creating a new workspace, we now try to automatically load the logo for the workspace
Improved performance on label and user views
Fixed an issue where Linear would use CPU resources when idle
Fixed a bug where tab presses in the issue create modal would be caught by the underlying list instead
We made it easier to copy the login code out of emails
Fixed a bug where grouping options was broken on single team project boards
Pressing Esc on project pages no longer navigates back
Tooltips on emoji reactions show up immediately
Fixed a bug where sidebar links could overflow
Fix roadmap left aside not properly aligned for project lead avatars and status icons
Added a shadow behind the “today” marker in the roadmap timeline
Fix alignment of user avatars in issue history

Roadmap filters

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:24:00 GMT

Filters for Roadmap & Projects

We recently overhauled filters for issues and now we’ve also added filters to the Roadmap and Projects pages. These filters will help you get a better view of what’s going on in your projects and refine views to just the projects you want to see. You can filter the Roadmap or team Projects pages by project name, status, teams, project lead, members and start, target, updated, and completion dates. Just like when filtering issues, you can combine and modify filters.

Placeholders for templates

We’ve upgraded issue templates to include the option to add a “placeholder” which can be easily filled out by teammates later when they use the template. To add a placeholder simply select some text when editing a template and click the aA icon in the toolbar to convert it. When a teammate uses the template, they simply need to start typing in the placeholder text area to replace it with text and relevant issue details.

Split Inbox

A couple weeks ago we released Split Inbox as a preview feature and we’ve now enabled it for everyone using Linear. The new interface for the Inbox allows you to view your list of notifications side by side with the issue related to the notification, making it easier and faster to go through your notifications and take actions with more context.

Fixes & improvements

Fixed an issue that could cause headings in context menus to be truncated
Team members already subscribed to an issue will now be shown at the top of the subscribers list
Templates can now be moved from a specific team to the workspace
Fixed size of icons in document header
Fixed a bug that would mess up the order when dragging multiple issues
The O + v keyboard shortcut to navigate to views will now also work if you only have shared views rather than created views
[API] Added case insensitive filter comparators for string filters: eqIgnoreCase, neqIgnoreCase, containsIgnoreCase, notContainsIgnoreCase
Added “not set” options to due date and completed date filters
Comments now have contextual menus for comment related actions
Creating a new label now accepts custom HEX colors when created through the command menu
Fixed bug where “Create more” issues options didn’t respect selected status in all instances
Fixed icon colors in menus
Added new icons for views and projects
Estimates in issue lists are now aligned evenly
Fix wording on due date filter to use ‘ago’ instead of ‘from now’ like other date filters
“Open in desktop app” menu items now work correctly when the app was not previously open
Improved how multiple labels are displayed on boards

Split Inbox Preview

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:34:00 GMT

Split Inbox Preview

We’ve updated the Inbox layout to use two columns. The left-hand column shows the list of issues. You can scroll through notifications, take actions on issues, and delete notifications from this list just like you could previously. The right-hand column opens up the focused issue, so that you can review the notification and update the issue without losing context or having to move back and forth from the Inbox view. This should feel similar to how you experience most email application interfaces and we hope this lets you review notifications in a more productive way.

The new Inbox design is available as a Linear Preview feature. To enable it for your workspace, ask an admin to open the command menu with Cmd/Ctrl K and search for “Preview”.

Issue templates for the Workspace

Issue templates can be used to guide creators to share information effectively and pre-fill certain fields for newly created issues.

We’ve revamped the management of issue templates. In addition to creating templates for teams, you can now also create templates for the workspace that will be accessible to all teams. We’ve also updated the UI around the creation of templates to make it easier to add and manage templates.

New Linear Guide

We’ve redesigned the Linear Guide to be more helpful to users. It also has new home at linear.app/docs.

The new design gives us more control over how we present and organize information, creates a more consistent user experience, and lays the groundwork for an expanded help center. You can browse through articles in the left-hand sidebar. All articles follow a consistent format and include a summary of keyboard, mouse, and command menu actions, configuration steps, and a clickable table of contents on the left-hand side. Search is coming soon.

Filters

A few weeks ago we released a new UI for adding filters as a preview feature. Now we have released the new filter experience to everyone. The interface for creating filters and views has been redesigned to be faster and more flexible.

With our new filters, you can now include or exclude part of a filter, control how label filters should match against issues in the view, and combine filters together to show views with all or any filters applied. To use different operators and refine queries, click on parts of the filter formula to modify it. We have also added date filters that let you match issues by when they were created, updated, completed, or when they’re due.

Fixes and Improvements

Delete is now more separated from Edit in comment menu
Fixed pasted urls containing issue IDs not creating valid links
Fixed the position of the filter menu on search page
[API] Fixed a bug that was preventing rate-limiting headers to be returned in HTTP responses.
Fixed usage of custom emoji causing emoji suggestion popover to disappear
Fixed so the active item in lists and boards is still correct when the view content changes
Developers can now force consent as part of OAuth authentication flow
It is now possible to copy the titles of multiple selected issues
Nested ordered lists in the editor now differentiate numbering
You can now refresh the preview image for Figma embeds without deleting and reinserting
Fixed a bug that prevented deleting notifications from being undone
You can open the page to download the desktop app from the command menu
Notifications can now be unsnoozed after they have been snoozed
You can now switch workspaces more easily when you are in a workspace scheduled for deletion
Fixed a bug where new issues could be added to completed cycles
Milestone names will now overflow with an ellipsis instead of wrapping to the next line
Fixed a crash when an issue had the title `.`
It is now possible to create new Views from the command menu
Fixed a problem where back ticks would remain inline when adding inline code blocks
Issue history will now show when an issue has been restored from trash
PR workflow settings have been moved from the general team settings to the team’s workflow settings
The suggestion popover in the editor will no longer erroneously appear around non-latin characters
Fixed a bug causing some webhooks to receive incorrect event types
Added tooltips to the colors in the color picker used for projects and views
Cycle badges on issue lists will now display custom cycle names
Fixed erroneous display of “Slack” as the actor in issue history when in fact it was GitLab or Sentry
If you’re signed in with multiple user accounts logging out will now only log out the current user account
Fixed a bug where issue drafts would not be preserved correctly
You can now enter @mentions with the space key
Added ability to select any date when filtering issues by date

Front integration and universal links

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:34:00 GMT

Front integration

We’re excited to add Front integration to Linear. Similar to our Zendesk and Intercom integrations, this lets you create or link existing Linear issues from Front conversations. If you’ve set up Triage for your team, then issues created in Front will show up there for your team to review and prioritize. From Front you can view more information about linked issues such as the assignee, status, and priority. We also re-open archived conversations when linked issues have been marked as completed or canceled.

The integration is build using Front’s new Links API which adds Linear links directly into Front’s conversation interface. Link one or multiple issues directly from the Linear integration in the Front app sidebar or from a Linear issue by adding the conversation URL. Enable the feature in workspace settings.

Universal links

We’re rolling out a new change that will allow you to choose to have links open in the desktop app automatically instead of opening them in your default browser. Keep an eye out for the in-app prompt to remember this setting! The preference call also be toggled under account preferences.

Fixes and improvements

Up arrow key in comments now allows editing the previous comment
The vertical line to Today on Roadmap now slowly moves as time flows
Issue suggestions with # in the editor are now smarter and easier to use
Fixed an issue that would incorrectly calculate the end-time of cycles in certain timezones during the switch from daylight saving time to winter time
Fixed a bug where the auto-close issues settings couldn’t be disabled
Updated design of popovers for related issues
Pressing Enter after : no longer always inserts an emoji 😅
Cycle indicators in issues no longer treat years as cycle numbers
Inline filtering of boards and views now persists between reloads and page transitions
Pressing Enter on a check-boxed command menu item will now de-select the item instead of closing the menu if the item hasn’t previously been toggled using space
The integration from which someone created the issue is now displayed in the issue history alongside the issue creator
Project documents now display the last user that edited them
Improved the way sub-actions are displayed in the command menu when searching for actions
Fixed a bug where shortcuts wouldn’t work after clicking a favorite link
Menus now always open sub-actions in place, instead of in the big command menu
Improved matching when searching for filter options
Fixed erroneous matching of URLs to issue identifiers in issue descriptions and comments
All filter options are now searchable in the new filters menu
Restored Escape to cancel editing issues
Improved performance of the new filter UI on large views
Current assignee name is now shown on tooltip within Issue rows
Fixed posting of linkbacks to GitLab merge requests
Fixed bug in timestamps that could display “0y ago”
[API] Fixed a bug that caused OAuth application webhooks to not update properly
[API] Optimized the execution of more complicated queries leading to faster GraphQL queries
[API] Many endpoints now validate for null values in inputs instead of responding with an internal server error

Linear Preview: New filters

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 09:15:00 GMT

Preview: New filters

Filters in Linear help you find the issues that are relevant to you. We have made filters even more powerful and flexible by re-engineering them from the ground up. We now allow more types of filters and ways to combine them. The interface for creating filters has also been redesigned to make adding filters faster and smoother. Filters also power Views, so now you can use the new filters to create any view you can think of, to save for later or share with the rest of your team.

We have also added date filters that let you match issues by when they were created, updated, completed, or when they’re due. See issue before or after a certain date or combine filters to view date ranges.

New filters are available as a Linear Preview feature. To enable it for your workspace, ask an admin to open the command menu with Cmd/Ctrl K and search for “New filters”.

Cycle improvements

Cycles are Linear’s way to timebox work into one or multi-week long blocks. We designed cycles so they’d be easy to set up and work automatically, without much manual work to maintain them. As our customers have grown, and Linear has grown with them, we received requests to have more control over cycles. Today we’re excited to introduce more controls for cycle schedules, updates, and naming, while still keeping the feature simple and automated:

When enabling cycles, you can select if the cycles should start from current week, or the next week, along with other preferences
Cycle numbering will now reset back to one if you disable and then re-enable cycles
Completed issues can now be moved to the previously completed cycle retroactively (the last cycle now shows up as a cycle option)

We also wanted to provide an easier way to name your cycles. Now if you rename and number cycles (e.g. “Week 1”), this custom pattern will be automatically replicated to upcoming cycles with increments in the number. This will make it easier to set a custom cycle naming pattern and override Linear’s default numbering.

Preview: Project docs

Since launching Roadmap, we’ve had requests for a more robust project details section. This new feature adds the ability to attach long form text documents to your projects. You can use this space to add briefs, RFCs, or write any content that’s related to your project and keep it within Linear.

Create a document with Cmd/Ctrl K by searching “document” or add one from the project details sidebar. Link to documents from issues, comments, or other documents by typing “+” then the document name.

Project documents are available as a Linear Preview feature. To enable it for your workspace, ask an admin to open the command menu with Cmd/Ctrl K and search for “Project documents”.

Fixes and improvements

Improved ESC behavior on the search page. ESC will now clear the search input field if it contains any text. Otherwise, it will navigate back.
We now display a more accurate issue source in issues that are created through the API and integrations, such as Slack, GitHub, etc.
You can now react to personal new comment notifications in your Slack DM with the Linear bot to add a reaction to the new comment. Approve the new permissions by turning your personal Slack notifications off and then back on in your settings.
Fixed a SAML login issue for the Google identity provider
“Move to cycle” action no longer adds an “Active” prefix to the active cycle
Fixed an issue where the sidebar would not always highlight the correct item
Improves navigation to cycles and triage settings in the workspace overview settings page
Fixed sidebar highlight states for the roadmap and my issues navigation elements
Fast issue editor now has better tooltips for the save button
Increased the width of the suggestion popover when mentioning an issue
The assignee options for assigning an issue from Slack will now only show members of the issue’s team
You can now select the project and status while creating a new issue from Slack
Cmd/Ctrl Enter now creates the issue instead of opening the property selector in the fast issue editor when a property has keyboard focus
Fixed a bug that could cause keyboard events in the contextual menu to be applied to the outside context
Improved startup time of the application
When checking a todo-item on an issue, we no longer create an “issue description changed” history entry
Removed team selection from sidebar’s new issue button in favor of team selection in the modal
Added better error messages when trying to delete a team from a project that has issues associated with the project
‘Select all’ and ‘Select none’ are now available commands when viewing lists and boards
Fixed layout problems with an empty archive
Branch names that refer to previous issue identifiers will now correctly create a link in GitHub and GitLab
Avatar changes are now saved automatically after uploading
Fixed a bug causing issues created from Slack to sometimes be created multiple times
Fixed an issue that could make it impossible to delete projects
Fixes an issue with archiving projects when the project contains issues with relations
Removed team selection from sidebar’s new issue button in favor of team selection in the modal
Intercom conversations will now be correctly reopened when an internal comment is posted from Linear
Slack notifications about new issues and comments for teams and projects will no longer have Linear mentions converted to Slack mentions in the issue or comment
Fixed possibility of double scrollbars appearing in lists when scrollbars are set to always visible
Inline code no longer breaks to wrap unnecessarily
Fixed a bug where the default state for creating issues would be incorrect
All application modals now use a darker background-color
Fixed the ordering on the triage page
Added some text to the “Add team” button in the project page
We no longer search GitLab MR comments for magic words to link issues, as that could lead to confusing results
The label list for the Intercom integration is now sorted alphabetically
You can now unselect a label or assignee when creating a new issue with the Intercom integration
If an OAuth application has webhooks enabled, we will now properly show that on the authorized applications page
Avatars are now correctly vertically aligned on integration setting pages
Fixed an issue where the inbox took a long time to render on a fresh client if the workspace contained a lot of issues
Moved the search button in the app sidebar
The project details sidebar design was refreshed with collapsible sections
Fixed a non-draggable area at the top of the desktop app window at small sizes
Added Cmd L shortcut to link URLs to issues. The shortcut is Alt Ctrl L on Windows to prevent conflicts
Fixed sidebar item highlighting not correctly updating when switching themes
You can now hide all completed issues in the all issues view
Removing a favorite from the sidebar is now undoable
Fixed a bug where the favorite icon on the issue page didn’t update correctly
Fixed issue where adding a backtick in the editor would lose a character when formatting as inline code
Fixed up the hover state of links in toast messages
Editor suggestions will no longer be triggered inside of links or inline code
Pressing enter now opens submenus in contextual menus
Updated Pull Request link styling in issues
Added syntax highlighting for CSS
Improved the understandability of the home view settings menu
Timeline bars will end at the end of the day
Fixed cursor jumping to issue description when creating an issue from linear.new
Buttons that trigger context menus now consistently show as active while the menu is open
Fix timeline estimate blue bars not ending at the correct date
The Google Sheets export integration now also exports the parent issue’s identifier
[API] Labels that are added to an issue are now validated to belong to the team of the issue
[API] Fixed a problem that caused ordinal fields to flip the null-filter
[API] Added new query endpoint, administrableTeams, which lists all teams that the user has admin access to

SOC 2

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:50:00 GMT

Linear has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type I audit, affirming the effectiveness of our security processes and controls.

Security has always been a top priority at Linear. We have focused on making all aspects of the service secure, including product design, server architecture, and employee access. Now, automated monitoring through Vanta and formal policies allow us to stay up to date on our security posture at all times.

For customers that wish to receive a copy of the report, please visit our Trust Center.

Faster initial app launches

We’ve optimized how we load workspace data when you access it for the first time. Large workspaces contain a lot of data and we no longer wait for all of the data to be available before letting the user interact with the application. Instead, less frequently accessed data will continue to be streamed in while the user uses the application.

This optimization can make initial app launches for large workspaces up to 10 times faster.

Fixes & improvements

Fixed a bug causing Slack actions to sometimes fail if no workspace Slack integration is installed
Imported comments will now be migrated with their original creation date rather than the time of the migration
Renamed URL based “issue attachments” as “issue links” in the UI to prevent confusion with file attachments
Fixed a bug causing the Linear GitHub bot to sometimes not post a comment with a Linear link on GitHub pull requests
Fixed erroneous matching of URLs to issue identifiers in issue descriptions and comments
The Intercom integration will correctly show an error when you attempt to link an already linked issue to the conversation
Keyboard hints are now shown on issue navigation buttons at all times
We now always preserve the title and description when switching teams while creating issues
Clarified that in order to select a custom view to be your default home view, it must be favorited
Keyboard hints are now shown on issue navigation buttons at all times
[API] It’s now possible to create a related comment when creating an issue attachment with the attachmentCreate mutation
When migrating team members, we now attempt to map imported team members to existing team members by name
The issue detail view within the Intercom integration will now include the issue’s team name
Notifications for issues created and assigned from Slack will correctly show the person who created/assigned the issue rather than “Assigned by Linear”
Fix cycle not populated correctly when creating an issue from a cycle page
Fix missing shortcuts when opening a sub-issue (or targeting the parent issue)
Fix missing shortcuts related to notification when opening an issue from the inbox
The team list for the Intercom integration is now sorted alphabetically
You can now use Slack actions with only your personal Slack notifications integration enabled
Slack actions will no longer show up in project and team notification messages if the workspace Slack integration is not enabled
Fixed a bug where having an issue draft would cause problems with the triage functionality
Fixed a problem where command menus would get cut off
Improved performance when creating and rendering custom views
Triage actions now appear at the top of the command menu
Fixed new comments not being posted to Intercom conversations as requested
Fixed a problem loading comments and issue history for issues that are moved from a private to a public team
Fixed a race condition in sync that could make clients fall out of sync under certain network conditions
Individual integration settings show enabled status more clearly, along with more information about the user who enabled it and when
Pressing / now correctly focuses the search field again
Fixed GitHub magic word matching and general issue identifier matching in text
Added a warning when labels or projects would be removed from an issue when it’s moved to another team
Fixed a few cases where the default issue state would not be applied correctly
Added a tooltip for comments in notifications in Inbox
We’ve fixed an issue with the migration assistant that could break when processing external issue descriptions for Jira
It’s now possible to use arrow keys to move between the issue title and description
Tab colors will now match your Linear theme when supported by the browser
Fixed a bug where issues might incorrectly be hidden from views if they had been closed and re-opened
Fixed visual bug in organization switcher
Improved GitHub and GitLab issue linking with magic words and fixed an issue where magic words wouldn’t be recognized in multi-line descriptions.
Improved the performance of issue editor when large code blocks are present
Long file names for attachments will no longer overflow on smaller width screens
Images in editor are now displayed as smaller thumbnails
Issue triage actions now open in large command menu
Fixed cycle end dates displayed when selecting cycle from a list.
Referencing the current issue in a comment will no longer create a relation from the current issue to itself
Relations referencing an issue from itself will no longer be created when merging issues
Added `Ctrl`+`L` shortcut to link URL to issue
Fixed a bug where issues restored from archive would be archived again the following day
Mentioning parent & child issues in comments no longer creates a relation
Admins will now be able to see and modify all issue imports
Zooming on tall images no longer causes them to extend off the bottom of the screen
If someone deletes an issue while you’re looking at it, issue history is now correctly retained

Audit log

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:18:00 GMT

Audit Log

Linear Plus plan subscribers have now access to Audit Log which tracks important security related events for your workspace. We track new sessions, changes to workspace settings, integrations and any authentication related changes. You can view recent log events from workspace settings, or query and filter them through Linear’s GraphQL API. Logs are retained for 90 days.

Audit Log is available for all Plus plan subscribers.

Fixes & improvements

Added buttons to create an issue from list group headers when grouping by cycle, project & assignee
Fixed a bug that prevented pipe characters in issue titles
Only admins are now allowed to toggle the Milestones feature
Fixed a bug in Safari where the color picker didn’t show any colors
Fixed a bug where board layout would look weird on user pages
Updated the positioning of command menus
Made the template picker easier to find
[API] Added new endpoint `issueBatchUpdate` that can be used to updated multiple issues with one request
Fixed some GitHub issue descriptions causing imports of those issues to fail
Fixed a bug where issues created in active cycles would end up in the backlog
Added a Linear Preview feature to use board layout and manual ordering with any grouping
Fixed bug where the “Active issues are required to belong to a cycle” setting would not be respected
Fixed a bug where the Comment button would not work in Safari
Fixed showing the correct issue ID in toast after issue is moved between team
Fixed a double click + right click interpreted as triple click in the editor
Fixes tab navigation in Favorites sidebar section
Improved handling of expired GitLab tokens.
Double clicking desktop titlebar now respects system preferences
Tab in a todo list now correctly nests the list item
Fixed bug in desktop app where Cmd+arrow would not work in input fields
We fixed an issue that was preventing the desktop app from updating. Please grab the latest version from our download page.
Team visibility settings have been moved from Team Members to General settings section
Added support for Clojure in code blocks
Assignees and creators will now be properly transferred over from GitHub when mapped to existing users and using the issue migration assistant
Old issue URL’s now redirect to reflect the latest issue identifier

Slack notification actions

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:28:00 GMT

Slack notification actions

We’ve made it easier to update Linear issues directly from Slack. You can now comment on an issue, assign one to a teammate, or subscribe/unsubscribe from an issue, all directly from Slack.

If you receive a Slack notification about a comment on your issue, you will be able to immediately respond via the “Comment” button on the message. You will also be able to unsubscribe or assign the issue by selecting the actions under the “More actions...” dropdown. Additionally, when an issue link is unfurled, the message will now include these actions, allowing you to respond, subscribe to or assign the issue right from the Slack message.

Fixes and improvements

When you re-assign an issue, assigned notifications for the previous owner are now deleted
Improved support for SAML with support for OneLogin
We now delete all appropriate notifications from the previous assignee
Issue assigned notifications are no longer deleted when an issue’s priority is lowered from urgent
Autocompleting an inline suggestion in the editor will no longer create two spaces after the suggestion
Autocompletion in the editor now matches text up until the cursor position, making it possible to e.g., @mention someone without first adding a space after the cursor
Relationships between issues are now copied when merging issues
Projects in the project picker menu are now sorted more intelligently
Added keyboard shortcut hints to sidebar navigation controls for desktop application
Changed highlight on a linked comment to disappear after the user clicks the page
Clicking the issue history entries timestamp now copies the link to your clipboard
API filters now truncate all dates to the closest millisecond
Fixed an issue that would prevent creating issues from Slack
Fix inline filter not focusing when opened from the command menu
Fixed a layout issue in the sidebar for long workspace names
Fix to allowing cancel in confirm step before moving issues between teams
Fix to issues where Linear’s layout shifted unexpectedly
Fixed bug where closing emoji autocomplete would try to discard the issue
Fixed when attempting to clear search input could result in a previous search term reappearing
Fixed some instances where text was not properly escaped for Slack notifications
Fixed the issue URL not being posted in a channel after an issue is created from Slack
Fixed a bug that would cause the Intercom integration not to load for very long conversations
Fixed a race condition that would allow navigating away from the editor before images had completed uploading
Fixed a bug where buttons and toggles in the issue create modal would not work correctly with the keyboard
Related issues where sometimes shown and sometimes filtered from search incorrectly, this is now fixed

Desktop Navigation

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:23:00 GMT

Desktop Navigation

Today we’re rolling out a new version of our desktop application with improved navigation controls and recent issue history navigation. These changes will bring our desktop application closer to the navigation controls found in the web version. To quickly jump between issues Recent Issue History menu displays the list of issues you accessed recently. You can also access the same list through Open Issue... shortcut O then I.

In addition to visual back and forward buttons, we also added new keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+ArrowLeft Cmd+ArrowRight) in addition to existing ones (Cmd+[ Cmd+]) to make keyboard navigation easier on some non-US keyboard layouts.

If you already have the Linear desktop application installed, you will get a prompt to upgrade to the latest version (1.4.0). If you don’t yet have the desktop app installed download from linear.app/download.

Fixes and improvements

Inbox notifications for comments now scroll and highlight the corresponding comment in issue view
Default templates are applied when creating issues from the + button in the list and board headers
Previewing a Figma link is now faster and smoother
Clearer selection state in the editor
Added controls for setting the default status for new issues
Issue imports are now correctly marked as “processing” when they are enqueued for processing
Issue history now correctly uses the avatar of the user assigning the issue to another user
Fixed editor suggestions hanging on screen after issue creation modal is minimized
Fixed edge case where the active cycle would briefly disappear from the UI
Fixed an issue where users were incorrectly deleted from the client, leading to crashes
Fixed the layout of the invite accept screen
Fixed error when changing an issue to/from blocked from another relationship
Fixed formatting of user avatars when undoing actions
Fixed a bug where “hidden columns” would be empty after deleting a hidden status
Fixed uploading the same file multiple times would not work in the editor
Fixed unfurling of custom view links in Slack
Improved the display of images that could not be loaded in the editor
The Slack integration will no longer show an error when an issue is being created from a very long message

GraphQL Filters

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:45:00 GMT

GraphQL Filters

We added extensive filtering options to our GraphQL API to make it easier to find specific entities without wading through all of an organization’s data.

Filtering is available wherever results are paginated. It lets you filter based on entity properties, use and/or logical operators, and filter based on an entity’s relations. Here are some examples of the more complicated queries that you can accomplish using the new filtering:

Find all issues with the label bug or defect with a high priority in the workspace assigned to you
Find all projects where a particular person is the lead that has open issues and is due in the next month
Find all labels that contain the word design, have a high priority, and are associated with issues in a particular team’s projects.

With our recent changes that let OAuth applications consume webhooks, filtering should make it easier to create real-time API applications that don’t need to poll all of the organization’s data very frequently.

Read more on filtering in our developer’s guide.

Rate Limiting

With the recent changes that help you get the exact data you need from our API (GraphQL filters) and improvements to how you can get real-time updates from us (webhooks), we’re starting to roll out rate limiting on our GraphQL API.

We’re starting without enforcing the limits, but exposing them to you in our API response headers. If you’re using API keys to query us or if you’re an OAuth app developer, you should look into whether your current usage would get limited after a certain amount of requests.

In the next few days we’ll also begin sending out emails to API key owners and OAuth app developers who are repeatedly getting limited and asking them to adjust their usage.

These changes are necessary to ensure equitable availability of our API for everyone and to prevent potential abuse. If you have any comments or suggestions, please reach out to us on any of the standard channels, such as email, the Slack community (#api channel), or Twitter.

Read more on rate limits in our developer’s guide.

Fixes and improvements

Fixed a bug where clicking a PR in issue lists would open the incorrect PR
Front and Zendesk are now updated with a more clear message when the linked issue is merged into another and cancelled
Highlight the issue comment when opening from a link
Fixed some issues in sync where stale data relationships could cause client errors
Webhooks now include `organizationId` to differentiate between workspaces when installed using OAuth applications
Increased maximum project name length to 80 characters
The app now works correctly in Firefox with `resistFingerprinting` enabled
Added a warning to issue compose in situations where there are unsaved changes and user reloads the page

Small fixes & improvements

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:06:00 GMT

Small fixes & improvements

We love launching new features, but this week we have focused on smaller bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements to the product. Here are some highlights:

Ordering by link count

When keeping track of user requests you often get a lot of links in related issues. To help with prioritizing requests we have added the option to sort lists by the number of links in each ticket. To enable this, go to the view options menu in the top right corner and select “Link count” under “Ordering”. You can also display information about links in issues in the list view by enabling the “Links” display property.

Improvements to multi-team views

For views with issues from multiple teams, we have improved the performance in cases where only a few teams are filtered out. This should bring noticeable speed improvements to such views in larger workspaces. We also made it possible to hide all columns in multi-team board views.

Other fixes and improvements

Fixed a bug that would cause duplicate relations between issues to be created
Fixed hover styling on section headers in the sidebar
Fixed issue where you could get board views grouped by the wrong property
Fixed a bug which caused some projects to not be archived
Generated branch names will no longer include emoji characters
Issues imported from Asana will now have subtasks added as a checklist on the parent issue
Fixed issue history entries so they don’t line-break in the middle of words
Links created via the API will no longer all be grouped together when filtering by link source
We now disconnect unusable Sentry integrations that had their tokens expired due to a previous bug
Old team identifiers can now be deleted in the team general settings
We now correctly escape Jira project keys in the Migration Assistant
We fixed some bugs and edge cases with image uploads
GitHub/GitLab integration doesn’t share issue details from private teams in linkbacks anymore
Improved the positioning of the floating toolbar in issue and comment editor
Improved performance of accepting triage issues

Easier invites & Webhook improvements

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:22 GMT

Easier invites

Inviting people into your workspace is a key component of access management and we’ve improved the flow that makes it easier to accept invites and mitigates some previous edge cases.

Accepting an invite email will now work even if you’re already signed into Linear and have an existing account, and works even if you’re not signed into the correct account that the invite is for. This makes the entire process clearer.

We’ve also added the ability to easily resend invites. You can find this feature in the Members section where the outstanding invitations are displayed at the end of the list.

Webhook improvements

We’ve recently made a few improvements to webhooks. You can now find webhooks in organization API settings, allowing you to create webhooks for all public teams in your organization. Existing webhooks will continue to work in the same way, and you can still create webhooks for individual teams.

OAuth applications now also have the ability to create webhooks. This is useful if you want notifications about relevant events pushed to your app rather than having to poll for updates. Whenever a new organization authorizes your application, a webhook will be created, sending the events of your choice to your provided URL. We recommend switching to webhooks rather than frequently polling, especially if you are polling a large data set. Check out the webhook documentation for more information.

Fixes and improvements

Improved support of Jira on-premise installations in migration assistant.
We fixed an issue that could cause the desktop app to consistently use more CPU after a fresh login
Selected labels are now grouped together in menus
We now properly notify admins and revoke Figma and Sentry integrations if we can’t access the services anymore
Projects with zero effort now correctly show progress
When moving issues between teams, your teams are now listed at the top
Improved user experience and speed of moving issues between teams
Fixed issue suggestion widget on the editor that might not show the exact match for an issue identifier
Fixed url redirection to the wrong issue after moving it to another team
Notification reminder emails for a single notification now have more descriptive subject lines

Multi-team boards & manual ordering

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:12:10 GMT

Multi-team boards & manual ordering

It’s now possible to use board layout for all* views in Linear. This includes the “All” tab under multi-team views as well as all custom views. Previously, only views containing issues from a single team could be manually ordered and viewed in board layout. Since teams can have their own states and each state is its own column on a board, some issues on multi-team boards will be moved to another team when they’re dragged to certain columns. When moving an issue to a state that only exists on another team, you will need to confirm that you meant to move the issue to that team. In addition to board layout, manual ordering in list layout is also available for multi-team views. To enable board view or manual ordering, go to view preferences in the top right corner of the view.

* My Issues, Archived issues, and completed cycles can not be viewed using board layout

Fixes and improvements

Fixed caret jumping in the editor in Firefox when navigating with arrow keys
Fixed issue where dragging inside of the search input on the desktop app moved the window
Fixed an issue that caused comment and issue content to disappear when the theme was changed
Reopening a closed pull request is now also displayed in Linear
Fixed an issue where special characters would not be filtered from generated branch names
Fixed some places on the desktop app where the window was not draggable, but it should have been
You can now filter by issue attachment source, e.g. Intercom, Slack, Zendesk, etc.
Fixed a bug causing issue migrations to sometimes fail when importing users
We now respect pointer settings on the search page
Fixed a bug where issue history would be displayed in the wrong order
The user mapping section in the migration assistant correctly recognizes existing users and allows you to map/search all workspace members
The billing page now correctly updates after updating your payment method
Fixed a bug preventing some URLs from being used for issue attachment links
Fixed an issue where you couldn’t delete templates that were the default for team or non-team members
Relations are now created to issues when they are mentioned in issue descriptions
Fixed a bug where in certain situations a canceled issue might be moved to the next cycle

GitHub Secret Scanning

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:18:00 GMT

GitHub Secret Scanning

We’re excited to share that Linear has joined GitHub’s Secret Scanning program to provide an extra layer of security for all Linear API developers. Secret Scanning protects you by automatically detecting leaked API keys in public GitHub repositories and notifying participating services so that they can disable the keys and notify the developer. Many industry leading companies such as Slack and Stripe already implement secret scanning for their API keys.

We recently changed the format of our API keys and OAuth access tokens to include Linear specific prefixes, lin_api_ and lin_oauth_, to enable GitHub to detect them similarly to their own tokens. These new keys will be automatically detected and disabled if ever committed to a branch in a public GitHub repository.

Auto-archive for everyone

About a year ago we introduced auto-archiving for issues, which helps you make sure your workspace stays relevant and performant. Earlier this year we expanded the feature to automatically archive old cycles and projects. We also recently improved search to make it easier to find archived issues.

Today we are enabling auto-archive for all teams. Each team can set the period after which issues (together with cycles and projects) should be automatically archived. By default, auto-archive is set to six months, but you can choose a shorter or longer period if that makes sense for your team. Together with our auto-close feature, we think auto-archive will help you keep a manageable and relevant backlog for your organization.

Fixes and improvements

API: Added a new way of formatting dates within attachment subtitles. Please see the docs for more details.
API: the progress field is now available for cycles and projects
Added aria labels to most icon buttons
Fixed an issue where triage issues would show up in some views where they shouldn’t be
Added skip-nav to make it easier for screen readers to navigate the page
Fixed an edge case where the issue view would not have any navigation controls
Fixed listing of private views, which would sometimes appear twice in the list
Improved styling of code blocks on light themes
Added support for more languages in code blocks
Made it easier to search for emojis in comments and issue descriptions :thumbsup:
Made it easier to remove planned projects from timeline
Added an issue filter for unblocked issues
Made labels take up more space on large screens
Made filter issue actions easier to find inside the command menu
Fixed so issues are correctly selected in lists after undo operations
Fixed so that priority sorting preferences are respected in multi-team views
Fixed missing issue history entries for archived and deleted issues
Added semantic elements to different regions in the app
Fixed navigation history after moving issues to another team
The full timeline bar will now link to its project when clicked
Fixing GitHub and GitLab integration automations not working properly when an issue was moved between teams
You can now delete an import before it has been completed
When issues are created from a Slack message via the integration, the Linear Slack bot will now respond in thread rather than in channel
Issue history timestamps are now correct for archived issues
Fixed moving issues to another team from the triage accept dialog
Added “Rename…” to the contextual menu for issues
References are now created when issues are mentioned in comments
@-mentions suggestion results in issues or comments will now be alphabetically sorted for some very similar usernames
When creating a new project, the “View project” link will open the correct page
Fixed a bug preventing recently deleted issues in archived workflow states from being restored
You can now select all issues on a board with Cmd A
Templates are now ordered alphabetically
Fixed how templates are applied switching between them while creating a new issue
Fixed a bug causing new issue creation from Slack to sometimes show an error message when the issue was successfully created
When navigating to a project via the O P shortcut or the header of a project page, you will no longer see duplicates of projects in multiple teams
Projects are sorted by name in the “Add to project” command
Added action buttons for Snooze, Delete and Unsubscribe when hovering items in the Inbox
Added buttons for triage actions when hovering over triage issue list items
Fixed creating an attachment from a URL failing to link for some URLs with private content, such as GitHub commits
Triage is now at the bottom of the list when changing issue status
Fixed copying issue ID, url and branch in issue edit mode
Google Sheets integration now includes the issue’s milestone as a separate column in the spreadsheet
Forms to create attachments on issues will now be automatically focused even if opened from context menus
When creating a new private team, but copying settings from a public team, your new team will correctly be set to private
Added a link that makes it easier to unsubscribe from all notification reminder emails at once

Summer time

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:00:00 GMT

Summer

The team has been enjoying the summer by taking some well-deserved time off, and our skeleton crew has mainly been focusing on performance improvements, bug fixes, and other small improvements over the past weeks.

Fixes and improvements

Improved startup performance for large workspaces
Allowing attachments created from URLs to be added if we can’t download an icon for them
Issue badges are now wider on large screens
Inviting multiple people to a workspace is now easier as the field accepts multiple email addresses at a time
Canceling an issue edit will only show a confirm prompt if there were changes
Allow Shift+ mouse wheel to scroll horizontally on the timeline
Added two settings to the Intercom integration to control when an internal note should be posted to an Intercom conversation based on the action that occurred to a linked issue
Filtering is now available in the Triage view
Triage issues are now shown in board view
You can now specify a title for attachments added from a generic URL
Improved error messaging for the Intercom integration if your organization only has private teams
Notifications can now be snoozed until any date or time by typing the date and/or time into the command menu once the snooze action has been selected
When deleting or snoozing a notification on the notification view using the shortcuts for the actions (D and H, respectively), you will now automatically move to the next notification in your inbox
The macOS desktop client will now properly display navigation controls in the issue list in smaller window widths
Suspended users can now be removed from projects
Closed GitHub issues are being correctly fetched to be imported with the migration assistant
Board issue widgets now show sub-issue counts
The tooltip for the “Triage” section in the sidebar now shows the correct navigation shortcut
Notifications can now be snoozed until any date or time by typing the date and/or time into the command menu once the snooze action has been selected
Issue history will now have an entry for issues that were imported. In addition, the original creator of the imported issue will also now be properly displayed.
Usage limit notifications will no longer be shown for files uploaded in the “Contact support” modal
Avatars from Clubhouse will now be properly displayed and imported during an issue migration
The sidebar section for teams you are not a member of has been renamed “Other teams” rather than “All teams”
API: Dates within attachment subtitles can now be formatted if the date is provided as a variable. Please see the docs for more details.
Attachments can now be dragged ontop of the fast issue create modal even when one of the property drop-downs is active
Improved history management
The issue editor will no longer think an issue has been updated when it has not been updated and the user is navigating away from the editor
Fixed a problem where under certain circumstances, child issues would not immediately be visible on an issue
Fixed an issue that caused the local cache to be deleted unnecessarily
Fixed a bug causing some shortcuts to not work in the new notification view
Fixed URL encoding for searches including + characters
Fixed an issue where multiple triage states might have been created for certain organizations
Fixed Figma preview showing below the “New issue” modal
Fixed issue description not updating in the issue view when another user updates it
Fixed a bug causing errors when accepting a triage issue
Fixed internal GraphQL error when querying empty connections
Fixed a bug preventing issues from being reopened when linked pull requests were reverted
Fixed a bug preventing Intercom integrations from being deleted

Linear Release 2021.06 and Issue Triage

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:15:00 GMT

Linear Release 2021.06 - “Grow with Linear”

This release brings new features to help fast-growing teams manage added complexity without losing efficiency.

Linear Release 2021.06 ->

“Fast growing startups are built on Linear” - Medium ->

Issue Triage

We build in public at Linear and put care into talking to users and getting feedback. We talk to hundreds of customers each week through our Slack community, Twitter followers, and to users who send in bug reports, requests, and questions through our in-app help modal which routes to our Front Inbox which we use for customer support.

We like to link to customer conversations in Linear issues so that we can keep track of requests and get back to customers when issues resolve. As we grew, we found it harder to do that. We weren’t alone as we learned a lot of our customers faced this same problem: they had Linear issues filled with links to customer conversations. Some also had started building separate Triage “teams” where they would file all new issues, then clean up, prioritize, and move them to the appropriate team.

So we built this user experience into Linear: Triage. All new issues from integrations, or members outside of your team, now go to a special team inbox called Triage. These issues have linked attachments back to the customer support tools where they were created.

The product team can choose how they triage issues but we’ve built in a simple workflow you can follow, too. Use keyboard shortcuts or the menu to accept an issue to the backlog, escalate it to the current cycle, merge, decline, or even snooze the issue for later. Declining an issue prompts you to leave a comment explaining why and you can keep an issue in the Triage inbox while you wait for more information.

To enable Triage, visit Triage section under your team’s settings.

Fixes and Improvements

Fixed selecting labels with space in command menus
Fixed a bug that would take the user to a different issue when making changes to it, in some cases.
Email login links should now work even with aggressive email scanners that would before invalidate the authentication code.
We now correctly detect and migrate epics in more situations when using the migration assistant.
Improve wording for the control to share views.
Fixed tooltip on the sidebar search button.
Checkboxes for selectable actions will now correctly reflect their selected state
All personal GitHub repos will now be fetched when using the Migration Assistant for GitHub
Fixed a bug with issue attachment actions sometimes not working

Intercom integration

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:00:00 GMT

Intercom integration

Working with your customers is a critical part of building a high-quality product. As companies scale, many customer requests are piped into customer success tools such as Intercom. This is why we’re excited to add Intercom to Linear’s growing set of integrations for customer support.

With the Intercom integration, your customer success teams can now quickly file bug reports into Linear from within Intercom and link feature requests to existing issues. New issues can be created directly from the Intercom interface and then triaged by your product team. We create links between the Intercom and Linear issue and show the issue’s status and assignee in the Intercom sidebar. This makes it easy for your support team to view and comment on the Linear issue or share status updates with customers, and for the product team to reach out with follow up questions to the support agent or customer.

We also added an automation which re-opens and updates Intercom conversations after the issue has been resolved (or canceled), so your customer success team can get back to the customer to update them on the progress. The integration makes it easier for your product team to prioritize their work based on customer needs and build a tighter feedback loop with your customers.

To enable the Intercom integration, install our app from the Intercom App Store and enable the integration in Linear settings.

Fixes and improvements

Fixed a bug where incorrect issues would be listed when having selected “Show only completed from current cycle”
It’s now always possible to add issues with templates. Previously this would not be possible if there was no one specific team on screen
Fixed a bug where quickly selecting, then deselecting a label would make the label to go into an incorrect state
Make actions taken when copying branch name undoable
Fixed the capitalization of GitHub in a few places
Fixed a visual bug in the cycle details pane
Fixed command menu overflowing the screen when its content was too wide
Fixed a visual bug in issue history
Fixed a rendering bug in the issue create modal
Released roadmap timeline to all users
We now correctly detect and migrate epics in more situations when using the Migration Assistant
Snoozed notifications are no longer included as part of the inbox badge count
Improved the behaviour when selecting items using space in the command menus

Inbox snooze and easier issue merge

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 04:00:00 GMT

Snoozing Inbox notifications

Inspired by many of the new email tools, we’ve added snoozing of issue notifications to Linear’s Inbox. Not all notifications require immediate action, or you might want to wait for more information, so now it’s easier to get to Inbox Zero by snoozing notifications. Just hit h to snooze the notification for an hour, until tomorrow or until one of the other predefined options. You can also snooze notifications until the next cycle starts. Notifications are automatically un-snoozed if there are new comments or other activity in the issue.

Improved issue merge

We improved and simplified merging of duplicate issues. Now when you merge an issue into another issue, the duplicate issue’s source attachments (e.g. Zendesk ticket) are moved to the canonical issue. This means that as you merge new duplicate issues into the canonical issue, all user reports are tracked in one place. If you have enabled customer support automation with Zendesk, all the relevant discussions will be reopened when the issue has been resolved. To keep things simple, we removed the ability to mark issues as duplicate from the canonical issue: you can only take the action to merge an issue from the duplicate issue, not the other way around.

New setting for team priority ordering

Linear offers multiple ways to order issues in lists through view options, from manual to automatic. Historically we have defaulted to priority ordering and pushed issues without priorities to the top of the list to encourage you to set the prioirity. This week we added a new team level setting which lets you decide if the issues without a set priority are shown first or last. To change the setting, find the Priorities section under your team’s General settings

Fixes and improvements

Linear’s GitHub App now works with GitHub Enterprise Cloud if you have IP allow list enabled. Just enable the “Enable IP allow list configuration for installed GitHub Apps” setting.
Use the new “Add attachment from URL...” action to add any external links to your issues as attachments
You can now drag and drop all projects in the timeline
Fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts didn’t work on sub-issues on the issue page
Fixed an issue with duplicate date picker on mobile devices
Fix for some email providers that aggressively click on links, making email login codes invalid before the user can use them
We’re now guarding against accidentally starting an import processing twice, resulting in problems
You can now select whether you want to import stale issues and/or completed issues separately in the migration assistant
An issue’s file attachments are now downloaded using the original filename
Slack integrations are removed when users get suspended or leave a workspace
Fixed an issue where the R shortcut in a cycle view would rename the cycle instead of the selected issue
Fix submit button behavior in contact support modal
Fixed downloading of images from issue descriptions
Fixed a tricky bug causing logouts when using multiple user accounts in multiple tabs/windows
API: You can now specify an icon url (jpg or png) when creating or updating an issue attachment
API: You can now link any url to an issue as an attachment using the `attachmentLinkURL` mutation

New setting for team priority ordering

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 04:00:00 GMT

New setting for team priority ordering

Linear offers multiple ways to order issues in lists through view options, from manual to automatic. Historically we have defaulted to priority ordering and pushed issues without priorities to the top of the list to encourage you to set the prioirity. This week we added a new team level setting which lets you decide if the issues without a set priority are shown first or last. To change the setting, find the Priorities section under your team’s General settings

Fixes and improvements

Use the new “Add attachment from URL...” action to add any external links to your issues as attachments
Slack integrations are removed when users get suspended or leave a workspace
Fix submit button behavior in contact support modal
You can now drag and drop all projects in the timeline
Fixed an issue where the R shortcut in a cycle view would rename the cycle instead of the selected issue
API: You can now specify an icon url (jpg or png) when creating or updating an issue attachment
API: You can now link any url to an issue as an attachment using the `attachmentLinkURL` mutation

Issue view layout

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 07:30:00 GMT

Issue view layout

There’s one aspect of the layout of the application that we haven’t been too fond of since the beginning: The way the issue page renders on larger screens. We didn’t want to make the issue content column too broad to keep the issue content readable, so we extended the issue details pane to the side of the screen. But this never looked quite right on on larger window sizes. We’ve been putting off fixing this as we have bigger changes planned for the issue page, but this week we finally decided to fix it and not wait for a bigger redesign.

We’re now centering the issue content when your window size grows beyond a certain size. The issue details panel will also grow proportionally with your screen size, giving you more room for all the labels your issue might have.

Fixes and improvements

Updated design of the project bars in timeline
It is now possible to resize the width of the left aside on the timeline page
Fixed a bug causing the upgrade notification not to be clickable if it was triggered by the fast issue creation modal
Zendesk integration now supports linking tickets from Zendesk installations with a custom domain
Imported issues will now have their completed or canceled dates properly set if that can be determined, or set as the time of import if not
API: Fixed a bug that was causing attachmentCreate to fail when passing the short format issue id rather than a UUID
Improved contextual menu rendering performance
Fixed side-scrolling issues with contextual menus
Fixed some smaller corner roundness issues on the comment menu
Workspace member settings have an upgraded design
Fixed the workspace member settings not to show actions that the user can’t undertake if they are not an admin.
The keyboard shortcut for setting an issue due date has been changed from Cmd+d to Shift+d
The cycles page now contains better instructions on how to find the estimates settings, should it not be enabled
Fixing an overflow problem when editing milestones
Fixed problems editing the name of a project
Deleting a team will now force you to type out the name of the team to make sure that users are deleting the intended team
Alert dialogs with an input prompt now display input errors animated
Fixed regression with command menu checkboxes

Linear Preview: Roadmap Timeline

Thu, 27 May 2021 17:00:02 GMT

Linear Preview: Roadmap Timeline

Today we’re launching a timeline visualization of your project roadmap in Linear. You can now plan, manage and track what needs to get done this month, quarter, and year, visually. With the roadmap timeline, see a high-level view of not just the projects in your organization but also the progress teams are making toward them and estimates for when projects will complete. It’s a smart timeline synced to actual issue data that helps you avoid flying blind.

Planning with timeline

Viewing projects in the context of time gives you a better understanding of what’s going on and when projects will complete. It’s also easier to plan for dependencies, such as when someone will free up to work on a new project, and spot projects that are falling behind or where teams may need more time or to adjust the scope.

Draggable project bars let you quickly make changes to your roadmap. Move the project to adjust the start date, extend or shorten the project length, and move the project up or down on the roadmap to reprioritize the work compared to other projects. Any updates made on the timeline will sync across the workspace. Especially early on in the planning phases, you’ll have a lot of back-and-forth discussions on projects. The timeline view makes it easier to collaborate live since everyone can see the same view, understand the visual design intuitively, and any changes update near instantaneously on everyone else’s screen.

Live predictions

While a project is active, we’ll generate an estimated completion date and show the projected date range on the timeline. These are the same estimates you see on project graphs and we calculate them using remaining issues and historical project velocity. A purple estimate shows up if the project has no set target date to give you a hint of when the project might complete, and a red estimate means the project is or is projected to take longer than the defined target date. The predictions take some time to generate after the project begins since they require recent project data, so you may need to wait a few days before it shows up. This live forecast gives you realistic and up-to-date information that you can use when making decisions on scope and planning.

✨ ProTip: To see a specific project’s graph without leaving the roadmap, press the Space to launch peek while hovering over the project on the list or timeline.

Roadmap Timeline is available as a Linear Preview feature while we polish the last details. To enable it for your organization, press ⌘+K and search for Timeline.

Fixes and improvements

Fixed a bug in template selection menus in team settings
Fixed git branch names for issues containing ⌘
Fix a bug when dragging list items in Firefox
Fixed a bug so that you can now switch to another workspace after scheduling your current workspace for deletion and logging in again
Improved discovery for editor related keyboard shortcuts
Improved the assignee selector in board issue cards
Parent issue is now maintained when creating multiple issues
Images will no longer be duplicated when dragged from one position to another within the editor in Safari
Images can now be dragged and reordered within the editor
Added the option to order lists by issue due date
Added more options for auto-archiving for teams using the Linear free plan
Fixed a bug that prevented file uploads on iOS
Long workspace names are now properly truncated in the sidebar workspace menu
Fixed a layout glitch when first rendering the search results.

Improving performance at scale

Thu, 20 May 2021 19:00:00 GMT

Improving performance at scale

Over the past two months we received reports of slow performance affecting some of the larger Linear workspaces. We looked into the issues, and even made some changes to speed up the app, but determined that fixing the problem would require deeper work. Over the last couple of weeks, we have been heads down implementing fixes and planning larger changes to Linear’s architecture to support the long term scalability of the service.

Unfortunately what makes Linear extremely fast for most users can also make it slow for others if we scale faster than expected, which we did. This stems from technical architecture choices we made to build Linear and their trade-offs. This didn’t come as a surprise to us and we anticipated having to make changes sometime in the future, but not so soon and especially not after customers hit performance issues. We do our best to work on these issues before they can become a problem for an end-user.

This week we shared a pre-mortem that explains Linear’s architecture, the performance issues these customers were hitting, and the steps we’re taking in the near and short term to address them. While your workspace might not be affected, we wanted to share the document with all of you as we work through these challenges. If you hit performance issues, now or in the future, we’d like you to reach out so that we can fix them. The good news is that thanks to this work, Linear has gotten significantly faster for all users in the past two weeks. We consider speed a core feature of the product and will continue to treat it as a top priority as we scale.

Linear performance pre-mortem ->

Fixes and improvements

[API] attachmentsForURL query now returns a paginated list of results instead of an array
[API] attachmentIssue query has been deprecated. Please use attachmentsForURL with issue sub-query instead.
Zendesk integration now supports linking multiple issues into a customer ticket
There’s a new “Open issue” action, also accessible through the global O+I key shortcut, that lists all the recently accessed issues and enables a quick search through issue titles, similar to how it used to work in the global command menu.
Notifications for actions that have been changed or undone will no longer show up in your Inbox
Fixed a bug where codeblocks would cause a CSS bug in issue description & comments
The “Open projects” list now includes projects from all teams you’re part of
Removed duplicate fullscreen options from the desktop app menu
Several style fixes for search input fields
You can now filter issue states in the dropdown in issue create
You can now unsubscribe from notifications for multiple issues
Fixed a long-standing bug where lists would render incorrectly
When creating a new team, we will now use your timezone rather than defaulting to UTC-7, Pacific Time
Fixed a crash that could occur on the search page when searching a mis-formatted string
Reduced minimum characters for searching to 2
Added highlighting to issue identifier matches on the search page
When using the keyboard shortcut / to focus the search input, the text is selected if the input is not empty for quicker searching
History and navigation on the search page is improved. The back button and/or clicking the sidebar search button works correctly.
Searching just for a number “123” will find issues that have 123 in their identifiers
Fixed potential app crash with strings containing multiple or trailing spaces
Added ability to clear recent items such as recent search queries or recently viewed issues. You can search for it in the command menu, by typing “clear recent”.
Links to shared custom views are now unfurled when shared to Slack
Improved issue contextual menus by alphabetically ordering projects, limiting assignee list to issue’s team members and improving styling
Text formatted as inline code can now also have strikethrough formatting

New issue search

Thu, 13 May 2021 04:00:00 GMT

New issue search

Today we’re rolling out the new search experience which features a more accurate search that searches over issue titles and descriptions as well as expanded functionality.

This new search experience replaces, improves, and consolidates all of our previous search options. It’s your new go-to place to quickly find an issue with keywords or by typing its ID, for example, lin123 or LIN-123. Search terms are highlighted in the list of results to make relevant issues easier to find. Search now also surfaces archived and recently deleted issues. Your recent searches will show up on the search start page, too.

Search is designed to be quickly accessed using the / keyboard shortcut. You can use the new button in the main sidebar which replaces the previous search input box. You can also type search in the command line to launch it.

Another addition is that we show recently viewed issues on the search start page, which are a convenient shortcut to open an issue. This new feature also comes with a new key binding O+I. Try it out!

Fixes and improvements

API: Issue attachments with the same URL can now be linked to multiple issues. Querying for attachments by using the URL as the id is being deprecated, but will return the first attachment with a matching URL for a transition period.
Several performance improvement to loading the application for the first time
Linear will now open the last used workspace when logging in to an account with multiple workspaces
Reduced animations preference is now inferred from the OS settings and removed as a user preference
Fixed “Open cycles” goto-shortcut in Inbox and other non-team views
Improved reliability of copying issue IDs, URLs and git branches to clipboard
Fixed copying an image to clipboard (currently not available in Firefox)
Fixed file upload notification in the new issue composer
Fixed issues where personal Slack notifications were disconnected unexpectedly
Contextual menus are now closed from all mouse clicks
Fixed a bug with the Github Migration Assistant form that was preventing moving to the next step after selecting a repository
Improved settings to make it more clear how to change or cancel a plan in the Billing view
Fixed issue which prevented logging into Figma from within the Figma embed in Linear desktop application

Fixes

Fri, 07 May 2021 13:30:25 GMT

Fixes and improvements

This week we’ve been focusing on larger upcoming functionality, so we only have minor fixes and improvements.

Descript shared URLs are now embedded automatically in issue descriptions and comments.
Issue editing actions in the fast issue editor now use the same keyboard shortcuts than in the rest of the application. To use the keyboard shortcuts, the title or description fields can’t be focused.
Issue editing actions in the issue view will now open pop-overs attached to the appropriate properties in the side pane.
Opening issue peek using a quick press on has been fixed to work more reliably
When pressing “Add label” in the issue view will now bring up a popover that lets you toggle any label on and off.
When you have a sub-action editor open in the issue view, any issue editing actions triggered via the action menu or keyboard will target that sub-action unless you’re hovering over another sub-action
Issue peek will now disappear when the fast issue editor is opened
Fixes a regression that could cause startup to be slow, especially on Safari and Firefox
You can now delete an import up to 7 days after it was created.
Fixed several bugs with the GitHub importer
Fixed a bug with our Clubhouse importer
Inserting a reference to an issue inside a description or a comment won’t remove the rest of the sentence after it anymore
It is now easier to select the workspace where you want an OAuth application to be installed
Labels with the “%” character, like “50%”, will now open correct URLs with proper encoding
When filtering issues, “By creator” filter will now group all suspended users as a single entry
Fixed some entries showing twice in the context menu
The background of modal dialogs are once again tinted darker on macOS

Zendesk integration

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:30:00 GMT

Zendesk integration

Working with your customers is key to high-performing product teams. As companies scale, much of the customer requests are piped into customer success tools such as Zendesk. This is why we’re excited to add Zendesk to Linear’s growing set of integrations.

Your customer success teams can now quickly file bug reports into Linear from within Zendesk and link feature requests to existing issues. We also added automation which re-opens and updates Zendesk tickets after the issue has been resolved (or canceled), so your customer success team can get back to the customer to update them on the progress. The integration makes it easier for your product team to prioritize their work based on customer needs and build a tighter feedback loop with your customers.

To enable the Zendesk integration, install our app from Zendesk Marketplace and enable the integration in your Linear settings.

Other fixes and improvements

When creating a new team with a team identifier that was previously used by some other team, you can now choose to delete the identifier
Issues migrated into Linear via the Migration Assistant will now be labeled with “Migrated” rather than “Imported”
Images included in the issue description markdown will be properly uploaded to Linear even if they are not a top-level document element (e.g., inside of block quotes)
We now only hint at changing ordering in views that can be manually ordered
Added a section highlighting the Migration Assistant in the workspace settings overview page
Attachments are now shown before PR’s in the issue view
The command menu no longer lets you search for issues but you can open specific ones if you type the issue ID
Improved communication around in-page find functionality
Fixed a bug where the “Find in page” input field would be incorrectly aligned
Creating an issue from a message in Slack will now add an issue attachment which links to the original message
Draft pull requests that are closed will now show as closed on linked issues
The status control in the “New issue” modal has been moved to make it easier to find.
Filters that don’t match any issues can now also be multi-selected
Adds create new action from template to keyboard shortcut help
Due dates in fast issue creator now correctly account for the user’s timezone
Fixed a bug that was preventing OAuth applications from being created
Jira issues are now imported in the order of creation
Fixed a bug where the issue status from default templates would not be applied on new issues
We now display a nicer error message when trying to remove a user from their last team
Improvements to the rendering of the workspace toggle when the syncing or offline badge is visible
Images included in comment body markdown will be properly uploaded to Linear even if they are not a top-level document element (e.g., inside of block quotes)
We will now import comments on issues you are migrating over from GitHub

Smaller improvements and April 22 outage

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:00:47 GMT

April 22nd outage

On this Thursday, April 22nd we experienced a prolonged outage. The outage started at 7:25am UTC and lasted for roughly 3 hours during which time Linear was unavailable completely, or in offline mode which caused change syncing to be delayed.

The outage started due to an automatic vacuum process in one of the key tables in our Postgres database. We were getting close to running out of transaction IDs and Postgres forced an autovacuum on us even though the functionality was disabled for the table. Because we are running a managed Postgres instance on GCP, we weren’t able to stop the autovacuum process and were forced to wait for it to complete. Once that issue was resolved, we encountered additional issues when trying to bring services online, due to the large number of clients trying to connect at the same time.

We are still investigating the exact details around this and plan to write a longer and more detailed post mortem once our investigation is ready. If you’re interested in learning more, follow our Twitter for updates.

UPDATE: Post-mortem is now available

Smaller product improvements

We love launching big new features, but we also love making smaller quality-of-life improvements. This week we focused on smaller improvements across the application. Here are a few highlights.

Private OAuth applications

You can now restrict your OAuth applications to your own workspace by making them private. This is helpful if you have internal applications which rely on Linear as the data source and you need to support authentication for different users. Many services, like Retool, also support OAuth as an API authentication method out of the box as our implementation follows the standard patterns.

Open issue with ID in Linear command menu

We have changed Linear’s command menu (Cmd+k) to now support opening a specific issue if you write, or paste, its ID to the menu. It even works with our git branch names so you can copy branch names from your terminal and quickly open the issue in Linear. This new implementation replaces issue search inside the command menu which we decided to remove as it was clunky to use and regular search (/) works better for that use case.

Sub-issue status in issue list

Inspired by a user suggestion on Twitter we replaced a sub-issues icon with the status of sub-issue completion in the sub-issues list. This should make it easier to scan and visualize progress. Thanks @maximmart!

Other fixes and improvements

Better performance when updating action on a large number of issues
We added a view option to hide completed issues from previous cycles
Fixed a few timezone options that didn’t work (sorry about that, Indianapolis)
Board columns now scroll items into view when navigating with keyboard
Fixed roadmap editing using IME inputs
Fixed an issue where the new issue modal would open with old data
Fixed the display of the next billing date in billing settings
Improved the issue modal when used with on-screen keyboards
Fixed bug where GitHub automation didn’t wait for all the open PRs to be merged until closing the issue
Fixed a bug that could cause Asana imports to result in an error
Fixed error when non-admins create a new team and copy properties from an existing team
Fixed the display of cycles in Inbox
The Linear bot will now post a comment with a linkback to the URL of the issue linked with a GitHub pull request even if you add the URL in the description
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to undo deleting an issue
Added more icons to choose from for Views and Projects
Added the team name to the title in the Recently Deleted page
Added a hint on how to enable manual sorting if you try dragging items in non-sortable lists
Fixed a bug where the status of default templates would not be applied for new issues

Auto-archive cycles and projects & deleting issues

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:00:00 GMT

Auto-archive cycles and projects

Last year we announced auto-closing and auto-archiving of issues. Now we are extending the auto-archive feature to projects and cycles.

One of the core principles behind the Linear Method is to “keep a manageable backlog.” This applies to issues as well as cycles and projects, and adding sensible automation to help you achieve this lets you focus on the things that really matter.

If a project or cycle has been completed more than X months ago (this time period is configurable) and all the issues inside it have been archived, the project or cycle will also be archived. The feature is automatically enabled for all teams that have auto-archiving for issues set up. If you want to enable it for your team or change auto-archiving settings, navigate to Settings > Team > Workflow.

Deleting issues

We made it possible to delete issues. Sometimes issues are created by mistake, and it makes no sense to keep them in the system. You can now delete them by pressing ⌘⌫ (or ⌦ for Windows and Linux users). Deleted issues will be available in the “Recently deleted” view which you can find through the command menu. Issues are permanently deleted after 14 days.

As part of this change, we removed the option to manually archive issues. We found that most users used the archive as a trash can for issues that they wanted to delete. At the same time, auto-archiving puts older completed issues inside the archive, which meant the archive served two disparate purposes.

We wanted to make the concepts around archiving and deleting issues more straightforward. We think that the archive is something that Linear should manage for you while deleting issues is your own choice.

Fixes and improvements

Fixed manual ordering in the cycles view
Fixed a crash when creating an issue in a multi-team view
Prevented unnecessary scroll bars from images on the Linear Method pages
We now show an error message when dragging a non-draggable list item
Fixed a crash when searching in and navigating to an empty list
An unnecessary scroll bar no longer shows up on estimate settings
The “No estimate” issue filter can now be activated in the command menu
The “Reference another issue” action no longer shows in the command menu for unsaved issues
The default issue template will no longer override drafted issue descriptions when you open the full page issue editor
Reduced the time it takes to load Linear from scratch by about 25%
Fix to prevent keyboard focus on hidden elements when in issue view
Admins can now change a suspended user’s username
The keyboard shortcut to attach files ⌘⇧A when creating an issue or comment can now be triggered in more situations
We no longer register the new window shortcut CtrlN as a global shortcut in the Windows app
Fixed the alignment of the status icon when creating a sub-issue
Added more icons to pick from for Projects and Views
Updated icons in the contextual menu for projects

Private teams & migration assistant

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:15:00 GMT

Private teams

As your company grows, you’ll likely need to restrict access to a portion of your issues. For example, one team might be working on something that is supposed to be a surprise to the rest of the company, or the team might be forced to sign NDAs with an integration partner and keep details of their work hidden even from the rest of the company.

Whatever your reason to hide some issues from the rest of the workspace, you can now create private teams and have more fine-grained control over who can join the team.

When you create a private team or make an existing team private, you become the owner of the team. Only the team owner and workspace admins can invite users to private teams, and only active team members can see issues in a private team. To control access, we have a new members section under team settings.

Migration Assistant

A couple of months ago, we launched importers in preview, allowing you to quickly import your issues, labels, projects, epics, and more from Jira, GitHub, Asana, and Clubhouse directly into your Linear workspace. Since then, we have continued to improve the importing experience. You can now customize how you would like to import issues and team members, as well as see a preview of what data will be imported with the new migration assistant.

If you are an admin, visit your workspace’s import settings to get started.

Fixes and improvements

Updated supported browsers. We now target modern browsers to improve Javascript loading performance
Fixed keyboard shortcut conflict (Ctrl+n) with new Windows application
Fixed image loading issues as part of new user onboarding
Fixes race condition when creating a new team and choosing to copy properties from a team that is subsequently deleted
Fixed a case where attaching/detaching a parent issue would cause the issue to not be saved
Fixed layout issues in the emoji picker
Fixed a rare situation where a custom view preference could crash the client
Moving issue between teams now correctly resets its status
Improved styling of radio buttons for dark themes
Improvements to list rendering performance
We now clear multi-selection when pressing Tab in a list
Improved list of notification settings to clarify different options
Pull requests and external issue attachments are now shown as part of archived issues
Fixes to issue estimates in custom views
Jira importer now correctly imports the Jira issue type as a label
Jira importer now imports correct issue backlinks for imported issues

Startup performance improvements

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:00:00 GMT

Startup performance improvements

Speed is a feature. While we try to pay attention to performance when adding new functionality, regressions and unoptimized codepaths do happen. Now and then, we look at critical aspects of the application and refactor, or re-architect portions of our tech stack to become more performant.

This time around, we took a look at startup performance for pre-warmed clients. With pre-warmed, we mean clients that spin up for a subsequent time and thus already have all the workspace data stored in the local database. Pre-warmed startups account for most sessions, making it a great candidate for us to sink our teeth into.

We concentrated our efforts around the following:

Refactoring and optimizing how we load up data at startup
Switching from Parcel to Rollup as our build system to improve bundle size
Lazy loading parts of the application and data that are used infrequently

This resulted in a big improvement in startup performance and memory consumption, especially on Safari and other browsers and our desktop applications. On our own workspace, which has around 4000 issues and hundreds of projects, we saw the following improvements:

Startup time to show active issues

59% faster on Safari
40-50% faster on other browsers and desktop app

Startup time to show a huge backlog

82% faster on Safari
60-65% faster on other browsers and desktop app

Memory usage

70-80% more efficient across all browsers and desktop apps

Bundle size improvements

We have improved code bundling by targeting only modern browsers, better dead code elimination, and code splitting. We’ve also made sure to preload code before it’s needed. This means we load around 50% less code (30% when compressed). This results in ~10-30% faster page load times from a cold cache, depending on network speed.

Fixes and improvements

File uploads can now be canceled
Fixed ability to copy issue URL and ID when the issue is archived
Fixed a problem where multiple notification emails might have been sent to users
Added ability to revert to previous versions of issue descriptions. To use it, go to the issue edit screen and choose “Revert issue description” in the command menu.
When there are no notifications in the inbox, the Notifications drop-down button is no longer visible
Moving an issue to a different team now adheres to that team’s “Active issues are required to belong to a cycle” setting
Cycles can now be 5 or 7 weeks long
Whether you create a new template or edit an existing one, you will now be redirected back to the page where you started the template action
When the search input is focused on small screens, the sidebar is also opened
API: Fixing a bug with imageUploadFromUrl not working when the source URL contained special characters or a query string

Keyboard shortcuts help

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:38:37 GMT

Keyboard shortcuts help

Keyboard shortcuts are frequently used and loved by our power users. They let you control all of the common (and much of the less common) functionality of Linear and make the application a lot faster to use. To get more users using keyboard shortcuts, we’ve redesigned our keyboard shortcuts help screen and made it searchable. You can press?to bring up the help window, or you can press the Help & Feedback section at the bottom of your sidebar and then select Keyboard shortcuts.

Fixes and improvements

Months are now abbreviated mo instead of m, which is reserved for minutes
Linear is now installable as a PWA on desktop Chrome
Existing labels are now removed when an issue template is applied
All workspace admins are now able to view and edit OAuth applications
Fixed the unhelpful error message for invalid callback URLs for OAuth applications
Fixed a bug with the Asana importer if you are importing issues that belong to multiple Asana projects
You can now set your team’s board view or a custom view as your default view
Fixed the unsubscribe link for plaintext notification reminder emails
Fixed editor panel contrast in new issue editor
Fixed an infrequent crash in list views
Fixed a crash that could happen when uploading files in issues.
Fixes a few issues related to multi-select actions
Small improvements to button styling

Apple M1 & Windows support

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:00:00 GMT

Apple M1 & Windows desktop apps

We’ve updated our desktop applications to support both Apple’s latest M1 chips and Windows. Downloading the M1 binary will let you run Linear’s macOS desktop application without emulation, making the app run faster. To update your existing macOS application, or to download for Windows, head over to linear.app/download.

Workspace settings overview

We’ve added a new section to the workspace settings to give you an overview of what features and integrations you’ve enabled for your workspace. The overview page also contains links to documentation for each of these features and integrations.

Fixes and improvements

Importing image attachments or adding links to other attachments with the Asana importer
Improvements to scrollbar styling
Added filtering by numeric shortcuts to command menu with numbered options (e.g., Open team)
Board navigation shortcuts will no longer trigger when you are viewing an image
You can now attach files when editing comments by clicking on the attachment icon rather than only dragging and dropping files
The drop target for files in the issue creator is now larger
Fixed a bug causing some issues with linked pull requests not to be viewable
Fixed a bug which caused Clubhouse imports for projects with a large number of stories to fail
Fixed the issue creator not closing when the mouse leaves the modal window during selection
Fixed incorrect grouping when hiding completed issues
Fixed selecting items by pressing space in the action menu
Fixed state filter for grouped views
Fixed Github integration to correctly connect a PR under certain circumstances

New issue creation UI

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:15:40 GMT

New issue creation UI

Two weeks ago we introduced a new UI for creating issues as a Linear Preview feature. Since then we have made a whole bunch of improvements and bug fixes and today we enabled the new UI for everyone.

To recap, we wanted to make it faster and more effortless to create issues from anywhere in the app. With the new UI, you stay in the view you are in so that you don’t lose context. You can easily create multiple issues by toggling the Create more option. When you do, any issue fields applied such as labels or projects will carry over to the newly created issues. If you need to look something up while creating your issue, you can navigate away from it and the issue will be saved as a draft automatically. We’ve moved the “New issue” button to the sidebar and made it easier to apply issue templates. We also made it possible to choose which team to assign the issue while editing it.

If you prefer the old UI, use the keyboard shortcut V instead of C to open the issue editor in full screen mode. The new UI has updated keyboard shortcuts that you can take while in the editor:

Ctrl+⇧+T Set team
Ctrl+⇧+S Set status
Ctrl+⌥+⇧+P Set priority
Ctrl+⇧+A Set assignee
Ctrl+⇧+A Add labels
Ctrl+⇧+P Add to project
Ctrl+⇧+P Add to cycle
Ctrl+⌥+⇧+T Apply issue template
Ctrl+⇧+T Open full view
⌘+Enter to save issue
⌘+⌥+Enter to save then open issue
⌘+⇧+Enter to save issue then create a new one
Click on ··· to set parent issue or add due date

Fixes and improvements

The user details page now has grouping, ordering, and view preferences
Fixed a bug where select menus could scroll away from their correct position
Links to projects on the roadmap and project pages will now take you directly to the correct team view
Updated the icon for urgent priority
Added ability to load Linear Typescript SDK in the JS console when logged in to the app
Issues created by imports no longer trigger notifications
Fixed Slack notifications that were displaying formatting characters
Fixes for SAML authentication when there was an existing user account with the same email
Added a new notification for when an issue you are assigned to becomes unblocked
The “Name cycle” action will no longer be the top result when you search for text that doesn’t match that action in the command menu
Embed links will now open in a new tab
Added a new importer for Asana
Long issue titles will no longer overflow in issue history
Enabled grouping for multi-team views

Linear SDK

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 05:00:00 GMT

Linear Typescript SDK

Over the past couple months we have been working on a Javascript/Typescript SDK for our GraphQL API. While GraphQL is getting more and more popular, it’s still often easier to pick up a good SDK and not worry about writing queries manually. This is exactly what our SDK does, and it’s actually auto-generated from our GraphQL API and offers full type definitions for Typescript. You can also use it with regular Javascript and either in client or server environment. The SDK is open source and available in our GitHub.

We have also updated our developer documentation:

developers.linear.app ->

Zapier updates: Comments

We have updated our Zapier integration to include better support for issue comments. With the latest Linear application in Zapier, you’ll be able to trigger zaps from newly created comments, and you’ll also be able to create comments for issues. We also simplified the payloads for create actions.

Fixes and improvements

[API] Added new scope, comments:create, for adding comments
[API] Comments now include their URL in the API response
When re-focusing a populated search field in the sidebar, you’re immediately taken to the search page again
Imports with no issues will now show as completed rather than perpetually in progress
Fixed the bug causing imports to fail with a “User mapping doesn’t exist” error
Pressing Tab now indents the cursor properly inside a code block
Fixes to applying template assignee and status to issues
Fixes to issue ordering when moving issues between board columns
Fixes to conversing text into italic with markdown shortcuts

Linear Preview: New issue creation UI

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Linear Preview: New issue creation UI

We have added a new interface for creating issues.

Adding issues in Linear has so far required you to navigate to a separate “New issue” page. This can become frustrating if you want to quickly add multiple issues or if you need to look around to find other things inside Linear to reference while writing your issue description.

This is why we built a new interface for creating issues that makes it super simple and fast to add issues from any screen in the app without losing context. The new issue creation UI also has automatic issue drafts, so you can easily pick up where you left off if you get sidetracked or need to look something up in the middle of writing your issue.

We also moved the “New issue” button to the sidebar. You can more easily add a template when writing issues by clicking on the icon in the new issue editor. Toggle the Create More button so that when you press Save, we open up a new draft issue.

While we iron out the last kinks, this is a Linear Preview feature. You can enable “New issue create UI” for your organization by pressing Cmd/Ctrl+K in Linear and searching for “preview”. If you have any feedback on this or any other feature, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

Fixes and improvements

Improved error messages in the Zapier integration
You can now import GitHub organization projects and associated issues
Better handling of error cases in imports
Fetching your full GitHub repository list when offering options for importing issues
Fix for being unable to start a Github import in some cases
Updated the format of status or priority changed Slack notifications
Ability to import Clubhouse epics as labels
Added a “Delete all read notifications” action
Importing of issues is now idempotent, no more duplicate imports
You can now delete imports along with the issues they imported
You can now copy a link to favorites via the contextual menu in the sidebar
[API] Fixed embed serialization in Markdown in API
[API] We added issue attachment support for API webhooks

Linear Preview: Import Issues

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:00:00 GMT

Linear Preview: Import Issues

If you’re new to Linear and are coming from a different issue tracking application, we’re working on making it easier to import your existing data into Linear.

You can now quickly import your issues, labels, projects, epics, and more from Jira, GitHub, and Clubhouse directly into your Linear workspace. If you are an admin, visit your workspace’s import settings to get started.

We are continuing to work on this feature to make it more robust. We’re also considering adding support to import issues from other applications. If you have feedback or a feature request, please share it with us in Slack or via the Help + Feedback modal. In the meantime, you can still import issues from Asana, Trello, and Pivotal Tracker with our command-line tool.

Fixes and improvements

The API now supports finding issues with their previous identifier(s) in case the issue has moved teams
Updated the design of Figma embed popups
Improved the performance of deleting all notifications
Improved rendering of project graph date ticks
The project graph now always renders the project’s target date
Adding a single-team project as a favorite now shows the correct status in the page title
It’s now easier to scroll board views horizontally with scroll wheel mice.
Fixed todo list markdown conversion in issue descriptions for lists with multiple items
Fixed selection problems with Safari when using the mouse to hover over the command menu while navigating it with the keyboard
Fixed a problem where different view preferences would be used when editing a project with only one associated team
Fixed board views to scroll with the active item

Issue grouping

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:30:00 GMT

Issue grouping options

We want to allow you to view your issues in a way that fits your workflow, which is why we added View options and Views. To further improve this, we have added the option to group issues by status (default), project, priority, estimate, assignee, cycle, or no grouping.

Grouping is available on single-team list views, for both default views and custom ones.

Google Sheets available for all Linear plans

Linear’s Google Sheets integration is now available for all customers. Previously limited to Standard and Plus plans, we decided to make it available for everyone as we want even smaller teams have access to all integrations. Sheets integration syncs your issue data into a Google Sheet document periodically which allows for easy creation of custom analytics in the most common programming language out there–the spreadsheet.

Fixes and improvements

Small tweaks to the design of the sub-issue editor.
Added option to filter issues by subscriber.
Fixed so that we don’t move issues back to a previous state when merging PRs.
Fixed URLs in Sentry and Slack access revoked emails.
Fixed a bug when switching teams in the sub-issue editor.
We now match Linear issues listed in GitHub pull requests regardless of capitalization.
Fixed a bug where GitHub PRs could be matched to the wrong Linear user.
Tweaked the design of project peek.
Removed the “We’re hiring” link from notification emails. Don’t be fooled though, we’re still hiring.

New webhook types

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:30:00 GMT

New webhook types

This week we’re adding more options to our webhooks which can be used to build realtime updating applications on top of Linear’s API. Previously we sent updates for all of a team’s issues and comments to registered webhooks. This was wasteful if the developer only cared about issues and not about comments. Now you can select which resource type change notifications you want to receive. But wait, there’s more! We have added more update types: issue labels, comment reactions, cycles and projects. Webhooks can now also be named to make them easier to identify.

We’re working on more API-related updates and would love to hear your feedback in the #api channel in our community Slack.

Fixes and improvements

API: Fixes to GraphQL schema inconsistencies
API: Added new queries for User (teams) and Team (users) to make it easier to get lists of teams and their users
Editing a Github PR to include an issue in the title or description should now trigger status changes for the issue as expected
Issue due dates no longer show as overdue for issues completed on time
Fixes to Git branch name formatting for issues with dashes in the title
Fixes to the drag handle for projects in the list view
Fix to how images are included in new issues created through the API

GitHub notification improvements

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:30:17 GMT

GitHub notifications improvements

We made small but meaningful improvements to how GitHub automation changes are handled inside Linear. As we allow admins to enable the GitHub integration for everyone, we didn’t know which GitHub user matched which Linear user before. With other integrations we’re able to match users via email, but with GitHub, many have their accounts under their personal email addresses. To solve this, we now use both issue assignees and past GitHub pull requests to intelligently match users to their pull requests for Inbox notifications. We have also updated issue history to correctly show GitHub as the source for status changes.

Fixes and improvements

API: Webhooks now include restore type for unarchived events. We also cleaned up webhook payloads to match our GraphQL API responses
Due dates are no longer shown in lists after the issue has been completed
Mobile Firefox on iOS no longer shows unsupported browser message
Completed issues view won’t show autocompleted issues anymore
Improved Google Sheets update reliability
Fixes to “Go to views” (G+U) shortcut not working on all views
Fixes to sidebar drag&drop reordering on Safari
Fixes to issue creation with templates if the template was copied from another team
Fixes to list drag handles and multi-select styling
Fixed popup menu sizing in certain cases
Fixed sidebar workspace switcher styling for users with a lot of workspaces

Search notifications using Cmd + F

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Search notifications using Cmd + F

To improve managing your notifications, we added the ability to use Cmd+F to search the notifications. This also works in issue, roadmap and projects views.

Fixes and improvements

Another week is around and this time we have a bunch of bug fixes and general product improvements.

You can now link multiple issues in PRs by including them in the PR title or branch name
Fix to allow personal Slack notifications to the same Slack account from multiple workspaces
Fix to link color in custom themes
Fixes to peek background color
Fixes to peek gradients in Safari
Added a new copy image action
Fixes to support modal layout
Fixes to images in issue description markdown
Ability to specify a template when using linear.new
Improvements to team deletion flow
Fixes to some data syncing edge cases
Fixed a bug where git branch names would not be generated correctly
Added drag handles to manually sorted lists
Added the ability to get a url for creating new issues with a pre-filled template

Authentication restriction options + Bug fixes

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Authentication restriction options

We’ve added advanced authentication controls for our customers on the Plus plan. With this feature, workspace administrators can restrict which methods users can use when logging in.

For example, an administrator can now require all members to login through Google in order to access their workspace. This in combination with our support for SAML on the Plus plan makes it easier to control access for larger companies.

New advanced authentication controls are available today on the Linear Plus plan.

Image options

We added options to download and copy image URLs from issue descriptions. This makes it faster to share assets or bug reports with your team. In addition to the new options, we made several small improvements to displaying images, especially larger images in the issue view.

OAuth: Automatically redirect already authenticated users

We updated Linear’s OAuth provider to automatically redirect users to the provided location if they have previously approved access for the application with the same permissions (scopes). This makes it easier and less confusing to use Linear OAuth as an authentication method for your application. On each authorization, a new OAuth access token is created. If a user has more than 10 tokens for the same application and permissions, old ones are automatically revoked, so you’ll want to update the user with the latest token.

Other fixes and improvements

Issue Peek now includes the issue’s cycle and labels. Enable peek mode by pressing Spacewhen browsing issues.
More unicode characters are now supported in suggested git branch names to make it easier to use for non-English speaking users
Roadmap pages now support searching projects with Cmd+f
Draft comments persist even if you reload the page
Added Inbox notifications for issues with due dates
Added support for copying multiple issue IDs if multiple issues are selected
Added new filters: active cycle, next cycle and Roadmap milestone
Currently active team is used for new issues when creating issues from the Inbox
The “Clear notifications” action has been renamed to “delete all notifications” in Inbox
Improved UI for adding custom colors for project icons
Several improvements to mobile-friendly layouts for settings
Downloading desktop application option is now only shown for compatible operating systems
Improved sub-issue and new comment form styling
A link to the issue for deleted Inbox notification is now included in the confirmation toast message
API: projectCreate mutation doesn’t require color attribute anymore
Fixed Github pull request linking in certain cases when the reviewer was assigned upon PR creation
Fixed favorites order in command menu
Fixed “active cycle” favorite highlight in the sidebar when viewing the page
Fixed cursor for issue todo lists
Fixes marking notifications as read when issue is being saved or new comments are being added
Fixes to sub-issue ordering when issue is updated
Fixed “Move to top/bottom of board” actions
Fixed label creation in command menu
Fixes to email notification subscriptions

Bug fixes

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 13:30:00 GMT

Bug fixes

As the end of the year draws to a close, we looked back at how much the product has evolved over the last twelve months. We take pride in building a high-quality product and try to make sure that the things we make are solid, for all our users. Even so, we still have a few bugs that haven’t been fixed.

So to set us up for the new year, we did some house cleaning. Rather than starting to build a new feature, we rounded up some bugs and quick fixes that would improve the quality of the user experience. We added them to a project called bug week that the team worked on together. The work we did will make sure that we can keep moving quickly and deliver a product that we are proud of in 2021.

Here’s a list of things we did:

Fixed cases where the back button would not work correctly.
We now send notifications to subscribers when Github PRs are merged.
Reduced the size of data downloaded to clients.
All view options are now retained when creating new views.
Fixed a crash in date input modals.
Fixed a crash in the action menu.
Fixed a crash that could happen when resizing the screen.
Added support for all types or URI:s in OAuth callbacks.
Fixed a bug when changing icon colors in the roadmap.
Improved sorting projects by “Last updated”.
Improved support for IME input.
Canceled projects are now hidden from the “Active” projects tab.
Fixed a layout bug in project lists.
Fixed a crash when deleting projects.
Fixed a bug where some favorites could not be deleted.
Fixed a problem with the action menu and keyboard navigation in Safari.
Fixed a crash when trying to modify archived issues.
We now correctly copy an OAuth application’s client id on the application settings page.
Added four new theme options.
You can now attach files in the “Contact support” modal.
We added an easter egg. See if you can find it.

Series A, Roadmap, OAuth2 and Big Sur logo

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:00:41 GMT

Linear 2020.12 release

To help give a holistic picture of what is new in Linear, we created a new Linear Release page which highlights new features as well as major improvements developed in the last six months. The theme for the second half of 2020 was to improve the core experience of Linear. We launched easy list selection, view options, custom views, SAML SSO, themes and more.

Series A funding with Sequoia Capital

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised USD 13M in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. We worked with Stephanie Zhan and her team on the seed round and are excited to partner with them again in this next phase of the company. Our mission is to re-envision the principles and practices of software building and make it feel magical again. Tools should fit seamlessly into your workflow and help you execute faster, collaborate quickly and focus on work. The next generation of startups is building their products on Linear and this funding helps us level up Linear to support them even more.

Read more about the investment in our Medium post.

Roadmap

Setting direction is one of the most important things you’ll do when building a product and company. You can now organize your projects under milestones by enabling Roadmap in your workspace settings. Once enabled, you can create milestones that are shared by all teams in the workspace and associate projects with these milestones, essentially creating a prioritized roadmap of projects.

Additionally, we’ve redesigned the team projects views as lists to make it more glanceable and consistent with the rest of the application. You can define the project lead and members of a project now as well, to communicate project ownership to the rest of the company.

Linear Method: Roadmap

We design Linear based on the principles and practices we use in product development. Today, we’re sharing our first in-depth post on the Linear Method which is, unsurprisingly, about roadmaps: what they are, how you can use them, and why they’re so helpful for building high quality products. People often ask us how we use Linear at Linear, so we explain how we use roadmaps, too. Read it here.

OAuth2 authentication for API

To make it easier to build integrations on Linear’s GraphQL API, we added a new authentication method, OAuth2. Unlike previous personal API keys, OAuth2 makes it easier for your users to authenticate with your application and Linear. We also added more fine-grained scopes to the API so that you can only get the access you need. Several companies have already built their integrations on OAuth2, including Jam, and our Zapier integration is using it as well.

To start developing a new Linear OAuth application, head to your API settings and create a new application. To view applications that you have authorized to access your account, go to your application settings.

Read more in the Linear OAuth2 documentation.

New sub-issue editor

Two weeks ago we announced the new sub-issues editor as a Linear Preview. It features drag&drop reordering, faster composing and other improvements. Today we’re rolling out the new experience to all Linear users. Open any issue, hit Cmd+Shift+O and add new sub-issues one by one.

ProTip: When composing a sub-issue, save it with Cmd+Enter and add another one.

Big Sur app icon

We craft Linear to give our users the best experience in the Mac OS environment, paying attention to details. This new app icon fits better with the new Big Sur icon design guidelines. We hope this icon will find a prominent place on your dock. You should get the automatic update later today or you can download the new version manually from here.

Other improvements and fixes

The desktop application now lets you clear all application data in case of unforeseen problems
You can now Tab and Shift+Tab through issue lists in addition to using the ↑ and ↓ keys.
The loading logo now correctly switches between light and dark modes for custom themes
The target date for a project can now be set via the keyboard shortcut Cmd+D

Custom Themes

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:00:00 GMT

Custom Themes

We want Linear to fit into your workflow and feel like it’s your tool. We initially created dark and light themes so that you could customize the app to your preference and now we’ve added the ability for you to set any theme you wish.

Theming apps can be complicated and we wanted to make this feature accessible for everyone. We’ve designed it so that you only need to set a few colors, such as the background, text and accent colors, which we then use to generate complimentary shades for borders and elevated boxes. To customize the theme in Linear, you can simply take the colors of your favorite text editor or set it to match your company colors. You can also share Linear themes with others by copying and pasting a single-line list of colors. Add custom themes under preferences in account settings.

Here are some themes we use on the team. Join our Linear community Slack to share custom themes you create with others in the new #themes channel.

Ash: #FFFFFF,#44494D,#EDEEF3,#44494D,#475BA1,#FFFFFF
Midnight: #0F0F10,#EEEFF1,#151516,#EEEFF1,#D25E65,#FFFFFF
Dawn: #2A222E,#EEEFF1,#382A3C,#EEEFF1,#A84376,#FFFFFF
Pale: #292D3E,#EEEFF1,#292D3E,#EEEFF1,#7D57C1,#FFFFFF
Barbie Dreamhouse: #E2DAF1,#593E74,#FCDEEE,#593E74,#B8FAFA,#8B6BC7

Other fixes:

Updated design for the custom view editor panel
Added support for view preferences for project views
Sub-issues must now have titles when they are created
A new and improved emoji picker with keyboard navigation and easy access to frequently used emoji
Fixed keyboard navigation when a menu and a list are open at the same time
Fixed long urls in project details overrunning the project popover
Fixed being unable to remove links in project details
Fixed active issues moved to “No cycle” not going to the backlog
Fixed not being able to cancel the target date for a project

New sub-issue editing and SAML

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:00:29 GMT

Linear Preview: New sub-issue editing

Sub-issues help track larger pieces of work and allow coordination between different people and components. To make it easier to add and manage sub-issues, we have rebuilt how they are shown on issue views. Now you can quickly add multiple sub-issues without ever leaving the page and just with your keyboard. Press Cmd+Shift+o to open the sub-issue editor, enter the issue details and hit Cmd+Enter to save it and continue adding another one. Sub-issues can also be reordered in the list by dragging and dropping them to your desired order.

This is a preview feature. Admins can turn on new sub-issue editing for your workspace by selecting Enable: New sub-issues from the command menu (Cmd+k then search for “preview”).

SAML authentication

If your company uses an identity provider to login to services, we’ve added support for SAML authentication so that you can use it to login to Linear, too. It’s available through our new Plus plan. We currently support most identity providers including Okta, Google, OneLogin, LastPass, Auth0 and Bitum. See a more detailed overview of the features provided in the Plus plan on the plans page.

Other improvements

Modals in Big Sur now have a semi-transparent overlay
Fixed autofocus in the onboarding flow
Fixed styling for long emails in the workspace members list
Remapped assign issue status keyboard shortcuts
Fixed performance issues in certain issue lists for a subset of browsers
Disabled the “Move to team” action for new, unsaved issue
Fixed a layout issue when users have long emails on the members page

Notification settings

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:00:00 GMT

Granular Notification Settings

We’re giving you more control over your notification settings. You can now customize what types of notifications you will receive and how you will receive them.

Notification types can selectively be turned on or off for all notification methods, Slack personal notifications, email, and desktop push notifications. Under each method, you can specify the triggers for sending notifications.

For instance, you can choose to receive only Slack personal notifications whenever you’re assigned an issue but to receive Slack, Desktop and email notifications when an assigned issue is marked urgent or blocking. You can choose to turn off email notifications for issue comments specifically but keep notifications for status changes and @ mentions. Customize your notifications in your notification settings.

Other improvements

View and project icons are now differentiated by their background shapes
Improved batch operation performance
Fixed not being able to see shared views for teams you are not a member of
Fixed an issue when assigning a target date to a project via the calendar control
Fixed project page always showing issues for the first team in a project’s team list
Fixed export settings section for team members that are not admins

Favorite ordering, content search and Zapier updates

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:57:33 GMT

List and board content search

Searching for issues by their title just got a lot easier and faster. When you’re on a list or board page, hit Command+F to open a search field that filters down the content based on the search query in real-time as you type. When done, press Esc to close the search field and show all of your issues.

Favorites ordering

You can now manually order your favorites in the sidebar so that the views and issues you access most often are even easier to get to. Just drag and drop a favorite to any position in the list.

Zapier updates: issue triggers

We have updated our Zapier integration to include Zap triggers for new and updated issues. When you’re setting the triggers, you’re also able to apply filters for various issue properties such as labels and projects. This should make it easy, for example, to filter all new issues with the label “bug” that have been opened in a team.

In addition to triggers, we also improved authentication and you’ll be able to grant access with a single click instead of creating API keys.

Views

In the last changelog, we introduced Views as a Linear Preview feature. Views makes it easy to create and save views that include exactly the issues you want to see. Now Views is available to everyone. Get started with Views by clicking on the Views item in your sidebar.

Other improvements

API: Added branchName and priorityLabel fields for Issue resource
API: Added ability to get most recently updated resources using updatedAt pagination order
All teams option is now also shown in board view for projects with multiple teams
Fixed Git automation if automation had multiple completed workflow statuses
Fixed Google Sheets integration in cases where the user has removed columns
Fixes to pasting links in issue description and comments
Fixed restoring scroll position in board view after opening an issue
Fixed timezone issues with cycles

Linear Preview: Views

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:00:00 GMT

Linear preview: Views

We’re adding support for custom issue views as a Linear preview feature. This makes it easy to create and save views that include exactly the issues you want to see. Your can favorite saved views so that they show up in the sidebar, giving you easy access to them. You can also share views with colleagues within your organization.

Examples of views that you could create:

Bugs reported across different teams
Issues you have recently completed
Unprioritized issues in the backlog

We hope you’ll find a lot more uses for custom views and we think this will make Linear work better for many different types of organizations.

Admins can turn on Views for your workspace by selecting Enable: Views from the command menu (Cmd+k then search for “preview”). Views will show up under My Issues. Click on it to create your first view or save any existing list or board view as a custom view with Alt+V or by clicking the save view icon.

Other improvements

You can now see issues from all teams working on a project in the same view
Fixed a bug that caused the wrong issue to be opened in Inbox and search
Fixed so pressing Esc in Settings returns you to the issue lists
Adds option to subscribe/unsubscribe to team notifications in the contextual menu for teams in the sidebar
Fixed embeds for Loom videos after their URLs changed. Improved performance in board views
Fixed date input fields for Firefox users
Improved the Due date icon in command menus
Fixed a bug where due dates would show in the wrong time zone in issue history

Due dates

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 05:15:00 GMT

Due dates

If you have time-sensitive issues, like renewing subscriptions, contracts or certificates, you can now add due dates to issues.

Issue lists and board views will display issue due dates. To help you find issues that require your attention, the due date icon will turn orange when the date is approaching and red when the issue is due on the same day or overdue.

You can add a due date to any issue by typing Cmd+D when viewing an issue or when an issue is selected on a board or list. This will bring up a date picker so you can choose the due date you wish. Alternatively, right-click to open a contextual menu or use Cmd+k to search for the Set Due Date action.

You can apply due date related to filters to your list or board views, too. Type F and then select from the following: Due soon, Due today, No due date, Has due date or is Overdue.

Other improvements

Issues with parent issues have an improved design for the link back to its parent, letting you easily browse siblings of the issue
Re-ordering issues in the list or board views can now be undone using Cmd+Z
Pressing Cmd+A will now select all issues
Pressing Cmd+↑ or Cmd+↓ will select the first or last item in the list
You can now press o to open a selected issue
Fixes the Alert dialog width
Stability and performance improvements to the contextual menu
Issue relationship badges are now laid out better for mobile devices
Fixes the cursor to respect user preferences for board items

Issue selection

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 22:00:00 GMT

Issue selection

Navigating between issues, selecting and moving them around are some of the most common interactions in Linear. We have recently made some significant improvements to how you select issues and added a few new features to lists and boards:

Multi-select has always been available in lists but now you can also select multiple issues in board columns.
It’s now possible to drag and drop multiple issues on both board and list views.
All select and navigation interactions & keyboard shortcuts are now the same between lists and boards.
Selected items have a new design on both boards and lists.
Shift+Click and Shift+Cmd+Click now select issues in lists and board columns. You can still use the existing keyboard shortcuts (X and Shift+X).
We’ve added two-dimensional navigation with arrow keys in board views.

Hopefully, these changes should make everyday tasks in Linear feel easier and more intuitive.

Multiple accounts

We’ve had support for multiple workspaces for a few months but you were limited to viewing workspaces under a single Linear account. If you had multiple workspaces under different email accounts, that meant you had to log out and back to switch between workspaces or keep Linear open in different browsers.

This week we’re rolling out multi-account support. Once you’re logged into Linear, you can add another account and then seamlessly switch between them.

This makes it much easier to have a work and personal Linear account along with a myriad of other use cases.

To add an account or switch between them, click on your workspace name to use the new account switcher that replaced the workspace switcher in the upper left corner. You can also switch accounts through the command menu (Cmd+K) by simply typing the name of the workspace.

Other improvements

Fixed cycle graphs for the lucky few who live in the GMT+13 timezone
Fixed a bug in project contextual menu
URLs with special characters are now correctly turned into links in comments and issue descriptions
Fixed a bug where issue estimates in contextual menus were incorrect
Improved how todo lists in issue descriptions work
Made sure special characters in issue urls work correctly in our Slack integration
Fixed a few crashes in contextual menus
Made changes synchronize faster to other team members
Added spellcheck to the desktop app

Undo actions

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:00:00 GMT

Undo

So you selected 25 issues and accidentally assigned them to yourself? No sweat, undo is here. You can now undo almost every operation that changes issues, notifications, cycles or projects. Simply search the command menu for “Undo” or press Cmd+Z. You can undo individual operations, like issue assignments or status changes, or batch operations like modifying hundreds of issues or deleting all of your notifications.

When you undo, Linear will make sure to take you back to the page where you created the operation and, in list views, select all of the associated issues or notifications.

You can also redo a previously undone operation by searching for “Redo” in the command menu or pressing Shift+Cmd+Z.

Improved workspace members page

We redesigned the members page and also added search and filter functionality to make it easier to find the specific person you are looking for.

Other improvements

The project target date control has received visual improvements that now adhere to the selected theme
Fixed autocomplete positioning on mobile
Fixed desktop app window resizing
Fixed adding links to comments in a comment
Fixed an edge case in Cycle Burnup Graph that could cause an additional day to be rendered and the
Fixed the Cycle Burnup Graph to correctly progress during the current day
Fixes issue in API that would error
Small tweaks to button colors throughout the application

Slack notifications for projects

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Project Slack notifications

We’re continuing to expand our Slack notifications. On top of existing team and personal Slack notifications, we have added project-based notifications. As your team grows, it’s often easier to coordinate projects by creating Slack channels for them (often prefixed with #proj-). Now you can send project-specific Linear notifications to those Slack channels. Available notification types are new issues, comments and issue status updates.

To enable project notifications, click the bell icon on the project page and connect with Slack. We made it easier to auto-subscribe and configure your personal notifications from the same menu, too. This is especially handy for project managers.

Other improvements

Updated horizontal rule keyboard shortcut in help screen
Various performance improvements
Fixes to @-mention dialog positioning on mobile devices
Fixes to filtering in My Issues view
Added new issue search endpoint to the API
Added human readable issue identifiers to the API

Personal Slack notifications

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:00:00 GMT

Personal Slack notifications

Over the past few weeks we made significant updates to Linear’s Slack integration. The most notable change is that you can now receive personal notifications through Slack in addition to getting them via push notifications, email and viewing them in your Inbox. Once enabled, Linear will appear under Apps in your Slack workspace sidebar and Linear notifications will show up there. This makes it faster to reply to comments on the issues you have subscribed to and to know when your teammates send emoji reactions to your comments. Other notification types include new issues assigned to you and alerts on urgent priorities.

Enable personal Slack notifications in your notification settings.

Other improvements

New macOS desktop version (1.2.9) which includes fixes to initial window size, notification links and other smaller updates
Added new preference to disable GitHub and GitLab linkback messages in pull requests
Team’s Slack channel notifications are now more consistent in their styling and messages are easier to parse
Slack message actions now use the user specific notification = integration in addition to email matching which makes it possible to use the feature if your GSuite email has changed
Several fixes for view options. Personal changes are now persisted correctly between sessions and page reloads
Relationship options in issue page menu actions are now easier to browse
Fixed issue title rendering in list view on mobile
Fixes to issue creation on My Issues and Search page

Custom emoji and a new billing page

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 07:00:00 GMT

Custom emoji

You can now upload custom emojis to Linear. Head over to you workspace’s emoji settings to upload custom emojis in JPG, GIF, or PNG format. You also have the option to import custom emojis from Slack. In Linear, emoji serve both fun and functional purposes. 🎉

Billing Page

We now have a dedicated billing page that lets you update your billing information as well as browse invoices. As requested by many Linear users, we also let you update the email address associated with your billing account.

The billing page also displays any problems with your payment method and how to contact us if needed.

Other improvements and fixes

Improvements to retrying data synchronization under certain circumstances
Creating and archiving a team is now only available for workspace admins
Improved design for sub-actions that are matched by a search in the command menu
Automatically join workspace if allowed by your email domain
Fixes for creating new projects, but not selecting a color
Fixes issue list layout on small screens
Fixes edge cases where newly created cycles would not take the team’s timezone into account.
Fixes to selecting checkboxes in the command menu
Adds highlights for various controls
Adds preference to turn pointers cursors back on
Some minor fixes to toast layout and animations
Copying an issue’s branch name is no longer available when the issue has not yet been saved

Streamlined issue extensions

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 04:30:00 GMT

Streamlined issue extensions

To simplify the issue view we designed the issue extensions (Github, Gitlab, and Sentry links) to take less space while keeping the same information.

No more pointers

We’ve arrived at a point where we feel that Linear is a true application, not a web page. We have keyboard shortcuts, contextual menus, no page loads, and realtime updates. To double down on the application-like behavior, we have removed pointer cursors from the entire application, except links to external resources.

Helping the climate

At Linear, we want to do our part in helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. Starting today, 1% revenue from Linear subscriptions will go towards carbon removal. This happens through Stripe’s new climate initiative which you can read more on their blog.

Other improvements and fixes

When a cycle has a custom name, its icon will now display the number of the cycle
Cycle graphs improved the way the dates on their x-axis are rendered
Cycle graphs in the Cycle detail pane now contain a legend
New icons for issue relationship
Desktop windows locations are now retained between launches
More controls now react to mouse hover
Improvements to the color picker of the Project editor
Better support for keyboard shortcuts for Russian and other non-Latin keyboards
Fixes to keyboard shortcuts for parent/sub-issue navigation
Fixed several issues with clients getting out of sync
Improved the reliability of saving outstanding changes under certain edge cases, like refreshing the client just after a database migration
Comment notifications now link directly to the comment
A number of fixes to contextual menus
Fixes to workspace creation
Templates are no longer applied on top of the data from a pre-filled issue creation link
Fixed search in smaller screens
Fixes to rendering cards on the boards
Fixes the order of rendering of modifier keys for macOS

Sentry Integration

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 04:00:00 GMT

Integrate Sentry with Linear

You can now integrate Sentry with your Linear workspace. This integration has been requested by many Linear users who use Sentry to keep track of their application health and log errors.

The integration allows you to create or link a Linear issue from any Sentry error. It can be assigned to a team or teammate and with a label and priority set directly from Sentry. When the Linear issue is completed, the issue in Sentry gets resolved as well. Updating the assignee from Linear will also update it on the Sentry issue.

To start tracking your Sentry issues in Linear, connect Sentry in your workspace’s integration settings.

Refreshed Labels and Workflow settings

We refreshed the design of the Labels and Workflow team settings views making it faster than ever to keep your team’s labels and workflow statuses up to date. You can now add or edit labels and statuses directly while viewing the full list instead of being taken to a new view. Workflow status descriptions appear inline next to the status name making them easier to read.

ProTip: You can add custom colors to labels or workflow status icons by pressing the plus sign in the color picker and entering a hex code.

Smooth sub-menu navigation

The contextual menu now keeps track of the mouse cursor position while you open sub-menus. We create a safe area between the cursor and mouse so that the sub-menu stays open as you navigate away from the main menu and toward any item in the selected sub-menu. See it in action!

Other improvements and fixes

Added new icons for project and issue menus
Added support for redirecting team-based URLs accessed with old issue identifiers
Deleting multiple notifications will now only show one toast message
Contextual menus now work on iPad with a mouse pointer support
Improved issue loading error messages
Visual improvements to invite and notification emails sent by Linear
Fixes to active focus handling and scroll position in list navigation
Fixes to Ctrl+Shift+[1-9] keyboard shortcuts on some layouts
Fixed cycle estimate counts to correctly consider included and excluded issues
Fixed project card display when there are multiple participating teams
Fixed issue shortcuts in the Inbox view
Fixed issue where toggling between board and list views would not work consistently
Fixed issue where additional items would get selected on Issues list
Fixed issue ordering on My Issues page
Fixed login URL when accessed with a non-supported browser

Better menus and view options

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 04:00:00 GMT

New contextual menus

We added new contextual menus to Linear. Now you can right click on any issue to change its properties or copy important information like the git branch name. Contextual menus work whether you’re viewing a list, board or sub-issues list and make Linear faster for users who prefer to use their mouse. It’s also a nice way to learn the most important keyboard shortcuts.

We also added contextual menus to other parts of the app: projects when viewing all projects, Inbox notifications and pull request links inside of issues. Right click to bring up their menus and take quick actions.

View options

Two weeks ago we released new view options as a Linear preview. Since then we have improved the available preferences and added it to more views including the Backlog, projects and cycles. We’re excited about this as it enabled many of our most requested features such as the ability to reorder issues in a list and select which fields you see on notifications in your Inbox. Starting today, view options are available for all Linear users and we’ll keep adding new preferences over time.

Other fixes and improvements

New icons for Inbox and related commands
Slack integration now supports alternative emails for GSuite users (re-login required)
Updated application menus and unified styling for them
Improved hover styling for list badges
Updated keyboard shortcut for opening your own profile (o+m)
Fixed layout issues with long issue titles
New command to open an issue in the desktop application from a browser (Cmd+Ctrl+,)
Added support to navigate lists with Home and End keys
Improved layout in the notification emails
Fixed bug when selecting issues in the list headers
Fix to presence animation when changing issue assignees
Several fixes to issue editor including removing link popovers in edit mode

Auto-close and auto-archive

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:00:00 GMT

Auto-closing and auto-archiving of issues

We announced the preview of our issue auto-close feature a couple of weeks ago. Today we’re announcing its sibling, auto-archive, and moving both features out of preview, so they’re available for everyone.

An important part of the Linear method is the principle “Keep a manageable backlog”. We think it’s best to leverage sensible automation to help you stay more focused and efficient and to save you from having to manually comb through your backlog and tons of closed issues.

As you work hard and complete your cycles and issues, completed issues pile up. Our new auto-archive feature will scan your issues and automatically archive those that have been closed for several months. This process also ensures your client will keep running smoothly and fast.

Auto-close and auto-archive are now automatically enabled for all new teams. To try them out on your current team, navigate to Settings > Team > Workflow. There you’ll be able to turn them on and configure the time and status to move the issues to.

Mark issues as duplicate

We’ve added a new issue relation that lets you mark issues as a duplicate of another issue. You can mark an issue as duplicate using the command menu (m+d) or select “Mark as duplicate of” in the status drop-down of the issue details. When you mark an issue as a duplicate of another, Linear will automatically close the issue and add a relation between the two issues.

When your team grows, you usually start receiving several bug reports for the same root cause. Marking as duplicate lets you close duplicate reports, but still keep the relation to the closed issues handy in case they contain additional information that might come in handy when debugging the problem.

Improvements to View options

We added several improvements to new view options. While the feature is still in Linear Preview, you can turn it on for your workspace by selecting Enable: New view options from the command menu (Cmd+K).

Added options to order issue lists by created date and last updated
Added view options to Inbox
Option to hide/show empty groups in lists and board views
Option to hide older completed issues
Board views are now always manually sorted

Other fixes and improvements

New “Copy pre-filled create issue URL to clipboard” command lets you turn any issue into an URL for creating a new issue with all the appropriate sections filled out
Improved the estimates display in board views
Fixed an issue where URL parameters supplied to linear.new would not be parsed correctly
Tooltips for estimates in group headers now also display the issue count
Improved the styling of icon buttons across the app
Improved animations for displaying popover menus

Linear Preview: View options

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:15:47 GMT

Linear Preview: View options

In the coming weeks, we’ll add better controls for many of Linear’s views. Today we’re introducing a new preview feature that lets you customize the layout, ordering, type and fields that are shown on issues. You can customize your view only or save your preference to make it the team’s default view. Today the following options are available and we’ll add more over time:

Layout: Pick list or board layout in cycle, project or label views
Ordering: We now support manual ordering for both boards and lists! Available in most team views
Show sub-issues: Toggle on and off sub-issues in your view
Display properties: Pick which issue fields you want to see in your view

You can turn on View options for your workspace by selecting Enable: New view options from the command menu (Cmd+k).

Improved search results in the command menu

Searching in the command menu (Cmd+k) will now also search through second-level actions and display them in the search results.

For example, if you search for “add label” it will show you the top-level “Add label...” action, but also include all the different labels that would have been displayed had you subsequently selected the “Add label...” action (e.g. “Add label Bug”). This also works when you search for text contained in a second-level action. For example, searching for “bug” will find the “Add label Bug” action.

New issue URL parameters

You can now construct new issue URLs that prefill any of the properties for the new issue. This lets you create links that assign the newly created issues to a specific person, add labels or even provide a template for a user to fill out. For example, the query parameters in this link will create a new issue with the title and description filled out and the label “bug” assigned.

The supported query params are as follows:

title
description
status
assignee
estimate
label
labels (comma-separated)
cycle
project

Other improvements and fixes

Open team actions are now ordered according to the users’ team membership
Performance improvements to list rendering
Various improvements and fixes to rendering for board and list views

Linear Preview: Auto-closing issues

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Linear Preview: Auto-close stale issues

It’s common for backlogs to build up with issues that become irrelevant or will never get addressed. We’re introducing issue auto-closing to automate the trouble of manually clearing stale issues. Once enabled, issues will be auto-closed and marked canceled if they haven’t been updated after a certain time period.

You can turn on Auto-close for your workspace by selecting Enable: Issue auto-closing from the command menu (Cmd+k). You’ll configure the time period and applied status under Settings > Team > Workflow.

Other improvements and fixes

GitHub and GitLab now support including multiple issue IDs in the closing statement in pull request descriptions (e.g. Fixes ENG-123, DES-5 and ENG-256)
The Slack integration now supports setting the issue assignee
Integrations which change issue status now set the issue to be the top item on the board
Improved application load time and significantly reduced memory usage
Improved user search in filters
Improved menu closing with mouse
Improved focus styling on buttons and links
Improved checkboxes and toggles to have more area for clicks
Underscores are now converted into dashes in issue URLs
Team filter is now included in My Issues and search pages if the workspace has multiple teams
Emoji and user suggestions aren’t included inside codeblocks anymore
Issue suggestions are now limited to 5 when being referenced with # in the editor
Stability fixes to realtime sync
Fixes to project graphs and completion time
Fixed cycle details panel on small displays
Fixed duplication of workflow statuses on new team creation when using another team as a base
Fixed application controls on Chromebooks

Filter improvements

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:00:00 GMT

Filter improvements

We’ve made some big improvements to the filter command menu. When you open the filter menu (f) and select any of the content types you want to filter with, we now compute how many issues in your current view would match each value. This gives you a good overview of the number of issues that would be selected were you to apply that filter.

The filter command menu will now also hide any unmatched filter values under a sub-section.

Previously we would list all possible values regardless of whether they match any issues in the current view. For example, if you were looking at a project and wanted to filter against assignees, we would previously list all the users in your organization. Now the filter menu is much more useful and will display only the users that have assigned issues in the project.

The Search view and My Issues potentially display issues from multiple teams. Filters have great improvements across these pages, too. We now group issue statuses and labels across teams, so that if you search for a label called “Bug”, we display issues from all teams that match the same label name. And you are now able to filter against all labels and issue statuses from all teams, instead of having to choose from labels and issue statuses of the last active team.

Other improvements and fixes

Project graphs are now displayed for all projects instead of appearing after we’ve gathered 1 week worth of progress information
Project graphs have now better styling for the prediction cone and target dates
Pull request icons are now sized correctly on board views
The Google Sheets integration can now be run manually from the integration page and from the command menu
When adding a label to multiple issues at once, the command menu will list all labels that are missing from any of the selected issues
Fixes to file encoding when uploading text documents

Linear.new, upcoming cycle count setting and workspace deletion

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT

linear.new

We’re now proud owners of the linear.new domain which is an easy to remember way to create a new Linear issue. Just type it in any browser and we’ll forward you to the new issue creation page as long as you’re logged into your account.

New setting: Upcoming cycle count

By default, Linear generates two upcoming cycles if you have the feature enabled. This lets your team plan ahead by adding issues to future ones. If you’re using relatively short cycles, you might want to increase the number of upcoming cycles available. Head over to your team settings to change how many upcoming cycles Linear creates. You can add up to 10 upcoming cycles.

Workspace deletion

Linear now has functionality to completely delete your workspace and all associated data. It’s accessible to all workspace admins under the workspace settings page.

Other improvements and fixes

Linear’s Google integration is now verified and will no longer throw a warning when integrating with Google Sheets
Added team, priority and status information to issue webhook payloads
Several fixes to loading the application offline
Fixed issues which could lead to multiple integrations being enabled on the same account
Fixed GitHub onboarding step on mobile devices
Fixes to users receiving duplicate push notifications
Improved application Javascript bundle sizes
Improved communication around premium features in settings
Tooltips are now positioned better
Deleting a team now includes an additional confirmation for security

Project visualizations and in-app changelog

Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:30:00 GMT

Project completion graphs

Project pages received a requested feature – completion graphs. These graphs show you the progress you’re making towards completing the project.

You’ll be able to see how your project scope has changed over time. The project completion graphs will also predict how long it will take to complete the project. The prediction is based on the velocity at which issues in the project are completed, where more recent weeks weigh more heavily than older weeks.

You can access them from the project details pane, which you can open from the toolbar or by pressing Command/Ctrl+i on the project page.

Changelog updates in the app

To make it easier to follow what has changed in Linear, we now show links to the latest changelog posts in the app sidebar. When there are new updates, the indicator will change color to Linear purple and you can quickly jump to the changelog post. You can also subscribe to changelog updates via email and Twitter.

Other improvements and fixes

Improves messaging around sync and offline mode. Tooltips now display more information about changes that have not been saved.
Fixed a regression on closed cycle pages, where moved issues were not shown
You can now correctly search for “no label” in the filter menu
Disabled push notifications for reactions as it was too noisy
The editor formatting toolbar no longer disappears when a selection ends outside of the editor bounds.
Fixes to codeblock generation
Fixes deletion of teams that are part of a multi-team project
Fixed privacy policy and terms not showing up correctly
Fixed problem with issues getting assigned the same identifier

Emoji reactions and notifications for closed issues

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 04:00:00 GMT

Emoji reaction for comments

We’re excited to add a much requested feature which is both fun and useful: emoji reactions to comments. Now you don’t need to send a comment to acknowledge a proposed solution, just select 👍 and the original comment author will be notified in their Inbox. The whole modern emoji set is available and anyone can join the party 🥳

✨ ProTip: To add emojis to issue descriptions, or to your own comments, just type :emoji-name:

Notifications for closed issues

To make communicating shipped features or canceled bugs easier, we also added two new notifications: completed and canceled issues. Whenever an issue is moved to either status, subscribers are notified.

Other improvements and fixes

Sidebar’s user menu now includes shortcuts to menu items
Added more billing information including past invoices
Added ability to create and join workspaces from the command menu
Added Microsoft Edge as a supported browser
Improved delivery speed of magic login emails
Improved GitHub/GitLab pull request processing stability
Improved GitHub/GitLab terminology in command menu and settings
Improved text selection and window dragging in several views for macOS application
Added more information to GitLab integration page
Several fixes to keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Linux
Fixed workflow automation for GitHub PRs which were moved from draft to ready for review with an existing reviewer
Fixed long dash characters in issue URLs
Fixed Inbox notification checkboxes on Firefox
Fixed issue ID autolinking when ID was followed by a punctuation mark
No label filter now shows up correctly
Fixes bug that hid “not completeled issues during cycle” issues in past cycles

GitLab support and public launch

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Linear signups are available for everyone!

We’re announcing Linear for general availability today. You can sign up yourself as can your team and there’s no more need for an invite. We’re also announcing pricing plans. Smaller teams can still use Linear for free without limits on users as long as your active issue count stays below 250.

Read our blog post

Ps. We’re looking for experienced TypeScript developers and product designers to join our team. Read more here.

GitLab merge request support

We’re excited to add support for GitLab. It lets you integrate Linear issues and merge requests with the same functionality as our existing GitHub integration:

Link multiple merge requests with issues
Support custom workflows with draft support
Support reverted merge requests

You can connect Linear with GitLab.com or your self-hosted GitLab installation starting today.

Linear Guide

Linear now has its own documentation site full of information on how to use the product better. We wanted to highlight the most common features and also expose less known ones in case you haven’t found them yet. To step up your Linear knowledge, we list shortcuts and ProTips marked with ✨!

Visit Linear Guide

Other improvements and fixes

New help menu with links to docs, the Slack group and a way to contact us
Issue list rendering performance improvements
Automatically login all windows if logging in on one
Issues created from Slack now support really long titles
Improvements to archiving teams
Less aggressive update notifications to the desktop application

Improvements and fixes

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Improvements and fixes:

Added ability to leave and rejoin a workspace
Added ability to find an issue by its URL
Improved sorting of users when using filters
Improved realtime sync notifications
Improvements to table styling in the editor
Improved color selection when adding labels through command menu
Fixed a bug with handling of suspended users
Background color fixes in desktop app

Added support to hide board columns

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Hide board columns

Linear’s board views now have the ability to collapse rarely used columns. This might come in handy if your team mostly works out of a few columns and would like to hide less frequently used ones.

To hide a column, select “Hide” from the board column’s menu. View or unhide hidden columns by scrolling to last column of the board (to the right). You can also drag issues into hidden columns.

Other improvements and fixes

Issue templates will now include assignee, project and status fields
Removed “external” label from users and inviting new users is now limited to workspace admins
Issue filters now supports searching by user’s username and full name
Webhooks for issues now include more label information (ID, name and color)
Added the ability to search labels and statuses across multiple teams in filters
Welcome email is now only sent to the first workspace a user joins
Warning is shown if a user decides to switch workspaces when changes are still being synced
Fixed timezone issues with project due dates
Fixes to draft pull request automation
Fix to arrow keys after writing an emoji in the editor

Support for multiple workspaces

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Support for multiple workspaces

We’re adding support for multiple workspaces under one user account. This makes it easier to keep your personal tasks in a separate workspace from your company’s workspace or to collaborate with multiple companies without logging in and out.

Teams that work with multiple clients can now create separate workspaces for each client so that their work and access to GitHub are separated.

To create a new workspace, select the option from the workspace navigator which is accessible by clicking the workspace name in your sidebar.

Other improvements and fixes

New user menu design in the sidebar
New shortcuts to move issues to top or bottom on the board: Option+Shift+Arrow Up+ and Option+Shift+Arrow Down+
Added edit option to user profile page when viewing own profile
Several improvements to application loading with new workspace URLs
Improved tooltips for issue actions in the list
Invite links are now deprecated and emails are required for inviting users
Fixed issue history entries for setting zero, or removing, estimates
Reduced resource usage when the application has been left idle in the background
Improved performance when selecting multiple issue with Shift+Arrow Up+/Arrow Down+ pressed
Fixed a bug where the favorited page would open as it was removed from the sidebar
Fixed white background flicker when opening the desktop app in dark mode
Added header and footer to 404 pages

Setting an issue's status

Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Setting an issue’s status

Linear has supported setting the issue status using keyboard shortcuts for a long time using Command/Ctrl+Option+1-5. This worked fine for teams using the default statuses. However, if a team added more statuses to their workflow, the keyboard commands would only target the first status of each status type (e.g. Backlog).

Linear now has keyboard shortcuts for all statuses of the selected team and you can change the status of selected issues using Command/Ctrl+Option+1-9. Additionally, the multi-select tray now detects if the team has multiple states for the “Move to Backlog” and “Move to Active” actions and will display a menu to let the user choose the state to move the issues to.

Infrastructure improvements

We’ve spent a considerable amount of time improving our backend infrastructure to support our ever-growing userbase. While this is an ongoing process, we’ve now completed a major refactor of the service infrastructure that considerably improves the reliability of our backend and lets us scale the application to a lot more users. Not everything went according to plan and we did have a few outages during these migrations for which we sincerely apologize.

Other improvements and fixes

Google authentication failures no longer block a user, and they log the user out
Fixed problems with the domain validation emails not getting sent out
For first logins, the loading screen now uses the users preferred appearance on macOS
The desktop application now has new windows consider their parent’s size and position when opening
Fixed issue where editing a template would always show an alert when navigating from the view
Fixes an image missing from the invite email
Fixes loading of archived issues in certain edge cases
Fixes an issue with email authentication when already logged in as the same user

Login with email magic links

Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Login with email magic links

Until now you could sign up for Linear using a GSuite account and invited users were able to log in using their Google account.

Today we are announcing email login with magic links, which enable you to sign up and log in using any email address. We also removed the limitation where you could only invite external collaborators if they had a @gmail.com account.

Logging in using email magic links is simple. Type in your email and we’ll send you a link. When you click the link, you’ll be taken to Linear and immediately logged in.

GitHub linkbacks and PR draft automation

We’ve made a couple of improvements to our GitHub integration. We now correctly handle draft pull requests and there is a new workflow setting to configure drafts.

We’ve also made improvements to issue links that get posted to pull requests on GitHub. When you update the pull request and link new issues, the links are posted correctly.

Other improvements and fixes

Lots of infrastructure stability improvements
Improved GitHub integration stability
Improvements to comment animations
Labels are now ordered alphabetically
Fixes to desktop app window behavior when using them fullscreen
Fixes a desktop app issue where the login window could be hidden, but not re-shown
Fixes to desktop app sign in flow
Made it easier to drag desktop app windows from the issue title
In My Issues view, Created and Subscribed sections are now sorted by creation date
Fixed Shift+click to select multiple issues in lists
Added keyboard shortcut for creating links with Cmd+K
Improvements to rendering notifications emails on mobile
Stability improvements for the Google Sheets integration
Allow all characters to be used in the workspace name
Fixed an issue when displaying multiple PR labels
New sidebar header with the workspace name and logo
We now mark a notification as read when you interact with the issue it relates to

GitHub draft pull requests, CSV export and team/project notifications

Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

GitHub draft pull requests and issue descriptions

We added support for GitHub draft pull requests in Linear. If you open a draft pull request, which is linked with an issue, it will show up as a draft in Linear. When the pull request is marked as ready for review, it will trigger automation in Linear and move the issue to the in progress status.

Links to the Linear issue in associated GitHub pull requests have also been improved. The pull request link can now be expanded to show the full description of the issues without leaving GitHub.

Subscribe to team/project notifications

Users now have the option to subscribe to all team and project notifications. This should make it easier to triage new issues and manage the overall scope.

Team: Select Subscribe to team notifications from the command menu (Command/Ctrl+k)
Project: Open projects page and select Subscribe to project notifications from the project card menu

CSV export

Issue data can now be exported in CSV format by workspace admins. You can schedule the export in Import/export settings and you’ll be emailed the download link once the exported data is available.

Other improvements and fixes

Several stability improvements to our API
Added keyboard shortcuts to move to the beginning and the end of the list with Command/Ctrl+Arrow Up and Command/Ctrl+Arrow Down
Preference to open external links in new window is now applied to all external links
Fixed layout issues with resizable sidebars
Fixed sync issues with cycle and project views
Fixed issues with online presence status
Fixed bugs in renaming cycles
Fixed avatar groups to show the correct amount of users with the active user on top
Fixed responsive navigation on our homepage

Improved My Issues view

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Improved My Issues view

Previously, the My Issues view would display currently active issues that have been assigned to you. By popular request, we improved the view to allow you to quickly display issues that are either Assigned to you, Created by you, or ones you’ve Subscribed to. Issues on your Backlog will now also be included in the listing.

User online status

User avatars will now show whether the user is currently online, away or offline. The profile page has been updated to show this information, too, and will additionally show the time they’ve last been online. You can also see this information in a popover when hovering on a user’s avatar in the comments section of any issue.

Increased text contrast

We made subtle improvements to contrast and font size in light mode and the emails sent by Linear. The added contrast and slightly enlargened text size improves legibility especially for muted and faded text.

Resizable sidebars

You can now resize the left and right sidebars by clicking and dragging on their edges. Useful for making the most of your preferred window size.

Importers view

To make it easier to discover the ways to import issues into Linear from other systems, we added an Importers page in the the Workspace Settings. Linear currently supports importing issues from GitHub, Jira, Asana, and Pivotal Tracker.

Other improvements and fixes

Added a new title/identifier configuration option for Git branch names
Esc now cancels editing a comment
The Offline indicator no longer gets cut when displayed on a narrow screen
Issue slugs now look better as they are stripped of some unwanted characters
Improved shadows for contextual menus
Fixed occasional flickering in the new user Onboarding flow
Fixed an issue where an empty comment could be saved
Fixed file/video upload URLs in Slack notifications

Branch naming

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Branch naming

A lot of Linear users have GitHub integration enabled and use our Copy git branch name action (Command/Ctrl+Shift+.) to copy the git branch name when starting to work on an issue. We’ve now added the ability to change the format of the branch name that will be copied. To change it, go to your Github integration settings.

Issue estimation improvements

We made several highly requested improvements to issue estimation. Each of the following new settings can be found under your team settings.

Counting unestimated issues

You can now choose how unestimated issues are counted towards estimate totals. Counting every unestimated issue as 1 point towards the estimate totals makes the most sense for most teams, and this remains the default.

Allow zero estimates

Previously, your issues were either not estimated at all, or you had a positive estimate value. If you want to distinguish between unestimated issues, but still allow issues to not count towards the total estimate for a cycle or project, you can now enable zero point estimates.

Extended estimate scale

All of our estimate scales have 5 values by design. Larger estimates usually mean that there is a lot of uncertainty about the complexity of an issue and breaking the issue up into smaller pieces is usually the best approach. However, if you want, you can now extend the scale and add two more values to the estimates.

Other improvements and fixes

Comments to issues in reminder emails now include embedded images and are formatted in HTML
Sync resumes faster when waking your computer from sleep
Contextual menus now show keyboard shortcuts
Exact timestamps are now accessible in Issue history by hovering over the entry time
Fixes to scroll bars on Firefox
Issues in label views are now sorted correctly
The issue page is no longer closed when hitting Esc when viewing a fullscreen video
Reliability improvements to our infrastructure
Parse and validation errors are now correctly reported in our GraphQL API

Project links

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Project links

We have added external links to projects. In addition to the project description, they can be used to link to external resources such as designs in Figma, project plans in Notion and so on.

To access project links, visit the project page and open the sidebar (Command/Ctrl+i).

Other improvements and fixes

Significant stability and performance improvements
When the Slack integration access has been revoked or turned off we send out a notification
Fix to issue URLs containing backtick characters
GitHub autolinking documentation improvements
Project team links and issue peek now work better on mobile devices
Removed team deletion from the command menu. To remove a team, visit the team settings page
API: Fixed pagination on users query

Cross-team projects

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Cross-team projects

Linear projects are a good way to group issues and add some structure, but until now they were limited to a single team. To support larger organizations, we’re rolling out cross-team projects in Linear. You can now see teams on the project’s page and add more from the team header, or with “Manage project teams” option in the command menu. Once you added more teams, you can see how much work they have left and toggle between them to see issues for each one of them.

Multi-domain support

Linear uses email domains to map users to their respective organizations. Until now every organization could only allow people from the domain of their Google Suite account. This causes issues for customers who rebrand, change domains, or just want to work with folks from a different domain. Today we’re rolling out support for multiple email domains. To enable, organization admins can add new domains in the organization settings.

Default templates

We’ve had issue template support for a while and today we’re extending that with a new premium feature: default templates. In the team’s template settings you can now set a template to be the default for all new issues created in that team, for members and non-members respectively.

Other improvements and fixes

Fix to project target dates
Fixed issues with label creation
Improved rendering of cycle burn-up graphs
Fixes to team navigation
Fixed sidebar unread count
Fixes to issue archiving, its child issues are now also archived
Hide avatars of suspended users when joining a team
Fixed saving of read states for notifications
Fixed some typos in tutorial issues
Fixed moving issues to a team that has archived workflow states
Now focusing at the end of a comment when editing it
Settings navigation has a new design
Team settings sections are now their own pages
New windows in the desktop application open in the same location as the current window
Fixes to filtering on the search page

Desktop app improvements: multi-window support

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Desktop app improvements: multi-window support

We updated our desktop app (1.2.0) with better window management along with other improvements. Full list of updates:

Ability to open (Command/Ctrl+n) and close (Command/Ctrl+w) multiple windows
Support for narrow window sizes
Better handling of in-app links and Command/Ctrl++click to open internal links in new windows
Improved handling of closed and minimized windows
Updated to Electron 8 for improved performance

If you have the app installed, it will prompt you to download the updated version soon. To manually download the app, head to linear.app/download.

Other improvements and fixes

Increased list performance throughout the application. Hovering over list rows close to edges also doesn’t move the list anymore.
Inbox now supports notification grouping
Back link in issue views now behaves correctly with sub-issues
Issue view header now shows filtered issue estimates or counts
Added support for longer team names
Added ability to filter views by team
My Issues view now shows blocking issues at the top
Cycle views don’t show backlog columns anymore
Project status is now shown in command menu for Add to project and Filter by project actions
Improved documentation around GitHub issue autolinking
Fixed pull request link styling in board views
Fixes to team deletion
Fixed overflowing project names in projects dashboard
Fixed screenshot and issue links in Slack notifications
Fix to profile photo updating
Fix to allowing copying of issue title on Firefox
Fixes to certain screenshot aspect rations
Fix to My Issues shortcut in shortcuts help modal

Issue relations

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

New projects dashboard

We built projects into Linear to better manage large bodies of work which can span several members of a team. To improve the visibility of projects, we’re introducing a new improved dashboard with a card-based design. It makes it easier to see the status of each project in a team and also helps with navigation.

Projects now use a new URL structure which includes the name of the project so that project links make more sense when shared across chat or email. We added link unfurling for Slack to quickly show a preview for project links. It’s available for teams that have the Slack integration enabled.

Improved Inbox

We improved the Inbox with functionality that makes it easier to manage notifications. The Inbox now supports bulk actions, so you can select multiple notifications at once and perform actions on them. Notifications for new comments now also include a preview of the content, and you can preview the related issue using Issue Peek by pressing Space.

Other improvements and fixes

Added new keyboard shortcuts to navigate between parent issues (Command/Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Up+) and sub-issues (Command/Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Down+)
Added new keyboard shortcut for changing the theme (Command/Ctrl+Shift+l)
Changed team shortcuts to ctrlShift+1-9 to prevent conflicts with browser tab navigation on Windows
Added issue history entries for the blocking and blocked issue when the blocking issue is resolved or when it is re-opened
Added issue popovers to issue relationship history entries
Issue boards now include issue relationships (blocked etc.) flags. Badges can now be clicked to change their value similar to list views
Added issues subquery under issueLabel and issue relationships under issues in the GraphQL API
Added a prompt for when the user is about to discard comment edits without saving them
Copy git branch shortcut won’t move the issue into In Progress status anymore if it has already been marked as Done
Fixed issue relationship adding in the new issue compose view
Fixed issue subscriptions when there are more than one user @-mentioned in a comment
Fixed two-finger tap to bring up command menu on mobile
Fixed issue edit mode for issues with “edit” in their title
Fixed exiting settings with Esc
Fixed regression in Webhooks which caused newly created notifications to appear with action: update
Fixed pasting embed URLs with whitespace in them

2020-03-04

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Issue relations

This week we shipped a highly requested feature - issue relations. With issue relations, you can annotate relationships between issues. We start with three different relationships:

An issue is being blocked by another issue
An issue is blocking another issue
An issue is referencing another issue

Blocking references can be added from the bottom of the status selection in list views and issue detail views, or through the command menu. We also have new keyboard shortcuts to give you quick access to adding and removing relationships:

m then b - Mark an issue as being blocked
m then x - Mark an issue as blocking another issue
m then r - Reference another issue
Shift+m - Remove a relation

Issue mentions

The editor has also been updated to make it easy to reference issues in issue descriptions or comments. The easiest way to link another issue is to write the identifier of an issue (e.g LIN-123), followed by a space, or copy-paste it. This will immediately turn the text into a link to the issue.

If you don’t know the exact identifier of the issue you want to reference, you can bring up a lightweight issue search tool by typing a pound sign (#), followed by the team identifier (e.g #LIN) or search term (e.g #design). This will bring up a dropdown menu that you can use to select the appropriate issue.

Other improvements and fixes

Added hover popovers for users, issues, projects and cycles in the issue history
The project due date now works correctly in all timezones
Titles in the issue board are now truncated beyond 2 lines on supported browsers
The project editor now validates input on the client-side and enforces max lengths for project descriptions
Fixes to recursive redirects for issues whose title only contains special characters
Fixes to title input validation for GraphQL endpoints for creating and updating issues
Fixes to the description of issues created from Slack
Fixes to infrastructure when dealing with large application loads
Fixes the cycle and project links in the issue details for mobile devices
Clicking on the title of issue lists will now bring up the navigation options as a small command menu instead of a big one

2020-02-20

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Editor improvements

Text editors are one of those features where it’s important to get the experience just right. Over the past weeks, we’ve been making several small tweaks to our editor based on your feedback. Markdown pasting and conversion is more reliable, you can create blockquotes from the toolbar and pasting multiple paragraphs of code into a codeblock no longer creates multiple blocks.

Change organization name

You can now edit your workspace/organization name in the settings.

New team member: Mike Arvela

We happy share to that we have a new addition to the Linear team. Mike Arvela will be joining us in March and bringing over 10 years of engineering, product, and management experience. Welcome, Mike!

Other improvements and fixes

Fix to complex filenames in file uploading
New comment on issue shortcut (ctrlm)
Archive alert dialog no longer says that the action cannot be undone
Fix to cycle name in Google Sheets
Better error handling for data sync issues

Issue archive

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Issue archive

You’ve always been able to archive issues with Linear. The term “archive” has been a bit misleading, as there hasn’t been an easy way to browse archived issues or restore them.

This week we launched the issue archive, accessible via a new link in the sidebar. It lets you browse every single issue that you and your team have ever archived. Since your archive can become huge over time, it is not readily stored on the client, but loaded on demand, and is one of the very few places in Linear where you might see a loading screen. Even so, you can apply all the same filters that you’d use in all the other issue lists.

Archived issues can now also be brought back to life, using a dedicated “Restore” button in the issue view, or via the “Restore issue” command with #.

Better file attachments and comment styling

To make it easier to attach images, videos and other files to issue descriptions and comments, there’s now a dedicated button for new attachments. In addition to upload buttons and drag & drop, it’s now also possible to attach files through the Command/Ctrl+Shift+a shortcut.

As part of this update, we also improved the styling of comment sections, which should improve readability.

Other improvements and fixes:

Issue labels can now be 80 characters long, instead of the previous 20
Added warning dialogs when data changes fail to save locally due to low disk space
Empty comments can no longer be posted
Added URLs to all entities posted by webhooks
Comments notifications are no longer shown as markdown
Fixed annoyances in first user experience
Fixed several issues with submitting issue comments on Safari and iOS
Fixed some cases where it was possible to zoom in via double-tapping on mobile devices
Added more commands to the keyboard help page
We no longer hijack Command/Ctrl+f when in the keyboard help page
Improvements to opening the link editor

Automated Google Sheets export

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Automated Google Sheets export

To make analytics easier, we added integration with Google Sheets. Once enabled, a new Sheets document is created under your account and kept up to date, when changes occur on your Linear issues. This makes it easy to build your analytics dashboards, look at statistics and manage any custom metrics your team might track.

Better issue URLs

URLs should be memorable, descriptive and systematic. Linear has historically used the format linear.app/issue/ENG-123 for issue URLs which made modifying easy and you could automate linking in tools such as GitHub. In Slack, due to unfurling, you get a nice preview instantly, but as a vanilla URL, the issue number alone is far from descriptive. Today we’re changing the format to include the slug of the issue’s title, making your URLs look like linear.app/issue/ENG-123/new-feature. The title part is optional and old URLs are still functional.

Along with nicer looking URLs, we also made changes to keep track of previous URLs when issues are moved between teams. This way all past links will resolve correctly.

Cycle auto-assign settings

Team settings now include a new preference for Cycles. You can now disable automatic assigning of issues that are not yet in a cycle but get started or completed during one. Both preferences are enabled by default for new and existing teams.

Other improvements and fixes:

Significant speed improvements to first time application start time
New shortcut to copy issue URL: Command/Ctrl+Shift+,
Added option to group/ungroup issue history entries for auditing purposes
Cycle sidebar works better with long user names
Several fixes to notifications
Shorter format for multiple pull requests in list and board views
Better hover highlights for issue lists
Nicer default avatar colors when the user hasn’t uploaded a picture of themselves yet
Fixed bug when removing project target date
Fixed bug with pasting text to code-blocks
Fixed drag & drop for files to posted comments
Fixes to embedding of pasted Figma URLs
Fixes to comment animations
Fixes to re-inviting users

Webhooks

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Webhooks

For quite some time, we’ve had a preview of our API available to query and manipulate your data on demand. This week, we added the other side of the equation: programmatically listening to changes that happen in Linear.

Webhooks allow you to receive HTTP push notifications to a URL whenever data in Linear changes. We begin with the two most important data objects - Issues and Comments - but will gradually expand Webhooks to cover most data objects in Linear.

You can configure webhooks in your team settings. The configured URL will be called whenever any issue or comment in Linear is created or updated, and you’ll receive the entire data object as the payload. For updates, we’ll also let you know what the previous values for all changed properties were.

To get started, read our Webhook documentation.

Other improvements and fixes:

You can now paste Markdown into issue descriptions and comments and it will be converted to rich text automatically
Adding or removing an issue from a project will now generate an issue history entry
Archiving an issue will now generate an issue history entry
Sub-issues will now be created as active issues if the parent issue isn’t in the backlog
Sub-issues will now copy the project of their parent issue when created
The editor formatting toolbar now has a dedicated blockquote button
When the application needs to refresh itself it will no longer do so if you’re editing an issue
Reliability improvements to Slack notifications
Fixed issues with creation timestamps being displayed incorrectly

Improved Search

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Improved Search

Searching for issues is one of the most common things and it has just gotten better.

You can now quickly pull up a specific issue by entering its issue ID and it also works with lazy typing like lin1142 instead of LIN-1142. Search works better for multi-word queries like “web hook“ as well.

On the search page, accessible from the sidebar, we now fuzzy search your query over the issue ID, title and description, enabling deeper discovery.

Other improvements and fixes:

Fixes to navigation in inbox
Fixes to the color of progress indicators
Added support for filtering issues without estimates

Copy team settings

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Copy team settings

Teams in Linear can define their workflow, labels and other settings, including the schedule of any cycles they might have been using. Many times, new teams would just want to copy over the workflow and labels from an existing team rather than fill them out themselves.

We added a new option to the team creation view to let you copy over all settings from an existing team.

Other improvements and fixes:

The next upcoming cycle is now shown in the sidebar
Emoji only comments
You can press Shift+ and j/k to paint select a number of issues in issue lists
You can now press and hold j/k to navigate the issue lists up and down
You can now rename templates via the action menu
Added a new preference to assign an issue to yourself if you copy its git branch name and the issue is unassigned
Keyboard shortcuts are now correctly capitalized throughout the application
Several fixes to board ordering and rendering
There’s a new action to mark all notifications as read

Issue templates

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Happy new year from the Linear team!

Issue templates

If you have a certain structure of issues that you use frequently or have some information you’d always like to be filled out by people creating issues, you can now use templates to make your workflow a whole lot faster.

Templates can be created by anyone in the team and are scoped to that team. You can review the current templates, create new ones or edit existing ones in the new Templates section of Team settings.

In addition to prefilling your issue title or body, you can also set the labels and priority of issue templates.

Other improvements and fixes:

Optimized performance of board view
Added ability to filter by estimate points
Fixed ordering when dragging issues in a board when using filters
Better scrollbar support for improved usability
Wrapping long links in issue editor
Improved team assigning for new invited users

New command menu

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

New command menu

The command menu is one of the core components of Linear and lets you execute any command with just a few keystrokes. We already have hundreds of actions that range from modifying issue properties to switching between UI themes. With the number of commands set to increase with new functionality, we wanted to revisit how commands are grouped, ordered and displayed.

The new command menu groups its commands based on their functionality. Groups are prioritized based on what you are focusing on, or the view you’re currently in. For example, if you are looking at cycles, the command menu will first display commands that are related to cycles. Groups are then further subdivided based on the type of command, making it easier to skim over large sets. Icons further help find what you’re looking for.

Support for retina screenshots

Linear now supports correct dimensions for 2x retina resolution screenshots in PNG format. Correct image dimensions are set when the file is uploaded through the editor.

Why didn’t we support this before, one might ask? Even modern browsers don’t expose the real dimension information and therefore render the image like it would have been zoomed in 200%. To determine the correct information, we have to read the header information from the raw PNG data and use pHYs header (physical pixel dimensions) to determine if the image’s real resolution.

Other improvements and fixes:

Cycles now display weekdays left until completion instead of days left
Added filters for open and closed issues
Improved styling of code-blocks in the editor
Links can now be opened in the link editor when editing an issue
Figma embeds work more reliably
Label and project pages now include backlog issues
Label pages for labels that contain slashes now work correctly
The desktop app now uses the browser for authentication to improve reliability
Deleting notifications now result in a more accurate toast message

Onboarding: Join Teams

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Onboarding: Join Teams

Often as companies grow, new Linear teams are created to help organize issues better. However, not everyone needs to be an active member of all the teams in a company.

To improve the onboarding experience for new team members joining the workspace, we added a dialog that lets new users only join the teams they want, or create a new team. Teams can always be joined, left or edited afterward as well.

Editor improvements: New formatting toolbar and easier linking

We redesigned the editor formatting toolbar with new styling and icons. The toolbar now includes actions to create links and format text as inline code. For users who prefer not to touch their mouse, Markdown shortcuts are of course still available, as are keyboard shortcuts.

ProTip: Quickly create a link by selecting text and pasting a link on it.

Other improvements and fixes:

Added hiring page at linear.app/readme
Use Linear avatars if there is no avatar on a user’s Google profile
Images now have a maximum height in the editor
Fixed bug related to invites sent to Gmail users
Backlog issues are shown before completed/closed issues in views
Elevation added to more UI elements
Issue details now show avatar names according to user preferences
Airtable links now convert to document embeds

GitHub workflow

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT

GitHub workflow

GitHub workflow is one of the most powerful features in Linear. As a developer, it enables you to track the status of your work automatically as you work on your branches. Being an important part of the experience, we added the GitHub setup to the onboarding.

After GitHub has been connected, new users joining the workspace will get tips on how to efficiently use the GitHub integration in their workflow.

Other improvements and fixes:

Re-mapped the save filters keyboard shortcut to Command/Ctrl+Option+f to avoid conflicting with the remove all filters command
Fixed an issue which caused some pages (e.g. issues for a label) not updating in realtime
Issue created notifications that originated from Slack will no longer be sent back to Slack
The assignees’ list now only shows active users
@mention listings now only show active users
The issue subscription dialog now only shows active users
The editor will now only convert dashes and stars to horizontal rules when entered at the beginning of a line
Fixed the nullability of the user avatar in the GraphQL API

API improvements

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

API improvements

Linear is built on our GraphQL API which is also available to our users through personal API keys. As we have evolved the application, the API has evolved as well. This week we’re releasing larger breaking changes to future proof the API and provide more stable building blocks for the future.

Pagination

All list responses from queries now return paginated results instead of a list. We implement Relay style cursor-based pagination model with first/after and last/before pagination arguments. To simply query get first 10 issues for your organization:

query { 
  issues(first: 10) {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        title
      }
      cursor
    }
    pageInfo { 
      hasNextPage
      endCursor
    }
  }
}

The first 50 results are returned by default without query arguments. Pagination also supports simpler syntax where instead of edges you can directly get all the nodes similar to GitHub’s GraphQL API:

query {
  teams {
    nodes {
      id
      name
    }
  }
}

Archived resources

Archived resources are now hidden by default from the paginated responses. They can be included by passing optional includeArchived: true as a query parameter.

New `viewer` query

To get the currently logged in user, we also added a simpler viewer query:

query { 
  viewer { 
    id 
    name 
    email
  }
}

Other improvements and fixes:

Fixed a bug in team archiving which lead to client crashes in certain situations

Secured a USD 4.2M Seed Round

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Secured a USD 4.2M Seed Round

We are creating software for startups and companies who look to create impact. We believe creators should be able to focus on work, not managing their work, and managers should be able to focus on creating alignment and direction, and not micro-managing timelines and tasks. Any process shouldn’t come in the way of creating.

To build this vision, we’ve raised a USD 4.2M seed round, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Index Ventures and others. Read more about this investment in our Medium post.

Other improvements and fixes:

YouTube video’s can now be embedded in issue details and comments. Just paste a YouTube link into the editor to embed.
Headers now display issue estimates instead of issue counts
Repo names are now visible in GitHub pull requests in the issue detail view
Fixes an issue that let the user save an issue and comment before file uploads were completed
Labels now have a larger hit-area for the delete action
Pinch-to-zoom is now disabled for mobile devices
Auth windows now open as neat pop-ups instead of full-screen web pages
Fixed colors for links in the People settings page
Fixes misalignments in the People settings page
New website to explain some of the functionality of Linear

New sidebar

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

New sidebar

We’ve redesigned the sidebar to accommodate larger organizations and improve speed and usability. Users can now leave and join teams from the drop-down menu of each team. Leaving a team will move the team to an “All teams” section of the sidebar, enabling you to focus on the teams that you actively work with. Issues can still be assigned to users that are not part of the team, but the user interface will highlight which users are not part of the team that the issue belongs to.

Individual sections and teams in the sidebar can be collapsed and Linear will remember which sections the user collapsed to persist this information across sessions.

Other improvements and fixes:

Linear access is now revoked if the access to the associated Google account is suspended
List views now correctly account for varying issue ID widths
A newly created sub-issue will now copy the cycle property of its parent
The issue title now as correct margins and will resize itself to multiple rows when the window is resized
Added new command menu action to copy issue description in markdown format
The user page layout has been improved
Fixed issues with command menu animation issues with the latest Chrome
Fixed recognizing Enter in issue and comment editor for certain input strings
Integration authentication dialogs have been moved into popup windows
Disabled pinch-to-zoom on mobile devices
Push notifications are no longer sent to suspended users
Moving up/down a list with k and j now also works when Ctrl is pressed

Better Slack notifications

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Better Slack notifications

Consuming the full firehose of Linear updates in a Slack channel can get overwhelming at times. Each team can now choose which Linear updates to send to their Slack channel. You can receive notifications of newly created issues, new comments on existing issues and all updates to existing issues. Head over to your team settings to make adjustments.

Refer a friend

Have a friend who would like to use Linear? You can now refer them and they will skip the invite waitlist.

To refer a friend, search for “Refer to Linear” in the command menu or select the option from the main options menu. We’ll ask your friend to fill out our beta survey to make sure Linear is ready for them. Once the survey has been submitted, we’ll be in touch within a few days.

Mobile improvements

Pressing Command/Ctrl+K to bring up the command menu isn’t very mobile-friendly. To bring the command menu to the reach of mobile users, we added a two-finger tap gesture that brings up the command menu on touch-screen devices.

Linear is now also a progressive web app. You can install it to your home screen for quick access using the browser on your mobile phone or tablet. When browsing Linear, hit Options > Add to home screen.

Furthermore, we went through every screen in the application and improved the way we render each of them on mobile devices with limited screen real-estate.

Improved dark mode

We’ve improved the visual appearance of pop-overs, tooltips and buttons with the introduction of an elevation system. This increases the contrast between elevated components in dark mode.

Other improvements and fixes:

Settings can now be closed using Esc
Fixed some email validation issues in the invite users from
Keyboard shortcuts are now more easily browsable on small screens
Fixed client crashes when deleting an existing team
Fixed upcoming cycles not correctly being created when a team has previously archived cycles
Fixed keyboard shortcuts incorrectly capturing key input when trying to enter text on some input fields
Fixed code-blocks in editor when using Firefox
Disabled spellchecking in code-blocks
Fixed a daylight saving time issue when rendering weekends on in the cycle burn-up graph
Weekends are now correctly rendered in the cycle burn-up graph for users in different timezones than the team

Responsive web application

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Responsive web application

Linear’s web application is now responsive and scales for both tablets and smartphone screens. While most developers use Linear on their desktop, it’s common to add new issues in a meeting or quickly reply to a comment on the go. We didn’t want to dumb down the experience for mobile users and instead decided to make the whole application adapt to all screen sizes. This is an ongoing process and we’ll improve the experience over time.

Invite external users

External Gmail users can now be invited to join Linear teams. This should help onboard contractors and partners in situations where they don’t have access to your GSuite. Right now external users get access to all your workspace data with the limitation of not being able to invite other users. We’ll expand access level control over time. If your team has more specific needs, please send us feedback.

Label pages

Pages are now available for each label, grouping issues tagged with the label. Clicking a label in the issue list or detail views opens the label page. You can add it to your sidebar for quick access through favorites. There’s also a new shortcut for quickly jumping into a label page (O then L).

Other improvements and fixes:

Added option to change between light and dark theme based on your OS system preference
Improved application cold startup time significantly for larger teams
Added option to subscribe to changelog updates in the new user onboarding
Added text filtering for views (Command/Ctrl+F)
Added ability to subscribe to your cycle schedule thought a calendar feed (available in command menu when viewing cycles).
Added developer action to copy model UUIDs from the command menu
Cycle schedules can now be added to the calendar.
Fixed bug where modals closed for text selection
Fixed keyboard shortcuts when interacting with input fields
Fixed real-time updates for comment edits

Zapier integration

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Zapier integration

We’ve created a Zapier app that lets you create automation that publish issues to Linear.

Want to create a new issue when a tag has been added to an Intercom conversation? Or create a bug report when you receive an email message with specific keywords? Or create an issue whenever a custom database query returns a new row? Now you can.

The Zapier app hasn’t launched publicly yet, but you can join our beta today.

We’re developing the integration as an open source project and it’s available on GitHub. Feel free to submit pull requests if there’s something you’d like to add to it.

Label improvements

You can now filter for issues that don’t have any labels. In the filter menu select Filter by label > No label. This filter can be mixed and matched with other label filters, so you can now filter for issues that either a specific label or no labels at all. Labels can now be removed using the Shift+L keyboard shortcut.

Other improvements and fixes:

Issue edits can now be saved using Command/Ctrl+S
Copying a git branch name will now result in a lower-cased team key
Improves cold startup performance
Improves layout of lists with long issue identifiers
When an issue is completed during an active cycle, it is added to the cycle
Co-workers can now be invited from a link in the sidebar
Sub-issues are now automatically added to the same project as the parent issue upon creation
Fixes loading of filters that target unassigned issues
Fixes to entering text in the command menu when the cursor isn’t at the end of the input field
Fixes comment editing on Safari
Fixes filtering UI when filtering against multiple projects
Updated welcome tutorial to render better on mobile devices
Fixes search focus when selecting the search command from the command menu

Improved comments

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Improved comments

Comments are now editable by the submitter. Once edited, an indicator will note that edits were made. Todo-lists inside comments have also received the ability to be ticked off after the comment has been submitted.

The timestamps on comments and other issue history entries are now links, so you’ll be able to share a direct link to a specific comment.

Invite your team

Inviting your team is now easier with dedicated invite links. To grab your personal share link, head to People tab under settings. As always, you’ll also be able to invite your team via email.

Link to issues in GitHub

While not a new feature of Linear, we thought it would be worth mentioning that GitHub has added the ability to auto-link issue ID’s with external issue trackers. This works well together with Linear, and you’ll be able to set it up under repository settings for each team. Just map your team key (e.g. KEY-) to the Linear URL (https://linear.app/issue/KEY-). Don’t forget to replace the team key with yours.

Other improvements and fixes:

Multiple GitHub pull requests are now combined into a single indicator on lists and boards which makes it easier to open the correct PR through the command menu
Clearing search input doesn’t open the search page anymore
Search results can now be filtered by team
Selecting issue filters in the issue detail pane now includes the ability to create and assign a new label if one isn’t found
Archiving issues from a board lane now respect any active filters you might have going on
Several fixes to keyboard navigation under projects
Opening an issue will now mark all notifications for that issue as read
Action to clear Inbox has been renamed as “clear all notifications”
Board views now include full issue titles
Team and label names are now unique
The cycle menu now uses the command menu and includes an action to favorite the cycle
The feedback form now caches the message locally so that you don’t lose text upon accidental close
Typed in arrows in descriptions and comments now get converted into Unicode characters
Improvements to the data synchronization protocol
Fix to fetching Figma previews under certain conditions
Fixes ordering of issues in the board view
Fixes ordering of workflow statuses

Contextual command menu

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Contextual command menu

The command menu gives you access to all actions applicable to your view or selection. We also bring up the command menu when you’re clicking on items in the UI that have a corresponding action command menu, such as assigning an issue to a user or setting an issue’s priority. While this worked reasonably well, we didn’t like that the fact that the command menu always appeared at the center of the screen, regardless of whether it was invoked using the keyboard or mouse.

This week, we’re bringing the command menu closer to the UI element that it was invoked from. The command menu now acts almost like a drop-down element but still retains its searchability and keyboard controllability.

Improved desktop application

Linear’s desktop application wraps the web application for macOS and ships with native notifications among other functionality. This week we shipped several improvements listed below. If you already have the app installed, it will prompt you to update, or you can download it manually here.

Upgraded to Electron 6 with latest Chromium
Application will now ask to move itself to the Application folder if it detects that it is launched from Downloads or other location
Added right click context menu for copying and opening links
Added ability to zoom and other window controls
Fixed “Hide Others” options for macOS
Remapped back/forward shortcuts to macOS native Command/Ctrl+[/Command/Ctrl+]
Added preferences shortcut: Command/Ctrl+,
Added home view shortcut: Shift+Command/Ctrl+h
Fixed canceling edit mode prompt
Fixed dragging window from issue view header
Fixed Figma preview links in certain cases

Other improvements and fixes:

Notifications are now sent for users that are added as subscribers to an issue
Slack notifications include better links for Figma previews
Many small UI elements have been given more hit area so that they are easier to click
Many UI elements now have better highlight states
Suspended users will receive better error messages when they try to modify resources
Peek is now deactivated when the command menu is opened
Board elements now show estimates

Figma integration

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Figma integration

We love Figma, and use it to design Linear. To make it easier to share design mocks in Linear, we now have an integration which converts Figma links into design previews inside Linear. Just copy a link to specific artboard, or a file, and we’ll generate a preview image and a link in few seconds.

On technical implementation, we build this integration from ground up on Figma’s API with their OAuth2 authentication. Instead just using Figma’s standard Embed, this gives us several advantages:

Performance - Figma’s Embeds are heavy to load and they had significant performance impact to our frontend rendering. Loading an image with a link is as fast as loading any other image.
Support for private Figma files - Figma Embeds only work with public files. Loading screenshots via their API allows us to embed any file.
Snapshot in time - When you share a mock as a comment, it’s not ideal that the mock changes over time. _ Select what to show - You can select a specific artboard to be rendered as the preview image. Useful when you want to use the main design element or cover page as the preview.
Embed on demand - You can click the preview image to open Figma’s Embed in its full glory if you want to dive into the asset without opening full Figma.

One-click cycle planning

It’s common to go through all team members in cycle planning or retro. Instead of applying user filter after user filter, we made this one-click action: hover over the user in cycle sidepanel and select “Filter”. This combined with issue peek and you’ll be done with your meeting in no time.

New shortcut commands and keys

We added new shortcut commands for quick opening views:

o then c - Open cycle…
o then p - Open project…
o then f - Open favorite…
o then u - Open user…

All these commands are also available in the command menu (Command/Ctrl+k). You can also trigger them from the header by clicking the title of the current view (e.g. cycle name in cycle view).

In addition to open commands we added keyboard shortcuts to all the available sidebar links:

g then x - Open closed issues
g then e - Open all issues
g then b - Open issue board
g then v - Open active cycle

Other improvements and fixes:

Sub-issues in issue now fit more relevant information (removed ID and creation date)
Better link color for issue descriptions in dark mode
Improved shadow styling for cycle sidebar
Issue estimate is now included in issue peek view
Empty columns are now hidden in board view when filtering against status
Added confirm step for moving issues between teams
Sidebar favorites are now ordered by the time of favoriting
Search now includes issue descriptions
Fixed missing color from project edit modal
Fixed closing of keyboard help modal with Esc
Fixes to comment compose
Fixed exception when filtering cycles
Fixed bugs in favoriting which lead to app crashing
Fixed scheduled cycle closing

Improved peek

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Improved peek

Peek is one the semi-secrets of the Linear UI. It’s a quick way to glance over the focused issue in issue lists similar to Quicklook in macOS. It can be useful in cases where you are trying prioritize several issues in a list, find one particular issue, or decide what to do with an issue.

It’s a great feature, so it deserves a more prominent key to invoke it. We’ve remapped the key from Alt to Space. Peek is active while you hold down Space, or you can quickly press Space once to toggle it on, and once more to toggle it off.

File uploads

Linear already supported photo and video uploads, and now we added generic support for all files type. You can add any file to the issue description or a comment as attachments. To attach a file, simply drag and drop files from your computer to the description editor or comment box.

Add more favorites

In addition to projects, you can now favorite individual issues or cycles and have them appear in the sidebar for quick access.

Other improvements and fixes:

The associated projects in issue lists now link to the project
Improved hover states for many components
Prevents background auto-update when you’re in the middle of editing an issue
Fixed an exception in billings page when you have an active subscription
Fixed subscribers button with several subscribers
Issue title now renders in correct color in Safari
Further search improvements for better matching

Favorite projects

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Favorite projects

You’re now able to favorite projects and have them appear as shortcuts in the sidebar. Simply click the star icon in the header when you’re looking at the issues of a project, or open the command menu and select “Favorite project”.

Cycle startup-time and renaming

Cycles have gained some additional functionality this week. In case your team is on holiday or you want to make room for that Hackathon, you can now move the start time of individual cycles forward (and backward). You can now also give rename cycles to describe what you’re working on in each cycle.

API Documentation

We added some preliminary API documentation. You own your data in Linear and our GraphQL API lets you query all of that data. In addition to querying, the Linear has full support for mutating all entities. Any mutations you make via the API are observed in real-time by all clients, giving you immense powers of writing your integrations.

In the months to come, we will improve the API and documentation, but we wanted to give the courageous among you early access to the API. We can’t wait to see what you build with it.

Bootstrap speed

If you haven’t noticed yet, we’re obsessed by speed. We felt that hot reloads could be faster. Hot reloads are reloads of the client where the client doesn’t need to do a full synchronization with the backend and they are much more common than cold reloads. We added some clever optimization on how data is deserialized and are now seeing 4x faster hot bootstrap times with around 2000 open issues. The more open issues you have, the bigger the difference is.

Faster search for issues using the command menu

You can now quickly search for issues using the command menu. Simply open the command menu and start typing. Search results will appear after all other actions.

Other improvements and fixes

You can now customize your avatar by uploading a new image in settings
Load filter action has been fixed and remapped to Command/Ctrl+Shift+f
Suspended team members will no longer show up in assignee menus
Suspended team members are now rendered differently in the UI so that you can more easily see if an issue has been assigned to a suspended user
You can now filter for issues that have been assigned to suspended users
Search now uses a better search algorithm
Creating sub-issues will now make you the assignee if you’ve opted into auto-assign new issues to yourself

Cycle cooldown

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Cycle cooldown

Some teams like have dedicated downtime between cycles to “cool down” or catch up on other tasks before jumping into the next iterative development cycle. Linear now supports configuring a cooldown period in the team settings.

Inline label creation

Creating new labels is now a lot faster. Previously, one had to jump to team settings to add a new label, but now you can do that straight from the command menu (Command/Ctrl+k). When you have an issue selected, hit l to add a label to the issues, then select the “Create new label...” action.

Improved todo lists

Todo lists in issue descriptions have always been a great way to keep track of things that are still needed to be done to complete the issue. Now todo lists have received better styling and more importantly, you can check off individual items without having to go into edit mode.

To create a todo list in an issue description, type “[ ] todo” or press CtrlShift+7.

Other improvements and fixes

External links will now be opened in a new window by default. Preferences have been added to toggle this behavior
All controls in the issue detail pane can now be reached via Tab
Shift+Enter will now generate a line-break in the editor
Fixed issue where reverting a pull request would close the associated issue
Linear will now automatically upgrade itself if its in the background when it detects a newer release
When @mentioning a user in the issue description, that user will now get added as a subscriber to the issue
Fixed issue where navigation actions would trigger inadvertently
Fixed issue with modifying pre-filled issues
Links to team settings in the pre-populated issues will now point to the correct team’s settings.

Video uploads and player

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Video uploads and player

For new designs or bug reports, videos can tell more than pictures or words. Linear now supports video uploads as well as Loom embeds.

To embedd a video, just drag and drop a video file onto the issue description or comment field or paste in a Loom link and it will automatically be embedded.

Easier way to send feedback

We want to learn as much as possible from you on how we can improve Linear. We’ve added an easier way to send feedback from the app sidebar. We also have a new Slack community, the link of which you can find in the settings menu.

Copy issue link

In addition to copying the issue id and git branch name, you can now also easily copy a link to the issue. Use the icon on the right corner or use the action menu (copy issue url).

Other improvements and fixes

Added clear-button for search field
The project name in the project editor now automatically receives focus
Improvements to sync reliability
Fixed a problem where one could accidentally archive a project instead of an issue within a project

GitHub Pull Request improvements

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

GitHub Pull Request improvements

New automation for PR reviews

Linear has supported GitHub pull request automation for opened and closed PRs since day one. We noticed it’s common for teams to separate the time they work on an issue, and the time when an associated PR is waiting to be reviewed. You can now automate this by creating a new workflow state (e.g. In Review) and have Linear move issues to it when a review has been requested on an associated pull request.

Linear will now also show when a review has been requested on an associated pul request.

Reopen issue when pull request is reverted

Not all merges go well and sometimes you’ll need to revert a merged PR. Linear is now aware of these reverts and will automatically reopen the associated issue so you won’t forget about it.

De-associate pull requests from Linear issues

We added new actions to de-associated pull requests from issues. You can find them from the command menu by typing “github“.

Pull request links

Lists and board now include links to the associated pull requests. This makes it much faster to open the pull request of an issue, or to glance what issues have PR’s open.

Subscription management

Subscribing (Shift+s) and unsubscribing (Command/Ctrl+Shift+s) to issue updates is now built into the issue comment section. You can quickly toggle your subscription and see who else is subscribed to the issue. To keep your team up to date, you can also subscribe others to an issue.

Other improvements and fixes

Links in the project description can now be opened from the project list
Improved data sync reliability
Fixed workflow status sorting in certain cases
Fixed moving an issue to a new team when they have sub-issues
Fixed board ordering bug
Fixed bug causing uncompleted issues from moving to next cycle

New search

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

New search

The search view has been redesigned and the search input has been moved to the sidebar. With this change, search is faster to use and you’re also able to filter the results of your query the same way as you would filter other views.

Improved list multi-select

Linear has always had basic multi-selection of issues for applying shortcuts and actions to several issues at once. To make this easier and faster, we added more ways to select multiple issues and accidentally discovered even new UI patterns (tweet).

There are now four ways to select issues in list view:

Select issues individually by clicking the checkbox or pressing x
Select range by first selecting one issue and then selecting another one while holding down Shift+
Hold Shift+ and press Arrow Up/Arrow Down to expand selection
Hold Shift+ and move the mouse over other issues to select

Other improvements and fixes

Improved code highlighting performance
Improved page title updating
New actions for copying the URL to the active project and current view
New shortcut for assigning issue to a project (Shift+p)
You are now redirected to the previous view after archiving an issue
Creating new issues in the Active Issues view now sets their statuses to active
My Issues view has a new welcome screen for new users
Notifications are now grouped per issue in emails
Fixed bug on keyboard actions after issue selection
Minor visual updates to boards

2019-08-13

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Boards

Linear now has better support for boards, with a refreshed design. Unlike lists, which are more information-dense and ordered by priority, boards offer manual ordering via mouse drag&drop.

Similar to lists, boards are grouped by the teams’ workflow states and can be filtered using our new filters. You can now also perform keyboard shortcut actions hovering over the card of an issue.

Both active cycle and project pages can now be viewed in board view mode. Just toggle the view from the top right corner, or switch with Command/Ctrl+b shortcut. To view all your issues in board view mode, select Board option from the team sidebar.

Filter improvements

After adding new filters last week we shipped several improvements to them:

Filters can now be applied using free text search on any field of an issue. For example, press f to open filter menu and type done to filter by this status
Assignee and created by filters now supports me as a shortcut for the current user
The current user is now shown as the first option for filtering and changing assignee in the action menu
Filters for the same type are now visually grouped
New filter options to filter by no cycle, no project and unassigned

New preferences

The preferences page now features a new look with more information about individual preference options.

Three new personal preferences were added:

Default home view - You can now configure what view Linear should open by default
Auto-assign to self - Issues you create are automatically assigned to yourself
On git branch copy, move the issue to in progress - If you’re like us and use git branch copy action (Command/Ctrl+Shift+.) when starting work on an issue, toggle on this small automation

Other improvements and fixes

Added new action: Duplicate as new issue…Command/Ctrl+Shift+c
Improved the action menu’s performance and responsiveness
Cycle and project links in issue details have been updated to work both as open and change actions
Filters are now team-based, so you can keep different filters open for each team
Several small improvements to the projects list
Projects can now be removed via the action menu
URLs for uploaded images are now cleaner and the filename is used in Slack notifications
Canceling new issue composition or issue editing now returns you to the last view you had open before opening edit mode
Fixed Esc behavior when opening an issue through a link
Fixed a bug where archiving an issue sent unrelated Slack notifications
Fixed a bug which lead to high idle CPU usage

Filters

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Filters

Once your team’s issue count starts growing, filtering becomes necessary to narrow down the scope of issues that you want to look at or manage. We gained valuable experience from our initial filter design, and wanted to improve the design in two ways:

The filter UI should scale with more options and filter types
You should be able to use filters 100% via the keyboard

This week we fully redesigned and reimplemented how filters work. In any view that lists issues - including the board - you can access filter via the f shortcut. Once a filter has been applied it can be removed with the Shift+f shortcut.

Filters are now view based, so you can, for example, apply different filters to “My Issues” and “Active Issues” and jump between these views without losing each filter.

Other improvements and fixes

Project status can now be changed via actions and the s shortcut
Projects are sorted according to their status
Labels can now be modified from the team settings
Fixed navigation issues, the back-button will now yield more expected results
Cycle burn-up graphs have less crowded x-axis labels for long cycles
@Mentioning users now work better if you have a substantial amount of team members
Peek now deactivates if you hide the client by Option-clicking your desktop on a Mac.
Fixed issues with project target date entry on Safari
Keyboard help has been updated
Issues are now longer selected when typing x with the command menu open
Modal states are now visually more distinguishable

Projects

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Projects

To set direction and long term goals for the team it is often useful to plan larger initiatives or features alongside all the other work that needs to happen.

With Linear Projects, we wanted to make exceptionally easy and fast to create a project, and start refining it as you go. You can optionally set a target date, description, and link to the product spec so that the necessary context is there.

You can break the individual work to multiple Cycles, and make constant progress each week to complete the project.

This is our first release of Projects and we’re excited to continue expanding them to make it easier for you to design and build software.

ProTip: If you need to group issues but they are too small to use Projects, you can link them together as sub-issues. Select an issue, and from command menu pick Set parent issue.

Other improvements and fixes

Archived issues can now be accessed via their URL and no longer return a 404
Scroll lists with Ctrln and Ctrlp shortcuts
Issues are now deselected in multi-select when changing views.
Hovering over sub-issues now support keyboard shortcuts
Improved editor styles
Improved styling for All Cycles view
Improved messaging for git branch name copying
Better error handling for failed user actions
Optimized initial application data loading performance
Don’t trigger issue peek in inputs (tip: show issue peek by pressing Option in lists)
Fixed setting parent issue when creating a new sub-issue in some views
Fixed duplicate linking with GitHub pull requests
Fixed command menu mouse focus and styling for Safari

Cycles are here!

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Cycles are here!

Cycles are no longer a developer preview feature and are available to every team. We’ve added a neat side-bar to the cycle view (Command/Ctrl+i) that gives you a great overview of the cycle. It helps you figure out where you’re at in the cycle and what the workload for each of your team-members looks like.

You can enable cycles in your team settings

Email notification improvements

Linear was a bit too eager to send emails on unread notifications. We’ve tweaked the delays to be based on the urgency of the notification.

Unread urgent notifications are delivered via email after 30 seconds
Unread mention notifications are sent after 5 minutes
Unread issue assignment notifications are sent after 1 hour
Unread comment notifications on issues that you subscribe to are sent after 1 hour

Other improvements and fixes

Comments now have a submit button. If you still prefer to submit via the keyboard, Command/Ctrl+Enter is there to help you
The list group rows received a small + button that lets you quickly create a new issue for that workflow state
The action menu has new colors in dark mode
A toast is now displayed when saving team settings
Added “Remove from cycle” command
The issue’s back button now works the same as hitting Esc
Cycles and projects are now automatically removed from issues that are moved to another team
Fixes to some rendering issues with the cycle burn-up chart
Fixes a problem where the action menu would not always show up when pressing Command/Ctrl+k

GitHub workflow configuration

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

GitHub workflow configuration

GitHub integration is one of our time-saving features in Linear. It lets Linear manage the status of issues based on associated GitHub pull requests. Previously, if you had the integration enabled, a pull request would automatically move associated issues into the In Progress status once the PR has been opened, and into the Completed status upon PR merge.

We wanted to give teams more control over their workflows and now you can customize the automation by setting your own workflow status for PR open and merge events. For example, to separate issues waiting for a code review, create a In Review status for your team and associate PR open to trigger this status. You can also omit the automation for each step and configure automation for each team separately.

We also improved how multiple pull requests per issue are treated. If your issue has several open pull requests open, we’ll wait for all of them being merged until we trigger the merge automation step.

Cycle improvements

Cycles are still under active development and available under Developer Preview option in your personal settings. This week we shipped several cycle improvements:

Weekends are now drawn to estimation chart, and also taken into account with estimation calculations
Several fixes to cycle progress calculation and drawing
Issues are associated with the cycle if the issue is created from the cycle view
When enabling cycles an active cycle is created instead of having to wait a week for the planned cycle to start
Issues in My Issues are grouped by cycle and ordered by cycle start date
Improvements to keyboard shortcuts when adding issues into cycles
Fixed workflow ordering on cycle views

Other improvements and fixes

Better dark mode color scheme and other style tweaks
@mentions and links are now more visible in comments and issue descriptions
Added links to toast messages when moving issues between views for easier navigation
Move visible default label colors and styling in lists
Added issue filtering options for priority and labels
Bulk actions for issues are now shown in more views if they share the same team
Fixes to toast messages when inviting new teammates
Fixed issue with keyboard shortcuts not always working in the issue view
Several fixes to action menu
Fixed issue saving when image upload is still in progress

Cycles

Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Cycles

You might know them as sprints, but we decided to call them cycles to give them meaning outside of the agile methodology. Whether you work in agile ways or not, cycles provide a great way of planning and measuring iterative development cycles. Take some time each week (or weeks, depending on how long you configure your cycle to be) to plan what your team is supposed to work on next, then let Linear measure how you’re executing towards that goal.

You can enable cycles in your team settings, but need to first opt-in to see Developer preview in your preferences. You’ll choose how long each cycle is and what day of the week they start and Linear takes care of the rest. Cycles are automatically created and closed based on the selected schedule and any unfinished work in each cycle will automatically be moved to the next cycle.

Estimation

You can now opt in to show time estimates for your issues. Estimation complements cycles and lets your team communicate the complexity of each issue.

Turn on estimates in the team settings. You can choose between a number of ways to estimate issues. Use a linear scale, exponential scale, Fibonacci scale, or use T-Shirt sizes to describe the complexity of each issue. Regardless of what scale you choose, cycles will automatically compute the overall effort required to complete the cycle and update its graphs accordingly.

Other improvements and fixes

Added action to set estimates: Shift+e
Added actions to assign the cycle of an issue: Shift+c
Added an action to assign an issue to the active cycle: Shift+Command/Ctrl+c
The issue lists will show the estimate and cycle of each issue
Issues are automatically moved out of the backlog when added to a cycle
Issues are automatically removed from a cycle if move back to the backlog
Added toasts when you move issues between active and the backlog so that issues just don’t disappear on you

Backlog and Active Issues

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Backlog and Active Issues

Managing a large number of issues can be challenging if you keep them in one place. We added Backlog as the place for new issues and ideas. These are issues that have yet to be prioritized and put on your team’s roadmap. Backlog will show up in the sidebar along with other issue categories. By default you’ll have one backlog workflow status but you can add more of them in team settings.

When your team is ready to work on issues in Backlog, move them into Active Issues. To make easy to move issues between Backlog and Active Issues, two new shortcuts are available:

Move to Active Issues: Command/Ctrl+Shift+a
Move to Backlog : Command/Ctrl+Shift+b

Select All & bulk actions toolbar

We added “Select All” check-boxes for each issue group which will select all issues in the group. You can (de)select individual issues by un-checking or by pressing x shortcut.

After selecting a group of issues, a new bulk action toolbar will appear at the bottom of the screen to make it easier to perform common actions.

Pro tip: Did you know you can also select ranges with Shift+ + click?

Other improvements and fixes

Changed “Copy git branch” shortcut into Command/Ctrl+Shift+. to support Windows
Fixed archiving issue workflow states
Fixed opening pull requests in the desktop application
Improved search for certain actions in the command menu

International keyboard shortcut improvements

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT

International keyboard shortcut improvements

Keyboard shortcuts have been improved for non-US keyboard layouts. As part of the improvements, a few shortcuts were remapped to different shortcuts:

Copy issue ID: Command/Ctrl+.
Copy issue git branch: Command/Ctrl+Shift+.

New version for Linear desktop application

As part of macOS 10.14.5 Apple tightened security requirements for applications. New version of the Linear desktop app has been notarized to match the requirements. If you had issues running the application before, please download the new version here: https://linear.app/download

Improved issue details bar

The UI is simplified and the drop-downs are replaced with the command menu actions.

Other improvements and fixes

Comment text is now included in desktop notifications
Rename issues from the command menu
Ability to copy url to the team. You can find it in the more menu by the team
Fix to Command/Ctrl+Enter / Escape outside editor
Fix to back button behavior in issue compose
Removed showing of duplicate toasts
Removed empty grouping headers

Grouping headers

Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Grouping headers

The open and closed issue views received UI improvements in the form of grouping headers. While issues have always been sorted primarily based on their workflow status, the new headers make this a lot more clear.

Timezone

In settings, teams can now define which timezone most of their people are working from. This setting doesn’t affect much yet but will be important once you can, for example, define what day of the week a sprint should start on.

On that note, don’t expect too many updates in the next few weeks as we’re working hard behind the scenes to build out support for our next big features: Backlogs, sprints, and projects.

Other improvements and fixes

Added some missing tooltips to the sidebar
Issue lists have better performance
Editing the issue title no longer has cursor problems
Check-boxes for issues in the list view have a larger click-area
Fixed exceptions when looking at issues that are over a year old
Cleaned up the layout of forms in settings
Updated icon buttons to be more consistent across the application
Pressing down the command or shift keys after having changed the selection via the keyboard on Safari no longer resets the selection.

New sidebar design

Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

New sidebar design

We re-designed the sidebar to be more compact and scalable for upcoming features. It now shows more information and teams are sectioned better. Under each team, you can find their issues grouped into open and closed views. You’ll also have the ability to see all issues in a list in addition to the existing board view.

Together with the sidebar, we improved headers for better navigation and issue counts. We also added issue filters to all list views so it’s easier to drill down issues based on different parameters.

Copy issue ID and git branch name

To make it faster to copy the issue ID or suggested git branch name, we added icons to the issue view sidebar for them. You’ll still be able to get them through the action menu but this change should make copying easier for users who prefer to use a mouse.

Other improvements and fixes

Unified view components for different lists
App icon for iOS devices when saved to the home screen
Improved Slack notifications
New view for editing issue states

First-time user experience

Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

First-time user experience

This week we made major improvements to the sign in and first-time user experience: everyone in your team will now get an introduction to the command menu and other Linear features.

If you are an existing user, you can initiate first-time introduction through the command menu by searching for “welcome tutorial.”

Keyboard shortcuts

Redesigned the keyboard shortcuts page with a new design and added all the supported shortcuts. Hit ? to bring up the keyboard shortcuts.

Emoji autocomplete

Typing : in any of the issue descriptions or comments now brings up the emoji autocomplete.

Slack /linear command

In addition to the “More actions” message action, you can now open the new issue dialog with /linear command to file new issues quickly from Slack.

Loading state

While we don’t like seeing loading states in the app, having one for the initial load and browser refresh is necessary. We improved design with a subtle logo animation.

Other improvements & fixes

Updated favicon
Fixed bugs in GitHub integration and removed source code access from permissions
Fixed keyboard navigation in Inbox
Fixed sub-issue actions to focus on the correct sub-issue
Moved add team functionality to settings page

Creating new issues via email

Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Creating new issues via email

Update: This legacy version of the email integration was updated. Please read the latest changelog post.

This week we added the ability to create new issues via email. Perfect for when one of your users emails you a bug report. Simply forward it to your team’s email address (you can find the correct email address in your team’s settings). The subject of the email becomes the issue’s title and the body the description.

Board enhancements

Boards received some love this week, too. You can now easily archive all issues in a board column using the column’s drop-down menu. Perfect for when you want to archive all completed issues at the end of the week. Next to the drop-down menu, there’s a nifty short-cut to creating new issues for the column.

Jump to an issue via the command menu

You can now use the command menu to jump directly to an issue if you now it’s identifier. For example, if you type lin-123, the command menu will search for an issue with that identifier and let you instantly navigate to it.

Other improvements & fixes

Fixed issues potentially appearing in two board columns at the same time when creating them
Overly long issue titles now don’t break layout anymore
Synchronization across users of the organization now works more reliably

Linear desktop app

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Linear desktop app

We released our desktop application for macOS this week. It uses the same Javascript/React application we build for the web, but with the Electron wrapper you get nicer notifications, dock badge for unread messages, and most importantly: it’s always on. Together with the new application we refreshed our logo (thanks @maxvoltar!) and redesigned the login page.

New settings

Settings views have been combined into one area. This makes navigating personal and team settings easier. GitHub and Slack integration capabilities are also explained in more detail.

Better notifications

We added emails for unread notifications. They are only sent if you were to miss them in the desktop app. We do want to keep your email inbox for more important messages.

Desktop notifications have been redesigned so that titles and descriptions are easier to read. Issues marked as Urgent will also require user interaction as we don’t want you to miss them.

Other improvements

Inbox’s “mark all as read” has been re-mapped to Shift+Esc shortcut and it’s now also outside the Inbox view.
New action for adding a comment to an issue was added Command/Ctrl+Shift+M
Internal links have been fixed and they will load significantly faster. You can also paste an issue ID into a description or comment and it’s linked automatically.
Issue actions have been cleaned and un-relevant ones have been removed from the new issue view.

Option to display usernames or real names

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT

New features

Option to display usernames or real names

Those of us who grew up with IRC, forums and games, we love display and nicknames. To give more control over display and real names in Linear, we added a setting to prefer one or the other. If you use display names, you can still see the other user’s real name in their profile by clicking the name.

Improvements

Improved git branch name generation by changing format and breaking at full words.
Better error experience for frontend exceptions and ability to reset the client.
User autocomplete now supports both usernames and display names.
New welcome email for newly signed up users.
Fixes related to Safari on iOS. We improved the experience for iPad but are still working on mobile phone support.

Linear Changelog

Multi-level sub-teams

Project and initiative comments

Web forms for Linear Asks

Introducing Linear Agent

Skills and Automations

Code Intelligence (coming soon)

Availability and pricing

UI refresh

Additional launchers for AI coding tools

Mobile agent sessions

Multiple parents for sub-initiatives

Send comment on Enter preference

Deeplink to AI coding tools

Linear in Notion’s Custom Agents

Advanced filters and share issues in private teams

Share issues from private teams

Create projects and initiatives on Android and iOS

Gemini Enterprise connector

Linear MCP for product management

Deprecation of /sse MCP endpoint

Nested sub-issues

Retired teams

Time in status

Jira Epic sync

Customize your navigation in Linear Mobile

Redesigned timing charts in Insights and Dashboards

Linear Agent for Slack on all plans

Linear Code Reviews (Private Beta)

Team owners

v0 by Vercel MCP connector

Linear agent for Intercom, Zendesk, Gong

Linear agent in Slack workflows

Warp agent

OpenAI Codex agent

Workspace owners

Initiatives in Google Sheets

Form templates

Mermaid diagrams

Figma Make connector

Pulse on mobile

Updated Progress Graphs

Datadog integration

GitHub Copilot agent

Linear agent for Slack

Mobile app redesign

Factory agent

Issue SLAs now available on Business plans

Label descriptions and archiving

Label descriptions and archiving

Label descriptions

Archiving labels

Label management

Issue discussion summaries

Updates tab on projects and initiatives

Sentry Agent

Date mentions

New to Product Intelligence: Auto-apply triage suggestions

OAuth improvements

Salesforce integration

Sync customer data

Cursor background agents

Initiative views

Product Intelligence (Technology Preview)

Mobile: New search experience

Customize Asks email auto-replies

Attio integration

Agent Interaction Guidelines and SDK

Agent Interaction Guidelines

Agent Interaction SDK (Developer preview)

Dashboards

Quick navigation in Settings

Notion AI Connector

Email intake for Linear Asks

Sub-initiatives

Copy Developer Docs as Markdown for LLMs

Project labels

Collapsible grouping headers

Editing performance

Series C fundraise

Send comment on `Enter` preference

Deprecation of `/sse` MCP endpoint