Linear now offers guest accounts as a team role for contractors and workspace members who need access to only specific teams. Guests have full access to their assigned teams' issues and projects but cannot see or access other teams in the workspace.
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
Linear Agent now offers adaptive routing to optimize model selection by task complexity, environment secrets support for secure dependency access, and open-weight model options including GLM. Teams can define custom project labels and statuses, assign project leads, use durable IDs for projects and initiatives, and automate workflows with new team-based triggers for onboarding and reassignment.
Loops, Linear's recurring agent workflows, now respond to more workspace activity including project, initiative, and cycle changes, can edit Linear documents and post updates to Slack. This helps teams automate coordination tasks like updating docs and keeping stakeholders informed when plans change.
Linear now offers a Priority tab that intelligently separates urgent notifications from less critical ones, preventing important items like release-blocking reviews from getting lost. Additionally, document editing is now available on iOS and Android, rich previews render in diffs, draft projects with Linear Agent for planning, and admins can approve third-party app access on paid plans.