Projects: Plan larger initiatives with target dates and cycles
Linear Projects allows teams to plan and track larger initiatives alongside daily work, with optional target dates, descriptions, and product spec links. Projects can be broken into multiple cycles to enable steady progress week-over-week.
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
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.