Sidebar navigation and conversation previews improvements
Linear refined the sidebar navigation to bring back one-click access to frequently used views like board and backlog while retaining team icons. Additionally, rich issue attachment previews are now available for support integrations with Front, Zendesk, and Intercom, allowing you to see conversation details and related comments directly within Linear issues. Automated Sentry alert integration is now available to create Linear issues automatically.
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
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.