Sub-issues now support bulk selection, templates, duplication of parent and child issues, conversion of checklists to sub-issues, adding existing issues, and project conversion. Multiple fixes and improvements were made throughout the app including better sidebar navigation, performance enhancements, and bug fixes for rendering, checkboxes, and UI state preservation.
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
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.