Linear — Project Management, Developer Tools product updates and releases, tracked on megachangelog.
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.
Linear Agent now supports configurable environments for setting up and testing code before returning work, includes browser testing to catch visual regressions and broken interactions, and introduces transparent pricing with lower costs based on model usage tokens and sandbox runtime charges.
Initiatives can now be assigned to teams to clarify responsibility and visibility, with private team initiatives visible only to team members for secure planning. Additionally, Linear's MCP now supports enterprise-managed authorization through Okta-connected identity verification for centralized access control.
Linear mobile app now supports reviewing code changes, commenting on specific lines, and iterating with Linear Agent directly. Additional features include Guided Reviews (now generally available with improved latency), GitHub team review assignments, signed commits for coding sessions, and GitHub Copilot integration for assigning issues to Copilot's cloud agent.
Linear Agent can now edit documents and project descriptions with tracked changes and author attribution. Teams can use Loops to keep docs automatically up-to-date, view edit history with version checkpoints, and easily distinguish between colleague-written and AI-generated text. The issue sidebar has also been redesigned to integrate properties with main content and pin pull request diffs for easier access.
Loops is a new feature that lets Linear Agent automate recurring work for your team by describing jobs in plain language and triggering them on a schedule or event. Loops use workspace context to handle tasks like reviewing issues, coordinating follow-up work, and keeping project specs updated, available on Business and Enterprise plans with promotional AI credits included.
Linear added new initiative properties (proposed/canceled statuses, priority, labels) to help manage company goals and organize projects, plus the ability to share any filtered view by URL or keyboard shortcut. Enterprise workspaces also gain centralized MCP server access management through Okta.
Linear introduces Agent-assisted project updates that automatically review recent issue changes and Slack messages to draft updates for teams. Additional improvements include redesigned desktop tabs with persistent navigation history, private sub-team access controls, integration with Vercel Eve for custom agents, release pipeline changelogs, and OAuth application manifests for streamlined integration setup.
Linear Agent can now write and review code using Claude Code and Codex, allowing teams to triage, plan, and ship features directly in Linear. Coding sessions run in the cloud and can automatically investigate and fix bugs, reducing manual work on incoming issues.
Teams now have dedicated pages to organize and access notes, docs, and shared resources. Linear Agent Skills can be shared across teams to standardize recurring workflows. Additionally, users can now comment directly on specific text or images within issue descriptions for more targeted feedback.
Linear now offers native code review capabilities through Linear Diffs, allowing teams to review pull requests, iterate with AI agents, and ship code directly from Linear. Guided reviews (beta) intelligently highlight core changes in large PRs, while a new Review Inbox consolidates review notifications and work alongside other tasks.
Linear now automatically creates Slack channels for new projects with members auto-added and project updates posted to the channel. Additionally, Linear Asks brings internal requests into Linear from Slack, duplicate issues now use a dedicated status type with context consolidation, you can reorder groups in views, and GitHub Enterprise Cloud integration is now supported.
Code Intelligence gives Linear Agent controlled access to your codebase, enabling the AI to reason about product implementation details and help teams answer technical questions without manual codebase exploration. The feature is available in public beta for Business and Enterprise plans at no cost during the beta period.
Linear Releases is a new feature that integrates with CI/CD tools to track deployment environments, versions, and issue statuses in real time. It provides release notes generation, supports continuous and scheduled deployments, and offers up to 15 pipelines on Business plans or unlimited on Enterprise.
Linear Agent now connects to external tools via MCP to access data and actions beyond your workspace, enabling richer context for investigations, planning, and drafting. Team owners gain more granular control over issue-level sharing permissions and can configure who can share issues with non-members.
Linear now integrates with Microsoft Teams, allowing you to mention @Linear to file issues, pull project information, and keep teams aligned through automatic project notifications in channels. Additionally, custom coding tool integrations let you open issues in unsupported tools via URL or local commands, and you can now sync a single issue to multiple Slack threads for coordinated follow-up communication.
Teams can now nest up to five levels deep to match organizational structure while inheriting workflows and settings from parents. Projects and initiatives now support comments in their activity feed for high-level discussions and decision tracking.
Linear Asks now supports custom web forms for capturing internal requests alongside existing Slack and email intake. Teams can create dedicated Asks pages with customizable forms based on issue templates, allowing non-Linear users to submit requests that automatically flow into the triage inbox.
Linear Agent is a new AI-powered assistant built into Linear that understands your workspace context, roadmap, issues, and code to help with synthesis, recommendations, and automated actions. It's now available in public beta with reusable skills, and automations and code intelligence coming to Business and Enterprise plans.
Linear's interface has been visually refreshed with consistent headers, navigation, and icons across all workflows, along with dimmer sidebars to improve focus. Additionally, support for launching issues in AI coding tools has expanded to include Amp, Codex CLI, Devin, Factory, Lovable, Netlify Agent, Runners, Warp, and Windsurf, plus new mobile agent session viewing and comment preferences.
Launch your preferred coding agent directly from Linear issues with prefilled prompts containing issue context, description, comments, and linked references. Customize prompt templates and supported tools include Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others.
Advanced filters let you combine multiple AND/OR conditions to refine searches, views, and dashboards. You can now share individual issues from private teams with specific external users without granting full team access, useful for sensitive teams like security or HR.
Linear expanded its MCP server with support for initiatives, milestones, and updates to help product managers keep plans current and communicate progress from tools like Cursor and Claude. The update also adds nested sub-issue display, retires the SSE transport endpoint in favor of HTTP streams, introduces the ability to retire teams while preserving their history, and improves performance through better documentation.
Linear now tracks time spent in individual issue statuses across the platform, allowing you to hover over status indicators, filter by time thresholds, and analyze bottlenecks in Insights. Additionally, the Jira integration now supports bi-directional syncing for Epics, automatically reflecting changes to status, target date, and description between both applications.
Linear Mobile now supports customizable bottom toolbar and main navigation, allowing you to prioritize features and pin projects, initiatives, and documents for quick access. The release also includes redesigned timing charts in Insights and Dashboards with logarithmic scaling, expanded Linear Agent for Slack availability across all plans, and a new private beta for Linear Code Reviews.
A new team owner role has been added to give teams control over team settings, including who can manage labels, templates, and membership. Workspace owners and admins retain control over workspace-wide settings. Team owners and permissions are available on Business and Enterprise plans.
Linear now offers AI agent integrations with Intercom, Zendesk, and Gong to automatically convert customer conversations and call transcripts into actionable issues with full context and intelligent deduplication. Additionally, the Linear agent integrates with Slack workflows for automated issue creation and Warp for direct code implementation.
Linear now integrates OpenAI's Codex agent, allowing teams to delegate issues directly within Linear for bug fixes, code analysis, and answering codebase questions. Teams can assign multiple issues to Codex, monitor its progress, and review generated code changes before creating pull requests, freeing engineers to focus on more complex work.
Form templates enable teams to create customizable issue templates with form fields like text inputs, dropdowns, and checkboxes, along with issue properties like priority and labels. This helps collect standardized details upfront so issues are actionable immediately, and works across Linear and Slack integration including the Asks feature for non-Linear users.
Pulse, Linear's unified feed for project updates, is now available in the iOS and Android mobile apps. The release also includes refreshed progress graphs with activity indicators and a new Datadog integration for automatic issue creation from monitor notifications.
GitHub Copilot users can now delegate issues directly from Linear to the GitHub Copilot agent, which uses issue context to start implementations in draft PRs and allows users to track progress and provide feedback through comments in both Linear and GitHub.
A new Linear agent for Slack lets you create issues directly from Slack conversations by mentioning @Linear. The agent uses natural language understanding and conversation context to automatically infer issue details, making it easier to capture work without leaving Slack. Available now on all plans.
Linear's iOS and Android apps have been redesigned with a new visual design system featuring frosted glass materials and a rebuilt bottom toolbar for navigation. The update also introduces Factory AI coding agent integration for delegating issues to remote workspaces, and SLAs on Business plans to set automated expectations and notifications for time-sensitive work.
Labels now support descriptions to clarify their purpose and help with suggestions, and can be archived to preserve historical data while keeping them visible in filters and views. New bulk management features allow updating, merging, and viewing affected rules in one place.
Linear now provides AI-powered discussion summaries on issues to highlight decisions and blockers without reading all comments, adds an updates tab for tracking project and initiative changes, introduces a Sentry Agent for root cause analysis on linked issues, and enables date mentions in descriptions and documents for easier scheduling.
Product Intelligence can now automatically apply triage suggestions to issues based on configurable rules, allowing you to set properties like team, assignee, and labels to apply automatically. This reduces manual triage work and lets teams focus on solving problems rather than continuous interruptions.
Linear now integrates with Salesforce to connect customer cases and account data with product work. Create and link issues directly from Salesforce, view real-time issue updates in Salesforce, filter issues by case fields, and sync customer attributes like revenue and tier to help prioritize impactful product work.
Linear now integrates with Cursor, allowing teams to delegate issues to AI agents that can make code changes, create pull requests, and answer questions directly within Linear. Team members across engineering, design, and product can collaborate with Cursor agents to handle tasks from well-defined issues to code refinement and prototyping.
Linear is previewing Product Intelligence, an AI-powered feature that automates triage intake by researching past issues, suggesting team routing and assignees, and identifying duplicates. The feature learns from your feedback to improve suggestions over time, available for Business and Enterprise plans.
Linear released Agent Interaction Guidelines, a framework for designing agents that collaborate naturally with humans, alongside a new Agent Interaction SDK in developer preview that allows agents to communicate status, progress, and activity within Linear's interface.
Dashboards let you combine data from multiple insights into a single customizable page to monitor operational health and build reporting views across teams and projects. Dashboards support charts, tables, and metrics, can be filtered by team, and are shareable at workspace, team, or personal scope.
Email intake capability added to Linear Asks, allowing teams to create designated email addresses that automatically convert incoming messages into trackable issues in their triage queue. Two-way comment sync ensures responses stay synchronized between Linear and email.
Large enterprise companies can now organize strategic initiatives into a hierarchical structure nested up to five levels deep, with dedicated pages to track projects, sub-initiatives, and progress. Additionally, any Docs page can now be copied as Markdown for use with LLMs, making it easier to feed documentation into AI models for integrations and API work.
Organize projects with custom labels to categorize, group, and filter by your organization's unique attributes. Labels integrate with custom views and Insights, and project lists now support label groups as dedicated columns.
Linear introduced customizable Asks fields for intake forms allowing priority, customer, due date, and file uploads, plus automatic Triage routing to assign issues based on predefined rules. These features eliminate manual work in intake workflows and help scale team operations.
Linear now supports AI agents as first-class users that can be assigned to issues, added to teams, and mentioned in comments. Three agents are launching today: Devin for issue scoping and PRs, ChatPRD for requirements and feedback, and Codegen for feature building and debugging. You can also build and deploy custom agents via the new Agent API.
Linear now offers custom feeds in Pulse to filter and save personalized subsets of updates, extends Google Sheets integration to sync project data, redesigns video and audio players with playback controls, and adds full customer request support to mobile apps with draft saving capabilities.
Linear released an official MCP server that enables AI models and agents to securely access Linear data. The server supports finding, creating, and updating issues, projects, and comments, and can be integrated natively with Claude or through tools like Cursor and Windsurf.
Customer requests can now be added to projects, providing a consolidated view of product feedback at the project level and from related issues. You can filter and sort requests by customer attributes, organize projects by customer count and revenue, and subscribe to notifications for specific customers across desktop, iOS, and Android.
Linear launched Pulse, a new personalized feed that aggregates updates and discussions from across your workspace into a single unified view. It provides tailored feeds for you personally plus broader company-wide visibility, with optional AI-generated daily or weekly summaries delivered to your inbox and available as audio digests.
Linear's search has been completely rebuilt with a new hybrid semantic search engine that combines AI vector embeddings with keyword-matching, allowing you to find issues even without exact phrasing. The search is now more comprehensive, pulling context from customer requests, comments, and linked support tickets. Additionally, personal API keys now support fine-grained permission controls so you can restrict access to specific teams and actions.
Issue activity feeds now group similar consecutive events and collapse older activity between comment threads to reduce clutter and keep important changes visible. New customization options let you control sub-issue display, project group ordering, and view preferences across all issues.
Linear now supports collapsible sections to organize long documents, adds new grouping options for Initiatives by team, owner, and health, and integrates with Graphite to link issues and pull requests directly.
Linear introduces sub-teams for building hierarchical team structures with inherited workflows and settings, reminders for issues and documents, mobile app support for team projects, and enhanced billing visibility. These features help organizations scale while maintaining consistency and cross-team collaboration.
Linear now offers initiative updates to track strategic product progress across multiple projects with automatic change tracking, Slack cross-posting, and bi-directional syncing. New scheduling tools let teams set update cadences and receive reminders, plus a new markdown export feature for issues enables LLM integration and batch operations.
Linear now integrates pull request reviews directly into the app with a new Reviews section, bi-directional GitHub comment syncing, and inbox notifications. This streamlines code review workflows by consolidating PR management without leaving Linear.
Linear's interface now supports a customizable sidebar with reordering, hiding, and notification display options, alongside a complete redesign of settings pages organized into Account, Features, Administration, and Teams sections. Team settings have been consolidated into a single view with feature summaries, admin tools now use data-rich tables for filtering, and notification controls have been streamlined by channel.
Linear now includes Customer Requests, a new feature that aggregates customer feedback from Intercom, Zendesk, Front, Slack, and Linear Asks directly into issues. Teams can track feature demand, filter by customer attributes, and prioritize based on customer needs to align product development with actual customer wants.
Linear now supports creating recurring issues for repeating tasks on daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly schedules. Each new instance is automatically created when the previous one reaches its due date, and all recurring issues can be managed from team settings.
Added business day SLA support to prevent deadlines landing on weekends, enabled nested sub-issues in templates for more granular issue creation, and added visibility into sync status for Jira and GitHub Issues integrations through banners and error indicators.
Team pages now feature a tabbed interface with All Issues, Active, and Backlog views at the top, plus the ability to create and pin custom views as tabs. Users can navigate between views instantly using keyboard shortcuts (1-9) to support different team workflows and priorities.
Document subscriptions notify you about revisions, comments, and changes to documents, project descriptions, and initiative descriptions, with auto-subscription to content you create or lead. Pull request preview links are now directly accessible in Linear issues with automatic detection from Vercel and Netlify integrations, and support for custom preview links via markdown.
Linear Mobile brings the speed and power of Linear to iOS and Android with a fully native, compact app designed for on-the-go workflows. Users can stay informed about updates, file issues, and unblock their team from anywhere.
New automation features let you automatically close parent issues when all sub-issues are done, or close all sub-issues when the parent is marked complete. Also added reverse sort ordering for issues and projects across all views except manual and status-ordered ones.
You can now receive Slack notifications for any custom issue view in Linear, allowing you to set up alerts when issues are added to views, marked closed, or canceled. This helps teams stay updated on subsets of issues they care about, such as high-priority bugs or blocking work.
Linear now supports creating and visualizing project dependencies to identify blockers and critical paths, with automatic adjustment when moving projects on the timeline. Additionally, search has been redesigned for faster results with a split-view interface, and a new drafts feature allows you to save work-in-progress issues, comments, and updates across all devices.
Projects can now be assigned priority levels (Urgent, High, Medium, Low, No priority) just like issues, with a new micro-adjust feature that lets you drag and drop to set relative priority within the same level. Additionally, Linear expanded GitHub pull request support to self-hosted GitHub Enterprise Server instances with a new integration that maintains security requirements.
Linear has launched Initiatives, a new feature that lets you align projects with strategic product efforts and monitor progress at scale. Initiatives replace Roadmaps with automatic 1:1 migration of all data, views, and favorites, enabling planning and tracking of company-wide product development in a single system.
Linear added a dedicated Projects page that serves as a central hub for all workspace projects, with the ability to create and pin custom views for easy sharing and team alignment. The update also includes improved Slack integration features for Enterprise users and search functionality for the desktop app.
Linear now supports Passkeys as a login method alongside email and SSO, enabling fast and secure authentication without passwords. The release also includes email-based security notifications for sessions and API keys, IP restrictions for Enterprise customers, and table resizing in the text editor.
Linear now allows users to choose between European Union and United States data storage when creating a new workspace. This feature sets the groundwork for supporting additional regions in the future.
Linear has redesigned projects from the ground up, allowing users to start projects as ideas and consolidate all project work—from research to execution—in a single platform. New features include a project Overview tab with properties and documents, collaborative rich-text descriptions, milestones with descriptions, one-click text-to-issues conversion, and the ability to attach filtered views as pinned tabs.
Linear has made 70+ quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes to the editor, including drag-to-rearrange videos, image dropping from outside Linear, GraphQL support, and improved TSX/JS code block support. Documents now automatically generate a table of contents when they contain at least two headings for easier navigation.
Swimlanes enable you to group cards into rows on board views by different dimensions like teams, projects, and assignees, making it easier to visualize work distribution and resource allocation. Cards can be reorganized with drag-and-drop, and new keyboard shortcuts improve navigation efficiency.
Linear has completed a comprehensive redesign of its interface, improving visual hierarchy, balance, and information density across all views. The update reduces clutter in sidebars, headers, and filters while enhancing contrast in both dark and light themes, plus introduces a new theme generator for customization.
Create custom project statuses to provide better context about project lifecycle and progress. Additionally, Triage responsibility integrations now support OpsGenie and Incident.io schedules via API, and document comments are now displayed visibly until resolved.
Linear's timeline now features a redesigned interface with milestone diamonds, a chronology bar for easier navigation, team cycle visibility, and enhanced controls like dragging milestones to new dates and displaying week numbers. The new design provides more accurate project progress overview with collapsible milestone sets and additional display options for better roadmap management.
Turn emails into Linear issues by setting up unique intake emails for teams or templates. Automatically route emails from customers, service providers, and alerts directly into Linear with pre-configured fields and workflow statuses.
Linear now supports commenting on project updates with bi-directional Slack syncing, native table creation in documents and comments, and branch-specific workflow automations for GitHub and GitLab integrations. Additional improvements include project update subscriptions, markdown export, and regex-based branch rule configuration.
Project timeframes now support broad date ranges for start and target dates, enabling flexible planning by quarter or year. Cycles can be customized with specific start and end dates to match team planning meetings, and cycle attribution has been improved for issues completed during cooldowns.
Linear's Jira integration now supports two-way syncing, allowing issues to be created and updated in both Linear and Jira while syncing titles, descriptions, assignees, statuses, labels, priorities, and comment threads. This keeps teams working across both platforms in sync without manual updates.
Sync issues bidirectionally between GitHub and Linear for open source projects, allowing you to triage and discuss community requests alongside your other work. All issue details including title, description, status, labels, assignees, and comments are kept in sync between both platforms.
Linear now supports inline comments on project documents with instant notifications and comment resolution, real-time collaborative editing for documents and issue descriptions, and slash commands for formatting and file uploads across editors.
Add issue status automations for pull requests that have passed checks and are ready to be merged on GitHub and GitLab. Also shipped improved authentication controls with a new Security & Access settings page to audit and manage authenticated sessions and OAuth integrations.
You can now resolve comments in threads to collapse replies and keep discussions focused. Collapse all replies by resolving the first comment, or resolve specific comments to highlight key details. Also adds auto-creation of Asks by mentioning the Linear Asks bot and ability to mark Asks as urgent from Slack.
Linear Asks allows anyone in a Slack workspace to create Linear issues without needing a Linear account, streamlining request intake with shared team inboxes, SLAs, workflows, and real-time Slack notifications. Available on the Plus plan with a free 30-day trial.
Linear now lets you enable triage responsibility to define how incoming issues are handled—notify or assign to specific team members, with optional PagerDuty schedule rotation. New overview sidebars and Insights are available across all views, plus view subscriptions let you get notified of key changes in custom views and cycles.
Images can now be resized in issue descriptions, documents, and comments by hovering and dragging handles. Editor improvements include keyboard shortcuts to move content (Option/Alt Up/Down) and support for hard line breaks (Shift Enter).
You can now create standard templates for projects with predefined details like name, description, members, milestones, and issues. Apply templates when creating new projects to ensure consistency across your team's workflow.
You can now mention issues, projects, and documents using @ in descriptions and comments for easier linking. A new Explore Mode lets you build temporary views with filters, display options, and AI-powered suggestions without saving, making it simpler to create ad-hoc reports and share exploratory data with teammates.
Linear now includes project progress reports showing key metrics and changes, project board views alongside list and timeline layouts, emoji reactions on issues for quick feedback, and improved Slack integration that lets you link messages to existing issues. These features make it easier to track project health, communicate progress to stakeholders, and collaborate across your organization.
Linear now uses AI to surface duplicate and related issues when creating new issues, adds overview sidebars to custom views and roadmaps showing issue and project distributions, lets teams assign owners to custom views, and improves the editor with richer link embed options including Figma, Loom, and Descript.
Linear now supports issue templates across Slack, Intercom, and Zendesk integrations, allowing teams to apply templates when creating issues from these platforms to ensure best practices and consistent data capture. Up to 5 templates can be configured per integration, with pre-filled fields and automatic sub-issue creation.
Linear now supports bi-directional syncing of comments, files, and status changes between Slack and Linear issues. When you sync a Slack thread with a Linear issue, messages and files automatically cross-post between both platforms, reducing context-switching and keeping conversations aligned across applications.
Linear launched an official plugin for Figma that creates a deep integration between design files and Linear issues, allowing teams to navigate, create, and sync work across both tools without context switching. The plugin enables designers and engineers to stay aligned by automatically syncing issue updates between Figma and Linear.
Linear Insights now includes burn-up charts (cumulative flow diagrams) that visualize how streams of work change over time, allowing teams to analyze historical issue data and detect patterns. You can segment by status, team, or other dimensions to understand bug velocity, effort allocation, and scope changes across custom time windows.
AI Filters let you describe what you want to find in natural language and automatically apply the corresponding filters across issues and projects. The feature supports chaining multiple requests and works across all workspace items with customizable views.
Linear introduces project views for creating custom filtered views of projects by status, health, team, and dates; adds multi-tab support to the desktop app with pinned tabs and keyboard shortcuts; and launches an activity log showing your interaction history with issues.
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