Changelog – Linear

August 20, 2026

[

Coding sessions: environments, browser use, and updated pricing

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-08-20-coding-environments)

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Linear Agent can now set up, run, and test your code before returning its work. That means fewer handoffs and changes that are further along when they come back to you.

We’re also introducing lower, more transparent pricing, making AI credit usage easier to understand and control.

Configurable environments⁠

Coding sessions now automatically adapt to each codebase’s configuration, with broader out-of-the-box support for Python, Ruby, Go, and more.

During a session, Linear detects and installs the toolchains and dependencies it needs to complete the task. Teams can go further by pinning runtime versions, adding setup scripts, and defining environment variables.

To get started, create an environment in settings. Visit the docs for more details.

Browser testing⁠

Once the application is running, Linear Agent tests its work where users experience it: in the browser.

The agent opens the app, navigates through a flow, and verifies its implementation. It also captures before-and-after screenshots, making visual changes easier to review alongside the code.

Browser testing can catch broken interactions and visual regressions that code review alone might miss. If the agent finds a problem, it can make a fix, rerun the test, and return the work with that validation complete.

Transparent pricing⁠

As coding sessions take on more work, costs need to be easy to understand and easy to control.

Starting today, coding sessions use a lower-cost pricing model with two components:

• Model usage: Tokens are charged at the provider’s published rates, with no markup
• Sandbox runtime: Charged at $0.25 per 20-minute block

Together, model usage and runtime determine the AI credit cost of a session. The usage dashboard shows the breakdown, along with token usage and cost by model.

Admins can also set workspace-wide and per-user spend limits that reset daily, weekly, or monthly. When a limit is reached, additional AI credit usage is paused until the limit resets or an admin increases it.

Learn more about AI credits in the docs.

• Agents

  Fixed an issue where Linear couldn’t find or assign a future cycle when referenced by its number (e.g. “Cycle 13”) in Slack and comments

• Android

  Fixed read AI conversations appearing bold in the conversation picker

• Desktop

  Fixed search and create issue buttons in the sidebar not responding to clicks at narrow window sizes

• Diffs

  Fixed merge queue duration tooltips appearing stuck

• Diffs

  Fixed guide sections with a lot of files in them not being scrollable

• Diffs

  Fixed Linear guest users with a connected GitHub account being able to edit Diff title and description if they have write access to that PR on GitHub

• Diffs

  Removed hover underlines from GitHub code embed header links, kept their link cursors when focused, and added external-link indicators to file names

• Diffs

  Fixed repeated review cache errors when IndexedDB is unavailable

• Asks

  Added a per-channel Asks setting that posts a message mentioning the new assignee in the synced Slack thread when an Ask is assigned

• Authentication

  Improved pending SAML domain verification from 24 hours to seven days

• Diffs

  Improved meaningful change count on PR tooltips as well

• IOS

  Improved error messages for unsupported media formats

• Issues

  Added the full issue copy menu to the issue header URL button

• Team Home

  Initiative documents pinned to a team’s overview now also appear in the team’s documents tab

• Views

  Added ability to subscribe to events in project views and receive notifications in Inbox or Slack

• Issues

  Open a GitHub-synced issue in GitHub with OG

• Issues

  Fixed Cmd/CtrlUp/Down scrolling to the top or bottom of an issue after editing its title or description

August 13, 2026

[

Team initiatives

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-08-13-team-initiatives)

Initiatives are Linear’s way to manage product strategy and high-level planning across projects. Strategy may start at the company level, but teams carry it forward. You can now assign a team to lead an initiative, making it clear who is responsible for driving the work and how it contributes to the broader direction.

For work that requires tighter access, initiatives led by private teams are only visible to team members. This creates a secure place for confidential planning, regulated projects, audits, and other restricted work.

Learn more about initiatives in the docs.

Linear’s MCP now supports managing employee access through your existing Okta-managed identity.

When employees connect from a supported Anthropic agent, Linear verifies their identity through Okta and applies their existing Linear permissions. Admins can manage access centrally, without requiring employees to sign in or authorize Linear individually.

Available to Enterprise workspaces with Okta SAML configured. Learn more in the docs.

• Agent

  Fixed agent sometimes not showing a progress indicator

• Agent

  Fixed Linear Agent sometimes claiming a Slack thread synced when it did not

• Comments

  Prevented document comment threads from shifting away from their referenced text when content changes size

• Cycles

  Fixed new cycle names with quarter or half-year labels not incrementing correctly

• Cycles

  Fixed fast issue creation while viewing completed cycles

• Diffs

  Fixed code review discussions crashing when a file path is missing

• Diffs

  Fixed comment links not opening the associated thread

• Diffs

  Fixed authored pull requests appearing in “To review” after commenting

• Diffs

  Fixed closing an already-closed GitHub pull request failing to remove it from review lists

• Diffs

  Fixed stale PR Guides not refreshing after a pull request update

• Editor

  Added support for comments on Mermaid diagrams

• GitHub

  Fixed closing an abandoned draft pull request changing the status of an issue already marked Done or Canceled

• GitLab

  Fixed merge requests from deleted users failing to process

• Integrations

  Fixed disconnecting a personal Notion account opening Notion instead of removing the connection

• Integrations

  Renaming an OAuth application now updates the name shown in the activity of issues it creates

• Issues

  Fixed imported recurring issues missing their recurring-series link in issue history

• Issues

  Fixed drag-and-drop for sub-issues in views sorted by status, title, or due date

• Issues

  Fixed “Copy as” prompt copying a parent issue instead of the selected sub-issue

• Notifications

  Fixed duplicate notifications for GitHub review requests

• Notifications

  Fixed members being unable to disable Slack alerts for shared custom views

• Projects

  Fixed blocking and blocked-by relationships appearing in the wrong direction in project activity

• Projects

  Fixed project and initiative update reminders being sent when an update was already posted on the previous business day

• Search

  Improved exact user name matches in search results

• Triage

  Added GitHub usernames to GitHub-sourced issues in triage

• Agent

  Linear Agent can now update releases

• Billing

  Added the ability to remove a previously set tax ID

• Coding sessions

  Added GPT-5.6 Luna as a model option

• Cycles

  Added an explanation of cycle success to the tooltip

• Diffs

  Added a branch-status widget showing whether a branch is up to date, behind, or has conflicts

• Diffs

  Grouped agent and bot review comments under Agents & Bots

• Diffs

  Made structural diff highlighting the default

• Diffs

  Showed merge-queue time on pull request hover

• Editor

  Added support for mentioning pull requests from the editor mention picker

• Editor

  Pressing Enter at the end of an issue or document title now starts a new line at the top of the content below it

• Git

  Updated relates to and related to magic words to mark pull requests as related rather than contributing

• Importer

  Added an option to skip workspace-level labels and templates during Linear-to-Linear imports

• Integrations

  Improved the channel connection labels across Slack and Microsoft Teams menus

• IOS

  We now indicate progress while importing photo library attachments for comments

• Loops

  Made the Disabled badge interactive so loops can be re-enabled directly

• Projects

  Added project milestone agent widgets on iOS

• Added subscribers field on Document

• Added a subscription for user settings updates

• Teams

  Fixed CtrlShift1–9 shortcuts for opening team home pages

July 30, 2026

[

Coding sessions on mobile

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-07-30-coding-sessions-on-mobile)

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Your coding session doesn’t have to stop when you leave your desk. Use the Linear mobile app to review code changes, comment on specific lines, and iterate with Linear Agent.

Open any diff and switch to the Changes tab to inspect the code. When you spot something to change, tap the relevant line to add it to your message to steer the coding session in the direction you want.

We’ve also added section under My Issues → Assigned for your delegated issues. It shows the status of each coding session, and gives you a quick way back into active work.

Download the Linear mobile app for iOS and Android.

Guided Reviews are now generally available⁠

Guided Reviews break diffs into focused sections with explainers on what changed and why. As part of general availability, they are now generated for larger pull requests, with a bigger context window and better latency.

Guided Reviews are available on Business and Enterprise plans at no additional cost.

Support for GitHub teams in reviews⁠

You can now assign reviews to GitHub teams. Review requests assigned to your GitHub teams appear in a dedicated section of the Reviews inbox. Learn more in the docs.

Signed commits for coding sessions⁠

Coding sessions now support signed commits. Add your SSH or GPG key in Settings to enable signing.

Workspace admins can also require users to upload a signing key before using coding sessions.

GitHub Copilot for Linear⁠

GitHub Copilot users can assign issues directly to Copilot’s cloud agent from Linear. Copilot uses the issue context to work in its own development environment, open draft pull requests, and update the issue as it makes progress.

Choose model and agent settings, set the base and working branches, then steer ongoing work through comments in Linear. To get started, install GitHub Copilot for Linear, or read the GitHub announcement for more details.

• Agents

  Queued agent messages now display readable text in previews instead of raw markup

• API

  Fixed issue SLA sort to order by the displayed SLA bucket (Breached / High / Medium / Low / Achieved / Failed) instead of raw slaBreachesAt, so mobile lists no longer show repeated SLA sections

• Comments

  Inline images no longer appear too large in iOS comments

• Diffs

  Pull request reviews no longer unexpectedly open an inline comment draft when the revision changes

• Diffs

  Dismissed issue suggestions no longer reappear on pull requests

• GitHub

  Pull request events now update issue statuses when a Git automation branch pattern contains unsupported regex syntax

• Inbox

  Fixed new project and initiative update notifications appearing as separate inbox entries for the same parent

• Integrations

  GitHub Enterprise Server setup no longer gets stuck on “Verifying installation” after the Linear app is created

• Integrations

  Prevented Slack Asks from responding to unmentioned thread messages after creating an Ask

• IOS

  File, image, and video attachments in document comments now open when tapped, and attachment cards have better contrast in the comments drawer

• Issues

  Issue boards now show an error instead of an empty state when too many issues match

• Reviews

  Structural diffs no longer mark entire reformatted statements as changed when only part of the statement changed

• Reviews

  Resolving a review thread that no longer exists in GitHub now shows a clear message instead of a generic error

• Search

  Searching for a GitHub URL now finds issues that reference the pull request

• Slack

  Fixed Slack review request notifications sometimes showing the wrong person as the requester

• Slack

  Fixed pasting a project milestone link into Slack now previewing that milestone instead of another milestone from the same project

• Teams

  Fixed internal custom view and dashboard links in Team Home displaying generic labels or icons

• Triage

  “Copy as prompt” no longer moves issues out of triage

• Diffs

  Diffs linked as Related no longer change the status of the issue

• Diffs

  AI can now generate a Linear issue from a pull request or suggest an existing issue to link

• Diffs

  Inline feedback can now be sent to the Linear Agent, added to a review, or posted to the diff

• Diffs

  New agent sessions can now be started from any pull request using the Agent panel

• Diffs

  TypeScript and JavaScript regular expressions can now be tested directly from the file where they’re introduced

• Diffs

  Pull requests now show the number of meaningful changes, excluding tests and documentation

• Diffs

  Improved Slack notifications for a pull request removed from the merge queue to include the reason it was removed

• Editor

  Updated the keyboard shortcut cheat sheet to show Cmd/CtrlEnter for toggling checklist items

• Importers

  It is now possible to import issues into a sub-team if it doesn’t inherit statuses from its parent team

• Issues

  You can now restore an archived or deleted issue from the iOS app

• Loops

  Improved the “Authenticated email intake” trusted source by renaming it to “Email intake” and explaining when an email is treated as trusted

• Loops

  Added ability for Loops to send user notification

• Zendesk

  Improved the Zendesk integration to allow connection using an agent role instead of an end-user role

• Added Zapier to the built-in MCP connector directory

• Editor

  Toggle a checklist item with Cmd/CtrlEnter when the cursor is inside it. Hold Shift to also toggle nested items

• Search

  Escape now clears the search input while keeping the current results, then dismisses search when the input is empty

• Triage

  Triage keyboard shortcuts now follow the order of the actions: 1 accepts, 2 declines, 3 marks as duplicate

July 23, 2026

[

Text attribution and agent-assisted editing

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-07-23-agent-assisted-editing)

Documents and project descriptions are critical context for your teams and agents.

You can now edit text with Linear Agent, and use Loops to keep docs and project descriptions up-to-date. Author name indicators let you check if text was written by a colleague or added by a loop.

When editing, changes you make through Linear Agent highlight separately so they’re easy to review. If you need to revert to an earlier version, restore to any previous checkpoint from version history.

Show author names or open version history from the ⌘/Ctrl + K menu, or in document display options. Learn more in our documentation.

The issue sidebar now closely integrates issue properties with the main content. We’ve pinned Diffs to the top of this panel so you can access the issue’s pull requests from anywhere on the page.

• Asks

  Fixed issues created through Slack Asks ignoring a chosen template’s default status

• Comments

  The resolved comments menu no longer appears when there are no resolved comments

• Diffs

  Submit review flyouts now properly close when clicking outside them

• GitHub

  Prevented revert pull requests from reopening issues linked to another GitHub repository

• GitHub

  Fixed linking GitHub pull requests to issues via pasted URLs.

• Initiatives

  Fixed oversized initiative titles

• Integrations

  Fixed a bug where removing a linked GitHub pull request disconnecting GitHub issue sync

• Integrations

  Fixed Slack project channel setup retrying after a project was deleted or archived

• Settings

  Fixed IP restrictions not appearing when searching for “IP” in settings

• Slack

  Fixed truncated issue summaries in Slack unfurls

• Views

  Fixed view filters (like Cmd/Ctrl F filtering) resetting when navigating to an item in a split view list

• Editor

  Added Backspace navigation from empty issue descriptions and document bodies back to the title

• Issues

  Improved issue composer to suggest templates as a quick suggestion, surfaced before other suggestions because they apply a bundle of issue properties

• Projects

  Added a way to view a project’s issues filtered by a specific milestone from the project overview on iOS

• Triage

  Added triage responsibility to the triage screen on iOS, showing who is responsible for incoming issues and letting you manage the action and responsible members

• Diffs

  “Quick to review” now shows up for slightly larger PRs and also appears for the author of the PR

• Added bodyData to GraphQL pull request comments

• CycleCreate and CycleUpdate now prevent overlapping schedules and validate neighboring cycles using their dates.

July 20, 2026

[

Introducing Loops

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-07-20-introducing-loops)

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Loops are a new way for Linear Agent to take on recurring work for your team.

Describe the job in plain language and then choose whether it should run on a schedule or in response to an event. From there, Loops use context from your workspace and connected tools to decide on the next best action.

For example:

• Review incoming issues, research root causes, and dispatch to coding agents
• Create and coordinate follow-up work based on unstructured notes, like meeting transcripts or incident reports
• Keep launch plans and project specifications up-to-date
• See more ways to use Loops in the docs

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Loops run at the team and workspace level, with shared visibility and control. Anyone with access can review their instructions, see how they are configured, and inspect what happened during each run.

Loops are available today on Business and Enterprise plans and use AI credits. To help you get started and understand usage, we’re giving your workspace $20 per seat in promotional credits. These credits are applied automatically to runs, and expire on August 20, 2026.

Read the blog post to learn more.

• Android

  Added a fallback page for auth redirects so users can reopen the app when browser handoff fails

• Asks

  Fixed Asks created by mentioning the Asks agent in private Slack channels weren’t syncing the originating thread to the issue

• Cycles

  Fixed archived cycles getting stuck behind persisted label and other view filters with no visible way to clear them

• Diffs

  Pull requests with more than 50 commits now loading up to 450 commits

• Documents

  Private team document templates now consistently appearing in the template selector

• Editor

  Fixed checklists pasted from Google Docs rendering incorrectly

• Email

  Prevented notification emails from being sent to deactivated users

• Inbox

  Fixed email intake issues not appearing in the assignee’s inbox when the intake template auto-assigned the issue back to the sender

• Integrations

  Fixed GitHub Enterprise Cloud installation webhooks routing to the wrong workspace region before the installation was known to Linear

• Integrations

  Fixed GitHub Enterprise Cloud setup showing a generic error when an IP allow list blocked Linear, with clearer guidance on allowing Linear IPs

• Notifications

  Fixed duplicate Slack notifications when a newly created issue is added to a view with Slack notifications enabled

• Projects

  Fixed project pages crashing when a graph tooltip referenced a stale date

• Pulse

  Added an unsubscribe action for Pulse items shown through team project update subscriptions

• Triage Intelligence

  Fixed Triage Intelligence no longer requiring destination teams to have workspace-wide scope to be eligible for suggestions

• Agent

  Linear Agent can now manage inbox notifications

• Asks

  Email intake threads can now be resolved and unresolved

• Asks

  Synced comment threads (Slack and Asks) can now be resolved and unresolved, and a new reply reopens a resolved thread

• Comments

  Added inline issue description comments on iOS, including highlights in the description, tap-to-scroll to the thread, and quoted text above description comments

• Desktop

  Added support for Cmd+Z to restore accidentally closed tabs, with timeline-ordered priority and batch restore for bulk close operations

• Diffs

  Added the Diffs inbox as a default home view option

• Diffs

  Improved visibility of auto-merge status in review controls

• Diffs

  Showed failed checks in merge queue removal events

• Diffs

  Showed GitHub force-push events in pull request timelines

• Interface

  Added an Underline links preference under Interface and theme to always underline links in issue descriptions, comments, and documents

• Teams

  Added display options to team member lists for sorting, filtering by member type, and choosing visible columns

• Improved attachment uploads to accept base64 payloads with whitespace or data: URL prefixes

July 2, 2026

[

Initiative properties

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-07-02-initiative-properties)

Initiatives define your company’s high-level goals and organize the projects that contribute to them. To help you manage initiatives as your roadmap grows, we’ve added a new set of focused initiative properties:

• Proposed and canceled statuses make it clear when an initiative is under consideration or has been intentionally set aside
• Priority communicates which initiatives are most important
• Labels group initiatives by product line, region, or other meaningful categories

Use these properties to group and filter initiatives on any plan, or build custom initiative views on Enterprise plans. Learn more about initiative properties in the docs.

Centrally manage access to Linear’s MCP server in Claude⁠

Give employees secure access to Linear and other MCP servers in Claude, without requiring them to authenticate with each server individually.

Enterprise-managed Authorization lets Okta administrators manage access and permissions centrally, and users automatically get access to the MCP servers they’re authorized to use when they sign in to Claude.

Enterprise-Managed Authorization is available to Enterprise workspaces using Okta as an identity provider and Claude as an MCP client. Learn more in the docs or in the MCP specification.

You can now share any filtered view by copying its URL from your browser, or by pressing ⌘/Ctrl Shift C on desktop.

Share filtered views to discuss a subset of an existing view with someone else — like an issue view filtered by an assignee, or project or initiative view filtered by a label.

• Agents

  Fixed issues with editing collapsible sections inside documents and descriptions with the Linear agent

• API

  Stopped automatically cancelling and restarting active Triage Intelligence runs after issue content changes

• API

  Fixed fieldless GraphQL input metadata from turning persisted filters into match-all filters

• Asks

  Slack /asks commands now pre-fill the modals with the entered text

• Automations

  Fixed showing agent automation Show more prompt buttons only when hovering an automation block

• Comments

  Fixed a transient agent session wrapper appearing after mentioning an agent that only handles comment events

• Cycles

  Fixed renamed cycles showing their local generated cycle number in some client Chrome

• Desktop

  Fixed OAuth application creation form resetting when switching tabs on desktop

• Diffs

  Added Linear details comments for manually linked GitHub pull requests when the link is created or changed

• Diffs

  Kept combined code review diffs aligned with side-by-side view when inserted additions are followed by a later paired helper extraction

• Diffs

  Show pull request status icons for coding session inbox notifications tied to PRs

• Diffs

  Fixed review notifications to now open the diff at the relevant comment instead of the guide

• Diffs

  Fixed Team reviews settings appearing when Diffs were disabled

• Diffs

  Fixed poor contrast of JSDoc comments in the GitHub Light syntax theme

• Diffs

  Fixed scroll position jumping when expanding collapsed code sections in diff view

• Diffs

  Fixed commit navigation controls shifting when the changed file count changes between selected commits

• Diffs

  Comment filters on the PR Diffs tab no longer hide comments in the Guide

• Editor

  Fixed emoji rendering in italicized text so emojis remain upright

• Editor

  Improved autolink for a broader list of TLDs when pasting URLs in the editor

• Email

  Fixed email intake settings occasionally displaying an incomplete email address

• Initiatives

  Fixed initiative list with sub-initiatives correctly restoring scroll position on navigation

• Initiatives

  Fixed transparency issues with the icon picker when editing initiatives inline in the list

• Integrations

  Reverted a GitHub sync change that stopped updates from Linear to GitHub once an issue is synced via the one-way sync

• Integrations

  Added a warning to Slack issue dialogs when selected labels include multiple labels from the same label group

• Integrations

  Fixed Google Calendar out-of-office status labels showing an absence as starting today when it starts tomorrow in the user’s timezone

• Integrations

  Fixed GitHub issue sync sending Linear label updates back to repositories configured for one-way GitHub-to-Linear sync

• Integrations

  Fixed Linear user mentions in Slack unfurls notifying mentioned users

• Integrations

  Fixed Slack synced comment import retries when Slack returns missing scopes while fetching message replies

• Issue Activity

  Fixed issue activity history no longer briefly reordering or regrouping while loading when lots of labels are involved

• Issue templates

  Fixed blank optional-only form template submissions from creating empty issues

• Issues

  Fixed issue sidebar hover styles not updating after switching between dark and light mode

• Issues

  Fixed copied issues including sub-issues after the Include sub-issues option was disabled

• Issues

  Fixed SLA workflow triggers failing when a workflow condition did not include an issue filter

• Mobile

  Prevented synced email threads from being resolved from Android

• Project Views

  Fixed a problem where hidden groups could not be restored in timeline views

• Projects

  Fixed completed projects appearing in project dependency blocker counts

• Projects

  Fixed newly created projects now receiving varied default icon colors, matching initiatives

• Projects

  Fixed the project update editor border disappearing after Agent highlight interactions

• Releases

  Fixed started release stage rows appearing taller than other rows in release pipeline settings

• Settings

  Fixed existing application images now showing when editing an OAuth application

• Settings

  Fixed settings search input box now respecting custom sidebar theme colors

• Settings

  Fixed customer status and tier row dividers appearing brighter than the header divider in settings

• Settings

  Fixed workspace security settings copy incorrectly referencing recurring issues for workspace template management

• Sidebar

  Properly aligned controls in the sidebar into one consistent column and fixed their focus rings

• Slack

  Stopped retrying permanent Slack webhook errors for disabled app message tabs and invalid block payloads

• Teams

  Fixed duplicate favorite action in action menu on team views

• Triage

  Fixed Triage rules sometimes showing duplicate or missing rows immediately after saving

• Triage

  Fixed the issue preview closing when a new issue entered a label-filtered Triage queue

• Views

  Fixed some server-backed views not loading correctly with some complex filter conditions

• Projects

  Project and initiative overview latest updates no longer inherit the previous latest update’s open state

• Diffs

  Fixed commit titles of specific lengths from overflowing the commit selector dropdown

• Initiatives

  Initiative target dates now use the same completed date rendering semantics as project target dates

• Initiatives

  Show the notifications subscribe control on initiative pages

• Estimates

  Restored the selected issue’s estimate total in the bulk action toolbar

• Editor

  Fixed dragging URL-backed Linear content into editors that was inserting duplicated mentions

• Pulse

  Fixed Pulse summary item navigation inside the inbox and added a breadcrumb back to the originating summary

• Documents

  Fixed restoring deleted documents whose project parent is archived

• Pull requests

  Cmd-clicking linked pull requests now opens them in a new tab

• Diffs

  Fixed bug where some code in Code Review diffs could not be copied to the clipboard

• Android

  Added support for toggling todo checkboxes directly in issue descriptions and comments

• Diffs

  Added syntax highlighting for .gjs and .gts files in Diffs

• Diffs

  Added settings to control whether GitHub team review requests appear in Reviews and count as To Do

• Diffs

  Collapsed generated protobuf Go files in pull request diffs by default

• Diffs

  Changed PR comment copy menu label to refer to threads when copying prompts for comment threads

• Inbox

  Added ability to filter inbox notifications by related review status

• Issues

  Renamed canonical issue duplicate relation labels from “Duplicated by” to “Duplicates”

• Search

  Updated search tabs to show the search term with a Search prefix and a search-results icon

• Teams

  Improved the spacing between team home columns at medium-width resolutions

• Settings

  Clarified the keyboard preference for submitting comments and agent chat messages

• Insights

  Improved performance of issue and insights queries that filter by initiative

• GitHub

  Added Linear issue to the list of magic words linking pull requests to issues

• Added read-only MCP tools for listing and retrieving Linear Agent skills

• Added support for managing releases, release notes, and release issue associations through the MCP server

• Added source URL support to the save_customer_need tool

• Added an external-user actor variant to the webhook actor union

• Included the top-level url field in data-change webhook payloads for remove actions when an entity URL is available

• Fixed entity webhooks for external-user actions so their top-level actor is populated

• Added the ] shortcut to show or hide the Agent sidebar from Diffs when an Agent session is available

• Fixed Shift Cmd/Ctrl ArrowDown not opening sub-issues in board view

June 18, 2026

[

Agent assisted project updates

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-06-18-agent-assisted-project-updates)

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Project and initiative updates keep teams aligned, but writing them means pulling out recent changes from issues, documents, and discussions.

Instead of finding that context manually, click Write with Agent to let Linear do it for you. The agent reviews changes made since the last update, checks messages in the linked Slack channel, and writes an update draft for you to refine.

Add your own perspective by prompting for further changes or editing directly, then publish the update.

Desktop navigation history and pinned tabs⁠

We’ve rebuilt our desktop tabs to make navigation feel fluid and predictable.

• Each desktop tab now has its own history stack, so moving backwards won’t navigate you to another tab
• Pinned tabs are now a reliable home for important work. They stay anchored in the tab bar, persist after quitting and reopening the app, and aren’t replaced by new content you open.

These changes are live for current desktop users. Try Linear on desktop by downloading the app.

Private sub-teams⁠

Private sub-teams organize groups that work together under one umbrella, like independent business units, skunkworks efforts, or teams handling sensitive data like People Ops.

When you create a sub-team under a private team, you can now choose between two access options:

• Restricted to parent team members — parent team members can see and choose to join the sub-team. This makes it easy to manage private team structures without coordinating invitations to each sub-team.
• Private to team members — the team is hidden, except to members directly invited to that sub-team

Private sub-teams are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in our documentation.

Build agents with Vercel Eve⁠

Vercel Eve is an open-source framework for building custom agents.

Build agents that can investigate incidents, monitor SLAs, or analyze customer feedback. You can deploy agents on Vercel with the guided setup, or host them wherever you run your Eve app.

Once connected to Linear, teammates can delegate issues to your agent or mention it in comments. Learn more about Eve in Vercel’s documentation.

Release pipeline changelogs⁠

Releases let you plan and track your software releases. Now, you can also keep your team aligned on what’s shipping with changelogs for each release pipeline. These changelogs bring a pipeline’s release notes together in one place, so progress is easy to review and share.

Choose to auto-generate release notes in pipeline settings so your changelog is always up to date. Learn more in our documentation.

OAuth application manifests⁠

OAuth application manifests let platforms provide a one-click OAuth app setup experience for users creating integrations.

Use URL parameters to send users directly to a pre-filled Create OAuth App form in Linear. An equivalent JSON manifest format lets you store configurations in files, validate them locally, or generate them programmatically.

Find the details in our developer docs.

• Command menu

  Added the missing command menu action for recently deleted initiatives

• Comments

  Threaded comment highlight corners now match with the reply composer below the thread

• Customers

  Fixed stale customer request counts on issues and projects after archiving or restoring customer requests

• Desktop

  Middle-clicking a link to a document comment now properly navigates to the comment

• Diffs

  Fixed the Unified/Split layout toggle not taking effect when a narrow column had forced the diff into unified view

• Diffs

  The tooltip on group headers in the Reviews inbox now covers the entire clickable header

• Documents

  Creating an issue from a selection in a team document now creates it in the correct team

• Duplicates

  When you remove a duplicate relation, it now restores the issue’s last status

• Duplicates

  Fixed duplicate merges running concurrently for the same issue during bulk deduplication

• Filters

  Fixed the filter button not staying visually active while its menu is open

• Front

  Fixed processing Front conversation links for conversations without a primary recipient

• GitHub

  Fixed GitHub integrations being marked “disconnected” after a transient GitHub authentication blip

• Inbox

  We no longer send a removed from merge queue notification when a pull request is successfully merged by GitHub’s merge queue

• Inbox

  Fixed inbox notifications occasionally appearing as blank while the sender’s name was loading

• Insights

  Fixed release-filtered burn-up charts failing to render

• Issues

  Fixed oversized issue status icons in delete confirmation toasts

• Milestones

  Fixed a flicker in the milestone list when creating the first milestone from a project overview

• Notifications

  Each recipient’s name display preference is now respected in project and initiative update notifications

• Project Updates

  Fixed the project updates panel occasionally leaving an empty wrapper element on the page after navigating elsewhere

• Pull requests

  Right-clicking pull request pills in issue lists now opens the correct menu

• Pull requests

  Fixed pull request details overflowing their container when hovering over a PR badge

• SCIM

  Renaming a linked SCIM role group (e.g. linear-admins) in the identity provider no longer causes Linear to stop managing the associated role

• Settings

  Prevented the language selector from overlapping the scrollbar in Code & Reviews settings

• Settings

  Fixed an odd transition when switching between the same settings page of different teams

• Slack

  Slack thread sync no longer fails to import a comment when one of its reactions came from a user without access to the issue

• Slack

  Underscores in pull request titles are now preserved in Slack notifications

• Slack

  Slack comment notifications now link out to unsupported images instead of sending invalid Slack image blocks

• Slack

  Slack pasted message links now sync to Linear threads as a clickable link

• Agents

  AI chat thinking steps are now shown as blockquotes when copying conversations as markdown

• Diffs

  Added a “Missing issue” PR filter that shows PRs without a linked issue

• Diffs

  Raised the size limit for generating Guides on larger pull request diffs

• Diffs

  Holding Opt and clicking the chevron in the file header now expands/collapses all files

• Diffs

  Review list approval copy now shows who approved a pull request

• Diffs

  Whole added/removed lines in diffs render more clearly with the same color as inline added/removed characters

• Diffs

  Added the ability to use custom font for code in diffs

• Diffs

  Added contextual help about the Reviews feature and related keyboard shortcuts

• Diffs

  Polished the pull request review layout — removed the divider between the conversation and code columns, and the Guide now has even horizontal padding with the scrollbar no longer overlapping content

• Diffs

  Added copy link to file actions in pull request diffs

• GitHub/GitLab

  Unassigned triage issues remain in triage for Git request and commit automations, unless the final merged change closes the issue

• PagerDuty

  Added support for PagerDuty shift-based schedules, so triage responsibility on-call now syncs from both shift-based (v3) and classic layer-based schedules (v2)

• Team documents

  The documents list now supports multi-select

• Views

  Updated the sort direction icons so the arrow direction matches the active sort order

• MCP project status update tools are now available in workspaces without recent project update history

• Fixed issue with fetches failing when descriptions contained Unicode line or paragraph separators

• templateCreate and templateUpdate now reject unsupported form field payloads

June 11, 2026

[

Coding sessions in Linear

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-06-11-coding-sessions)

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Earlier this year, we launched Linear Agent, giving teams a new way to plan and coordinate their issues and projects. Since then, we’ve added Code Intelligence to extend that understanding to the codebase, and MCP support to bring all of your context together.

Today we’re closing the loop: Linear Agent can now write code using Claude Code and Codex. You can triage, plan, review, and ship—all in Linear.

Start a coding session by assigning an issue to Linear, or ask it to make a change in a chat, comment, or Slack thread. Each session is grounded in your workspace context, pulling in issue details, history, customer requests, discussions, and related work.

A coding agent your team will love⁠

Coding sessions run in the cloud, so you can prototype ideas and make changes without setting up a local development environment.

When the change is ready, Linear returns a new diff for review. Share preview links, bring teammates into the discussion, and address feedback with further iterations in the same thread.

Automate the first pass⁠

When a new issue is reported, Linear Agent can investigate and attempt a fix before it reaches an engineer, reducing the load on your team.

It follows your team’s guidance, gathers evidence from tools like Sentry or Datadog through MCP, and inspects the codebase to trace the root cause before producing a fix.

Linear uses this workflow internally to resolve roughly 30% of incoming bug reports, mostly on the first pass.

You can set up your own agent automation in your team’s Triage settings.

Availability and pricing⁠

Coding sessions are available on Basic, Business, and Enterprise plans. They require a GitHub connection with code access and use AI credits to run. Workspace admins can enable coding sessions in Settings and manage access, usage, and credits from the usage dashboard. Learn more in the docs.

• Agents

  Filled in the thumbs down button after submitting AI feedback

• Agents

  Fixed a missing space between the integrations link and surrounding text on the team agents settings page

• Agents

  Vertically centered the label and preview text in the agent session card’s status row

• Agents

  Fixed left padding of the agent session card header to match other activity cards

• Archive

  Fixed restoring a trashed issue or document failing in rare cases where the document’s trashed flag was stored as false

• Asks

  Allowed Slack workflows and external users using the Asks Agent to access private teams’ channel-configured templates

• Customers

  Fixed excessive row spacing and the limited customer list on the unfiltered customers page

• Customers

  Fixed the customer merge preview showing annual revenue under the monthly revenue label

• Customers

  Fixed a bug where linking a Slack channel to a customer failed for workspaces with multiple Slack connections but a single Asks connection

• Diffs

  Opening a linear.review link in a workspace without Diffs enabled now routes to enable-reviews instead of bouncing back to GitHub

• Diffs

  Fixed showing GitHub legacy commit statuses (e.g. external CI like RWX or Jenkins) in PR checks

• Diffs

  Fixed “Update branch → with rebase” creating a merge commit instead of rebasing

• Diffs

  Fixed the file list sidebar not scrolling when the file tree was taller than the viewport

• Display options

  Fixed the display options menu being slow to open on views grouped into a large number of items

• Editor

  Fixed customer and customer request mentions not loading their details in the iOS editor

• Editor

  Pasting linear.app/review/<owner>/<repo>/pull/<id> now properly embeds as a PR mention

• Editor

  Fixed the tooltip for plain links covering link controls

• GitHub

  Fixed Linear issues with comma-containing label names failing to sync to GitHub

• Initiatives

  Fixed Initiative projects table columns occasionally overlapping or taking up too much width

• Integrations

  Fixed an importer freeze when mapping a large number of users

• Issues

  Fixed a line break appearing between an issue’s status icon and its identifier in undo/redo toasts

• Labels

  Archived labels no longer appear in the form-template label group picker

• Links

  Fixed a crash when a link embed with a missing or invalid URL failed to load a preview

• Mobile

  Release, Release Note, and Release Pipeline mentions now display properly on mobile

• Notifications

  Fixed agent completion notifications not being delivered to the user who delegated the work

• Projects

  Project issue list deep links now redirect to the project overview instead of the filtered issue view

• Project Views

  Fixed saved project views unexpectedly showing empty groups when grouping and filtering projects

• Pulse

  Fixed daily Pulse summaries being skipped when a single feed update had a malformed body

• SCIM

  Fixed SCIM role group pushes not repairing a stale role when the user was already tracked in the role’s membership

• Settings

  AI settings dependent on the Linear Agent now show “Disabled” when the Linear Agent is turned off

• Slack

  Sharing a project comment link in Slack now unfurls the comment instead of the project

• SLAs

  Fixed missing SLAs for issues created from Slack asks

• Updates

  Fixed inconsistent icon spacing in the project/initiative update health control

• Asks

  Improved longer, cleaner fallback issue titles when creating Asks from Slack without an AI-generated title

• Diffs

  The “Copy pull request number” action now copies just the number, without the leading #

• Diffs

  Added a file action to open the full file in GitHub from the review diff

• Diffs

  Guided reviews now jump directly to a selected file instead of scrolling slowly through every file in between

• Documents

  Added “New document” and “New document from template” to the right click menu on the create issue button

• Team Documents

  Added cycle documents to the team documents tab, including support for grouping documents by cycle

• Triage

  On Android, choosing a status that requires a priority to leave triage now opens the priority picker automatically instead of hiding those statuses

• Editor

  Changed the strikethrough shortcut to Cmd/Ctrl Shift X

• list_comments now returns comments on archived issues

• Documents can now be listed and created under a team

June 4, 2026

[

Team documents

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-06-04-team-documents)

Important team context doesn’t always belong in a specific issue, project, or initiative. Teams also need a dedicated place for the notes, docs, and shared references that support their work over time. Now, every team has a page to keep its context organized and easy to access.

Teams can create documents directly from their home page, add existing documents from projects and issues, and group resources into sections.

Open a team’s page by clicking on its name in your sidebar, or search by pressing o, then t. Learn more in our documentation.

Shared skills for Linear Agent⁠

Skills let you save reusable instructions for Linear Agent.

We now support sharing skills with your team so great personal workflows can become shared team process. Sharing a skill helps your team standardize recurring workflows like writing specs, running weekly planning, or drafting updates.

Use skills in any agent conversation by clicking on Skills or using a slash command. You can share an existing skill from settings, or by asking Linear Agent. Learn more in our documentation.

You can now comment directly on text or images in issue descriptions.

Select any part of a description to leave a comment anchored to that exact spot. Use description comments to share feedback on a specific part of the description, rather than commenting on the issue as a whole.

• Asks

  The Creator in activity log copy for Slack Asks issues now always matches the creator filter.

• Attachments

  Linear now preserves the original filename (and extension) when downloading attachments whose name contains characters like middle dot (·) or non-breaking space.

• Comments

  Fixed synced Slack thread replies that could fail or disappear after switching threads.

• Comments

  Fixed mentioning app users in comments created through triage automations.

• Comments

  We now correctly strip leading whitespace from comment paragraphs on submit.

• Diffs

  Files marked as viewed in the Guide tab now stay collapsed when returning to the Diff tab.

• Diffs

  Fixed links in Guide jumping or over-scrolling past the target when navigating to a file or symbol.

• Diffs

  Fixed the diff horizontal scrollbar not being draggable when a collapsed unchanged-lines row was present.

• Diffs

  Fixed Guide showing large blocks of unchanged code when an LLM-supplied hide directive sat adjacent to a long unchanged stretch.

• Documents

  Capped the document table of contents markers height, showing only top-level headings when there are too many to fit.

• Documents

  Fixed a previously open document staying selected after creating a new document in side-by-side view.

• Display options

  Toggling a display option back to its default now correctly clears the modified indicator on the Display button.

• Editor

  Fixed portrait videos being clamped when going fullscreen.

• Figma

  Fixed Figma links in comments triggering repeated comment update errors and slow issue loads.

• GitHub

  GitHub backlink comments are now posted for issues that reference a GitHub URL even when the target repo isn’t synced to a Linear team, as long as the GitHub install can access it.

• GitHub

  We now correctly handle null GitHub ghost users across webhook, issue sync, and pull request intake paths.

• GitHub

  Fixed GitHub issue sync failing with a 401 “A JSON web token could not be decoded” error in some GitHub Enterprise Cloud workspaces.

• Google Sheets

  Fixed a Google Sheets export failure caused by large issue batches overflowing the call stack.

• Inbox

  Returning to Inbox no longer scrolls to a previously-viewed notification without selecting it.

• Insights

  Fixed incorrect Insights results when using “Time in status” after an issue status was renamed.

• Integrations

  Fixed Linear Agent creating a Slack channel for new projects when “Automatically create channel for new projects” was disabled.

• Keyboard

  Pressing Esc on a page opened directly in a new tab no longer wipes that page from browser history, so the browser back button can still return to it.

• Linear Agent

  Stopped the Linear agent from chiming in on later Slack thread chatter after it creates an issue/Ask.

• Login

  Login now shows a clear error instead of a false “email sent” confirmation when emails can’t be delivered to a suppressed address.

• Onboarding

  Fixed the onboarding invite step hanging on desktop after sending invites.

• Performance

  Loading icon animations are more performant and use less CPU.

• Projects

  Fixed missing icons on project milestone context menu actions.

• Projects

  Fixed missing padding around the milestones help text shown when a project has no milestones.

• Projects

  Fixed project activity showing the wrong priority change after consecutive priority updates.

• Pulse

  Fixed Pulse summaries rendering document links with a stray @ prefix instead of a proper document mention.

• Releases

  Fixed a bug that caused only partial release names to be saved.

• Diffs

  Clicking “Request review” on a draft pull request that already has requested reviewers now marks it ready for review directly.

• Diffs

  Outdated review comments are now reflected separately from resolved comments in the code review comment summary.

• Search

  Fixed exact issue identifier searches with different casing not ranking the matching issue first.

• Sidebar

  Fixed alt-clicking a team in the sidebar downloading an HTML file instead of collapsing/expanding all teams.

• Sidebar

  Fixed the “Exploring” sidebar section dropping a team when navigating to its documents tab.

• Sidebar

  Sidebar nav item hover state changes are now instant.

• Slack project channels

  Linear no longer overwrites a connected Slack channel’s topic when a project’s description changes.

• Templates

  Fixed an error that could occur when saving templates that contained legacy invalid content.

• Templates

  Fixed issue templates intermittently losing their default project and milestone.

• Triage

  Fixed the triage automation actor name showing “Triage Behaviour” instead of “Triage Behavior”.

• Triage

  Fixed the triage responsibility settings separators appearing darker than the triage rules card.

• Version history

  Fixed the “Highlight changes” toggle disappearing when turned off in version history.

• Views

  Fixed a freeze that could occur when opening some saved issue views.

• Agents

  Added an Error option to the agent session issue filter and insights grouping.

• Diffs

  You can now paste a GitHub pull request link into command menu to open it in Linear.

• Diffs

  Customers on legacy plans can now use Diffs.

• Diffs

  We now show indentation changes in diffs for more whitespace-sensitive languages (CoffeeScript, Elm, F#, HAML, Haskell, LiveScript, MoonScript, Nim, Stylus, Makefile).

• Editor

  We now support right-clicking an issue mention in a doc or editor to change its properties.

• Editor

  We now treat ) and ( as emoji autocomplete aliases for standard smile and sad results.

May 28, 2026

[

Linear Diffs

](https://linear.app/changelog/2026-05-27-linear-diffs)

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Agents generate large volumes of code, but individuals are still accountable for the changes that merge. This leads to a lot of review work, and the capability and performance of traditional review tools hasn’t kept up.

Today, we’re releasing Linear Diffs to make reviewing code a fast and fluid experience native to Linear.

You can now review diffs from any issue with a PR, iterate on further changes with agents, and ship code from Linear. All reviews in Linear sync back to GitHub, so the current state of review work is always clear.

Guided reviews (beta)⁠

Guided reviews help you efficiently review large PRs. When you view a diff in this format, you’ll see the core of change first, so you don’t have to dig for an entrypoint.

Each section of diffs has an explanation — starting with what the change is, then moving into its consequences. Guided reviews separate out glue code and secondary changes so you can stay focused on what matters. This style of review makes it much easier to move through large changes in a single sitting.

Guided reviews are free during beta and available for Linear customers on Business and Enterprise plans.

Review Inbox⁠

Staying on top of reviews is easier when review notifications live alongside the rest of your work. Linear notifies your Inbox for work like review requests, your approved PRs, and comment mentions. You can set up additional real-time desktop, Slack, email, or mobile notifications.

We’ve also added a dedicated Reviews tab in your sidebar so you can see all your review work at once. The default focus ordering sorts reviews by what’s closest to shipping, so the work that needs your attention most rises to the top.

Reviewing code⁠

When a review calls for changes, keep iterating from the diff surface with a background coding agent. Agent changes update the diff in real-time, so you don’t need to check out the branch locally for every small tweak.

Diffs is responsive when reviewing even very large PRs. You can view unified or split diffs, enable line wrapping and structural highlighting, and choose custom code themes.

Linear Diffs is available now on all plans. Guided reviews are free during beta and available for Linear customers on Business and Enterprise plans.

Workspace admins can enable Diffs by upgrading Linear’s GitHub integration for code access. Then, individual users can choose to review diffs in Linear.

To learn more about why we built Diffs, read Code review should be fast. For more on Diffs functionality, check our documentation.

• Agents

  Fixed choppy animation when expanding agent thoughts

• Agents

  Fixed agent chat incorrectly minimizing on external link click

• Agents

  Fixed the “Worked for X” label on agent session turns to measure active work time, excluding any idle wait between turns

• Agents

  Fixed agent panel staying focused when expanding or collapsing

• Agents

  Prevented the Ask Linear popup from reopening off-screen after the window height shrinks

• Agents

  Fixed Ask Linear drafts being lost when switching between chats

• Agents

  Fixed agent lists showing too many skills

• Asks

  Linear Asks Agent will now automatically reply to external users when requesting additional information

• Asks

  Fixed Asks Web submission attributions when the submitter logged into Asks Web before accepting their Linear workspace invite

• Desktop

  Fixed an issue where the desktop application could hang when waking up your computer from sleep

• Desktop

  Fixed desktop app flash of white background on new window open

• Diffs

  Fixed deduplication of linked PRs in issue attachment data

• Diffs

  Fixed refreshing the diff when a PR’s target branch changes (e.g., after a stacked parent merges and GitHub retargets the child)

• Diffs

  Stopped attributing GitHub PR comments authored by deleted (“ghost”) users to the wrong user in notifications

• Documents

  Fixed document mention notifications firing on every edit instead of just when a user is newly mentioned

• Documents

  Shortened the placeholder in the “Change document subscribers” action menu so its keyboard shortcut indicator no longer gets clipped

• GitHub

  Comments on a not-yet-linked GitHub PR now backfill the issue→PR link via magic-word matching the same way PR lifecycle and review events do

• Inbox

  Fixed “From is not” filter to correctly exclude issue assignment notifications from integration and OAuth application-driven assignments

• Inbox

  Fixed inbox badge getting stuck when arriving on a review via a legacy /agent URL

• Insights

  Fixed a bug where two Duplicate options appeared in the Time in status filter

• Integrations

  Figma links now show a clean Figma title instead of the raw marketing page title

• Issues

  Removed Duplicate status from quick issue create and issue template

• Project templates

  Allowed project-template sub-issues to target other private teams again

• Sentry

  Fixed a bug where Sentry-created issues could be assigned to deactivated users in triage

• Settings

  We now correctly truncate long team names in Teams settings list instead of overlapping the next column

• Shortcuts

  Fixed the Copy as Prompt shortcut so it updates issue status when auto-start-on-open is enabled

• Sync

  Fixed “Linear servers are not reachable” error that could appear after laptop unlock

• Triage

  Fixed workspace issue templates not appearing in triage automation filters

• Views

  Fixed list rows shifting horizontally when toggling a group in views with grouped columns

• Android

  Improved Android to use server-side filtering for skills

• Agents

  Dashboard pages are now used as context in the Linear agent chat

• Integrations

  Connecting GitHub now defaults to enabling code access

• Project Slack channels

  Used an info-style toast when starting project Slack channel creation

• Reviews

  Activity page file and code comment links, and PR notifications, now open whichever code view (Diffs or Guide) you last visited

• Skills

  Updated empty state for skills to match other settings

• Timeline

  Improved timeline projects aside panel visibility to be remembered per view instead of globally

• Updates

  Removed the UI for hiding project and initiative update details