Linear Release Notes

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Share issues from private teams

You can now share individual issues from private teams with specific users outside of the team. This is especially useful when bringing collaborators on to solve individual problems for highly sensitive teams, like security or HR. You can assign them a specific issue from your team without giving them access to the rest of the team's data. Shared issues will have a banner prominently displayed to indicate who that issue is visible to. Private issue sharing is available on Enterprise plans. Learn more in our docs.

Create projects and initiatives on Android and iOS

Capture ideas on the go by creating new projects and initiatives on Linear's mobile apps. Write project summaries and properties to express your intent, then build out full descriptions and milestones later.

Gemini Enterprise connector

Gemini Enterprise users can now create issues from Gemini, and access data from their existing issues and projects. Learn more in our docs.

We've expanded Linear's MCP server with support for initiatives, project milestones, and updates. These allow product managers to keep plans up to date and communicate progress from other tools like Cursor and Claude.

Newly added MCP tools

• Create and edit initiatives
• Create and edit initiative updates
• Create and edit project milestones
• Create and edit project updates
• Manage project labels
• Support for loading images

We also improved performance and reduced token usage through better tool documentation, and added broad support for loading Linear resources through URLs.

Deprecation of /sse MCP endpoint

SSE as a transport was deprecated starting with protocol version 2024-11-05. As all modern clients now support the more reliable HTTP streams, Linear MCP is fully removing SSE support. To switch, update your endpoint from https://mcp.linear.app/sse to https://mcp.linear.app/mcp.

Deprecation errors for SSE will be rolled out gradually over the next two months.

Read more in Linear MCP documentation.

Nested sub-issues

Issue lists can now show sub-issues as a nested hierarchy. Turn on this display option from any issue list view.

Retired teams

Teams form and disband as organizations evolve. When a team is no longer active, its issues and projects still hold useful context, but shouldn't clutter your workspace.

We're introducing the ability to retire teams, giving you a clean way to wind a team down while preserving its project and issue history.

Retired teams are read-only and hidden from the sidebar, but their issues, projects, and documents are still accessible. When retiring a team, you can choose to cancel any remaining open issues or move them to another team. Retired teams can be restored at any time.

Admins, workspace owners, and team owners can retire a team from its settings page.

Time in Status Tracking

Time spent in individual statuses is now tracked and available throughout Linear. Hover over any issue's status indicator to see the cumulative time it's spent in each status. You can use this to spot where things are getting stuck, identify bottlenecks, and optimize your development process.

On lists and boards, you can see how long items have been in their current status. Order by time in status to surface blocked work, or filter by conditions like In Review > 7 days to catch issues that have fallen through the cracks.

In Insights and Dashboards, analyze the time spent in any status and slice by time period or other attributes to see how performance changes and differs across your workspace. Use this to quickly uncover systemic bottlenecks and outliers.

Time in status is available as a display option in views, and as a new measure in Insights.

Release notes

Now you can customize Linear Mobile to fit your daily workflow. Personalize the bottom toolbar to prioritize the features you use the most. Rearrange the main navigation items, or pin specific projects, initiatives, and documents for quick access. For example, you can choose Pulse to stay up to date with work across your teams, or My issues to manage your assigned tasks.

To pin specific projects, initiatives, or documents, open the item and use the ••• menu in the top-right.

Available today in the App Store and Play Store.

New team owner role

We are introducing a new team owner role to give teams more control over their team settings. Alongside this new role, we’re adding team permissions so you can choose who can manage team settings, labels, templates, and membership — either any team member or only team owners. This empowers teams to define their own policies, while ensuring workspace owners and admins retain control over workspace-wide settings.

Access control

You can also control access and require an invite to join a team. Issues and projects of any team will still remain visible to everyone, and workspace owners and admins can always manage the settings for any team.

Availability and docs

Configure these permissions on your team's Access and permissions page. Team owners and permissions are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in the docs.