Linear Release Notes

Projects and initiatives now support comments in their activity feed, giving teams a place for high-level discussion alongside updates. Conversations stay attached to the work itself, making it easier for both people and agents to follow and reference.

Use comments to:

• provide lightweight feedback that doesn’t belong in an inline comment or formal update
• discuss open questions and resolve threads once decisions are made
• capture meeting takeaways and mention @Linear to update docs, revise descriptions, and create issues

Web forms for Linear Asks

Linear Asks allows you to capture internal requests and bring them into Linear so the appropriate team can work on them. Previously, we've enabled intake through Slack and email.

Now we've added custom web forms as well.

Teams can create a dedicated Asks page with forms for the types of requests they handle, like feature requests, bug reports, data pulls, or HR and IT tasks. Forms are powered by issue templates, so teams control exactly what information gets collected. Every submission becomes an issue in the team’s triage inbox, where it can be fielded by a team member or routed with Triage Intelligence.

Anyone in your company can create an ask, even if they don’t have a Linear account. After submitting an ask, submitters can follow up through a synced email thread on the issue.

Web forms for Linear Asks are available on the Enterprise plan. Learn more in our documentation.

We’re excited to share the next major step in Linear's evolution. For the vision behind Linear Agent, read the letter from our CEO, Karri.

As execution accelerates, the bottleneck in product development shifts toward judgment: deciding exactly what to build and where your team's time, attention, and tokens are best spent.

Your workspace already contains much of the context needed to drive good product decisions, but getting to it means reading through threads, combing the backlog, reviewing customer requests, and piecing together what's relevant.

Linear Agent brings all of that context within reach.

Built directly into Linear, and accessible everywhere, Linear Agent understands your roadmap, issues, and code. It can help you synthesize context, make recommendations, and take action.

For example, when starting a new project, instead of manually researching past feature requests, you can ask Linear to find related issues, group them by relevance, and pull the right ones in. From there, ask it to extract common requirements across customer requests and scope out a starting point for your spec — all in a few minutes.

Linear Agent is powered by frontier language models and fully grounded in the context of your workspace. Use it to supercharge your everyday workflows:

• In Slack, send: "@Linear Make issues based on the discussion here and assign them to me"
• When writing a project update, tell it: "I’m writing an update for this project. What’s changed recently, and what should I include?”
• When planning your next cycle: “Read this backlog and pull out repeated themes that we can prioritize"
• When you come back from time off and need to know what's going on: “Is anything at risk or falling behind that I should be aware of?”

Linear Agent works with you wherever you are. Open a chat from the bottom-right of the desktop app (shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + J) or the mobile app, or mention @Linear in any comment or reply. It's also available in Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Skills and Automations

As you use Linear Agent, you’ll find workflows worth repeating. When a conversation gets you to a good result, you can ask Linear to save it as a reusable skill. This is especially useful for recurring workflows, like catching up on projects or drafting issues from meeting notes. Run a skill from the skills menu in any chat or with a slash command. Linear will also automatically use skills when it thinks they are applicable.

You can also trigger agent workflows automatically when issues enter triage. Every new issue adds context to your workspace, and Linear can intelligently help you refine, synthesize, or act on it.

Automations are available on Business and Enterprise plans.

Code Intelligence (coming soon)

We're also announcing Code Intelligence, a capability that extends Linear Agent's understanding to your codebase. Once enabled, it supports code-aware tasks like diagnosing app functionality and designing technical specifications.

Non-technical teammates can ask questions they'd normally have to track down an engineer to answer — how a feature works, who owns a system, what recently changed — and get a reliable response.

Code Intelligence is coming soon to Business and Enterprise plans.

Availability and pricing

Linear Agent is now available in public beta for all teams. Agent and Skills are included on all Linear plans. Automations and Code Intelligence are available on Business and Enterprise.

During the beta period, all features are available at no additional cost as we refine and expand the product.

At general availability, we expect chat functionality — in-app, in comments, Slack, and Microsoft Teams — to remain included in the base seat price. High-volume compute capabilities like Automations and Code Intelligence may move to usage-based pricing beyond a certain threshold.

We'll provide clear advance notice before any pricing changes take effect.

Reach out if you have any questions.

Introducing a calmer, more consistent UI.

We've visually refreshed Linear's interface design to make it easier to scan information, navigate between workflows, and stay focused.

A few highlights:

• Headers, navigation, and view controls are now consistent across projects, issues, reviews, and documents, making it simpler to orient yourself and move between workflows
• Icons across the app have been redrawn and resized
• Navigation sidebars are slightly dimmer, allowing the main content area to stand out

Learn more about our design process on our blog.

Additional launchers for AI coding tools

We recently gave you the ability to open issues directly in your AI coding tools with all of the context they need to take a first pass.

We've now expanded the list of supported tools. In addition to popular options like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex desktop, you can also now open issues in:

• Amp
• Codex CLI
• Devin
• Factory
• Lovable
• Netlify Agent Runners
• Warp
• Windsurf

Enable your tools in preferences, and launch them from any issue using the dedicated shortcut or with ⌘ Opt. (Mac) or Ctrl Alt. (Windows/Linux).

Mobile agent sessions

Work with your coding agents on the go. After delegating an issue to an agent, open its session in the Linear mobile app to see realtime reasoning or review past sessions. For agents that support it, you can also send additional messages in the session to help steer the work.

Multiple parents for sub-initiatives

Sometimes a sub-initiative contributes to multiple high-level goals. This is common in goal setting frameworks like OKRs.

Sub-initiatives can now belong to multiple parent initiatives in Linear, allowing you to express how work rolls up in different ways across your org.

Available on Enterprise plans.

Send comment on Enter preference

As part of our design refresh, we've made commenting across Linear more lightweight. You can now select between sending comments with just the Enter key or with ⌘ / Ctrl Enter in preferences.

Starting an issue

Starting an issue used to mean manually creating a feature branch. Now it means assembling the right context so your coding agent can take a first pass. We've made this much easier to do in Linear.

You can now launch your preferred coding tool directly from a Linear issue, with a prefilled prompt that includes the issue ID and all relevant context: description, comments, updates, linked references, and images. No copying or reformatting required.

Open in a coding tool by pressing
Cmd
Option
.
(Mac) or
Ctrl
Alt
.
(Windows/Linux) to launch your most recently used tool,
then
to choose from your enabled tools, or by clicking the button next to the issue identifier.

Supported tools

• Claude Code
• Codex
• Conductor
• Cursor
• GitHub Copilot
• OpenCode
• Replit
• v0
• Zed

Prompt templates

Prompt templates can also be customized to add standing instructions for how your agent should approach issues. For example, you may always want your agent to give you a detailed plan before writing any code.

Preferences

Configure your personal coding tools, prompt template, and more in
preferences
.

Linear in Notion's Custom Agents

Create and update Linear issues and projects using Notion's new
Custom Agents
. Flexibly and seamlessly connect your workflows across both tools.

Refine your searches, views, and dashboards with advanced filters. Combine multiple AND / OR conditions to define exactly what you want to see. For example, track high-priority bugs for prospective customers in a single view by combining Priority, Label, and Customer status filters. Subscribe to a view to get notified when issues match your conditions, or use advanced filters to power targeted dashboards. Get started by choosing advanced filter from the filter menu, or use AI filter to describe what you're looking for in natural language.

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.