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Changelog

New updates and improvements to Linear.


Project progress reports

Progress report from a Linear project, highlighting what percent of milestones were completed since the last update. The progress report is printed out on a piece of paper, like it would be for an old school critique of the design.

Progress reports for projects

Project updates now include a concise overview of changes in a project since the last project update. Below the project health and written summary, you’ll see key metrics around issues completed, progress toward milestones, as well as changes to target dates, project leads, and teams involved in the project. This makes it easier to see progress at a glance and spot when a project might be at risk.

These new progress reports are included in project updates shared to Slack if you have set up the notification in project update settings (we highly recommend it). This makes it easy to communicate progress to stakeholders across your organization.

Project boards

Whenever you’re looking at a list of projects, you can now view it in a board layout in addition to the list and timeline views. The board layout supports the same display options as lists and can be grouped by roadmap or by project status, project lead, or project health. We’ve added flexibility so that you can configure different properties to appear on different layouts. For example, a view of this quarter’s projects seen in the board layout can show multiple properties while the list view can be kept simple and only show the project status, health, and lead.

Issue reactions

You can now add emoji reactions to issues to provide quick feedback or celebrate a win. A button to add a reaction is available below the issue description, right above where you would add sub-issues. The issue’s creator will receive a notification for reactions to their issue. All standard emojis as well as any custom emojis you have imported from Slack are available to use.

Slack integration improvements

The Linear Slack integration now lets you link a message to an existing Linear issue in addition to creating a new issue from a message. Select the “Link existing issue…” action from the overflow menu for any message in Slack to search across all issues currently in your Linear workspace. You can search by ID or title of the issue.

  • [API] Added the option for OAuth applications to link an attachment to an issue as a specified user
  • It's now possible to change between internal selector tabs (like in My Issues) using numeric keyboard shortcuts: 1, 2, 3 ...
  • You can now subscribe to a comment thread by leaving a reaction on any comment in a thread
  • We now accurately replace user mentions in synced Slack comments with Slack display names even if the mentioned user doesn't have a Linear account
  • Desktop: improved transparent sidebar consistency
  • Added option to only send Project Update reminders once a month
  • Added a search bar for icons, similar to what previously existed only under emoji
  • Sentry alerts triggering for a Sentry issue with an existing open Linear issue will no longer create a new issue in Linear.
  • Added grouping by Team in My issues
  • Improved legibility in Roadmaps selector
  • Added Hover states on Roadmap tabs
  • Project updates links now unfurl correctly in Slack
  • When estimates are enabled, now click the estimate point rollup in quick filter sidebar to show issue counts instead
  • It's now possible to change custom view owner
  • Fixed not being able to navigate command menu with Shift [arrow]. As long as there's no text input you now can.
  • Fixed an issue where selecting an item (like applying a label) in contextual menu using keyboard (Enter) would navigate to the issue as well
  • Fixed inbox filters to correctly preserve the state when clicking through issues
  • Fixed a bug where date and icon pickers would be too transparent in some themes
  • Fixed Insights quick filter -- No creator now applies correctly
  • Fix a bug where quick filters on the Insights data table would not filter the correct issues when the Slice was a date property (created date, completed date, ...)
  • Fixed an issue where links from certain synced Slack comments were rendering improperly in Linear
  • Fixed a bug where Issue Id column had uneven width
  • Buttons to clear recent search terms now have keyboard focus styles
  • Fixed a bug where view options would show wrong ordering in Triage
  • Fixed styling of selected inbox items on custom themes
  • Added missing shortcut to tooltip of Open parent button on a sub-issue
  • Fixed a problem with emojis search being unresponsive in project updates reaction
  • Resolved issue where the project update modal was overlapping with the Figma preview modal
  • Fixed a problem with Inbox filter persisting when after switching your workspace
  • Fixed a bug where inbox would display double notifications when accepting a triage issue
  • Fixed rendering bugs with translucent elements in Safari
  • Templates with sub-issues are no longer hidden from sub-issue form
  • Fixed an issue that caused workspace logos to be missing on first load