Changelog

Linear Preview: New sub-issue editing⁠

Sub-issues help track larger pieces of work and allow coordination between different people and components. To make it easier to add and manage sub-issues, we have rebuilt how they are shown on issue views. Now you can quickly add multiple sub-issues without ever leaving the page and just with your keyboard. Press CmdShifto to open the sub-issue editor, enter the issue details and hit CmdEnter to save it and continue adding another one. Sub-issues can also be reordered in the list by dragging and dropping them to your desired order.

This is a preview feature. Admins can turn on new sub-issue editing for your workspace by selecting Enable: New sub-issues from the command menu (Cmdk then search for "preview").

SAML authentication⁠

If your company uses an identity provider to login to services, we've added support for SAML authentication so that you can use it to login to Linear, too. It's available through our new Plus plan. We currently support most identity providers including Okta, Google, OneLogin, LastPass, Auth0 and Bitum. See a more detailed overview of the features provided in the Plus plan on the plans page.

Other improvements⁠

• Modals in Big Sur now have a semi-transparent overlay
• Fixed autofocus in the onboarding flow
• Fixed styling for long emails in the workspace members list
• Remapped assign issue status keyboard shortcuts
• Fixed performance issues in certain issue lists for a subset of browsers
• Disabled the "Move to team" action for new, unsaved issue
• Fixed a layout issue when users have long emails on the members page

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Granular Notification Settings⁠

We're giving you more control over your notification settings. You can now customize what types of notifications you will receive and how you will receive them.

Notification types can selectively be turned on or off for all notification methods, Slack personal notifications, email, and desktop push notifications. Under each method, you can specify the triggers for sending notifications.

For instance, you can choose to receive only Slack personal notifications whenever you're assigned an issue but to receive Slack, Desktop and email notifications when an assigned issue is marked urgent or blocking. You can choose to turn off email notifications for issue comments specifically but keep notifications for status changes and @ mentions. Customize your notifications in your notification settings.

Other improvements⁠

• View and project icons are now differentiated by their background shapes
• Improved batch operation performance
• Fixed not being able to see shared views for teams you are not a member of
• Fixed an issue when assigning a target date to a project via the calendar control
• Fixed project page always showing issues for the first team in a project’s team list
• Fixed export settings section for team members that are not admins

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List and board content search⁠

Searching for issues by their title just got a lot easier and faster. When you're on a list or board page, hit CommandF to open a search field that filters down the content based on the search query in real-time as you type. When done, press Esc to close the search field and show all of your issues.

Favorites ordering⁠

You can now manually order your favorites in the sidebar so that the views and issues you access most often are even easier to get to. Just drag and drop a favorite to any position in the list.

Zapier updates: issue triggers⁠

We have updated our Zapier integration to include Zap triggers for new and updated issues. When you're setting the triggers, you're also able to apply filters for various issue properties such as labels and projects. This should make it easy, for example, to filter all new issues with the label "bug" that have been opened in a team.

In addition to triggers, we also improved authentication and you'll be able to grant access with a single click instead of creating API keys.

Views⁠

In the last changelog, we introduced Views as a Linear Preview feature. Views makes it easy to create and save views that include exactly the issues you want to see. Now Views is available to everyone. Get started with Views by clicking on the Views item in your sidebar.

Other improvements⁠

• API: Added branchName and priorityLabel fields for Issue resource
• API: Added ability to get most recently updated resources using updatedAt pagination order
• All teams option is now also shown in board view for projects with multiple teams
• Fixed Git automation if automation had multiple completed workflow statuses
• Fixed Google Sheets integration in cases where the user has removed columns
• Fixes to pasting links in issue description and comments
• Fixed restoring scroll position in board view after opening an issue
• Fixed timezone issues with cycles

Linear preview: Views⁠

We're adding support for custom issue views as a Linear preview feature. This makes it easy to create and save views that include exactly the issues you want to see. Your can favorite saved views so that they show up in the sidebar, giving you easy access to them. You can also share views with colleagues within your organization.

Examples of views that you could create:

• Bugs reported across different teams
• Issues you have recently completed
• Unprioritized issues in the backlog

We hope you'll find a lot more uses for custom views and we think this will make Linear work better for many different types of organizations.

Admins can turn on Views for your workspace by selecting Enable: Views from the command menu (Cmdk then search for "preview"). Views will show up under My Issues. Click on it to create your first view or save any existing list or board view as a custom view with AltV or by clicking the save view icon.

Other improvements⁠

• You can now see issues from all teams working on a project in the same view
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong issue to be opened in Inbox and search
• Fixed so pressing Esc in Settings returns you to the issue lists
• Adds option to subscribe/unsubscribe to team notifications in the contextual menu for teams in the sidebar
• Fixed embeds for Loom videos after their URLs changed. Improved performance in board views
• Fixed date input fields for Firefox users
• Improved the Due date icon in command menus
• Fixed a bug where due dates would show in the wrong time zone in issue history

Due dates⁠

If you have time-sensitive issues, like renewing subscriptions, contracts or certificates, you can now add due dates to issues.

Issue lists and board views will display issue due dates. To help you find issues that require your attention, the due date icon will turn orange when the date is approaching and red when the issue is due on the same day or overdue.

You can add a due date to any issue by typing CmdD when viewing an issue or when an issue is selected on a board or list. This will bring up a date picker so you can choose the due date you wish. Alternatively, right-click to open a contextual menu or use Cmdk to search for the Set Due Date action.

You can apply due date related to filters to your list or board views, too. Type F and then select from the following: Due soon, Due today, No due date, Has due date or is Overdue.

Other improvements⁠

• Issues with parent issues have an improved design for the link back to its parent, letting you easily browse siblings of the issue
• Re-ordering issues in the list or board views can now be undone using CmdZ
• Pressing CmdA will now select all issues
• Pressing Cmd↑ or Cmd↓ will select the first or last item in the list
• You can now press o to open a selected issue
• Fixes the Alert dialog width
• Stability and performance improvements to the contextual menu
• Issue relationship badges are now laid out better for mobile devices
• Fixes the cursor to respect user preferences for board items

Issue selection⁠

Navigating between issues, selecting and moving them around are some of the most common interactions in Linear. We have recently made some significant improvements to how you select issues and added a few new features to lists and boards:

• Multi-select has always been available in lists but now you can also select multiple issues in board columns.
• It's now possible to drag and drop multiple issues on both board and list views.
• All select and navigation interactions & keyboard shortcuts are now the same between lists and boards.
• Selected items have a new design on both boards and lists.
• ShiftClick and ShiftCmdClick now select issues in lists and board columns. You can still use the existing keyboard shortcuts (X and ShiftX).
• We've added two-dimensional navigation with arrow keys in board views.

Hopefully, these changes should make everyday tasks in Linear feel easier and more intuitive.

Multiple accounts⁠

We've had support for multiple workspaces for a few months but you were limited to viewing workspaces under a single Linear account. If you had multiple workspaces under different email accounts, that meant you had to log out and back to switch between workspaces or keep Linear open in different browsers.

This week we're rolling out multi-account support. Once you're logged into Linear, you can add another account and then seamlessly switch between them.

This makes it much easier to have a work and personal Linear account along with a myriad of other use cases.

To add an account or switch between them, click on your workspace name to use the new account switcher that replaced the workspace switcher in the upper left corner. You can also switch accounts through the command menu (CmdK) by simply typing the name of the workspace.

Other improvements⁠

• Fixed cycle graphs for the lucky few who live in the GMT+13 timezone
• Fixed a bug in project contextual menu
• URLs with special characters are now correctly turned into links in comments and issue descriptions
• Fixed a bug where issue estimates in contextual menus were incorrect
• Improved how todo lists in issue descriptions work
• Made sure special characters in issue urls work correctly in our Slack integration
• Fixed a few crashes in contextual menus
• Made changes synchronize faster to other team members
• Added spellcheck to the desktop app

Undo⁠

So you selected 25 issues and accidentally assigned them to yourself? No sweat, undo is here. You can now undo almost every operation that changes issues, notifications, cycles or projects. Simply search the command menu for "Undo" or press CmdZ. You can undo individual operations, like issue assignments or status changes, or batch operations like modifying hundreds of issues or deleting all of your notifications.

When you undo, Linear will make sure to take you back to the page where you created the operation and, in list views, select all of the associated issues or notifications.

You can also redo a previously undone operation by searching for "Redo" in the command menu or pressing ShiftCmdZ.

Improved workspace members page⁠

We redesigned the members page and also added search and filter functionality to make it easier to find the specific person you are looking for.

Other improvements⁠

• The project target date control has received visual improvements that now adhere to the selected theme
• Fixed autocomplete positioning on mobile
• Fixed desktop app window resizing
• Fixed adding links to comments in a comment
• Fixed an edge case in Cycle Burnup Graph that could cause an additional day to be rendered and the
• Fixed the Cycle Burnup Graph to correctly progress during the current day
• Fixes issue in API that would error
• Small tweaks to button colors throughout the application

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Project Slack notifications⁠

We're continuing to expand our Slack notifications. On top of existing team and personal Slack notifications, we have added project-based notifications. As your team grows, it's often easier to coordinate projects by creating Slack channels for them (often prefixed with #proj-). Now you can send project-specific Linear notifications to those Slack channels. Available notification types are new issues, comments and issue status updates.

To enable project notifications, click the bell icon on the project page and connect with Slack. We made it easier to auto-subscribe and configure your personal notifications from the same menu, too. This is especially handy for project managers.

Other improvements⁠

• Updated horizontal rule keyboard shortcut in help screen
• Various performance improvements
• Fixes to @-mention dialog positioning on mobile devices
• Fixes to filtering in My Issues view
• Added new issue search endpoint to the API
• Added human readable issue identifiers to the API

Personal Slack notifications⁠

Over the past few weeks we made significant updates to Linear's Slack integration. The most notable change is that you can now receive personal notifications through Slack in addition to getting them via push notifications, email and viewing them in your Inbox. Once enabled, Linear will appear under Apps in your Slack workspace sidebar and Linear notifications will show up there. This makes it faster to reply to comments on the issues you have subscribed to and to know when your teammates send emoji reactions to your comments. Other notification types include new issues assigned to you and alerts on urgent priorities.

Enable personal Slack notifications in your notification settings.

Other improvements⁠

• New macOS desktop version (1.2.9) which includes fixes to initial window size, notification links and other smaller updates
• Added new preference to disable GitHub and GitLab linkback messages in pull requests
• Team's Slack channel notifications are now more consistent in their styling and messages are easier to parse
• Slack message actions now use the user specific notification = integration in addition to email matching which makes it possible to use the feature if your GSuite email has changed
• Several fixes for view options. Personal changes are now persisted correctly between sessions and page reloads
• Relationship options in issue page menu actions are now easier to browse
• Fixed issue title rendering in list view on mobile
• Fixes to issue creation on My Issues and Search page

Custom emoji⁠

You can now upload custom emojis to Linear. Head over to you workspace's emoji settings to upload custom emojis in JPG, GIF, or PNG format. You also have the option to import custom emojis from Slack. In Linear, emoji serve both fun and functional purposes. 🎉

Billing Page⁠

We now have a dedicated billing page that lets you update your billing information as well as browse invoices. As requested by many Linear users, we also let you update the email address associated with your billing account.

The billing page also displays any problems with your payment method and how to contact us if needed.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Improvements to retrying data synchronization under certain circumstances
• Creating and archiving a team is now only available for workspace admins
• Improved design for sub-actions that are matched by a search in the command menu
• Automatically join workspace if allowed by your email domain
• Fixes for creating new projects, but not selecting a color
• Fixes issue list layout on small screens
• Fixes edge cases where newly created cycles would not take the team's timezone into account.
• Fixes to selecting checkboxes in the command menu
• Adds highlights for various controls
• Adds preference to turn pointers cursors back on
• Some minor fixes to toast layout and animations
• Copying an issue's branch name is no longer available when the issue has not yet been saved