Changelog

linear.new⁠

We're now proud owners of the linear.new domain which is an easy to remember way to create a new Linear issue. Just type it in any browser and we'll forward you to the new issue creation page as long as you're logged into your account.

New setting: Upcoming cycle count⁠

By default, Linear generates two upcoming cycles if you have the feature enabled. This lets your team plan ahead by adding issues to future ones. If you're using relatively short cycles, you might want to increase the number of upcoming cycles available. Head over to your team settings to change how many upcoming cycles Linear creates. You can add up to 10 upcoming cycles.

Workspace deletion⁠

Linear now has functionality to completely delete your workspace and all associated data. It's accessible to all workspace admins under the workspace settings page.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Linear's Google integration is now verified and will no longer throw a warning when integrating with Google Sheets
• Added team, priority and status information to issue webhook payloads
• Several fixes to loading the application offline
• Fixed issues which could lead to multiple integrations being enabled on the same account
• Fixed GitHub onboarding step on mobile devices
• Fixes to users receiving duplicate push notifications
• Improved application Javascript bundle sizes
• Improved communication around premium features in settings
• Tooltips are now positioned better
• Deleting a team now includes an additional confirmation for security

Project completion graphs⁠

Project pages received a requested feature – completion graphs. These graphs show you the progress you're making towards completing the project.

You'll be able to see how your project scope has changed over time. The project completion graphs will also predict how long it will take to complete the project. The prediction is based on the velocity at which issues in the project are completed, where more recent weeks weigh more heavily than older weeks.

You can access them from the project details pane, which you can open from the toolbar or by pressing Command/Ctrli on the project page.

Changelog updates in the app⁠

To make it easier to follow what has changed in Linear, we now show links to the latest changelog posts in the app sidebar. When there are new updates, the indicator will change color to Linear purple and you can quickly jump to the changelog post. You can also subscribe to changelog updates via email and Twitter.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Improves messaging around sync and offline mode. Tooltips now display more information about changes that have not been saved.
• Fixed a regression on closed cycle pages, where moved issues were not shown
• You can now correctly search for "no label" in the filter menu
• Disabled push notifications for reactions as it was too noisy
• The editor formatting toolbar no longer disappears when a selection ends outside of the editor bounds.
• Fixes to codeblock generation
• Fixes deletion of teams that are part of a multi-team project
• Fixed privacy policy and terms not showing up correctly
• Fixed problem with issues getting assigned the same identifier

Emoji reaction for comments⁠

We're excited to add a much requested feature which is both fun and useful: emoji reactions to comments. Now you don't need to send a comment to acknowledge a proposed solution, just select 👍 and the original comment author will be notified in their Inbox. The whole modern emoji set is available and anyone can join the party 🥳

✨ ProTip: To add emojis to issue descriptions, or to your own comments, just type :emoji-name:

Notifications for closed issues⁠

To make communicating shipped features or canceled bugs easier, we also added two new notifications: completed and canceled issues. Whenever an issue is moved to either status, subscribers are notified.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Sidebar's user menu now includes shortcuts to menu items
• Added more billing information including past invoices
• Added ability to create and join workspaces from the command menu
• Added Microsoft Edge as a supported browser
• Improved delivery speed of magic login emails
• Improved GitHub/GitLab pull request processing stability
• Improved GitHub/GitLab terminology in command menu and settings
• Improved text selection and window dragging in several views for macOS application
• Added more information to GitLab integration page
• Several fixes to keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Linux
• Fixed workflow automation for GitHub PRs which were moved from draft to ready for review with an existing reviewer
• Fixed long dash characters in issue URLs
• Fixed Inbox notification checkboxes on Firefox
• Fixed issue ID autolinking when ID was followed by a punctuation mark
• No label filter now shows up correctly
• Fixes bug that hid "not completeled issues during cycle" issues in past cycles

Linear signups are available for everyone!⁠

We're announcing Linear for general availability today. You can sign up yourself as can your team and there's no more need for an invite. We're also announcing pricing plans. Smaller teams can still use Linear for free without limits on users as long as your active issue count stays below 250.

Read our blog post

Ps. We're looking for experienced TypeScript developers and product designers to join our team. Read more here.

GitLab merge request support⁠

We're excited to add support for GitLab. It lets you integrate Linear issues and merge requests with the same functionality as our existing GitHub integration:

• Link multiple merge requests with issues
• Support custom workflows with draft support
• Support reverted merge requests

You can connect Linear with GitLab.com or your self-hosted GitLab installation starting today.

Linear Guide⁠

Linear now has its own documentation site full of information on how to use the product better. We wanted to highlight the most common features and also expose less known ones in case you haven't found them yet. To step up your Linear knowledge, we list shortcuts and ProTips marked with ✨!

Visit Linear Guide

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• New help menu with links to docs, the Slack group and a way to contact us
• Issue list rendering performance improvements
• Automatically login all windows if logging in on one
• Issues created from Slack now support really long titles
• Improvements to archiving teams
• Less aggressive update notifications to the desktop application

Improvements and fixes:⁠

• Added ability to leave and rejoin a workspace
• Added ability to find an issue by its URL
• Improved sorting of users when using filters
• Improved realtime sync notifications
• Improvements to table styling in the editor
• Improved color selection when adding labels through command menu
• Fixed a bug with handling of suspended users
• Background color fixes in desktop app

Hide board columns⁠

Linear's board views now have the ability to collapse rarely used columns. This might come in handy if your team mostly works out of a few columns and would like to hide less frequently used ones.

To hide a column, select "Hide" from the board column's menu. View or unhide hidden columns by scrolling to last column of the board (to the right). You can also drag issues into hidden columns.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Issue templates will now include assignee, project and status fields
• Removed "external" label from users and inviting new users is now limited to workspace admins
• Issue filters now supports searching by user's username and full name
• Webhooks for issues now include more label information (ID, name and color)
• Added the ability to search labels and statuses across multiple teams in filters
• Welcome email is now only sent to the first workspace a user joins
• Warning is shown if a user decides to switch workspaces when changes are still being synced
• Fixed timezone issues with project due dates
• Fixes to draft pull request automation
• Fix to arrow keys after writing an emoji in the editor

Support for multiple workspaces⁠

We're adding support for multiple workspaces under one user account. This makes it easier to keep your personal tasks in a separate workspace from your company's workspace or to collaborate with multiple companies without logging in and out.

Teams that work with multiple clients can now create separate workspaces for each client so that their work and access to GitHub are separated.

To create a new workspace, select the option from the workspace navigator which is accessible by clicking the workspace name in your sidebar.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• New user menu design in the sidebar
• New shortcuts to move issues to top or bottom on the board: OptionShiftArrow Up and OptionShiftArrow Down
• Added edit option to user profile page when viewing own profile
• Several improvements to application loading with new workspace URLs
• Improved tooltips for issue actions in the list
• Invite links are now deprecated and emails are required for inviting users
• Fixed issue history entries for setting zero, or removing, estimates
• Reduced resource usage when the application has been left idle in the background
• Improved performance when selecting multiple issue with ShiftArrow Up/Arrow Down pressed
• Fixed a bug where the favorited page would open as it was removed from the sidebar
• Fixed white background flicker when opening the desktop app in dark mode
• Added header and footer to 404 pages

Setting an issue's status⁠

Linear has supported setting the issue status using keyboard shortcuts for a long time using Command/CtrlOption1-5. This worked fine for teams using the default statuses. However, if a team added more statuses to their workflow, the keyboard commands would only target the first status of each status type (e.g. Backlog).

Linear now has keyboard shortcuts for all statuses of the selected team and you can change the status of selected issues using Command/CtrlOption1-9. Additionally, the multi-select tray now detects if the team has multiple states for the "Move to Backlog" and "Move to Active" actions and will display a menu to let the user choose the state to move the issues to.

Infrastructure improvements⁠

We've spent a considerable amount of time improving our backend infrastructure to support our ever-growing userbase. While this is an ongoing process, we've now completed a major refactor of the service infrastructure that considerably improves the reliability of our backend and lets us scale the application to a lot more users. Not everything went according to plan and we did have a few outages during these migrations for which we sincerely apologize.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Google authentication failures no longer block a user, and they log the user out
• Fixed problems with the domain validation emails not getting sent out
• For first logins, the loading screen now uses the users preferred appearance on macOS
• The desktop application now has new windows consider their parent's size and position when opening
• Fixed issue where editing a template would always show an alert when navigating from the view
• Fixes an image missing from the invite email
• Fixes loading of archived issues in certain edge cases
• Fixes an issue with email authentication when already logged in as the same user

Login with email magic links⁠

Until now you could sign up for Linear using a GSuite account and invited users were able to log in using their Google account.

Today we are announcing email login with magic links, which enable you to sign up and log in using any email address. We also removed the limitation where you could only invite external collaborators if they had a @gmail.com account.

Logging in using email magic links is simple. Type in your email and we'll send you a link. When you click the link, you'll be taken to Linear and immediately logged in.

GitHub linkbacks and PR draft automation⁠

We've made a couple of improvements to our GitHub integration. We now correctly handle draft pull requests and there is a new workflow setting to configure drafts.

We've also made improvements to issue links that get posted to pull requests on GitHub. When you update the pull request and link new issues, the links are posted correctly.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Lots of infrastructure stability improvements
• Improved GitHub integration stability
• Improvements to comment animations
• Labels are now ordered alphabetically
• Fixes to desktop app window behavior when using them fullscreen
• Fixes a desktop app issue where the login window could be hidden, but not re-shown
• Fixes to desktop app sign in flow
• Made it easier to drag desktop app windows from the issue title
• In My Issues view, Created and Subscribed sections are now sorted by creation date
• Fixed Shift+click to select multiple issues in lists
• Added keyboard shortcut for creating links with Cmd+K
• Improvements to rendering notifications emails on mobile
• Stability improvements for the Google Sheets integration
• Allow all characters to be used in the workspace name
• Fixed an issue when displaying multiple PR labels
• New sidebar header with the workspace name and logo
• We now mark a notification as read when you interact with the issue it relates to

GitHub draft pull requests and issue descriptions⁠

We added support for GitHub draft pull requests in Linear. If you open a draft pull request, which is linked with an issue, it will show up as a draft in Linear. When the pull request is marked as ready for review, it will trigger automation in Linear and move the issue to the in progress status.

Links to the Linear issue in associated GitHub pull requests have also been improved. The pull request link can now be expanded to show the full description of the issues without leaving GitHub.

Subscribe to team/project notifications⁠

Users now have the option to subscribe to all team and project notifications. This should make it easier to triage new issues and manage the overall scope.

• Team: Select Subscribe to team notifications from the command menu (Command/Ctrlk)
• Project: Open projects page and select Subscribe to project notifications from the project card menu

CSV export⁠

Issue data can now be exported in CSV format by workspace admins. You can schedule the export in Import/export settings and you'll be emailed the download link once the exported data is available.

Other improvements and fixes⁠

• Several stability improvements to our API
• Added keyboard shortcuts to move to the beginning and the end of the list with Command/CtrlArrow Up and Command/CtrlArrow Down
• Preference to open external links in new window is now applied to all external links
• Fixed layout issues with resizable sidebars
• Fixed sync issues with cycle and project views
• Fixed issues with online presence status
• Fixed bugs in renaming cycles
• Fixed avatar groups to show the correct amount of users with the active user on top
• Fixed responsive navigation on our homepage