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When changing the labels of an issue, the contextual menu no longer re-orders instantly, but waits until the contextual menu is re-opened

Adding labels should not re-order contextual menu immediately

When adding a sub-issue alongside a parent issue in the issue creation modal, previously it displayed "Add". Now it's clearer with an updated copy; "Add sub-issue".

Revised sub-issue button copy in issue creation modal

The "+ filter" button in views was highlighting inconsistently depending on your theme preference. This button now highlights consistently.

The "+ filter" button in views now highlights on hover in views

When editing a comment or project update, the option to edit others is now disabled.

Disable "Edit" option in context menu rather than removing it

Originally, the current assignee was sometimes not properly selected on the first render of the assignee menu. We have fixed this.

The current assignee is now properly selected on the first render of the assignee menu

Originally, the command menu had too much padding when you were searching for something but had no results. We've changed this so you should now see just the right amount of padding.

Empty command menu now has just enough padding

Previously, clicking `O` followed by `R` to open roadmaps did not show recent roadmaps. It now does.

Added recent roadmaps to our "O + R" open roadmaps action (copy)

If a user clicked away from a project update, the changes were deleted without prompting the user to save or giving a warning. We now display a prompt to ensure no changes are unintentionally lost.

Added prompt before discarding a project update

The "user details" title was misasligned when viewing a user within Linear. We have removed this title and made sure everything is nicely aligned.

The user details title is no longer misaligned on user details page

It is now possible to configure at what hour project update reminders will be sent out. They will be sent at the users time.

You can configure the time project update reminders are sent

Limit the height of a long label selection list. It doesn't look too good filling up the entire screen height.

Limit the height of a long label/assignee/project selection dropdown

Improved the width in which the issue detail sidebar would display elements.

Issue detail sidebar now has a max-width

Alignment of the search button and selected links in the sidebar has been improved.

Padding in sidebar links has been improved

Icons in menus now consistently change fill when the associated menu item is active.

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Menu icons have more consistent active states

When you hover over an inactive tab element, it is now clearer which element you are hovering over.

Added visual indication when you hover inactive tab element

You can now open the link that you're currently seeing in a toast notification using `CMD` `OPTION` `O.`

Added keyboard shortcut to open links in toasts

When you post a link to a Linear project in Notion, we now display the project status.

Added project status in Notion integration links

Spell check now works in the Windows Application.

Spellcheck now works when right-clicking in Windows app

The new shortcut, `Shift+V`, is also available from the command menu.

Added Shift+V shortcut to open View options

You can now sort by oldest or newest items in your inbox.

Chronological sort order in inbox

We added an option to add estimates to issues. The app is now published at version 2.2.4. The options are loaded dynamically based on the team's estimate setting.

Added support for estimates to Zapier integration

When you minimize a draft, it now animates towards the "Resume draft" button, not the bottom of the screen.

Better animations for draft issues

Using L to apply a label to a sub-issue now correctly applies to sub-issue

Multi-select contextual menus now have checkboxes that can be used to toggle the entries without closing the menu. Shift-Enter can now be used to toggle the entry, in addition to space.

Support multi-select on label menus using the Enter key

The Windows application menu bar is now hidden by default and you can click `alt` to bring it back into view.

Windows application menu bar is now hidden by default

The Avatar sizes weren't consistent in the submenus (16px VS 18px). Now they are.

Avatar sizes are now consistent in submenus

Better visual distinction between "Active“ sidebar entries for Issues and Cycles.

Changed naming of "active" cycle to "current", to disambiguate with "active" issues

When adding a project to an issue, we now allow selecting a project which does not have the issue's team assigned to it.

When adding project to issue, we allow selecting projects outside of the issue's team

Padding in the lower section of the formatting toolbar is now adjusted correctly.

Fixed padding in formatting popover

You can now close roadmap tabs by pressing the mouse-wheel button just like you can do for Chrome tabs.

Added ability to close roadmap tabs by pressing mouse wheel

Fixed a problem with some interactive elements in the app causing app drag.

Dragging workspace name shouldn't drag app

Full review of settings pages aligning colors, paddings, margins, headers, icon sizes, colors and some missing padding.

Polished settings pages

The fast issue creation modal is no longer blurry on first open.

Blurry fast issue creation modal

You will know receive a notification when an issue assigned to you is unassigned or is assigned to a different user.

Added notification when an issue assigned to you is unassigned

The back and forward arrows at the top of the app next to the profile icon were slightly out of alignment.

Fixed alignment of history arrows

The new comment input will be focused whether you are already viewing the issue, or have a single issue selected from a view.

"Comment on issue" action now correctly focuses the comment input

You could previously see the boundary box of the shadow being cut off under the reaction pills.

Fixed shadows of emoji reaction pills

Relevant projects are now always placed at the top

Improved project selectors

URLs pointing to comments will now be unfurled as comments in Slack

Added ability to show/hide triage issues on "My Issues" page

All dropdown menus now have the same width

Polished View options panel

Polished UI of Labels page

Right-clicking on issues now presents the option to favorite it through the context menu.

Added "favorite" submenu to the issue context menu

"1mo" → 1 month; "1h" → 1 hour; "day" → until tomorrow

Better snooze value predictions

Undo/redo actions in the inbox and triage views no longer ask for confirmation. Actions that happened in the inbox or triage views will now also take the user back to the appropriate page instead of the issue page.

Don't show undo confirmation dialog in inbox/triage

When deleting a notification and then undoing the deletion, the notification is now re-selected in the inbox.

Better UX for undoing notification deletion

Every product has bugs. More than we can ever fix. Papercuts, usability issues, imperfections. We all have a long backlog of fixes and improvements we intend to get to someday.

Polishing season is about turning that “someday” into “today”. It’s about dedicating time to quality work. To replace flaws and friction with polish and delight.

For the rest of the year, polishing will be our sole focus. And we’d love your input to make the most out of it. Tell us what we should fix. Tell us what we should improve. Tell us what would make your life easier.

Polished General team settings page

The tooltip now contains: "A unique "My issues" grouping that attempts to organize issues assigned to you in order of what you'd want to work on first"

Added tooltip for "Focus" grouping on "My issues" page

This is a new command line action to access the keyboard shortcut cheat sheet directly (instead of having to open the help center first). This command can be triggered with the following words:  ”keyboard”, “help”, “shortcuts”, “cheatsheet”, “guide”

The keyboard shortcut cheat sheet is now available as an action in the command menu

Previously, it was only possible to filter by the last or next cycle.

Added options to filter by any past and any future cycle

Grouping, Ordering, and Completed Issues dropdowns were previously inconsistent

All dropdown menus in the View Options panel now have the same width

The bottom margin of the fast issue composer is now consistent with the top.

Polished the bottom margin properties of fast issue composer 

Replaced links to connect Git integrations with buttons on  team workflow settings page

Project Updates modal can now be closed using the Esc key

Previously, the ordering drop down disappeared when Focus grouping was selected. It is now grayed out.

December 2022

November 2022