Productivity & Collaboration

Important team context doesn’t always belong in a specific issue, project, or initiative. Teams also need a dedicated place for the notes, docs, and shared references that support their work over time. Now, every team has a page to keep its context organized and easy to access.

Teams can create documents directly from their home page, add existing documents from projects and issues, and group resources into sections.

Open a team’s page by clicking on its name in your sidebar, or search by pressing o, then t. Learn more in our documentation.

Shared skills for Linear Agent

Skills let you save reusable instructions for Linear Agent.

We now support sharing skills with your team so great personal workflows can become shared team process. Sharing a skill helps your team standardize recurring workflows like writing specs, running weekly planning, or drafting updates.

Use skills in any agent conversation by clicking on Skills or using a slash command. You can share an existing skill from settings, or by asking Linear Agent. Learn more in our documentation.

Issue description comments

You can now comment directly on text or images in issue descriptions.

Select any part of a description to leave a comment anchored to that exact spot. Use description comments to share feedback on a specific part of the description, rather than commenting on the issue as a whole.

Fixes

• Asks: The Creator in activity log copy for Slack Asks issues now always matches the creator filter.
• Attachments: Linear now preserves the original filename (and extension) when downloading attachments whose name contains characters like middle dot (·) or non-breaking space.
• Comments: Fixed synced Slack thread replies that could fail or disappear after switching threads.
• Comments: Fixed mentioning app users in comments created through triage automations.
• Comments: We now correctly strip leading whitespace from comment paragraphs on submit.
• Diffs: Files marked as viewed in the Guide tab now stay collapsed when returning to the Diff tab.
• Diffs: Fixed links in Guide jumping or over-scrolling past the target when navigating to a file or symbol.
• Diffs: Fixed the diff horizontal scrollbar not being draggable when a collapsed unchanged-lines row was present.
• Diffs: Fixed Guide showing large blocks of unchanged code when an LLM-supplied hide directive sat adjacent to a long unchanged stretch.
• Documents: Capped the document table of contents markers height, showing only top-level headings when there are too many to fit.
• Documents: Fixed a previously open document staying selected after creating a new document in side-by-side view.
• Display options: Toggling a display option back to its default now correctly clears the modified indicator on the Display button.
• Editor: Fixed portrait videos being clamped when going fullscreen.
• Figma: Fixed Figma links in comments triggering repeated comment update errors and slow issue loads.
• GitHub: GitHub backlink comments are now posted for issues that reference a GitHub URL even when the target repo isn’t synced to a Linear team, as long as the GitHub install can access it.
• GitHub: We now correctly handle null GitHub ghost users across webhook, issue sync, and pull request intake paths.
• GitHub: Fixed GitHub issue sync failing with a 401 “A JSON web token could not be decoded” error in some GitHub Enterprise Cloud workspaces.
• Google Sheets: Fixed a Google Sheets export failure caused by large issue batches overflowing the call stack.
• Inbox: Returning to Inbox no longer scrolls to a previously-viewed notification without selecting it.
• Insights: Fixed incorrect Insights results when using “Time in status” after an issue status was renamed.
• Integrations: Fixed Linear Agent creating a Slack channel for new projects when “Automatically create channel for new projects” was disabled.
• Keyboard: Pressing Esc on a page opened directly in a new tab no longer wipes that page from browser history, so the browser back button can still return to it.
• Linear Agent: Stopped the Linear agent from chiming in on later Slack thread chatter after it creates an issue/Ask.
• Login: Login now shows a clear error instead of a false “email sent” confirmation when emails can’t be delivered to a suppressed address.
• Onboarding: Fixed the onboarding invite step hanging on desktop after sending invites.
• Performance: Loading icon animations are more performant and use less CPU.
• Projects: Fixed missing icons on project milestone context menu actions.
• Projects: Fixed missing padding around the milestones help text shown when a project has no milestones.
• Projects: Fixed project activity showing the wrong priority change after consecutive priority updates.
• Pulse: Fixed Pulse summaries rendering document links with a stray @ prefix instead of a proper document mention.
• Releases: Fixed a bug that caused only partial release names to be saved.
• Diffs: Clicking “Request review” on a draft pull request that already has requested reviewers now marks it ready for review directly.
• Diffs: Outdated review comments are now reflected separately from resolved comments in the code review comment summary.
• Search: Fixed exact issue identifier searches with different casing not ranking the matching issue first.
• Sidebar: Fixed alt-clicking a team in the sidebar downloading an HTML file instead of collapsing/expanding all teams.
• Sidebar: Fixed the “Exploring” sidebar section dropping a team when navigating to its documents tab.
• Sidebar: Sidebar nav item hover state changes are now instant.
• Slack project channels: Linear no longer overwrites a connected Slack channel’s topic when a project’s description changes.
• Templates: Fixed an error that could occur when saving templates that contained legacy invalid content.
• Templates: Fixed issue templates intermittently losing their default project and milestone.
• Triage: Fixed the triage automation actor name showing “Triage Behaviour” instead of “Triage Behavior”.
• Triage: Fixed the triage responsibility settings separators appearing darker than the triage rules card.
• Version history :Fixed the “Highlight changes” toggle disappearing when turned off in version history.
• Views: Fixed a freeze that could occur when opening some saved issue views.

Improvements

• Agents: Added an Error option to the agent session issue filter and insights grouping.
• Diffs: You can now paste a GitHub pull request link into command menu to open it in Linear.
• Diffs: Customers on legacy plans can now use Diffs.
• Diffs: We now show indentation changes in diffs for more whitespace-sensitive languages (CoffeeScript, Elm, F#, HAML, Haskell, LiveScript, MoonScript, Nim, Stylus, Makefile).
• Editor: We now support right-clicking an issue mention in a doc or editor to change its properties.
• Editor: We now treat ) and ( as emoji autocomplete aliases for standard smile and sad results.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug Fixes • A little reminder as you go about your day: The world is a more unique place simply because you’re a part of it, and you’ve affected others in ways you can’t imagine. Oh, and no big changes to the app this time. Happy messaging!

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and minor improvements

Agents generate large volumes of code, but individuals are still accountable for the changes that merge. This leads to a lot of review work, and the capability and performance of traditional review tools hasn’t kept up.

Today, we’re releasing Linear Diffs to make reviewing code a fast and fluid experience native to Linear.

You can now review diffs from any issue with a PR, iterate on further changes with agents, and ship code from Linear. All reviews in Linear sync back to GitHub, so the current state of review work is always clear.

Guided reviews (beta)

Guided reviews help you efficiently review large PRs. When you view a diff in this format, you’ll see the core of change first, so you don’t have to dig for an entrypoint.

Each section of diffs has an explanation — starting with what the change is, then moving into its consequences. Guided reviews separate out glue code and secondary changes so you can stay focused on what matters. This style of review makes it much easier to move through large changes in a single sitting.

Review Inbox

Staying on top of reviews is easier when review notifications live alongside the rest of your work. Linear notifies your Inbox for work like review requests, your approved PRs, and comment mentions. You can set up additional real-time desktop, Slack, email, or mobile notifications.

We’ve also added a dedicated Reviews tab in your sidebar so you can see all your review work at once. The default focus ordering sorts reviews by what’s closest to shipping, so the work that needs your attention most rises to the top.

Reviewing code

When a review calls for changes, keep iterating from the diff surface with a background coding agent. Agent changes update the diff in real-time, so you don’t need to check out the branch locally for every small tweak.

Diffs is responsive when reviewing even very large PRs. You can view unified or split diffs, enable line wrapping and structural highlighting, and choose custom code themes.

Linear Diffs is available now on all plans. Guided reviews is free during beta and available for Linear customers on Business and Enterprise plans.

Workspace admins can enable Diffs by upgrading Linear’s GitHub integration for code access. Then, individual users can choose to review diffs in Linear.

To learn more about why we built Diffs, read Code review should be fast. For more on Diffs functionality, check our documentation.

Fixes

• Agents: Fixed choppy animation when expanding agent thoughts
• Agents: Fixed agent chat incorrectly minimizing on external link click
• Agents: Fixed the “Worked for X” label on agent session turns to measure active work time, excluding any idle wait between turns
• Agents: Fixed agent panel staying focused when expanding or collapsing
• Agents: Prevented the Ask Linear popup from reopening off-screen after the window height shrinks
• Agents: Fixed Ask Linear drafts being lost when switching between chats
• Agents: Fixed agent lists showing too many skills
• Asks: Linear Asks Agent will now automatically reply to external users when requesting additional information
• Asks: Fixed Asks Web submission attributions when the submitter logged into Asks Web before accepting their Linear workspace invite
• Desktop: Fixed an issue where the desktop application could hang when waking up your computer from sleep
• Desktop: Fixed desktop app flash of white background on new window open
• Diffs: Fixed deduplication of linked PRs in issue attachment data
• Diffs: Fixed refreshing the diff when a PR’s target branch changes (e.g., after a stacked parent merges and GitHub retargets the child)
• Diffs: Stopped attributing GitHub PR comments authored by deleted (“ghost”) users to the wrong user in notifications
• Documents: Fixed document mention notifications firing on every edit instead of just when a user is newly mentioned
• Documents: Shortened the placeholder in the “Change document subscribers” action menu so its keyboard shortcut indicator no longer gets clipped
• GitHub: Comments on a not-yet-linked GitHub PR now backfill the issue→PR link via magic-word matching the same way PR lifecycle and review events do
• Inbox: Fixed “From is not” filter to correctly exclude issue assignment notifications from integration and OAuth application-driven assignments
• Inbox: Fixed inbox badge getting stuck when arriving on a review via a legacy /agent URL
• Insights: Fixed a bug where two Duplicate options appeared in the Time in status filter
• Integrations: Figma links now show a clean Figma title instead of the raw marketing page title
• Issues: Removed Duplicate status from quick issue create and issue template
• Project templates: Allowed project-template sub-issues to target other private teams again
• Sentry: Fixed a bug where Sentry-created issues could be assigned to deactivated users in triage
• Settings: We now correctly truncate long team names in Teams settings list instead of overlapping the next column
• Shortcuts: Fixed the Copy as Prompt shortcut so it updates issue status when auto-start-on-open is enabled
• Sync: Fixed “Linear servers are not reachable” error that could appear after laptop unlock
• Triage: Fixed workspace issue templates not appearing in triage automation filters
• Views: Fixed list rows shifting horizontally when toggling a group in views with grouped columns

Improvements

• Android: Improved Android to use server-side filtering for skills
• Agents: Dashboard pages are now used as context in the Linear agent chat
• Integrations: Connecting GitHub now defaults to enabling code access
• Project Slack channels: Used an info-style toast when starting project Slack channel creation
• Reviews: Activity page file and code comment links, and PR notifications, now open whichever code view (Diffs or Guide) you last visited
• Skills: Updated empty state for skills to match other settings
• Timeline: Improved timeline projects aside panel visibility to be remembered per view instead of globally
• Updates: Removed the UI for hiding project and initiative update details

API

• Added User.hasGitHubCodeAccess so clients can check whether the viewer can fetch GitHub source through Linear
• Removed shared prop from AI prompt GraphQL mutations
• Added parallel AgentSkill GraphQL query and mutation types alongside deprecated AiPrompt roots for the skill migration

Bug Fixes • Is there something strange in your neighborhood? iPad users were spooked to notice a ghostly white image in place of their newly-uploaded profile pictures. We knew who to call; this bug is now busted.

Bug Fixes • Thanks for updating the app! This round’s changes don’t lend themselves to tidy summaries, but we’re doing all that we can to make sure the app is running as smoothly as possible. Here’s to incremental gains!

Bug fixes and performance improvements.