Agent writes project update drafts; private sub-teams get access options

Project and initiative updates keep teams aligned, but writing them means pulling out recent changes from issues, documents, and discussions.

Instead of finding that context manually, click Write with Agent to let Linear do it for you. The agent reviews changes made since the last update, checks messages in the linked Slack channel, and writes an update draft for you to refine.

Add your own perspective by prompting for further changes or editing directly, then publish the update.

Desktop navigation history and pinned tabs

We’ve rebuilt our desktop tabs to make navigation feel fluid and predictable.

• Each desktop tab now has its own history stack, so moving backwards won’t navigate you to another tab
• Pinned tabs are now a reliable home for important work. They stay anchored in the tab bar, persist after quitting and reopening the app, and aren’t replaced by new content you open.

These changes are live for current desktop users. Try Linear on desktop by downloading the app.

Private sub-teams

Private sub-teams organize groups that work together under one umbrella, like independent business units, skunkworks efforts, or teams handling sensitive data like People Ops.

When you create a sub-team under a private team, you can now choose between two access options:

• Restricted to parent team members — parent team members can see and choose to join the sub-team. This makes it easy to manage private team structures without coordinating invitations to each sub-team.
• Private to team members — the team is hidden, except to members directly invited to that sub-team

Private sub-teams are available on Business and Enterprise plans. Learn more in our documentation.

Build agents with Vercel Eve

Vercel Eve is an open-source framework for building custom agents.

Build agents that can investigate incidents, monitor SLAs, or analyze customer feedback. You can deploy agents on Vercel with the guided setup, or host them wherever you run your Eve app.

Once connected to Linear, teammates can delegate issues to your agent or mention it in comments. Learn more about Eve in Vercel’s documentation.

Release pipeline changelogs

Releases let you plan and track your software releases. Now, you can also keep your team aligned on what’s shipping with changelogs for each release pipeline. These changelogs bring a pipeline’s release notes together in one place, so progress is easy to review and share.

Choose to auto-generate release notes in pipeline settings so your changelog is always up to date. Learn more in our documentation.

OAuth application manifests

OAuth application manifests let platforms provide a one-click OAuth app setup experience for users creating integrations.

Use URL parameters to send users directly to a pre-filled Create OAuth App form in Linear. An equivalent JSON manifest format lets you store configurations in files, validate them locally, or generate them programmatically.

Find the details in our developer docs.

Fixes

• Command menu: Added the missing command menu action for recently deleted initiatives
• Comments: Threaded comment highlight corners now match with the reply composer below the thread
• Customers: Fixed stale customer request counts on issues and projects after archiving or restoring customer requests
• Desktop: Middle-clicking a link to a document comment now properly navigates to the comment
• Diffs: Fixed the Unified/Split layout toggle not taking effect when a narrow column had forced the diff into unified view
• Diffs: The tooltip on group headers in the Reviews inbox now covers the entire clickable header
• Documents: Creating an issue from a selection in a team document now creates it in the correct team
• Duplicates: When you remove a duplicate relation, it now restores the issue’s last status
• Duplicates: Fixed duplicate merges running concurrently for the same issue during bulk deduplication
• Filters: Fixed the filter button not staying visually active while its menu is open
• Front: Fixed processing Front conversation links for conversations without a primary recipient
• GitHub: Fixed GitHub integrations being marked “disconnected” after a transient GitHub authentication blip
• Inbox: We no longer send a removed from merge queue notification when a pull request is successfully merged by GitHub’s merge queue
• Inbox: Fixed inbox notifications occasionally appearing as blank while the sender’s name was loading
• Insights: Fixed release-filtered burn-up charts failing to render
• Issues: Fixed oversized issue status icons in delete confirmation toasts
• Milestones: Fixed a flicker in the milestone list when creating the first milestone from a project overview
• Notifications: Each recipient’s name display preference is now respected in project and initiative update notifications
• Project Updates: Fixed the project updates panel occasionally leaving an empty wrapper element on the page after navigating elsewhere
• Pull requests: Right-clicking pull request pills in issue lists now opens the correct menu
• Pull requests: Fixed pull request details overflowing their container when hovering over a PR badge
• SCIM: Renaming a linked SCIM role group (e.g. linear-admins) in the identity provider no longer causes Linear to stop managing the associated role
• Settings: Prevented the language selector from overlapping the scrollbar in Code & Reviews settings
• Settings: Fixed an odd transition when switching between the same settings page of different teams
• Slack: Slack thread sync no longer fails to import a comment when one of its reactions came from a user without access to the issue
• Slack: Underscores in pull request titles are now preserved in Slack notifications
• Slack: Slack comment notifications now link out to unsupported images instead of sending invalid Slack image blocks
• Slack: Slack pasted message links now sync to Linear threads as a clickable link

Improvements

• Agents: AI chat thinking steps are now shown as blockquotes when copying conversations as markdown
• Diffs: Added a “Missing issue” PR filter that shows PRs without a linked issue
• Diffs: Raised the size limit for generating Guides on larger pull request diffs
• Diffs: Holding Opt and clicking the chevron in the file header now expands/collapses all files
• Diffs: Review list approval copy now shows who approved a pull request
• Diffs: Whole added/removed lines in diffs render more clearly with the same color as inline added/removed characters
• Diffs: Added the ability to use custom font for code in diffs
• Diffs: Added contextual help about the Reviews feature and related keyboard shortcuts
• Diffs: Polished the pull request review layout — removed the divider between the conversation and code columns, and the Guide now has even horizontal padding with the scrollbar no longer overlapping content
• Diffs: Added copy link to file actions in pull request diffs
• GitHub/GitLab: Unassigned triage issues remain in triage for Git request and commit automations, unless the final merged change closes the issue
• PagerDuty: Added support for PagerDuty shift-based schedules, so triage responsibility on-call now syncs from both shift-based (v3) and classic layer-based schedules (v2)
• Team documents: The documents list now supports multi-select
• Views: Updated the sort direction icons so the arrow direction matches the active sort order

MCP server

• MCP project status update tools are now available in workspaces without recent project update history
• Fixed issue with fetches failing when descriptions contained Unicode line or paragraph separators

API

• templateCreate and templateUpdate now reject unsupported form field payloads