Time in status

• Time spent in individual statuses is now tracked and available throughout Linear. Hover over any issue's status indicator to see the cumulative time it's spent in each status. You can use this to spot where things are getting stuck, identify bottlenecks, and optimize your development process.

On lists and boards, you can see how long items have been in their current status. Order by time in status to surface blocked work, or filter by conditions like In Review > 7 days to catch issues that have fallen through the cracks.

In Insights and Dashboards, analyze the time spent in any status and slice by time period or other attributes to see how performance changes and differs across your workspace. Use this to quickly uncover systemic bottlenecks and outliers.

Time in status is available as a display option in views, and as a new measure in Insights.

Jira Epic sync

We’ve upgraded our Jira integration to support bi-directional syncing between Jira Epics and Linear projects. Changes to properties like status, target date, and description automatically reflect in both applications, so you don't have to update them manually.

Configure the Jira integration from your Linear workspace's integration settings.

Fixes

Boards: Fixed horizontal scroll position not being restored on the board view when using rows grouping

• Comments: Fixed showing both when a comment was created and edited
• Editor: Fixed slash command sub-menus to be selectable using the mouse (instead of just the enter key)
• Editor: Fixed drag-to-reorder todo items not working in Firefox
• Filters: Fixed incident.io link filters failing to match issues
• Integrations: Fixed connecting Slack channels from the desktop app
• Issues: Fixed issue properties overflowing at certain screen widths
• Projects: Fixed a bug where milestone content or other data could be lost during project creation if the server returned an error
• Settings: Fixed label search not updating correctly when switching between workspace and team label pages
• Settings: Fixed team member lists not refreshing after members were added or removed

Improvements

• Android: Added support for creating a project and editing project title and summary
• Android: Added the ability to filter inbox notifications by category
• Importers: Issue numbers are now preserved from the source tool during imports when the destination team is empty, even if the team was created outside the import flow
• Integrations: Improved error notifications when Linear can’t connect to a self-managed GitLab instance
• iOS: Added support for creating a project and editing project title and summary
• iOS: You can now toggle todo checkboxes in issue descriptions without entering the editor
• Issues: Improved assignee search by ranking Project and Team members higher than others
• Lightbox: Improved zoom controls for the image lightbox

MCP server

• In update_issue, allowed assignee and delegate to be set to null to remove them.
• In update_project, allowed lead to be set to null to remove it