Linear MCP for product management

• We've expanded Linear's MCP server with support for initiatives, project milestones, and updates. These allow product managers to keep plans up to date and communicate progress from other tools like Cursor and Claude.

Newly added MCP tools:

Create and edit initiatives

• Create and edit initiative updates
• Create and edit project milestones
• Create and edit project updates
• Manage project labels
• Support for loading images

We also improved performance and reduced token usage through better tool documentation, and added broad support for loading Linear resources through URLs.

Deprecation of /sse MCP endpoint

SSE as a transport was deprecated starting with protocol version 2024-11-05. As all modern clients now support the more reliable HTTP streams, Linear MCP is fully removing SSE support. To switch, update your endpoint from https://mcp.linear.app/sse to https://mcp.linear.app/mcp.

Deprecation errors for SSE will be rolled out gradually over the next two months.

Read more in Linear MCP documentation.

Nested sub-issues

Issue lists can now show sub-issues as a nested hierarchy. Turn on this display option from any issue list view.

Retired teams

Teams form and disband as organizations evolve. When a team is no longer active, its issues and projects still hold useful context, but shouldn't clutter your workspace.

We're introducing the ability to retire teams, giving you a clean way to wind a team down while preserving its project and issue history.

Retired teams are read-only and hidden from the sidebar, but their issues, projects, and documents are still accessible. When retiring a team, you can choose to cancel any remaining open issues or move them to another team. Retired teams can be restored at any time.

Admins, workspace owners, and team owners can retire a team from its settings page.

Improvements

• Asks: Added a link to Asks settings in the Slack message shown when a channel isn’t configured for auto-creating Asks
• Asks: Asks now attempt to include file attachments from forwarded Slack messages when creating issues
• Audit log: Added an audit log entries when a project or issue is deleted
• Email: Email intake now handles emails with empty or missing subjects by generating AI-powered titles
• Figma Plugin: Improved the Figma plugin’s performance by no longer loading all pages in the current file
• IOS: Added the ability to create initiatives from the iOS app
• IOS: Added support for composing project and initiative updates directly from Pulse
• Notifications: Added notifications to inform assignees when an issue is deleted or restored
• Security: In Enterprise workspaces, bypass of login method restrictions is now only available to owners, not admins and owners
• Slack: Improved how public Slack channel names appear in synced comments. Private channels continue to show only the channel ID for privacy

Fixes

• Action Menu: Fixed the command menu becoming unresponsive while typing with CJK IMEs
• Dashboards: Fixed Insights showing an empty state instead of 0 when there were no matches
• Editor: Fixed the table column resize cursor getting stuck after using the resize handle
• Editor: Fixed embed menu text corruption when pasting URLs with leading newlines
• Inbox: Fixed disappearing avatars in inbox notifications when resizing the browser window
• Issue composer: The issue and project composers now default to your first active team that’s included in the current cross-team view
• Issue Templates: Fixed a bug where sub-issues were duplicated when creating issues from form templates
• Lists: Your last scroll position is now properly restored when returning to a list using the back button or keyboard shortcut after clicking into one of its items
• Navigation: Fixed the Exploring section not appearing in the sidebar when navigating to a favorited page
• OAuth: Fixed integrations using client credentials being unable to access initiatives
• Search: Preserved search input when switching between result type tabs
• Slack: Fixed URLs with link text formatting not showing up as expected on Android devices
• Statuses: Fixed time in status property showing negative seconds on recently changed issues

API

• Agents:OAuth app agents no longer automatically become the delegated agent when updating an issue’s status to Started or Done
• Added IssueHistory resolvers for project milestones, SLA changes, and triage responsibility teams

Keyboard shortcuts

• Added keyboard shortcut to add comments in code blocks: Cmd/Ctrl/