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Linear

Project tracking software for product teams, with AI agents built in.

Type
Apps
Last shipped
Oct 22, 2026
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Everything Linear shipped

October 2026

  1. New feature

    Linear now lets users trigger Loops from Slack and GitHub, share them as templates, and customize their reasoning levels.

  2. Availability

    Linear made guided reviews available on the Basic plan, surfacing key changes first and explaining them alongside the diff in large pull requests.

  3. New feature

    Linear Diffs now displays stacked pull requests, so users can split complex changes into scoped reviews while keeping the full picture.

September 2026

  1. New feature

    Linear's MCP now gives access to custom views.

  2. New feature

    Linear coding sessions can now access environment secrets during install, to securely fetch private dependencies and other environment configuration.

  3. New feature

    Linear coding agent now automatically picks a model for each issue, sending simpler tasks to a faster model and complex work to the default reasoning model.

  4. New feature

    Linear Inbox is now available through MCP, so agents can read and manage a user's notifications.

  5. New model

    Linear added OpenAI GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and Claude Opus 5.5 as model choices in its coding sessions.

  6. New feature

    Linear now lets users drop .md and .txt files in as content instead of attachments.

  7. New feature

    Linear Loops can now be triggered by project, initiative, cycle, and issue changes, edit documents automatically, and send tailored Slack updates.

  8. New feature

    Linear Agent can now draft projects in a new project composer that pulls in context, sharpens the brief, and builds a plan before creation.

  9. New feature

    Linear Loops can now run on specific days of the week.

  10. New feature

    Linear added a priority inbox that surfaces a user's most important notifications in a dedicated view.

  11. Availability

    Linear made third-party app approvals available on every paid plan, letting workspace admins approve apps before they gain access to company data.

  12. New feature

    Linear Agent now reacts to a message instead of replying when no response is needed.

  13. New model

    Linear made Claude Fable 5.1 available in its coding sessions.

August 2026

  1. New feature

    Linear's desktop app can now tidy up inactive tabs automatically.

  2. New feature

    Linear now shows merge queue status in diffs, including where a pull request sits in the queue and when it is expected to merge.

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