Impact Score: 5/10
Linear: Team owners
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Analysis updated: 2026-10-31.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Linear 2025-12-17-team-owners. Source highlight: We are introducing a new
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
We are introducing a new
team owner
role to give teams more control over their team settings. Alongside this new role, weโre adding team permissions so you can choose who can manage team settings, labels, templates, and membership โ either any team member or only team owners. This empowers teams to define their own policies, while ensuring workspace owners and admins retain control over workspace-wide settings.
You can also control access and require an invite to join a team. Issues and projects of any team will still remain visible to everyone, and workspace owners and admins can always manage the settings for any team.
Configure these permissions on your teamโs
Access and permissions
page. Team owners and permissions are available on Business and Enterprise
plans
. Learn more in the
docs
.
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Improvements
Agents:
Improved visual aspects of agent chat interfaces to better surface responses, highlight associated pull requests, and automatically collapse agent thoughts after work completes
Asks:
You can now explicitly link your Slack user ID with Linear when managing Asks settings to ensure you have access to private channelsโ settings in Linear
Editor:
Improved custom Slack emojis to appear when pasted if they are available in your Linear workspace
Editor:
Improved support for pasting images with external links into Linear
Editor:
Improved emojis in text pasted from Slack to be replaced with their Linear equivalent, or rendered as :emoji: if not available
Editor:
Table cell and block (image, video, etc.) selections will now be visible to other users during collaborative editing
Templates:
Disabled form templates in the sub-issue composer
Video player:
Videos now generate automatic closed captions which are indexed for search
Fixes
Actions:
Fixed
Cmd
/
Ctrl
C
failing to copy title as link when the issue title already contains a markdown link
Customers:
Fixed domain validation incorrectly rejecting valid public suffix domains when creating a customer
Editor:
Fixed automatic scrolling of long tables when dragging to rearrange rows
Editor:
Improved contrast of unchecked checklist checkbox borders in dark mode
Editor:
Fixed
Shift
Cmd
+ Arrow keys inside of table cells to first select text before selecting the whole cell, and then the remainder of the row or column
GitHub:
Fixed an issue that let users connect personal GitHub integrations before a workspace-level GitHub integration existed
GitLab:
Stopped transitioning issues to review when a merged merge request receives comments or metadata updates.
OAuth:
Fixed
oauthTokenMigrateOldToken
to successfully migrate old app tokens to the new short-lived tokens with a refresh token
Project templates:
Fixed issue disappearing when selecting a team outside the project in project template editor
Slack:
Fixed personal Slack connections to now be associated with a Slack workspace that is already connected to Linear for a Slack or Asks integration
Projects:
Fixed choosing project dependencies to now prioritize projects youโre a member of
API
Agents:
Added
promptContext
field to
AgentSessionEvent
โcreatedโ webhooks, a formatted string containing the relevant context for the agent session, including issue details, comments, and guidance
Issues:
Filters on issue IDs now also accept identifiers
MCP server
It is now possible to add and remove issues from project milestones
Labels returned to the model will now include their group information
Added support for project icon and color in
create_project
and
update_project
tools
Added optional team filtering to
list_users
tool
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