Linear 2026-01-29-time-in-status. Source highlight: 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.
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
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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