Impact Score: 5/10
Linear: Initiative properties
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Analysis updated: 2026-10-31.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Linear 2026-07-02-initiative-properties. Source highlight: Initiatives define your company’s high-level goals and organize the projects that contribute to them. To help you manage initiatives as your roadmap grows, we’ve added a new set of focused initiative properties:
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Initiatives define your company’s high-level goals and organize the projects that contribute to them. To help you manage initiatives as your roadmap grows, we’ve added a new set of focused initiative properties:
Proposed
and
canceled
statuses make it clear when an initiative is under consideration or has been intentionally set aside
Priority
communicates which initiatives are most important
Labels
group initiatives by product line, region, or other meaningful categories
Use these properties to group and filter initiatives on any plan, or build custom initiative views on Enterprise plans. Learn more about initiative properties in the
docs
.
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Enterprise-Managed Authorization is available to Enterprise workspaces using Okta as an identity provider and Claude as an MCP client. Learn more in the
docs
or in the
MCP specification
.
Share filtered views
You can now share any filtered view by copying its URL from your browser, or by pressing
⌘
/
Ctrl
Shift
C
on desktop.
Share filtered views to discuss a subset of an existing view with someone else — like an issue view filtered by an assignee, or project or initiative view filtered by a label.
Fixes
Agents:
Fixed issues with editing collapsible sections inside documents and descriptions with the Linear agent
API:
Stopped automatically cancelling and restarting active Triage Intelligence runs after issue content changes
API:
Fixed fieldless GraphQL input metadata from turning persisted filters into match-all filters
Asks:
Slack
/asks
commands now pre-fill the modals with the entered text
Automations:
Fixed showing agent automation
Show more
prompt buttons only when hovering an automation block
Comments:
Fixed a transient agent session wrapper appearing after mentioning an agent that only handles comment events
Cycles:
Fixed renamed cycles showing their local generated cycle number in some client Chrome
Desktop:
Fixed OAuth application creation form resetting when switching tabs on desktop
Diffs:
Added Linear details comments for manually linked GitHub pull requests when the link is created or changed
Diffs:
Kept combined code review diffs aligned with side-by-side view when inserted additions are followed by a later paired helper extraction
Diffs:
Show pull request status icons for coding session inbox notifications tied to PRs
Diffs:
Fixed review notifications to now open the diff at the relevant comment instead of the guide
Diffs:
Fixed Team reviews settings appearing when Diffs were disabled
Diffs:
Fixed poor contrast of JSDoc comments in the GitHub Light syntax theme
Diffs:
Fixed scroll position jumping when expanding collapsed code sections in diff view
Diffs:
Fixed commit navigation controls shifting when the changed file count changes between selected commits
Diffs:
Comment filters on the PR Diffs tab no longer hide comments in the Guide
Editor:
Fixed emoji rendering in italicized text so emojis remain upright
Editor:
Improved autolink for a broader list of TLDs when pasting URLs in the editor
Email:
Fixed email intake settings occasionally displaying an incomplete email address
Initiatives:
Fixed initiative list with sub-initiatives correctly restoring scroll position on navigation
Initiatives:
Fixed transparency issues with the icon picker when editing initiatives inline in the list
Integrations:
Reverted a GitHub sync change that stopped updates from Linear to GitHub once an issue is synced via the
one-way
sync
Integrations:
Added a warning to Slack issue dialogs when selected labels include multiple labels from the same label group
Integrations:
Fixed Google Calendar out-of-office status labels showing an absence as starting today when it starts tomorrow in the user’s timezone
Integrations:
Fixed GitHub issue sync sending Linear label updates back to repositories configured for one-way GitHub-to-Linear sync
Integrations:
Fixed Linear user mentions in Slack unfurls notifying mentioned users
Integrations:
Fixed Slack synced comment import retries when Slack returns missing scopes while fetching message replies
Issue Activity:
Fixed issue activity history no longer briefly reordering or regrouping while loading when lots of labels are involved
Issue templates:
Fixed blank optional-only form template submissions from creating empty issues
Issues:
Fixed issue sidebar hover styles not updating after switching between dark and light mode
Issues:
Fixed copied issues including sub-issues after the Include sub-issues option was disabled
Issues:
Fixed SLA workflow triggers failing when a workflow condition did not include an issue filter
Mobile:
Prevented synced email threads from being resolved from Android
Project Views:
Fixed a problem where hidden groups could not be restored in timeline views
Projects:
Fixed completed projects appearing in project dependency blocker counts
Projects:
Fixed newly created projects now receiving varied default icon colors, matching initiatives
Projects:
Fixed the project update editor border disappearing after Agent highlight interactions
Releases:
Fixed started release stage rows appearing taller than other rows in release pipeline settings
Settings:
Fixed existing application images now showing when editing an OAuth application
Settings:
Fixed settings search input box now respecting custom sidebar theme colors
Settings:
Fixed customer status and tier row dividers appearing brighter than the header divider in settings
Settings:
Fixed workspace security settings copy incorrectly referencing recurring issues for workspace template management
Sidebar:
Properly aligned controls in the sidebar into one consistent column and fixed their focus rings
Slack:
Stopped retrying permanent Slack webhook errors for disabled app message tabs and invalid block payloads
Teams:
Fixed duplicate favorite action in action menu on team views
Triage:
Fixed Triage rules sometimes showing duplicate or missing rows immediately after saving
Triage:
Fixed the issue preview closing when a new issue entered a label-filtered Triage queue
Views:
Fixed some server-backed views not loading correctly with some complex filter conditions
Projects:
Project and initiative overview latest updates no longer inherit the previous latest update’s open state
Diffs:
Fixed commit titles of specific lengths from overflowing the commit selector dropdown
Initiatives:
Initiative target dates now use the same completed date rendering semantics as project target dates
Initiatives:
Show the notifications subscribe control on initiative pages
Estimates:
Restored the selected issue’s estimate total in the bulk action toolbar
Editor:
Fixed dragging URL-backed Linear content into editors that was inserting duplicated mentions
Pulse:
Fixed Pulse summary item navigation inside the inbox and added a breadcrumb back to the originating summary
Documents:
Fixed restoring deleted documents whose project parent is archived
Pull requests:
Cmd-clicking linked pull requests now opens them in a new tab
Diffs:
Fixed bug where some code in Code Review diffs could not be copied to the clipboard
Improvements
Android:
Added support for toggling todo checkboxes directly in issue descriptions and comments
Diffs:
Added syntax highlighting for
.gjs
and
.gts
files in Diffs
Diffs:
Added settings to control whether GitHub team review requests appear in Reviews and count as To Do
Diffs:
Collapsed generated protobuf Go files in pull request diffs by default
Diffs:
Changed PR comment copy menu label to refer to threads when copying prompts for comment threads
Inbox:
Added ability to filter inbox notifications by related review status
Issues:
Renamed canonical issue duplicate relation labels from “Duplicated by” to “Duplicates”
Search:
Updated search tabs to show the search term with a Search prefix and a search-results icon
Teams:
Improved the spacing between team home columns at medium-width resolutions
Settings:
Clarified the keyboard preference for submitting comments and agent chat messages
Insights:
Improved performance of issue and insights queries that filter by initiative
GitHub:
Added
Linear issue
to the list of
magic words
linking pull requests to issues
MCP server
Added read-only MCP tools for listing and retrieving Linear Agent skills
Added support for managing releases, release notes, and release issue associations through the MCP server
Added source URL support to the
save_customer_need
tool
API
Added an external-user actor variant to the webhook actor union
Included the top-level
url
field in data-change webhook payloads for remove actions when an entity URL is available
Fixed entity webhooks for external-user actions so their top-level actor is populated
Keyboard shortcuts
Added the
]
shortcut to show or hide the Agent sidebar from Diffs when an Agent session is available
Fixed
Shift
Cmd/Ctrl
ArrowDown
not opening sub-issues in board view