Impact Score: 5/10
Linear: Text attribution and agent-assisted editing
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Component: linear · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-10-31.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Linear 2026-07-23-text-attribution-and-age. Source highlight: Documents and project descriptions are critical context for your teams and agents.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
Documents and project descriptions are critical context for your teams and agents.
You can now edit text with
Linear Agent
, and use
Loops
to keep docs and project descriptions up-to-date. Author name indicators let you check if text was written by a colleague or added by a loop.
When editing, changes you make through Linear Agent highlight separately so they’re easy to review. If you need to revert to an earlier version, restore to any previous checkpoint from version history.
Show author names or open version history from the
⌘
/
Ctrl
+
K
menu, or in document display options. Learn more in our
documentation
.
Refreshed issue sidebar
The issue sidebar now closely integrates issue properties with the main content. We’ve pinned Diffs to the top of this panel so you can access the issue’s pull requests from anywhere on the page.
Fixes
Asks:
Fixed issues created through Slack Asks ignoring a chosen template’s default status
Comments:
The resolved comments menu no longer appears when there are no resolved comments
Diffs:
Submit review flyouts now properly close when clicking outside them
GitHub:
Prevented revert pull requests from reopening issues linked to another GitHub repository
GitHub:
Fixed linking GitHub pull requests to issues via pasted URLs.
Initiatives:
Fixed oversized initiative titles
Integrations:
Fixed a bug where removing a linked GitHub pull request disconnecting GitHub issue sync
Integrations:
Fixed Slack project channel setup retrying after a project was deleted or archived
Settings:
Fixed IP restrictions not appearing when searching for “IP” in settings
Slack:
Fixed truncated issue summaries in Slack unfurls
Views:
Fixed view filters (like
Cmd/Ctrl
F
filtering) resetting when navigating to an item in a split view list
Improvements
Editor:
Added Backspace navigation from empty issue descriptions and document bodies back to the title
Issues:
Improved issue composer to suggest templates as a quick suggestion, surfaced before other suggestions because they apply a bundle of issue properties
Projects:
Added a way to view a project’s issues filtered by a specific milestone from the project overview on iOS
Triage:
Added triage responsibility to the triage screen on iOS, showing who is responsible for incoming issues and letting you manage the action and responsible members
Diffs:
“Quick to review” now shows up for slightly larger PRs and also appears for the author of the PR
API
Added
bodyData
to GraphQL pull request comments
CycleCreate
and
CycleUpdate
now prevent overlapping schedules and validate neighboring cycles using their dates.