Impact Score: 5/10
Linear: Coding sessions on mobile
Source available — automated, not human-reviewed
Component: linear · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-10-31.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Linear 2026-07-30-coding-sessions-on-mobil. Source highlight: Your coding session doesn’t have to stop when you leave your desk. Use the Linear mobile app to review code changes, comment on specific lines, and iterate with Linear Agent.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 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)
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Your coding session doesn’t have to stop when you leave your desk. Use the Linear mobile app to review code changes, comment on specific lines, and iterate with Linear Agent.
Open any diff and switch to the Changes tab to inspect the code. When you spot something to change, tap the relevant line to add it to your message to steer the coding session in the direction you want.
We’ve also added section under My Issues → Assigned for your delegated issues. It shows the status of each coding session, and gives you a quick way back into active work.
Download the Linear mobile app for
iOS
and
Android
.
Guided Reviews are now generally available
Guided Reviews
break diffs into focused sections with explainers on what changed and why. As part of general availability, they are now generated for larger pull requests, with a bigger context window and better latency.
Guided Reviews are available on Business and Enterprise plans at no additional cost.
Support for GitHub teams in reviews
You can now assign reviews to GitHub teams. Review requests assigned to your GitHub teams appear in a dedicated section of the Reviews inbox. Learn more in the
docs
.
Signed commits for coding sessions
Coding sessions now support signed commits. Add your SSH or GPG key in
Settings
to enable signing.
Workspace admins can also require users to upload a signing key before using coding sessions.
GitHub Copilot for Linear
GitHub Copilot users can assign issues directly to Copilot’s cloud agent from Linear. Copilot uses the issue context to work in its own development environment, open draft pull requests, and update the issue as it makes progress.
Choose model and agent settings, set the base and working branches, then steer ongoing work through comments in Linear. To get started, install
GitHub Copilot for Linear
, or read the
GitHub announcement
for more details.
Fixes
Agents:
Queued agent messages now display readable text in previews instead of raw markup
API:
Fixed issue SLA sort to order by the displayed SLA bucket (Breached / High / Medium / Low / Achieved / Failed) instead of raw
slaBreachesAt
, so mobile lists no longer show repeated SLA sections
Comments:
Inline images no longer appear too large in iOS comments
Diffs:
Pull request reviews no longer unexpectedly open an inline comment draft when the revision changes
Diffs:
Dismissed issue suggestions no longer reappear on pull requests
GitHub:
Pull request events now update issue statuses when a Git automation branch pattern contains unsupported regex syntax
Inbox:
Fixed new project and initiative update notifications appearing as separate inbox entries for the same parent
Integrations:
GitHub Enterprise Server setup no longer gets stuck on “Verifying installation” after the Linear app is created
Integrations:
Prevented Slack Asks from responding to unmentioned thread messages after creating an Ask
IOS:
File, image, and video attachments in document comments now open when tapped, and attachment cards have better contrast in the comments drawer
Issues:
Issue boards now show an error instead of an empty state when too many issues match
Reviews:
Structural diffs no longer mark entire reformatted statements as changed when only part of the statement changed
Reviews:
Resolving a review thread that no longer exists in GitHub now shows a clear message instead of a generic error
Search:
Searching for a GitHub URL now finds issues that reference the pull request
Slack:
Fixed Slack review request notifications sometimes showing the wrong person as the requester
Slack:
Fixed pasting a project milestone link into Slack now previewing that milestone instead of another milestone from the same project
Teams:
Fixed internal custom view and dashboard links in Team Home displaying generic labels or icons
Triage:
“Copy as prompt” no longer moves issues out of triage
Improvements
Diffs:
Diffs linked as
Related
no longer change the status of the issue
Diffs:
AI can now generate a Linear issue from a pull request or suggest an existing issue to link
Diffs:
Inline feedback can now be sent to the Linear Agent, added to a review, or posted to the diff
Diffs:
New agent sessions can now be started from any pull request using the Agent panel
Diffs:
TypeScript and JavaScript regular expressions can now be tested directly from the file where they’re introduced
Diffs:
Pull requests now show the number of meaningful changes, excluding tests and documentation
Diffs:
Improved Slack notifications for a pull request removed from the merge queue to include the reason it was removed
Editor:
Updated the keyboard shortcut cheat sheet to show
Cmd/CtrlEnter
for toggling checklist items
Importers:
It is now possible to import issues into a sub-team if it doesn’t inherit statuses from its parent team
Issues:
You can now restore an archived or deleted issue from the iOS app
Loops:
Improved the “Authenticated email intake” trusted source by renaming it to “Email intake” and explaining when an email is treated as trusted
Loops:
Added ability for Loops to send user notification
Zendesk:
Improved the Zendesk integration to allow connection using an agent role instead of an end-user role
MCP server
Added Zapier to the built-in MCP connector directory
Keyboard shortcuts
Editor:
Toggle a checklist item with
Cmd/CtrlEnter
when the cursor is inside it. Hold
Shift
to also toggle nested items
Search:
Escape now clears the search input while keeping the current results, then dismisses search when the input is empty
Triage:
Triage keyboard shortcuts now follow the order of the actions:
1
accepts,
2
declines,
3
marks as duplicate