Initiatives, new importers, and new integrations🎉

You asked for Initiatives, Epics, and Teamspaces. We have got the third and final of those three out now along with a useful new home for Wiki and a bunch of importers. Before any of that, though, an important change that you will welcome.

✍️ Issues are now Work Items

For the longest time, our top users and adopters were developers. Issues made sense to them, and while they had a slightly negative meaning, other teams made do. Our audience split started changing after we launched Pro last year, though, and by the end of the year, we had overwhelming feedback, even from developers, to trade Issues in for a more neutral term so more teams could get on Plane.

Introducing Work Items as a worthy successor and a term that's wide in accommodating all teams anywhere

• Work Items goes beyond traditional issue tracking to more project management use cases in more teams than ever before.
• It folds any term you like into a type, unlocked with Work Item Types.
• It is the first of several planned steps to make Plane more collaborative, unifying, and flexible.

📌 Introducing Initiatives

House multiple projects under a common objective with Initiatives. Track progress across multiple epics and projects and align work with organizational goals.

• High-level progress tracking
  See real-time progress in familiar stategroups across all linked projects.
• Automatic progress math
  Get instant insights with auto-calculated progress weighted across nested projects.
• Cross-project epic management
  Bring epics from different projects into one view—perfect for tracking large groups of work or company-wide projects.
• Full context
  Add descriptions, timelines, and leads to each initiative. Automatically see real-time updates roll up to a relevant initiative.
• Smart filtering and sorting
  Organize initiatives by useful sort + filter options to get the view you need.

💡 Perfect for

• Product teams launching features broken into multiple projects and epics
• Engineering managers with multi-team oversight
• Cross-functional teams working on company-wide OKRs
• Program managers tracking strategic initiatives
• Leadership teams monitoring high-level organizational goals
• SAFe and Lean teams working independently towards a common goal

📥 New importers: Jira, Linear, Asana

Move to Plane without losing your data with one-click imports that preserve your state of work.

• Jira Cloud and Jira Server
  Bring all your projects, issues, and workflows from Jira Cloud or Server installations, complete with custom fields, attachments, and comments.
  Import from Jira Cloud and Jira Server
• Linear
  Transfer your teams including projects, team structures, and tasks into Plane without missing a single byte.
  Move your Linear teams to Plane
• Asana
  Move your projects, tasks, sections, and team set-ups from Asana without losing any of your history.
  Switch from Asana

🔗 Brand new integrations and one written again from scratch

Our most anticipated integrations are rolling out—starting with your top requests—GitHub, Slack, and GitLab. More on the way soon, but for now, details ↓

GitHub

Software Engineering and Product teams will like this one a lot.

• Bi-directional syncing
  Issues, pull requests, labels, comments, and more stay in sync between GitHub and Plane.
• Efficient collaboration
  Mention teammates, close issues automatically from pull requests, and keep everyone in the loop whether they work in GitHub or Plane.
• State and workflow maps
  PR states can be mapped to your Plane workflows, so merging or closing a PR updates corresponding issues automatically.

Sync Plane and GitHub

Slack

Bring project conversations into Slack channels, create issues from chats, and see real-time updates without leaving Slack.

• Tasks from chats
  Messages in Slack become Plane issues in clicks. Subsequent comments or updates reflect instantly in both places.
• Slash (/) commands
  Quickly create new work items with titles, descriptions, and all other props or details from Slack using /plane.
• Live previews
  Plane links in Slack are constantly updated with the latest from Plane and changes you make in one place from Slack show everywhere else in Slack, too.

Connect Slack and Plane

GitLab

Link pull requests and Plane issues so your work in Plane moves automatically with changes from GitLab.

• Pull request sync
  Connect GitLab pull requests directly to corresponding Plane issues.
• Automatic updates
  Use keywords, e.g., “closes #14”, to close or update Plane issues when PR statuses change.
• Trackable workflows
  Track each step of the PR lifecycle from Draft, open, review to Merge within Plane.

Close GitLab PRs with Plane

🏠 A new home for your Wiki

Following the new workspace Home comes the new Wiki Home with Stickies and a better Recents section.

• Recents shows you a mixed bag of your last seen Wiki pages, letting you quickly jump into any and take off from where you left.
• Stickies keep your rough notes, to-dos, small-ish tasks, and reminders right at your finertips.

⚡️Improvements

• Improved language support with new translations, a better structure, and streamlined empty states across the entire app
• The workspace switcher now shows you the plan per workspace at a glance.
• Enhanced performance with faster project loading and smoother data retrieval across your workspace
• Added estimate points to expanded issue responses in cycles, modules, and views API endpoints
• Enhanced Teamspaces analytics with cleaner charts and improved data visualizations
• Floating Toolbar for Pages – Navigate and edit pages more efficiently with a new floating toolbar.
• Improved Project State handling
• Attachments for Intake work items

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fixed date picker layout with upgraded React components and consistent height, making date selection easier.
• Stickies now maintain their designated height and scroll correctly in all views.
• Pages and recents now display correct loading states.
• Tables now resize properly and prevent content overflow.
• The Teamspaces sidebar now displays correct labels and proper permission states.
• Comments with images now wait to complete the upload of images before posting.
• Cross-project issue links now redirect correctly.
• Improved keyboard navigation in issue create and edit modals when using Shift + Tab.
• The deleted work items counter now shows the correct number.
• Deleted Wiki pages don't show up in Recents anymore.