Pull Request reviews (alpha)

January 23, 2025

Your development speed can only be as fast as your code review cycle, yet the tools we use to manage pull request (PR) reviews are complicated and unreliable. It's hard to know which PRs need attention and easy to miss a request to review a PR.

We are making your PRs visible in Linear to streamline the review process. You'll receive notifications in your Linear Inbox whenever you are asked to review or need to take action on a PR. Get early access to this feature by joining the public alpha.

Reviews section⁠

See all of your open PRs and PRs you need to review in a new Reviews section in the sidebar. Flip through the list to read descriptions, check status, see related issues, and add comments—all without leaving Linear. Comments sync bi-directionally, so they'll appear in both Linear and GitHub no matter where the comment is made.

A new Reviews tab shows all of your open pull requests that need attention and any pull requests where others have requested your review.

Notifications⁠

Notifications appear in your Linear Inbox whenever you need to take action on a PR, so you don't have to juggle multiple notification streams across different tools.

PR authors receive notifications for new comments, when builds fail, and when someone has left a review
Reviewers receive notifications when someone requests their review and for comments in threads they're participating in
Anyone mentioned in a PR comment within Linear will receive a corresponding mention in Github and vice versa

Join the alpha⁠

Go to Settings > Account > Connected accounts to enable Pull Request reviews for your personal account. This is an open alpha release available on all workspaces that have enabled the GitHub integration.

This feature is still in development. We're seeking feedback early since pull request reviews are such a critical part of engineering workflows. Next, we're planning to add support for merging PRs from Linear, viewing code diffs, and to add the same functionality to the GitLab integration. Read more in the docs and share feedback in the #pr-reviews-alpha channel in the community Slack.

Sub-grouping in issue lists⁠

Use sub-groups to organize a list of issues across two properties. For example, you can group your current cycle by assignee and then sub-group by status. This sub-grouping configuration allows you to see what everyone is working on and the progress they are making.

Cycles view grouped by priority and status

Table improvements⁠

Tables in Linear got several upgrades. Here are some new functionalities we added:

Add lists within table cells by pasting, converting text to a list, or using Markdown
Rearrange table columns and rows with drag and drop
Select table cells with Shift Arrow

Fixed a bug that showed archived issues from other teams when you opened your team archive
Fixed an issue with viewing archived projects with project statuses that had been deleted
Fixed glitches that happened when manually sorting project boards that were grouped by initiative
Fixed a problem with incorrect breadcrumbs when navigating between cycle pages of different teams
You can now associate a customer with an issue when you create issues in Slack using the global shortcut
Custom views with the customer name filter now properly show only customers from the filter as issue groups
Fixed a bug that caused the Customer Requests section on an issue to briefly appear on initial load, even when there were no requests
Fixed incorrect cycle number parsing where quarter references (e.g., "Cycle - Q1/25") displayed the year instead of the actual cycle number
Fixed cycle success calculation when completed issues were moved back to the cycle after cycle completion
Fixed cycle scope calculation when issues were moved back after completion
Fixed a problem with showing document changes when documents had placeholders
It is now possible to insert text above and below tables
Fixed indenting lists after moving items with Option/AltUp/Down
Fixed issues with the layout of empty Inbox and Triage pages in Firefox
Fixed an issue where a project created from the initiative page now immediately appears in the list
Fixed the incorrect issue ID displayed in the toast when changing teams before accepting a Triage issue
Fixed navigation arrows blinking when moving between issues in a list
Fixed tooltips in issue history getting cropped in some cases
Fixed a bug that prevented users from creating a label in a group when typing the group name in lowercase
Fixed a problem that prevented you from going back to the application after changing a team identifier in settings
Fixed an issue where we allowed guests to install OAuth applications if another user in the workspace has already installed that application
Fixed a problem that prevented creating projects in some scenarios when using default team templates
Fixed an issue where we did not remove Slack messages for project updates when the project was archived
Fixed an issue where we did not send update reminders for projects belonging to archived teams
Fixed an issue where deleting any Slack attachment on an issue would delete the synced Slack comment thread on the issue if present
Fixed incorrect tab navigation when editing comments, templates, and other items while navigating to another tab
Fixed a bug where the button to create a private view would default the view to be shared instead
Fixed direct links to create attached views (e.g., /projects/view/new)
Fixed potential data-loading errors for large organizations with Views filtering/grouping on Cycles

Modified workspace SLA settings are now tracked in the audit-log
All issue and project views can now be exported as CSV
Allowed creating a new issue with a customer request by using the plus button in a list group or a board column
Creating a new issue from a customer page will now automatically attach a customer request to that issue
A team's cycles can now be @-mentioned in issues, project updates, and docs associated with that team
Tables that are wider than the document automatically scroll when you drag columns out of view
Cycle links pasted into the editor will be turned into a mention automaticaly
Improved visual experience when rearranging table columns and rows with drag
It is now possible to add lists in tables by pasting, converting text to a list, or using Markdown
It is now possible to rearrange table columns and rows by dragging and dropping them
Table cells can be selected with Shift Arrow and multiple rows or columns can be moved with Alt Arrow.
Improved Intercom attachments to now point to a specific part of a conversation
The last updated date is no longer shown in issue lists by default; you can update Display Options to show it
You can now open a link on an issue through a command menu action
Firebase Hosting preview URLs are now supported
Cloudflare Pages preview URLs are now supported
Updated the empty state on the project's issues screen
Project property dropdowns now open to the side instead of below, so you can see all properties
Allowed filtering on project milestones on more issue views

You can now use Alt Cmd/Ctrl W to close all but the current tab in the desktop app
Cmd/Ctrl / now opens the Keyboard Shortcuts overlay
Changed the Insights panel keyboard shortcut from Ctrl Shift I to Alt Shift I on Windows and Linux to avoid conflicts with browser developer tools

Made the integration managing a customer available through the field integration on Customer
Introduced a new String comparator containsIgnoreCaseAndAccent that matches text ignoring both case and accents
Removed message from OrganizationInviteCreateInput
Removed deprecated ProjectLink resolver
Removed deprecated Document.contentData and ProjectMilestone.descriptionData GraphQL fields.
Added addedLabelIds and removedLabelIds in IssueUpdateInput to atomically add or remove label IDs for an issue