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May 28, 2026

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Agents generate large volumes of code, but individuals are still accountable for the changes that merge. This leads to a lot of review work, and the capability and performance of traditional review tools hasn’t kept up.

Today, we’re releasing Linear Diffs to make reviewing code a fast and fluid experience native to Linear.

You can now review diffs from any issue with a PR, iterate on further changes with agents, and ship code from Linear. All reviews in Linear sync back to GitHub, so the current state of review work is always clear.

main diffs ui showing code changes and a file list

Guided reviews (beta)⁠

Guided reviews help you efficiently review large PRs. When you view a diff in this format, you’ll see the core of change first, so you don’t have to dig for an entrypoint.

Each section of diffs has an explanation — starting with what the change is, then moving into its consequences. Guided reviews separate out glue code and secondary changes so you can stay focused on what matters. This style of review makes it much easier to move through large changes in a single sitting.

guided review with an explanation and file selection on the left, and the diffs on the right

Review Inbox⁠

Staying on top of reviews is easier when review notifications live alongside the rest of your work. Linear notifies your Inbox for work like review requests, your approved PRs, and comment mentions. You can set up additional real-time desktop, Slack, email, or mobile notifications.

We’ve also added a dedicated Reviews tab in your sidebar so you can see all your review work at once. The default focus ordering sorts reviews by what’s closest to shipping, so the work that needs your attention most rises to the top.

Reviews dedicated tab showing what needs your input

Reviewing code⁠

When a review calls for changes, keep iterating from the diff surface with a background coding agent. Agent changes update the diff in real-time, so you don’t need to check out the branch locally for every small tweak.

Diffs is responsive when reviewing even very large PRs. You can view unified or split diffs, enable line wrapping and structural highlighting, and choose custom code themes.

Making changes with agents in a diff

Linear Diffs is available now on all plans. Guided reviews is free during beta and available for Linear customers on Business and Enterprise plans.

Workspace admins can enable Diffs by upgrading Linear’s GitHub integration for code access. Then, individual users can choose to review diffs in Linear.

To learn more about why we built Diffs, read Code review should be fast. For more on Diffs functionality, check our documentation.

  • Agents
    Fixed choppy animation when expanding agent thoughts
  • Agents
    Fixed agent chat incorrectly minimizing on external link click
  • Agents
    Fixed the “Worked for X” label on agent session turns to measure active work time, excluding any idle wait between turns
  • Agents
    Fixed agent panel staying focused when expanding or collapsing
  • Agents
    Prevented the Ask Linear popup from reopening off-screen after the window height shrinks
  • Agents
    Fixed Ask Linear drafts being lost when switching between chats
  • Agents
    Fixed agent lists showing too many skills
  • Asks
    Linear Asks Agent will now automatically reply to external users when requesting additional information
  • Asks
    Fixed Asks Web submission attributions when the submitter logged into Asks Web before accepting their Linear workspace invite
  • Desktop
    Fixed an issue where the desktop application could hang when waking up your computer from sleep
  • Desktop
    Fixed desktop app flash of white background on new window open
  • Diffs
    Fixed deduplication of linked PRs in issue attachment data
  • Diffs
    Fixed refreshing the diff when a PR’s target branch changes (e.g., after a stacked parent merges and GitHub retargets the child)
  • Diffs
    Stopped attributing GitHub PR comments authored by deleted (“ghost”) users to the wrong user in notifications
  • Documents
    Fixed document mention notifications firing on every edit instead of just when a user is newly mentioned
  • Documents
    Shortened the placeholder in the “Change document subscribers” action menu so its keyboard shortcut indicator no longer gets clipped
  • GitHub
    Comments on a not-yet-linked GitHub PR now backfill the issue→PR link via magic-word matching the same way PR lifecycle and review events do
  • Inbox
    Fixed “From is not” filter to correctly exclude issue assignment notifications from integration and OAuth application-driven assignments
  • Inbox
    Fixed inbox badge getting stuck when arriving on a review via a legacy /agent URL
  • Insights
    Fixed a bug where two Duplicate options appeared in the Time in status filter
  • Integrations
    Figma links now show a clean Figma title instead of the raw marketing page title
  • Issues
    Removed Duplicate status from quick issue create and issue template
  • Project templates
    Allowed project-template sub-issues to target other private teams again
  • Sentry
    Fixed a bug where Sentry-created issues could be assigned to deactivated users in triage
  • Settings
    We now correctly truncate long team names in Teams settings list instead of overlapping the next column
  • Shortcuts
    Fixed the Copy as Prompt shortcut so it updates issue status when auto-start-on-open is enabled
  • Sync
    Fixed “Linear servers are not reachable” error that could appear after laptop unlock
  • Triage
    Fixed workspace issue templates not appearing in triage automation filters
  • Views
    Fixed list rows shifting horizontally when toggling a group in views with grouped columns
  • Android
    Improved Android to use server-side filtering for skills
  • Agents
    Dashboard pages are now used as context in the Linear agent chat
  • Integrations
    Connecting GitHub now defaults to enabling code access
  • Project Slack channels
    Used an info-style toast when starting project Slack channel creation
  • Reviews
    Activity page file and code comment links, and PR notifications, now open whichever code view (Diffs or Guide) you last visited
  • Skills
    Updated empty state for skills to match other settings
  • Timeline
    Improved timeline projects aside panel visibility to be remembered per view instead of globally
  • Updates
    Removed the UI for hiding project and initiative update details
  • Added User.hasGitHubCodeAccess so clients can check whether the viewer can fetch GitHub source through Linear
  • Removed shared prop from AI prompt GraphQL mutations
  • Added parallel AgentSkill GraphQL query and mutation types alongside deprecated AiPrompt roots for the skill migration