Bitbucket Merge Queues is now generally available

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We launched merge queues in open beta earlier this year, and your feedback has helped us refine reliability and polish the experience. Today, merge queues is generally available for all Standard and Premium Bitbucket Cloud workspaces.

Merge queues automatically sequences, validates, and merges pull requests against the latest target-branch state — no extra scripts, plugins, or manual rebases. Developers add their pull request to the queue and move on while Bitbucket handles the rest.

Getting started

Your workspace must be on a Standard or Premium plan with Pipelines enabled.

1. Open the Merge queues tab in Repository settings → Workflow.

2. Configure a merge queue for your target branch along with a merge-queues pipeline in bitbucket-pipelines.yml.

3. All pull requests targeting that branch will now show Add to merge queue.

Want to learn more? See our documentation.

Share your feedback

Your feedback shaped this GA release — leave a comment below or use the in-product feedback button in Bitbucket.

[Eugene Pinkman]

This is a welcome improvement, especially for teams working on busy repositories. Automating merge validation should reduce conflicts and save developers from constantly rebasing their branches. It's great to see features like this becoming more streamlined over time. I also like exploring different websites in my spare time, including spinogambino