Greetings Bitbucket Cloud community, I am thrilled to share exciting news about how we're making code review easier in Bitbucket Cloud! Code review is a critical part of the development workflow. To help reviewers assess changes quickly, we’ve historically taken a “code first” design approach for the pull request view, always displaying the diff first when the page loads. Today, I'm excited to announce the new pull request experience, a redesign of the pull request view that displays everything the reviewer needs on a single page, without tabs. This new design helps reviewers approve changes faster compared to the old UI with features like: * An expandable sidebar containing file tree, build statuses, and other info * An omnipresent file tree for quick navigation between files without scrolling to the top * "Sticky" header for quick actions without scrolling back to the top * "Sticky" file headers so you always know which file you're reviewing * File highlights in the file tree as you scroll down the page so you always know which file you're reviewing * Collapsible diffs to mark your place as you review a diff * and much more Learn more about these features at the Bitbucket blog. To try out the new pull request experience: * Click your avatar in the Bitbucket sidebar * Select Bitbucket Labs * Enable the New pull request experience feature This opt-in release is a beta, and we are still working to bring some existing features over to the new view. We’ve made it easy to temporarily switch back to the old view using the “temporarily disable the new UI” link in the Feedback card at the bottom of the sidebar. We'd love for you to try out the new experience and let us know what you think, either here in the comments or via the Feedback button in the new UI. Happy reviewing! Alastair Bitbucket PM

The Give Feedback modal now seems to be working, so I've re-submitted the scrolling issues there. I tried creating an issue at the jira link above, but it looks like it steers you eventually back to the Give Feedback features in the individual products and that creating issues in jira is only for Atlassian people (which is fine, though the Give Feedback seems to be less vendor-customer dialog friendly). Can anyone on the BitBucket team who may be monitoring the comments on this post speak to whether this is still a channel of 2-way communication between the team and customers? If no reply is given w/in a week or so, I think we can assume it's been quietly retired as such and to stick to the Give Feedback feature and hope those comments are seen.

Hi @Jon , sorry you are experiencing this issue. I'm unable to reproduce it using Chrome on a Mac. I no longer work on the Bitbucket team but have passed along your comment regarding the Give Feedback modal. If you create a public issue the team can triage and track it on the public Jira: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD

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Try out the new Bitbucket Cloud pull request experience today!

Alastair Wilkes

Greetings Bitbucket Cloud community,

I am thrilled to share exciting news about how we're making code review easier in Bitbucket Cloud!

Code review is a critical part of the development workflow. To help reviewers assess changes quickly, we’ve historically taken a “code first” design approach for the pull request view, always displaying the diff first when the page loads.

Today, I'm excited to announce the new pull request experience, a redesign of the pull request view that displays everything the reviewer needs on a single page, without tabs. This new design helps reviewers approve changes faster compared to the old UI with features like:

An expandable sidebar containing file tree, build statuses, and other info
An omnipresent file tree for quick navigation between files without scrolling to the top
"Sticky" header for quick actions without scrolling back to the top
"Sticky" file headers so you always know which file you're reviewing
File highlights in the file tree as you scroll down the page so you always know which file you're reviewing
Collapsible diffs to mark your place as you review a diff
and much more

Learn more about these features at the Bitbucket blog.

To try out the new pull request experience:

Click your avatar in the Bitbucket sidebar
Select Bitbucket Labs
Enable the New pull request experience feature

This opt-in release is a beta, and we are still working to bring some existing features over to the new view. We’ve made it easy to temporarily switch back to the old view using the “temporarily disable the new UI” link in the Feedback card at the bottom of the sidebar.

We'd love for you to try out the new experience and let us know what you think, either here in the comments or via the Feedback button in the new UI.

Happy reviewing!

Alastair
Bitbucket PM

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Maxim Leonov

Looking good so far!

Can there be a setting to enable 'Side-by-side' view for all diffs for all Pull Request by default?

There a long-standing request of similar nature:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/5689/side-by-side-diff-as-a-first-class-citizen

Sylvain Pont

Kinda big regression for me: renamed / moved files are not detected anymore.

Sylvain Pont

Oops, just saw the

we are still working to bring some existing features over to the new view

Which includes this ..

haithem_mosbahi

Looks great so far !

Do you have any plan to implement Pull Request Tasks in the design ?

ah I just saw the what's missing section in the article.

Thank you and looking forward for more features

Stefan Mezmer

As i understand this is just for the Bitbucket Cloud. Any plans to bring it to Bitbucket Server too?

Alastair Wilkes

Hi Maxim,

Thanks for the feedback! That feature is in the backlog for the new view.

Alastair

Alastair Wilkes

Sure thing!

Hervé Le Meur

Nevermind, inline diffing is a WIP.

(Didn't found how to remove this comment.)

kgoss

Looks great Atlassian Team!

I actually extended a plugin for my team that did a lot of these things like the sticky header and the collapsable files.

One of the main features my plugin does that would be a great additional feature here is allow you to collapse all files by the file type.

So for example, we have a lot of .test.snapshot files, which we don't always care to review, so you click a dropdown and select "Mark all .test.snapshot files as complete" and this will collapse all the snapshot files.

https://github.com/kgwebsites/bitbucket-pr-review

Dan Cumings

One of the features they are working on is making it so you can view comments even after a pull request is updated. For now a good workaround is to make a synopsis of all the comments at the top of the pull request.

Robert Parker_5w1dyq

Wow, this is fantastic! Is there a plan to make a convenient Collapse/Expand All feature?

unknown

BUG: Can't view older comments on file (clicking "1 prior comment" toggles file collapsing instead)

unknown

Any plan to make a similar view for the page when you're viewing a commit? It would be nice to have a unified theme like this all across Bitbucket.

unknown

I'm seeing this issue too.

MikeAshton

The resize panel containing the file tree is slow to respond. There have been a number of times where I have over-shot with the mouse and (because the cursor didn't change shape in time) I clicked on the divider between the two sections. A second-or-so later, the panel registers the click and slowly collapses.

Sometimes I am sent very large pull requests which can take a long time to review. Is there any way of recording the files which have been reviewed (or even those which have been viewed)? This would be a lovely feature.

Jiri Hana

Is it somehow possible to use this without the wysiwyg editor? I have the wysiwyg editor turned off, but that setting seems to be ignored when I enable the new pull request feature.

(I like the new PR, but if it forces me to use the wysiwyg editor instead of markdown, I don't want it).

Chris Morse

Individual file comment counts are missing from the file tree in the side bar. Conflict indicators are working as expected.

Hervé Le Meur

I had a really bad surprise today while code reviewing a PR.

With the new interface, a line was (incorrectly) marked as deleted:

When disabling the new UI, the same PR was indicating (correctly) the line as added:

Why? How is that possible?

unknown

😲 that it, I'm turning it off for now, the feature needs to go back to the oven, it ain't done!

Alastair Wilkes

That is very strange -- we will investigate it immediately! Thanks for reporting.

Alastair Wilkes

Thanks for the report, Chris. A fix for that issue will be out soon.

Dan Cumings

Sometimes it is easy to focus on the issues with a new feature/system. I wanted to be sure to also give my praises for this much needed/appreciated upgrade to pull requests. Sometimes it feels like I spend half of my day doing pull requests. Every small improvement you make directly affects my quality of life. This is such a great update. Keep up the good work!

Hervé Le Meur

Also really appreciate the effort and improvements of the pull requests UI, but disapointed with this half-backed release, between the inline diff not present (which in itself is quite a regression), and the potential bug I've stumble uppon

For a service which main point is development and code management, I find it's odd it has been released in this state.

Alastair Wilkes

@Hervé Le Meur, would you mind sending us a link to that PR via a support ticket so we can investigate?

You can open one here: https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud

We'd really appreciate it! Thank you.

Alastair Wilkes

Thanks for the suggestion!

Alastair Wilkes

Glad you like it!

Yes, we plan to add that feature soon.

Alastair Wilkes

The ability to view prior comments will be shipping very soon. Stay tuned!

Alastair Wilkes

Yes; over time you will see more Bitbucket pages adopt a similar design.

Alastair Wilkes

Thanks for the feedback, Mike!

You're right - interaction performance isn't where we want it to be yet, and we're working on it at the moment. I'm curious if using the ] keyboard shortcut is more performant for you?

Ability to know which files have been (re)viewed would be good. We have received similar feedback from several other customers, so we're definitely considering that. Thanks!

Alastair Wilkes

Hi Jiri,

Thanks for the feedback. The new editor is the only option for the new experience. We'll update the "Atlassian Editor" feature description to mention this.

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