Review Board News

Review Board 1.6.6 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:36:09 -0700

Updated 25-April-2012 at 6:25PM: People have become concerned about the 1MB limit and how it will apply to binary files in your changesets. Don't worry! Binary files don't count to the 1MB limit. Just code changes. Review Board 1.6.6 is out! The biggest change is that you can now fetch the API tokens for your private GitHub repositories directly on the repository configuration page. This is...

Status Update on GitHub with Review Board

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:21:37 -0700

As previously mentioned, GitHub is transitioning to a new API and will be soon deprecating the version that Review Board speaks. We've been hard at work on this move (which brings with it a better repository configuration experience and the groundwork for tighter integration with GitHub and other services). In the meantime, new users have been unable to link with private GitHub repositories,...

Important update regarding GitHub and Review Board

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:09:50 -0700

Hello everyone. GitHub has recently announced that they will soon be removing their older version 1.0 and 2.0 APIs, in favor of the newer version 3 API. This is scheduled to take place on May 1st, 2012. Some users have already noticed that they have removed the API Token field, meaning that new GitHub Private and Private Organization accounts can't be accessed by Review Board today. We are in...

Review Board 1.6.5 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:17:01 -0700

We just put out a small maintenance release of Review Board 1.6.5 tonight. This has a couple small changes that may be useful to users of Git or the web API. The biggest change, however, is that it actually will install properly on new installations. The Django project just released their version 1.4, and Review Board 1.6.x is incompatible with it. Now, we hard-code the latest compatible...

RBTools 0.4.1 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:35:09 -0800

A few regressions were noted in RBTools 0.4.0. In particular, Python 2.4 support broke, and the --diff-filename= option broke with STDIN and --username and --password provided. These have been fixed, and we've released 0.4.1. Give it a try, and please let us know of any more regressions. Release notes are available.

Review Board 1.6.4.1 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:29:31 -0800

A couple small bugs crept in to 1.6.4 that affected users sorting by the Review ID column in the Dashboard and the saving of cache backend settings. We've put out a small 1.6.4.1 release that fixes these problems. Release notes are available.

Review Board 1.6.4 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:30:47 -0800

Review Board 1.6.4 is out the door! This is primarily a bug fix release, but with a few added goodies. Administrators trying to move Review Board to a different type of database (for example, SQLite to MySQL) can now use new database dumping and loading management commands. These will store the database in a database-agnostic format and load them back in. It's not a fast process, but should...

RBTools 0.4.0 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:52:05 -0800

RBTools 0.4.0 is out! There's some great improvements that some of you will like, but more than anything, it's the first step toward a brand new, more exciting RBTools. The highlights of 0.4.0 include: Most command line options can now be set automatically in .reviewboardrc files. This includes such things as the branch, Perforce configuration, --submit-as, and more. Added a -g...

Possible downtime as we move away from GoDaddy

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:39:46 -0800

As many of you are undoubtedly aware, there is a piece of legislation named SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) in the United States that is undergoing much criticism and debate. In its current form, it has the potential to do much damage to the Internet as we know it, and it has a long list of companies and open source projects that are against it. We are one of them. You may also be aware that...

New Review Board Security Releases: 1.5.7 and 1.6.3

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:09:45 -0800

It was brought to our attention today that Review Board 1.5.x and 1.6.x had a security vulnerability involving browser-side script injection in the diff viewer and screenshot pages. We take such things seriously, and are putting out a couple of releases to fix it. We strongly advise everyone to update, especially if you're running a public server. Review Board 1.5.7 and 1.6.3 have been...

Review Board 1.6.2 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:04:15 -0800

Review Board 1.6.2 is out. It's a bug fix release that takes care of several issues people have hit. In particular, it should have a proper Apache WSGI configuration for subdirectory installs out of the box, some SCM integration fixes, browser compatibility improvements, and various other things. We also have a couple bits of new API for those who want to automate review group creation, or...

RBTools 0.3.4 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:26:29 -0700

RBTools 0.3.4 is out. It features an authentication fix for users on RBCommons, fixes for --guess-summary with newlines on Git, solves diff uploading problems on Python 2.7, and adds a new --change-description parameter. Full release notes are available.

Review Board 1.6.1 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:06:25 -0700

Hot on the tails of 1.6, we have an important security update and bug fix release. 1.6.1 bumps our required Django version to 1.3.1, which contains a number of important security fixes. It also fixes the counters bug that many people have noticed in the dashboard, where the number of review requests is listed as 0 or a negative number. This was caused by an incorrect default value set when...

Fixing the Dashboard counters

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:59:51 -0700

Those who have upgraded to Review Board 1.6.0 have no doubt noticed some problems with a few of the counters on the side of the Dashboard. Several may be set to 0, or in the negatives. This is an annoying bug, and many have reported it to us. Don't worry, though, we were prepared for such things! You can reset your counters by typing: rb-site manage /path/to/site fixreviewcounts The...

Review Board 1.6 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:03:57 -0700

That's a wrap, people. Review Board 1.6 is done, and ready to be installed. 1.6 is a major release, which focuses on better review workflows, faster reviews, access control, generic file attachments, speed improvements, and much, much more. The entire list of features are covered in our release notes. Before upgrading, we recommend that you back up your database and your site directory, in...

Review Board 1.5.6 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:16:30 -0700

Review Board 1.5.6 is out the door, packed with some good fixes and a couple small feature additions. Many of these are fixes backported from the in-development 1.6 releases. Of note are fixes for caching large diffs/files, fixes for screenshot captions on drafts, performance improvements in syntax highlighting (if you haven't installed recently or upgraded Pygments), and support for Fedora...

RBTools 0.3.3 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:35:29 -0700

RBTools 0.3.3 is out the door, and it's a biggie. There's fixes and goodies for pretty much everybody. Git received a lot of fixes in this release, as did post-review itself. One of the biggest set of changes, though, that I'd like to call to attention is Jan Koprowski's wonderful work in rewriting our Clear Case support. He put in a lot of effort and fixed a number of problems with the old...

Where is Review Board 1.6?

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:30:09 -0700

Those paying close attention may have noticed we haven't released Review Board 1.6 yet. And you may have wondered what's holding the release up. Well, there are two main things. First, some of our users have hit problems upgrading to Review Board 1.6 RC2 from previous 1.6 betas. This seems to be limited to some subset of our users, and it's not clear whether it's a bug on our end or not, but I...

Review Board 1.6 RC2 released!

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:29:06 -0700

So.. close.. Review Board 1.6 RC2 is out the door and packed full of fixes, polish, and a few new features that snuck in. Yes, we may have done a bit more in this release than we anticipated, but it's turned out really well, and will make for a strong final 1.6. We've fixed a number of usability problems (losing changes when leaving the page or accidentally canceling), added some great new...

Review Board 1.6 RC1 released

chipx86@chipx86.com (chipx86) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:45:30 -0700

One step closer to the finale. Tonight we released Review Board 1.6 RC1, which is full of bug fixes and some fantastic new features. The highlights of this release are file attachments, private profiles, Private GitHub Organizations, and performance enhancements. Let's break a couple of those down. The file attachment support makes it possible to upload any type of file to a review request....