RBTools 1.0.3 Release Notes¶

Release date: April 14, 2020

Installers¶

Updated the Windows installer to bundle Python 2.7.17, the latest 2.7.x release.

While Python 2.7.x has reached end-of-life, there are environments out there using the Windows installer that depend on Python 2.7 for RBTools. We plan to update to Python 3 for RBTools 2.0. In the meantime, if you want to use Python 3, you can install RBTools via pip.

Added support for landing Mercurial commits using rbt land.

rbt land can now land changes from a local branch or bookmark, or from a review request, into a destination branch/bookmark in Mercurial. Any commit histories are preserved, and the local branch can be automatically closed (if using rbt land --delete-branch).
Improved the commit message editing experience when patching or landing changes.

Editing a commit during patching (rbt patch -c) or landing (rbt land -e) used to be a sub-par experience. We’ve completely revamped it to better fit the workflows you’re already used to.

On Git and Mercurial, we now specify a standardized filename when editing the commit message that should turn on syntax highlighting and line wrapping in most editors, giving people a more familiar experience.

Deleting all the text in the editor will cancel out any patching/landing operation.

The default editor to use could previously be set through the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. We now also support RBTOOLS_EDITOR, which will take precedence, and can be used to choose an editor specific to RBTools (or to in some way wrap and influence the editing experience).

Fixed specifying --help as the last argument on Python 3.

On Python 2, it was possible to run either rbt --help <command> or rbt <command> --help to get a command’s help. On Python 3, only the former worked. We now once again support either form on Python 2 and 3.

Patch by Katherine Patenio.
Fixed encoding issues with environment variables when running some third-party command line tools on Windows. (Bug #4818)
Fixed encoding issues when invoking an editor for commit messages on Python 3.
Fixed encoding issues with deserializing error messages from the Review Board API on Python 3.

Patch by Beth Rennie.

Fixed looking up available Git remotes for a branch when the branch was not set up as a tracking branch.

Patch by Joshua Olson.

Fixed Python 3 compatibility issues when running Mercurial.

This impacted reading commit messages when posting changes for review.

Fixed Python 3 compatibility issues when loading data provided by a Perforce command. (Bug #4819)