Review Board 1.7.3 Release Notes¶

Release date: January 28, 2013

New Features¶

Add optional support for sending e-mails when closing review requests. This is off by default, but can be turned on in E-mail Settings. Patch by Raja Venkataraman. (Bug #422)

The new support for Perforce moved files has changed. RBTools 0.4.3 will now require Review Board 1.7.3 at a minimum.
Review Board now works with SVN diffs generated in many non-C locales. Patch by Tetsuya Morimoto.

Added a scmtools.perforce.moved_files capability to indicate moved file support for Perforce.

SMTP servers saved with additional whitespace will now have that whitespace stripped, in order to prevent lookup failures. (Bug #2620)

Patch by Surya Nallu.
Fixed a crash when running a search index. (Bug #2872)
The listed creation time for a review request now reflects when it was first published, not when the initial draft was first created.
The “Add Comment” button on file attachment thumbnails is no longer shown if not logged in. Patch by Niklas Hambuechen.
Fixed a bug allowing for publishing blank review requests after filling in the field and then deleting them. Patch by Miguel Flores. (Bug #2870)
Fixed an occasional crash when viewing a diff when displaying a function or class header on the left-hand side but when there was none on the right-hand side. (Bug #2876)
Fixed a breakage on some systems when checking the Mercurial version.
The Summary field no longer overlaps text when wrapping. Patch by Greg Wang.
Fixed the review ID column when using Local Sites.
Using a custom SITE_ROOT with a development server setup no longer breaks all static media.
Fixed the capitalization of the “VersionOne” bug tracker entry.
Using ClearCase on Windows 7 should no longer cause console windows to pop up. Patch by Tao Zhou.
Fixed loading blank comments in the diff viewer. This is primarily a problem during development.