Review Board 7.0.5 Release Notes¶

Release date: March 19, 2026

Installation/Upgrade¶

Review Board 7.0.5 is compatible with Python 3.8 - 3.13.

Follow our installation guide to prepare your system for Review Board or to upgrade your existing install.

To upgrade to this release in an existing Review Board environment, run:

$ rb-site manage /path/to/sitedir pip install ReviewBoard==7.0.5
$ rb-site upgrade /path/to/sitedir

To learn more, see:

For assistance with your server, talk to us about support.

The following Linux distributions are now supported by the Review Board Installer.

Several installation issues with modern Python environments have also been addressed.

Django 4.2.29 (or a higher 4.2.x) is now required.

This is the latest security release for Django 4.2 LTS.
cryptography 46.0.5 and pyOpenSSL 26.0.0 are now required.

These are the latest security releases for the cryptography package.
django-haystack 3.3.0 is now required.

This package update brings fixes for full-text search, and removes a dependency on the now obsolete pkg_resources, which has been causing breakages while installing Review Board 7.0.4.
markdown 3.7.0 or newer and pymdown-extensions 10.15.0 or newer are now required.

These packages include numerous fixes to markdown processing.
Pygments 2.19.2 is now required.

This includes numerous fixes and improvements to syntax highlighting.

Fixed adding comments to file attachments which do not have a specialized review UI for display.
Fixed the user privacy preferences form to disallow redirecting to arbitrary URLs after saving.

This form contained an open redirect, possibly allowing a maliciously-crafted link to redirect users in a confusing way.
Fixed display of Markdown headers in dark mode.

Markdown headers (such as a line starting with #) would always render in black, making them nearly impossible to read when Review Board was running in dark mode. This has been fixed to properly use the theme.
Fixed the “last page” link in search results (Bug #4820)

Depending on the exact number of search results, clicking “last page” would often navigate to the second-to-last page instead. This has been fixed.

Patch by Daniel Casares-Iglesias.

Fixed rb-site install to fail immediately if the installed environment cannot load properly.

The install command would previously allow proceeding through several steps and then fail with confusing errors if the Python environment with all of Review Board’s dependencies could not be loaded. This has been fixed to fail early instead.

Fixed the descriptions for the url and absolute_url fields in the Review Group Resource.

The documentation for these was incorrectly copied from a different API endpoint.