Review Board 1.0 RC 3 Release Notes¶

rb-site.exe is now provided on Windows and installed in the Python path, making installation easier. (Bug #1110)

Added a loading indicator for the news display in the Administration Dashboard.

Automatically updates the stored path for media files when moving the site directory. Previously, this would break with no easy way to fix it, but now Review Board notices the move and updates the stored media directory properly.

Added support for parent diffs for Mercurial. Patch by Colin Caughie.

Fixed some major speed problems on large installs. One of the queries on the All Review Requests page could take an unusually long amount of time to finish when ran against a large number of review requests, which on some database setups could stall other queries, which would affect all users. These have been resolved. A side effect of this is that the Last Updated column in the dashboard may revert back to the “Last Updated” time on the review request after the upgrade to RC3, but this is a one-time issue and should be at worst an annoyance. (Bug #1144).

Reduced concurrency issues when saving multiple comments when the server is slow. This could lead to broken reviews, causing errors. We now queue up the saves so that we don’t attempt to save multiple comments at once.

Fixed issues where files with \r\r\n newlines would break the diff viewer. This can happen in some Perforce setups when dealing with a file checked out from one platform and modified on another. Patch by Raghu Kaippully. (Bug #1071)

Interdiffs containing two files with different revisions but the same content no longer displays an error. (Bug #1032)

Properly marked the Password field as a password field in the Add/Change Repository form in the Administration UI. Patch by Sharan Rao. (Bug #942)

The Ship It column now has the appropriate style on the All Review Requests page. (Bug #1115)

Reduce the chances of concurrency issues internally when saving the Comment and ScreenshotComment database models. (Bug #709)

Mercurial’s HTTP support would fail when the repository served up raw files using the /raw-file URL instead of /raw. Our Mercurial support now tries both paths before giving up. This provides compatibility with http://bitbucket.org.

The LDAP support no longer breaks when e-mail information isn’t provided by either the LDAP settings or the server. An error in this case is now logged to the Review Board log file. Patch by Paolo Borelli.

Improved the checks for the Git binary and for a valid repository in our Git support. Patch by Alexey Morozov.

A review request with a bug number no longer causes a 500 error when the bug tracker URL doesn’t have a %s in it. Patch by Paolo Borelli.

Fixed the link for deleting a screenshot when on the diff viewer page. It was pointing to the wrong path. (Bug #1147)