Review Board 6.0 Beta 2 Release Notes¶

Installation/Upgrade¶

Review Board 6.0 Beta 2 is compatible with Python 3.7 - 3.11.

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

To install this release, run:

$ pip3 install \
    -f https://downloads.reviewboard.org/betas/reviewboard/6.0-beta-2/ \
    --pre -U ReviewBoard

To learn more, see:

• Documentation

• Installing Review Board on Docker

• Power Pack for Review Board

• Review Board on PyPI

• Review Board on GitHub

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

Upgrade Notes¶

• This release contains database schema changes to the following tables:

  • attachments_fileattachment

  This will take a small amount of time to migrate the database. Please test the upgrade on a copy of your database first, to ensure the upgrade is smooth and to time how long the upgrade takes.

  Important

  Do not cancel the upgrade on a production system for any reason. Doing so will corrupt your database, requiring a backup or our repair service.

Packaging¶

• Review Board 6.0 beta 2 supports Python 3.7 - 3.11.

  Due to Python’s end of life schedule, it’s likely that 6.0 final will be 3.8 - 3.11.

• Djblets 4.0 beta 2 is required.

New Features¶

• Review your own draft data (Bug #831).

  Until now, Review Board has not allowed you to create comments on unpublished diffs or file attachments, because updating that data would end up deleting comments from the reviews.

  This has now been changed so you can add review comments for drafts before those drafts are published. The resulting review request and review can then be published together using the unified review banner.

• Extensions can hide built-in actions.

  The new HideActionHook allows extension authors to hide built-in actions (such as “Ship It!”). With this, you can either disable built-in functionality entirely, or replace it with your own custom implementations.

• Docking file list in the diff viewer (Bug #2605, Bug #4059)

  As you start to scroll the page in the diff viewer, the file list will dock into the unified review banner. The list will by default show the files which are visible on the page, and will react as you continue to scroll. You can also click a button to momentarily open up the entire file list, letting you quickly switch between files without having to scroll back up to the top of the page.

• More configuration options for SAML 2.0 SSO.

  Some SAML identity providers don’t provide as much configurability as others. Review Board admins can now configure the NameID format and user attribute names to match their IdP.

  Patches by Anes Mukhametov.

Performance Improvements¶

• Improved HTTP caching behavior for API resources.

  HTTP caching for API resources was, in many cases, entirely disabled. These limitations have been removed, and repeated fetching of API endpoints can now take much better advantage of caching.

Extensions and Internal API Changes¶

• The new HideActionHook allows extension authors to hide the built-in actions (such as Ship It! or Close).

  This can be used to either disable the functionality entirely, or replace it with your own action implementations.

• The new FileAttachmentThumbnailContainerHook JavaScript extension hook allows extension authors to add new items to the menu attached to file attachments or otherwise manipulate the thumbnail.

• Most code which had been marked for deprecation in previous versions has been removed.

  All of these items had previously generated deprecation warnings.

• More of the JavaScript codebase has been ported to ES6 classes with Spina.

  The Spina library now allows these classes to be extended via the old Backbone.js extend() method, so this transition should now be seamless for extension authors who are inheriting from Review Board JS objects.

• rbext test can now use pytest as the test runner with the --pytest argument. This behavior will become the default in Review Board 7.

Bug Fixes¶

Contributors¶

• Anes Mukhametov

• Christian Hammond

• David Trowbridge

• Michelle Aubin

• Sandy Saji