Upgrading Review Bot¶

Upgrade the Extension¶

To start, upgrade the extension on the Review Board server:

$ sudo pip install -U reviewbot-extension

Depending on your configuration, you may need to restart or reload your web server. The specific command depends on your individual setup, but is usually something like the following:

$ sudo service httpd reload

Open the Review Board administration page and click Extensions. You should see the new version of Review Bot installed.

Upgrade the Workers¶

You can now upgrade each worker.

If you have a manual installation, run:

$ sudo pip install -U reviewbot-worker

(If you’re installing in a virtual environment, don’t use sudo.)

Then follow the Upgrading Review Bot Configuration for any configuration changes you may need to make.

If you’re using our official Docker images, you can just switch to a newer tag and restart your containers.

Deprecated Settings¶

The following configuration settings have been deprecated:

• checkstyle_path

  The .jar file should now be specified as an item in a list in java_classpaths, keyed off by checkstyle. For example:

  java_classpaths = {
      'checkstyle': [
          '/opt/checkstyle/checkstyle-X.Y.jar',
      ],
  }
  

• pmd_path

  This should now be specified as pmd in exe_paths. For example:

  exe_paths = {
      'pmd': '/opt/pmd/bin/pmd',
  }
  

• review_board_servers

  This has been renamed to reviewboard_servers.

Deprecated settings will continue to work until Review Bot 4.0.

Cookie Settings¶

In prior releases, Review Board session cookies were stored in the current directory where Review Bot was run from. They’re now stored in a dedicated cache directory for the user Review Bot is running as.

This path can be configured through the cookie_dir setting.

See Cookie Storage for details.