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Earlier this week, we released RBTools 0.7.8 with some great improvements to the macOS and Windows installers. Unfortunately, the macOS installer build was built in the wrong environment, leading to incorrect paths and a failing rbt.

The new 0.7.9 release contains a fix to the installer generation process to prevent this from happening again. We've rebuilt and carefully checked the new installer build, and it should be good to go.

If you tried upgrading to the 0.7.8 installer using macOS and had trouble, please give 0.7.9 a try. You can get it from the downloads page. If you installed on Linux or Windows, you don't need to worry about this release.

Note that you might also find a /Users/chipx86 directory on your filesystem from the bad installer. This is an artifact of the broken build. You can safely remove it.

See the release notes for more details.

We have a new RBTools release for you today, with some major improvements to the macOS/Windows installers and a few bug fixes and feature improvements.

Let's break it down.

A non-broken macOS installer

We fixed a problem that many of you have reported to us, where one of the dependencies (tqdm) could show up missing, breaking RBTools. We've fixed this and made sure it can't happen again.

We've also improved the installer for modern versions of macOS. For compatibility reasons, we install RBTools for both Python 2.6 and 2.7, and the way we installed it used to favor Python 2.6 for the actual rbt binary. Now, the preferred Python version for your system is now used, helping with various compatibility problems that have been reported.

A more modern Python on Windows

We've updated Python on our Windows RBTools installer. We now ship Python 2.7.13, which has a number of improvements over the older 2.7.6 release. If you've had issues with SSL certificate verification before, this should help address those problems.

A few other improvements

Such as:

• rbt setup-repo now sets the REPOSITORY_TYPE setting for your repository in .reviewboardrc, speeding up posting changes for review.
• rbt patch --print can now be run outside of a source tree.
• Some various crashes involving Unicode characters on the command line and in Team Foundation Server diffs.

For the complete list, see the release notes.

To upgrade RBTools, visit the downloads page.