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    RBTools 1.0 is here!
    June 28, 2018

    RBTools has been an important part of the life of Review Board users for many years. While it started off as a single tool for posting review requests, its feature set has evolved with time, turning into an extensible set of tools and APIs for talking to Review Board.

    Today, we're finally pulling RBTools out of the 0.x era with the release of RBTools 1.0.

    Compatible with Python 3

    Both the RBTools commands and the Python API now support Python 2.7 and 3.5+.

    (Please let us know if you hit any issues on Python 3, as this is still pretty new.)

    Better Repository Detection and Git Support

    RBTools now does a better job determining which repository it's working with, in case there's confusion. For example, a Mercurial repository nested in a Git-managed home directory will no longer cause problems.

    Git repositories in particular are now easier to work with. When generating a diff, RBTools now looks for the nearest upstream parent commit or branch, instead of requiring that users or repositories configure a specific tracking branch.

    Publish Automated Reviews

    Writing your own automated review solutions for Review Board 3.0 or RBCommons just became easier through the new rbt status-update command. Your scripts can use it to file a pending status update on a review request (showing that checks are being performed) and then update it to say that all is well or to report issues that need to be fixed.

    This is useful for in-house continuous integration setups where you're analyzing code for errors, style issues, documentation, or any other requirements you might have.

    Easily Land Complex Dependent Changes

    rbt land can now land multiple review requests tied together using the Depends On field.

    This works with -r to take the ID of the review request you want to land. It will figure out which review requests must land before it and in which order. For example, if review request 3 depends on 2, which depends on 1, you can run:

    $ rbt land --recursive -r 3
    

    Instead of:

    $ rbt land -r 1
    $ rbt land -r 2
    $ rbt land -r 3
    

    This is a precursor to the new DVCS support coming soon in Review Board 4.0.

    And That's Not All

    • rbt setup-completion was added to enable auto-completion of RBTools commands and arguments in Bash and ZSH shells.

    • rbt alias was added to help you list and test out your custom aliases.

    • rbt post --submit-as can now automate posting review request updates, and not just new review requests, on a user's behalf.

    • rbt post -m and rbt publish -m let you specify a custom description of your draft's changes when publishing (equivalent to filling out the "Describe your changes" box when publishing in the browser).

    • rbt post --trivial-publish and rbt publish --trivial let you publish trivial updates to a review request without sending out e-mails to everyone (when using Review Board 3.0 or RBCommons).

    • rbt status now lists the review state and local branch for each review request you have up for review.

    • Warnings and errors in command output is now specially highlighted to help it stand out.

    • Several fixes and improvements for Git and Subversion compatibility.

    • The API has been improved, supporting extra_data fields and easier pagination of resources.

    And plenty of other fixes and improvements. See the release notes for the full list of changes in 1.0.

    Download It Today!

    RBTools is out today for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Head on over to the downloads page for installation instructions.

    Review Board 3.0.7: Privacy Enhancements and Bug Fixes
    June 5, 2018

    Privacy has been a big topic in the tech world over the past few months, with the news surrounding Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, the deadline for the GDPR, and all those Privacy Policy e-mails we've all be getting/sending out. We've written about this recently.

    Today's release of Review Board 3.0.7 is focused on enhancing privacy options and protection in Review Board, improving defaults and adding optional GDPR-compliant privacy settings for servers. There's also the usual assortment of bug fixes.

    Better Private Profiles

    7 years ago, we introduced Private Profiles in Review Board. When enabled by a user, their full name and e-mail address would be hidden in the API when accessed by other users. In this release, we've expanded the protections of Private Profiles:

    • Enabling Private Profiles now hides full names and e-mail addresses throughout the UI and API
    • Private Profile behavior is always on when viewed by anonymous users (keeping information from public servers off of search engines)

    Users can enable Private Profiles through the My Account -> Profile page.

    User Consent and Privacy Rights

    Consent Options

    Some features making use of personal information now require consent before that information can be used. This is managed in the My Account -> My Privacy Rights page, and decisions on consent can be changed at any point. If configured, users will also be prompted for acceptance of a Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions on this same page.

    By default, Review Board only requests consent for Gravatars, but extensions can register their own features requiring consent. We'll be providing guides on incorporating this soon.

    Review Board administrators can enable this support for consent, acceptance of Privacy Policies and Terms of Services through the new...

    GDPR-Compliant Privacy Settings

    Privacy Admin Settings

    These new privacy settings can be changed in Admin UI -> User Privacy Settings:

    • Terms of service URL and Privacy policy URL can be set to the URLs of the server's respective URLs.

      When either of these are set, users will be prompted to view and approve the terms before they can use the server next, or when registering a new account.

    • Privacy information is a text field for providing privacy details specific to your server or organization.

      This will be shown to users in the My Account page or when prompted for terms or consent. It accepts HTML, letting you provide links to important information in your network.

    • Require consent for usage of personal information enables GDPR-compliant consent checks for features.

      Which enables the new consent management seen above.

    Bug Fixes Aplenty For

    • A handful of crashes when bad data is fed into the URLs for the dashboard and internal diff viewer URLs (usually caused by search bots)
    • Some more crashes when avatars aren't available when configuring users in review groups
    • Regressions when configuring bug trackers
    • Communication problems with newer versions of Gerrit
    • Bad error messages when failing to find files on local Git repositories

    See the release notes for the complete list of changes.

    Keep up with the latest Review Board releases, security updates, and helpful information.

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