Review Board 7.0.3 Release Notes¶

Release date: December 17, 2024

Installation/Upgrade¶

Review Board 7.0.3 is compatible with Python 3.8 - 3.12.

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

To install this release, run:

$ pip3 install ReviewBoard==7.0.3

To learn more, see:

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

Django 4.2.17 (or a higher 4.2.x) is now required.

This is the latest security release for Django 4.2 LTS.

Greatly improved search indexing performance when ACL diff checks are provided by extensions.
Reduced the chances of Review Board needing to reload and re-apply all settings.

We’ve fixed and improved several mobile-related issues across the product in this release:

Review request banners and the comment dialog have an improved look on mobile.
Menus are no longer shown partially off-screen.
Touch events now work consistently for menu buttons, drop-downs, banners, and comment flags.
Review request actions are no longer cut off on small screen widths.
Diff comments on new or deleted files are no longer shown partially off-screen.
File alerts (such as “This file only contains whitespace changes”) in the diff viewer no longer disturb the rest of the diff.
File attachment comment thumbnails can now be scrolled when they’re too big to show on the screen.
The list of diff files in the change history are no longer shown partially off-screen.
The mobile menu correctly renders Extension-provided navigation entries.

Fixed wrapping issues when selecting users to add to groups, repositories, or Default Reviewers.

When there were long usernames or full names, the UI for selecting users could wrap in confusing ways. We’ve reworked the display of the widget to avoid this.
Removed some confusing debug logging around authentication attempts that incorrectly indicated a problem when logging in via the API.

Fixed breaking long lines containing tabs in Firefox.

Firefox has a non-standard way of breaking long strings of text, which doesn’t behave well with tabs. We’ve worked around this with Firefox, ensuring very long lines containing tabs render correctly.
Improved the display of large images in diffs.

Images too large to fit in the diff viewer will now be scaled down correctly, showing the zoom controls and scroll bar.
Added workarounds for parsing malformed diffs that lack both trailing newlines and the \ No newline at end of file marker.

These are generated on some buggy older versions of GNU Patch and by some third-party patch tools.
Fixed being able to scroll the list of existing comments on a line in the comment dialog.

Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to detect mimetypes for file attachments.

This could occur in very particular environments, depending on the version and implementation of Python and of the file command.
Fixed the URL for downloading file attachments when using the advanced Local Sites server partitioning feature.

Fixed a regression in attempting to migrate legacy repository backend support from old installs of Review Board.

This could impact configurations provided by custom extensions or by Power Pack, depending on the versions in use. Most users wouldn’t have hit this.
Fixed a crash when failing to decrypt stored repository credentials.

This could occur if the data was corrupted or the server’s SECRET_KEY was changed. Instead of crashing, we now log the error and invalidate the credentials, allowing an administrator to supply new ones.
Fixed the display of authentication errors on Subversion.

Fixed a regression where file attachment thumbnails in review request change history could disappear.

The data was not missing. It was simply not being shown correctly.
Fixed the appearance of the administrator-specific draft banner on dark mode.
Fixed visually selecting Markdown code in comments and other text.

This section covers important changes that may benefit or impact developers building extensions, clients, or integrations for Review Board.

Fixed authentication issues when creating new hosting service account entries using the Hosting Service Account List Resource API.

This API now correctly integrates with the hosting service implementation’s authentication process to perform any authentication required. It does require that the caller provides the necessary credentials to authenticate with that specific service.
Fixed a crash with performing a HTTP GET on the Watched List Resource.

Added FileAttachment.is_review_ui_accessible_by() for determining if a user can access a review UI.

This is important for showing the available actions for a user based on any policy changes that may be provided by extensions.
Added new administration UI template hook points for rendering custom HTML:
- admin-sidebar-administration: At the bottom of the built-in items in the “Administration” section of the sidebar.
- admin-sidebar-settings At the bottom of the built-in items in the “Settings” section of the sidebar.
- admin-sidebar-manage At the bottom of the built-in items in the “Manage” section of the sidebar.
Added new CSS Variables for representing colors:
- --rb-p-flag-draft-bg: Background color for a draft comment flag.
- --rb-p-flag-draft-hover-bg: Background hover color for a draft comment flag.
- --rb-p-flag-draft-fg: Foreground color for a draft comment flag.
- --rb-p-flag-draft-border-color: Border color for a draft comment flag.
- --rb-p-flag-published-bg: Background color for a published comment flag.
- --rb-p-flag-published-hover-bg: Background hover color for a published comment flag.
- --rb-p-flag-published-fg: Foreground color for a published comment flag.
- --rb-p-flag-published-border-color: Border color for a published comment flag.