Review Board 7.0.1 Release Notes¶

Release date: July 2, 2024

Installation/Upgrade¶

Review Board 7.0.1 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==7.0.1

To learn more, see:

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

Revamped the integration condition rules UI.

The UI for configuring integrations has been completely redone to provide a better overall experience. It looks cleaner and better handles different screen sizes. It’s also more accessible, allowing for keyboard navigation and communicating certain actions to screen readers (though further work is still required on accessibility).

This release contains an important compatibility fix for RBTools 5.

When using RBTools 5 to post changes to Git-based repositories using Review Board 7, it was possible to trigger a crash, due to a bad assumption made when scanning for compatible repositories.

If you’re using Review Board 7, we strongly recommend upgrading to Review Board 7.0.1.

Improved stability and recovery when the memcached server is down or misconfigured.
Fixed the font size in the navigation links at the top of the page.

Review Board 7.0 reduced the size of this font. It’s now been restored to the size it was before.

Fixed being able to confirm deletions of data in the database.

The Yes, I’m sure button, shown when confirming the deletion of data, did nothing when clicked. It once again confirms the deletions as expected.
Fixed being able to enable or disable extensions.

Fixed a crash that could occur when computing the nearest class/function information for interdiffs.

Fixed compatibility with changes made to Asana.

This has recently regressed, preventing people from linking review requests to related Asana tickets.

Fixed a small visual regression with the last My Account navigation item when selected.

The border radius of the selection indicator was too small. This had no effect on the usage of the page.
Fixed the size of the Save and Cancel buttons when editing API token information.

Fixed a regression with resizing and moving comments when reviewing documents (using Power Pack).

This had regressed in Review Board 7.0.
Fixed a regression with creating comments on top of existing ones when reviewing images and documents.

This had regressed in Review Board 7.0.
Fixed small inconsistencies when rendering a thumbnail for an image or document comment.

The positions and sizes of the comments could previously differ from when the comment was first made. They should now always be consistent in appearance.

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

Static media building for extensions no longer complains about a missing node_modules directory.

This was a regression in 7.0 due to a new extension static media builder.
RegionCommentBlockView() now exposes moveState and scale attributes for managing sizes and locations of comments.

This class is responsible for displaying a rectangular comment on an image, document, or similar. These new attributes allow a review UI to intercept and manage how comments are positioned, moved, resized, and scaled.

Root List Resource and Server Info Resource now contain a list of all supported SCMs.

capabilities.scmtools.supported_tools has been added to both payloads, containing a list of IDs of the SCMs that the Review Board server supports. This will include all built-in SCMs, along with those provided by extensions.
Repository Resource now accepts SCM IDs in the tool= argument, along with the legacy SCMTool names.
Fixed a bug in Repository Resource where passing an unsupported SCMTool name could result in a crash.