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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-6061
2013-06-03 18:41:12
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Name : ReviewBoard
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 1.7.9
Release : 1.el6
URL :
http://www.review-board.org
Summary : Web-based code review tool
Description :
Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers
developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small
projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much
of the stress and time out of the code review process.
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Update Information:
- New upstream release 1.7.9
-
http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/reviewboard/1.7.9/
- API Changes:
* Added new blocks and depends_on fields to the Review Request resource
- Bug Fixes:
* Fixed the max_length of the new HostingServiceAccount.hosting_url field
* Fixed the documentation for the cgit configuration for Git
* Fixed the cgit URL for Fedora Hosted
- New upstream release 1.7.8.1
-
http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/reviewboard/1.7.8.1/
- Bug Fixes:
* Fixed a regression with saving repositories that don't use hosting
services
- Misc. Changes:
* Compatibility changes for the upcoming PDF review plugin
- New upstream release 1.7.8
-
http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/reviewboard/1.7.8/
- New Features:
* Added Depends On and Blocks fields to review requests
* Added an improved support page
* Added the ability to set where Get Support takes users
* Added improved logging for many operations
- Performance Improvements:
* Reduced the upload time for many new diffs
* The templates used for rendering the various pages are now cached after
the first render, speeding up the rendering for any future renders. We've
seen speedups of ~100-120ms for review request pages
- Usability Improvements:
* The review request actions are now larger, making them more visible and
easier to hit, particularly on touch screens
* Clicking Fixed, Drop or Re-open now keeps the page in the same scroll
position
* The dashboard now reloads dynamically, without reloading the entire page
* The comment dialog now tells you when you can't make a comment (due to
being logged out or reviewing something that's part of a draft
- API Changes
* Fixed deleting pending replies to comments
* Fixed some issues returning certain lists of data
- Extensibility Improvements:
* Extensions can now customize their metadata directly in the Extension
class
* TemplateHooks can now render their own content by overriding
render_to_string()
* NavigationBarHook can now take a url_name parameter specifying the URL
name to link to
* Review UIs can now specify the link and link text for any comments on a
review by overriding get_comment_link_url() and get_comment_link_text()
* Custom hosting services can now be registered/unregistered by extensions
by using register_hosting_service() and unregister_hosting_service()
(from reviewboard.hostingsvcs.service)
* Added the ability to more easily write hosting services support that
works for self-installable services
- Bug Fixes:
* Added missing repository validation for Mercurial repositories
* Fixed replying to comments on file attachments that have since been
removed
* Fixed the display of the upload dialogs when viewing a file attachment
* Comments on file attachments in e-mails now link to the correct review UI
handling the file
* Worked around rare issues where a reset of the Open An Issue default for
a user would cause pages to break
- Misc Changes:
* E-mails now show the user’s full name instead of just their first name
* The New Review Request page now mentions RBTools instead of just
post-review
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #970113 - ReviewBoard-1.7.8.1 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970113
[ 2 ] Bug #988324 - Missing dependency for ReviewBoard-1.7.11-1.el6.noarch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988324
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update ReviewBoard' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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