Fedora 16 Update: ReviewBoard-1.6.11-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11390
2012-08-01 22:10:01
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Name        : ReviewBoard
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.11
Release     : 1.fc16
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 1.6.11
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.10/
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.11/
- Drop upstreamed patch for disabling ez_setup
- New Features:
-     The "x minutes ago" timestamps now update live on the page
-     Added a RB_EXTRA_MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting for settings_local.py
- Performance Enhancements:
-     Greatly tuned our database queries, session handling, and other bits of
      logic, and this makes a noticeable impact on performance. All pages load
      faster, particularly review requests, diffs, and the dashboard
-     Reduced the number of queries for review requests with file attachments,
      comments referencing inactive screenshots and file attachments, the
      screenshot page, and review requests without a repository
-     Reduced the number of queries on review requests with file attachments
-     Reduced the number of queries when comments were referencing previously
      removed screenshots or file attachments
- API Changes:
-     The new Hosting Service Account resource payload key has been changed
      from hosting-service-account to hosting_service_account
- Bug Fixes:
-     Very large lines no longer slow Review Board to a crawl
-     All errors that occur when verifying a repository should now be shown,
      instead of causing an HTTP 500 error
-     Closing or reopening an issue no longer causes excessive checks for
      update notification bubbles
-     Fixed compatibility issues with newer versions of Mercurial with version
      numbers containing a + in them
-     Mercurial no longer forces an HTTP URL for downloading files from a
      repository when an HTTPS URL is specified
-     Mercurial support on Google Code now works properly
-     Fixed files in CVS that had v as the last character in the filename
-     Fixed the order of displayed replies on a review
-     SSH-backed repositories no longer break on some setups
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 31 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.11-1
- New upstream release 1.6.11
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.10/
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.11/
- Drop upstreamed patch for disabling ez_setup
- New Features:
-     The "x minutes ago" timestamps now update live on the page
-     Added a RB_EXTRA_MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting for settings_local.py
- Performance Enhancements:
-     Greatly tuned our database queries, session handling, and other bits of
      logic, and this makes a noticeable impact on performance. All pages load
      faster, particularly review requests, diffs, and the dashboard
-     Reduced the number of queries for review requests with file attachments,
      comments referencing inactive screenshots and file attachments, the
      screenshot page, and review requests without a repository
-     Reduced the number of queries on review requests with file attachments
-     Reduced the number of queries when comments were referencing previously
      removed screenshots or file attachments
- API Changes:
-     The new Hosting Service Account resource payload key has been changed
      from hosting-service-account to hosting_service_account
- Bug Fixes:
-     Very large lines no longer slow Review Board to a crawl
-     All errors that occur when verifying a repository should now be shown,
      instead of causing an HTTP 500 error
-     Closing or reopening an issue no longer causes excessive checks for
      update notification bubbles
-     Fixed compatibility issues with newer versions of Mercurial with version
      numbers containing a + in them
-     Mercurial no longer forces an HTTP URL for downloading files from a
      repository when an HTTPS URL is specified
-     Mercurial support on Google Code now works properly
-     Fixed files in CVS that had v as the last character in the filename
-     Fixed the order of displayed replies on a review
-     SSH-backed repositories no longer break on some setups
* Wed Jul 18 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.9-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jun 12 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.9-1
- New upstream release 1.6.9
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.9/
- New Features:
-    When using a GitHub repository and there's only 100 API calls or less
     available on GitHub for the hour, a warning with the number of API calls
     left is logged
- Bug Fixes:
-    Fixed typing in entry fields in the diff viewer
-    Fixed some issues with private repositories on GitHub
-    Fixed creating review requests that aren't tied to repositories
* Mon Jun 11 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.8-1
- New upstream release 1.6.8
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.8/
- Bug Fixes:
-    The Account field for a hosting service for a repository now properly
     loads the existing account when re-editing a repository or when showing
     validation errors
-    Fixed problems when using the "Use hosting service's bug tracker" setting
-    Fixed a file fetching error with GitHub when using the New Review Request
     form
-    Improved the help text of some of the hosting service fields
-    Fixed improper text in the File Not Found error when using GitHub
* Fri Jun  8 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.7.1-2
- New upstream release 1.6.7.1
- Fixed a database migration compatibility issue with certain versions of MySQL
* Tue Jun  5 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.7-1
- New upstream release 1.6.7
- Important Updates:
-     support the new method for authentication that we need in order to fetch
      data from GitHub
- New Features:
-     Introduced a new model for hosting service integration
-     Made the maximum diff size customizable
-     Added Plastic SCM 4.0 compatibility
- Web API Changes:
-     Added a /api/hosting-service-accounts/ resource for querying existing
      hosting service accounts and for linking new ones
- Bug Fixes:
-     Review Board no longer continues to show the Manual Updates page if the
      problem is resolved
-     Subversion now understands the $Header$ keyword
-     Setting the issue status on deleted screenshots no longer fails
* Wed Apr 25 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.6-2
- Fix conflict with Django 1.4
- Guarantee rebuild of .egg-info
* Wed Apr 25 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.6-1
- New upstream release 1.6.6
- New Features:
-     Added a button for fetching GitHub API tokens
-     Improved update bubbles
-     Diffs larger than 1MB can no longer be uploaded
-     Added a RB_EXTRA_APPS setting for settings.py
- Web API Changes:
-     Fixed the links in the FileDiff resource
-     Added an error for diff uploading (code 219) when the diff is empty
-     Added an error for diff uploading (code 220) when the diff is over 1MB
      in size
* Fri Mar 30 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.5-2
- Always pull in mod_wsgi
- Pull in the tools for working with repositories
* Fri Mar 30 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.5-1
- New upstream release 1.6.5
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.5/
- Important Updates
-   ReviewBoard is not compatible with Django 1.4. I have specifically added
    a conflict to the RPM to ensure that an appropriate version of Django is
    installed
- Web API Changes
-   Fixed a breakage when querying for diff comments as an anonymous user
- Bug Fixes
-   Support parsing Git diffs with moved file information
-   Fixed rendering issues on Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10
-   The source tarball now contains the documentation database, needed to
    generate docs
* Tue Feb 28 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.4.1-2
- New upstream minor release 1.6.4.1
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.4.1/
- Bug Fixes
-   Fixed a crash with the Review ID column in the Dashboard when sorting by
    ID
-   Fixed validation of the cache backend when saving settings
-   Increased the buffer size for memcached stats in order to accomodate
    larger amounts of data
* Mon Feb 27 2012 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.4-1
- New upstream release 1.6.4
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.4/
- New Features
-   Added support for Codebase HQ as a hosting service
-   Toggles for issue tracking now appear in the review dialog
-   Added database dump/load management commands for rb-site
-   Objective-C++ '.mm' files now show function/class headers in the diff
    viewer, just like '.m' files
- Web API Changes
-   The web API now identifies resource payloads by resource-specific
    mimetypes. These are JSON and XML-compatible, but contain specific
    information that can be used by a consumer to identify the resource
    without inspecting the path
-   API requests that take a boolean parameter now accept true as a valid
    value
- Bug Fixes
-   Fix problems with Git when changes are made to previously empty files
-   Fix Basic HTTP auth issues when accessing remote Git or Mercurial
    repositories
-   Fix SPF compliance for e-mails
-   Fixed potential KeyErrors when creating a repository without a path
-   Prevent HTTP 500 errors if we receive badly encoded text during repository
    validation
-   Added validation for the cache backend setting
-   Fixed global default reviewers on Local Sites
-   Fixed encoding errors in the user infobox for users with unicode names
-   Made the “Expand All” icon work in the review request page
-   Fixed the help text for Git paths in the administration UI
-   Improved the help text for the LDAP user mask field
-   Show the correct review request ID in the "Review ID" column for Local
    Sites
-   The "Posted" date now shows up in the review request
-   Duplicate CC headers on e-mails have been removed
-   Fixed links to screenshots in e-mails
-   Fixed a potential crash when using LDAP without fullName set
* Thu Jan 12 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.3-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.3-1
- New upstream security release 1.6.3
- Security Fixes:
    A script injection vulnerability was discovered in the commenting system.
    This affected the diff viewer and screenshot pages, and allowed a
    commenter to break the page and execute JavaScript
* Thu Nov 10 2011 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1.6.2-1
- New upstream release
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/reviewboard/1.6.2/
- New Features:
-     Staff members can now access all Local Sites
-     Auto-generated e-mails are now marked as "auto-generated" to avoid auto
      replies
- API Changes:
-     Added API for deleting review groups
-     Allow for archiving repositories
- Bug Fixes:
-     Fixed the default Apache WSGI configuration for subdirectory installs
-     Added explicit permisisions in the default Apache configurations
-     The favicon for the page is now properly switching to the "New Updates"
      favicon on all browsers when there are review request updates
-     Specifying bug numbers on review requests without a repository no longer
      fails
-     Fixed saving captions for newly added screenshots and files
-     Fixed using special characters in SVN URLs
-     Fixed Bazaar when pointing to a repository root that exists on the local
      filesystem
-     Clicking Cancel on an "Add comment" box now fully removes the box,
      instead of leaving a bit of it behind
-     Fixed dashboard counters for brand new review requests on Local Sites
-     Group names in the dashboard are now ordered by name in the sidebar
-     Fixed a hard-coded media URL for the "Expand All" button
-     Fixed a problem with IE8 where the "Publish" button on comment dialogs
      weren’t being shown
-     Fixed API authentication failures when : was in the password
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #842171 - ReviewBoard-1.6.10 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842171
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