Fedora 16 Update: ReviewBoard-1.6.4.1-2.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2572
2012-02-28 09:13:59
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Name        : ReviewBoard
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.4.1
Release     : 2.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:

ReviewBoard:

- 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

- 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


python-djblets:

- New upstream release 0.6.16
- djblets.pipeline:
-     Replaced the djblets.compress module with djblets.pipeline.
- djblets.util:
-     Fixed Django 1.4 compatibility.
-     Fix parsing of tokens in a blocktag in Django 1.4
- djblets.datagrid:
-     Removed an extraneous </span> in the paginator
-     Fixed a compatibility issue with Django 1.4 in the queries
- djblets.webapi:
-     Add support for resource-specific mimetypes
-     Accept "true" as a valid boolean value in the web API

RBTools:

- New upstream release 0.4.0
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/rbtools/0.4/
- Features (post-review):
-   Defaults for many parameters can now be specified in .reviewboardrc
-   Added a --disable-proxy option for disabling the HTTP(S) proxy server
- Bugfixes (post-review):
-   Fixed authentication problems when accessing the API
-   Shows a nicer error when trying to update someone else's review request
-   Fixed crashes when the home directory wasn’t writable
-   Fixed using --diff-filename=- without a valid cookie
-   Fixed the link to the Repository Configurations documentation
- Bugfixes (Git):
-   Fixed problems when using --repository-url
- Bugfixes (Mercurial):
-   Make Mercurial handle the case where there are no outgoing changes
-   Improve merge support in order to generate better diffs
- Bugfixes (Perforce):
-   Using --revision-range on Perforce now provides better errors
-   Display an informative error if GNU diff isn’t installed
-   Fix handling of new files in post-commit scenarios

- New upstream release 0.4.1
- http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/releasenotes/dev/rbtools/0.4.1/
- Fixed Python 2.4 compatibility
- Fixed --diff-filename=- with --username and --password
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ChangeLog:

* 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 #797874 - ReviewBoard-1.6.4 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797874
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