Review Bot 4.1

Review Bot 4.1 is out today, bringing updated compatibility for several popular tools, improved networking diagnostics, and a new e-mail notification option.

Updated Tools

Several tools have changed their output format in recent versions, causing parsing issues and garbled comments. Review Bot 4.1 restores correct behavior for:

• cargo clippy and cargo test (up to v1.94)
• cppcheck (up to v2.20)
• go test and go vet (up to v1.26)
• rubocop (up to v1.85)

New Notification Options

Tools can now be configured to only send the author of a review request the review feedback from the tool, rather than e-mailing all participants of the review request. This is especially useful for tools that may be particularly noisy, but you may want to turn it on for all tools when you have e-mails configured to send to a mailing list.

Plus...

• Fixes for installation issues in modern Python environments
• Enhanced logging in the Review Board extension to catch communication issues

See the Review Bot 4.1 release notes for full details and upgrade instructions.

Help Fund Review Bot and Review Board development

If you're using Review Board today, we'd like to see how we can work together. We offer:

• Full-service support contracts to help your IT department keep things running smoothly.
• Power Pack Document Review, Reports, new integrations, and more, with a free 30 day trial.

These help us continue to fund and grow Review Board development. Contact us to discuss how we can work together to help support Review Board at your company.

Review Bot 3.2

Review Bot 3.2 is a small release focusing on compatibility improvements, Secret Scanning enhancements, and improvements in automated reviews.

New in 3.2: Compatibility Improvements

Review Board 5 and 6 compatibility has improved. Some compatibility issues with recent releases of Review Board 5 have been smoothed over, including a crash when browsing the database entries for Review Bot tools.

We've also addressed issues processing results from Shellcheck and PMD.

Secret Scanning

Our support for Secret Scanning has been updated to look for the new enhanced API token format introduced in Review Board 5.

If you're reviewing infrastructure or tools that integrate with Review Board, this will help catch any API tokens you accidentally leave in a file.

Automated Review Improvements

Some tools had a tendency to leave comments spanning entire functions or classes, making it difficult to read some reviews.

Review Bot now caps all comments to 10 lines. When capped, the original line range will be listed in the comment.

That's it for this release!

For complete details on Review Bot 3.2, see the release notes.

To get started, download Review Bot and read the documentation to begin installing and configuring Review Bot.

We recommend our Docker images to help you get going quickly.

Development on Review Bot 4 will begin soon, with new automated code review tools planned. Stay tuned!