Summary

Add release notes for Review Board 8.

Review Request #15075 — Created May 24, 2026 and updated May 25, 2026, 10:05 p.m.

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chipx86

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Review Board

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release-8.x

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Description

Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band
add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy
self-managed single license and set of subscription plans.

It also contains a number of new features such as:

Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice.
User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building
automation.
Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text
fields.
Quick Access actions for the Review Banner.
A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm.
Integration with Forgejo.
Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management.
CIDR subnets for health checks.
Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.

Testing Done

Built the docs. Checked for obvious errors and bad links.

Commits

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Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	0168974e12391056879aa9bfce6dc9d9a42a1853

Summary

Add release notes for Review Board 8.

Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.

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Issues

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And it's compatible with Python 3.13.	maubin	May 25, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
3.12 -> 3.13	david	May 25, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
We should probably say "plans" instead of "flavors" here to match our naming elsewhere.	david	May 25, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Typo: additonal -> additional	david	May 25, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
This should probably be "Next-business-day response"	david	May 25, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
I know this is in a section about support, but when I initially see "Video chat support" in release notes …	david	May 25, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
Can we skip the second sentence here? It makes these release notes feel too sales-ey in a scummy way.	david	May 25, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
Probably reads a little better as "User roles are part of..."	david	May 25, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
I know it's very last minute but can we change the label for this? Right now it doesn't indicate at …	david	May 25, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Ship-It -> Ship It	david	May 25, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
Kind of repetitive here: ... store and use self-signed SSL certificates stored ...	david	May 25, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
Typo: instrucitons -> instructions	david	May 25, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
Typo: presentatino	maubin	May 25, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Typo: presentatino -> presentation	david	May 25, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
Instead of "... can't manually run ..." can we say "... does not have permission to run ...".	maubin	May 25, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Typo: manaully -> manually	david	May 25, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
The field name should be sha256_checksum	david	May 25, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
Do we have a docs page about custom banners that we can link to here?	maubin	May 25, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Can we link to the getrb page from here in a prominent way?	david	May 25, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
We should probably also list PDF in here in some way, even though that's not new.	david	May 25, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
You got rid of the djblets4.x line, which will break 6.0.x relnotes. Mind updating the rest of these to use …	david	May 25, 2026, 7:29 p.m.

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And it's compatible with Python 3.13.
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Typo: presentatino
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Instead of "... can't manually run ..." can we say "... does not have permission to run ...".

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Do we have a docs page about custom banners that we can link to here?

chipx86

May 25, 2026, 3:30 p.m.

Work-in-progress. I didn't want it holding this one up though.

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3.12 -> 3.13
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We should probably say "plans" instead of "flavors" here to match our naming elsewhere.

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Typo: additonal -> additional
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This should probably be "Next-business-day response"
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I know this is in a section about support, but when I initially see "Video chat support" in release notes I might think that Review Board supports video chat. Can we say "video and telephone-based support calls (by appointment)"?

docs/releasenotes/8.0.rst (Diff revision 1)

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Can we skip the second sentence here? It makes these release notes feel too sales-ey in a scummy way.

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Probably reads a little better as "User roles are part of..."
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I know it's very last minute but can we change the label for this? Right now it doesn't indicate at all that dictation/AI/etc is affected at all by this setting.

chipx86

May 25, 2026, 3:30 p.m.

Yeah I was thinking the same. Do you want to work on that change? I'll leave this in for now but we can update it all together.

david

May 25, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
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Ship-It -> Ship It
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Kind of repetitive here: ... store and use self-signed SSL certificates stored ...

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Typo: instrucitons -> instructions
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Typo: presentatino -> presentation
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Typo: manaully -> manually
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The field name should be sha256_checksum
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Change Summary:


Fixed the Python version compatibility range.
Improved wording throughout.
Removed a price comparison.
Fixed several typos.

Commits:

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	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	5f7d8e6a824e7a04400468553e3bf2c021198c47
	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	012b3c4aee4468db7316b008d6f8505b0c31d214

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Can we link to the getrb page from here in a prominent way?
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We should probably also list PDF in here in some way, even though that's not new.

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You got rid of the djblets4.x line, which will break 6.0.x relnotes.

Mind updating the rest of these to use the f-string format you used for powerpack too?

chipx86

May 25, 2026, 7:47 p.m.

I'll update the rest separately. Too easy for these changes to grow in scope.

Change Summary:


Added an entry for GitLab CI.
Added a link to the Get RB page in the introduction to the New Subscription Plans section.
Added a mention of PDF document review.
Added back the djblets4.x intersphinx name (oops, not sure what happened there).
Fixed a header length.

Commits:

	Summary	ID
	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	012b3c4aee4468db7316b008d6f8505b0c31d214
	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	e63617eac8f971b53769f13dd8c196c40ff4a734

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Change Summary:


Updated the section on the writing assistance for the new setting name and descriptions.
Sorted Forgejo before GitLab CI.

Commits:

	Summary	ID
	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	e63617eac8f971b53769f13dd8c196c40ff4a734
	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	214513658ed7f7495dbf1c7d72f8405211bda9d7

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Change Summary:

Removed a merge marker that I failed to delete.

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	Summary	ID
	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	214513658ed7f7495dbf1c7d72f8405211bda9d7
	Add release notes for Review Board 8. Review Board 8 is an important release that brings our out-of-band add-on options, like support contracts and Power Pack, into an easy self-managed single license and set of subscription plans. It also contains a number of new features such as: * Document Review for MS Office, Google Docs, LibreOffice. * User Roles and badges for identifying roles in a company and building automation. * Writing assistance (spell checking, dictation, AI rewriting) in text fields. * Quick Access actions for the Review Banner. * A new and improved interdiff filtering algorithm. * Integration with Forgejo. * Centralized SSL/TLS certificate storage and management. * CIDR subnets for health checks. * Several new pieces of extension infrastructure.	0168974e12391056879aa9bfce6dc9d9a42a1853

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