Add release notes for Review Board 2.5.7.

Review Request #8362 — Created Aug. 29, 2016 and submitted

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Review Board
release-2.5.x
67de132...

Reviewers

This covers all the improvements made since 2.5.6.1. Some of the
highlights include:

* New user selector
* E-mail improvements
* Settings access controls for staff members
* Fixes for custom fields and rich text
* Fixes for WebHooks
* Fixes for Local Sites
* Fixes CVS, Bitbucket, and GitLab

Built the docs. Sphinx didn't complain about any references, syntax,
or links.

Manually checked the links and references.

Ran spell check.

Description From Last Updated

I want to get https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/8458/ in there

brenniebrennie

Should be "there are" rather than "there's". You can also get rid of "in it"

daviddavid

typo: "reodering"

daviddavid

Drop "an".

gmyersgmyers

This still reads weird due to "in it", which I think is being hidden by the line break. Read these …

daviddavid
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    Should be "there are" rather than "there's". You can also get rid of "in it"

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    typo: "reodering"

    1. I like mine better. :D

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    This still reads weird due to "in it", which I think is being hidden by the line break. Read these aloud and compare:

    Attempting to close the comment dialog while there are unsaved changes in it now prompts for confirmation.

    to:

    Attempting to close the comment dialog while there are unsaved changes now prompts for confirmation.

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    "deleted in one revision, then deleted" is confusing to me.  Do you mean "added in one revision..."?
    1. Yeah, that was confusing. I've updated this to hopefully better describe the scenario. (It's a confusing and tricky corner case we hit.)

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    Drop "an".
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    I suspect "Patch..." should be spaced over to maintain alignment.
    1. Yep, fixed locally but I didn't update. Thanks!

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  1. Can we sneak the

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    I want to get https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/8458/ in there

    1. And https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/8457/

    2. These have landed, so once theyre in the docs LGTM!

    3. This won't be the final version of the release notes. There will be another update before release. Probably later tonight/tomorrow.

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Change Summary:
Pushed to release-2.5.x (0fc4600)