Collaborator Release Notifications

Welcome to Collaborator v10.1!

Collaborator 10.1 is the latest release from SmartBear Software’s dev collaboration team.  This new version introduces a lot of fantastic new features!   

 

Bitbucket Support

This release introduces support for Atlassian’s Bitbucket hosted/SaaS offering.  Users can now create Collaborator code reviews when a pull request is initiated in Bitbucket.  The integration is driven through a webhooks and easily allows Collaborator to be the peer review tool for teams using Bitbucket as their repository management solution.  Just like the GitHub integration, pull requests can be automatically merged when the review completes, and feature branches deleted if you choose.

Bitbucket Integration Details

 

GitHub

We continue to improve our GitHub integration for teams that need more than a basic conversation model for reviews.  In Collaborator 10.1, pull requests can automatically be merged when a review completes.  In addition to this capability, features branches can also be deleted automatically.  Finally, checkins can be gated to ensure that reviews are actually taking place.

GitHub Integration Details

 

Group Administration

In this release a new level of administration has been added to Collaborator.  The Group Administration capabilities provide the following:

• Group Admins can now be granted granular access to modify individual sections of the admin area.
• Templates can be assigned to groups, which ensures that only certain templates can be selected by users for used within a review. Additionally, a default template can be configured for any given group

Group Administration Details

 

Savings Report

Our savings report allows you to determine how much money is being saved from performing reviews.  It calculates costs based on time savings as well as defect related savings.  To access this report navigate to Admin > Savings Report.

Savings Report Details

 

RTC Improvements

1. Ability to select which history version is used as the before diff. This is an improvement over the previous N-1 version that was selected by default.
2. Backported 10.x features to 9303 version of Collaborator. This allows support of for RTC Eclipse client versions 4, 5, and 6.

RTC Integration Details

 

Admin UI Improvements

The Admin section of the UI has been modified to group related items together in a more intuitive manner.  As an example, all items related to templates are listed as child items in the navigation menu.

 

Performance Improvements

We have modified how are conversation model is handled within the database.  This has allowed for improved review load times.  In our testing, we have seen as much as 98% improvements when loading conversations within the review.

 

 

To learn more about Collaborator 10.1, please check out the links below.

 

Press Release

 

Collaborator 10.1 Release Webinar

 

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

 

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here.

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

Best Wishes,
Justin Collier & The SmartBear Team

Welcome to Collaborator v10.1!

Collaborator 10.1 is the latest release from SmartBear Software’s dev collaboration team.  This new version introduces a lot of fantastic new features!   

 

Bitbucket Support

This release introduces support for Atlassian’s Bitbucket hosted/SaaS offering.  Users can now create Collaborator code reviews when a pull request is initiated in Bitbucket.  The integration is driven through a webhooks and easily allows Collaborator to be the peer review tool for teams using Bitbucket as their repository management solution.  Just like the GitHub integration, pull requests can be automatically merged when the review completes, and feature branches deleted if you choose.

Bitbucket Integration Details

 

GitHub

We continue to improve our GitHub integration for teams that need more than a basic conversation model for reviews.  In Collaborator 10.1, pull requests can automatically be merged when a review completes.  In addition to this capability, features branches can also be deleted automatically.  Finally, checkins can be gated to ensure that reviews are actually taking place.

GitHub Integration Details

 

Group Administration

In this release a new level of administration has been added to Collaborator.  The Group Administration capabilities provide the following:

• Group Admins can now be granted granular access to modify individual sections of the admin area.
• Templates can be assigned to groups, which ensures that only certain templates can be selected by users for used within a review. Additionally, a default template can be configured for any given group

Group Administration Details

 

Savings Report

Our savings report allows you to determine how much money is being saved from performing reviews.  It calculates costs based on time savings as well as defect related savings.  To access this report navigate to Admin > Savings Report.

Savings Report Details

 

RTC Improvements

1. Ability to select which history version is used as the before diff. This is an improvement over the previous N-1 version that was selected by default.
2. Backported 10.x features to 9303 version of Collaborator. This allows support of for RTC Eclipse client versions 4, 5, and 6.

RTC Integration Details

 

Admin UI Improvements

The Admin section of the UI has been modified to group related items together in a more intuitive manner.  As an example, all items related to templates are listed as child items in the navigation menu.

 

Performance Improvements

We have modified how are conversation model is handled within the database.  This has allowed for improved review load times.  In our testing, we have seen as much as 98% improvements when loading conversations within the review.

 

 

To learn more about Collaborator 10.1, please check out the links below.

 

Press Release

 

Collaborator 10.1 Release Webinar

 

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

 

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here.

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

 

Best Wishes,
Justin Collier & The SmartBear Team

Collaborator v11.5.11501

Collaborator 11.5.11501 is a patch release that contains our new SmartBear and Collaborator logos as well as several quality fixes.

 

To learn more about Collaborator 11.5.11501, please check out the links below.

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

 

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here.

 

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

Best Wishes,
Justin Collier & The SmartBear Team

Welcome to Collaborator v13.6!

Introducing Simulink Model Support! Collaborator v13.6 adds a new module that provides Simulink users a way to review models with the same ease & precision that they review code or documents. Additionally, our latest version improves document review scrolling and performance.

 

Simulink

Many Simulink users currently do not have an easy, comprehensive way to peer review Simulink models. Without a peer review tool, it can be tough to ensure the model is fully reviewed, and all issues are addressed. Collaborator’s new Simulink add-on offers engineers the ability to review Simulink Models effectively and thoroughly alongside other artifacts that are part of the development lifecycle.

Simulink Models

 

Document Reviews

Traditionally, Collaborator has only been able to display one document page at a time. With v13.6, Collaborator now displays portions of the current and previous page or the current and next page. The added visibility delivers a more natural document review experience for end-users.

 

To learn more about Collaborator v13.6, please check out the links below:

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

 

You can view the full list of fixes and improvement here:

What’s New

 

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

Best Wishes,
Justin Collier & The SmartBear Collaborator Team

Welcome to Collaborator v13.7!

The Collaborator v13.7 release adds a number of smaller improvements including authentication with GitHub or Atlassian and the ability to create Simulink reviews directly from Pull Requests.  There are a number of improvements in this release, so checkout out the What’s New page to keep up with all updates not covered here!

 

GitHub & Atlassian OAuth

Collaborator v13.7 extends the authentication options for users who traditionally login with a unique username & password or LDAP/AD credentials.  With Collaborator v13.7, users can now authenticate through GitHub or Atlassian.

 

Configuring OAuth

 

 

Simulink Review Creation

There are currently two ways to create/update Simulink reviews: users can either create a review through the Collaborator-Simulink app or users can manually upload Simulink HTML files into Collaborator.  With the release of v13.7, administrators can configure Collaborator to automatically create/update reviews whenever there are changes to a Simulink model.

 

Automatically create reviews

 

 

To learn more about Collaborator v13.7, please check out the links below:

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

 

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here:

What’s New

 

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

Best Wishes,
Justin Collier & The SmartBear Collaborator Team

Welcome to Collaborator v13.9!

The Collaborator v13.9 release focuses on improvements to performance and security and also adds some minor modifications to the diff viewer and notifications.  Please check out the What’s New page to see the full list of Collaborator changes!

 

Performance

The L2 cache has been increased to improve load time.  Additionally, the processing of large commits and files has been improved.

 

Security

Remote System Link information for issue-tracking tools, like Jira, is now configurable at the template level.  Previously, links were enabled at a global level and displayed in every review.  Apache Tomcat was also updated in this release, which includes several of its performance and security improvements.

 

To learn more about Collaborator v13.9, please check out the links below:

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

 

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here:

What’s New

 

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

 

Best Wishes,
Justin Collier & The SmartBear Collaborator Team

Welcome to Collaborator v14.4!  

 

New capabilities for reviews created from pull requests

Now it’s possibility to manage several pulls requests (even from the different repositories) in the scope of a single review.

Also, it’s possibility to stop review auto-creation on pull requests and manually create reviews for the selected pull requests only.

 

MatLab Simulink 2023a models support is added.

 

Other improvements include: projects' support in Defect reports, additional capabilities in workflow customization, faster processing of reviews with the big number of conversations, and others.

 

To learn more about Collaborator v14.4, please check out the links below:  

Download the latest release of Collaborator.  

   

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here:  

What’s New  

   

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.  

   

Best Wishes,   

Oleg Gontarenko & The SmartBear Collaborator Team 

Welcome to Collaborator v9.1.9100!

 
SmartBear Software is pleased to announce the release of Collaborator 9.1.9100, a new version with several great changes! 

• We’ve continued to work on the JSON API and have now set the GUI client to use it by default. Details about using the JSON API
• We’re tracking user file activity and displaying it in the Details report under a new section titled ‘Overall File Activity’.
• The ‘Approve’ button at the bottom of the review summary screen is now dynamic. It displays ‘Send to Rework’, ‘Send to Completed’ or ‘Send to Inspection’.
• Reverted files are removed from the review.
• MS Word Add-in: Check out the SmartBear Developer Network to learn more!

 

Remember that the SmartBear Developer Network is designed to help our customers expand and customize our products.  Feel free to build plugins for your own team to use but we would also love to share your creations with other Collaborator users.  If you have something to share, just let us know!

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here.

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.


Best Wishes,

Justin Collier & The SmartBear Team

Welcome to Collaborator v9.1.9101!

 
SmartBear Software is pleased to announce the release of Collaborator 9.1.9101.

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here.

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.


Best Wishes,

Justin Collier & The SmartBear Team

Welcome to Collaborator v9.2.0!

 
Collaborator 9.2 is the latest release from SmartBear Software’s peer review team.  This new version is introducing several great capabilities including:

 

GitHub Integration

GitHub is the largest code hosting service and many companies are using GitHub to manage their repositories.  In Collaborator 9.2, we are providing a way to create Collaborator code reviews based off of a pull request workflow.  Many teams find this workflow to be easier and we want to ensure that you can use this workflow with all of the great features that Collaborator offers. 

 

Jira Integration/Plugin

There is a new plugin that installs into Jira and allows Collaborator reviews to be created by clicking a button in the Jira Issue.  It will automatically attach SVN/Git commits associated with the Jira issue to a review.  We’ve also added the ability to create a Jira ticket from the Collaborator Review Summary screen. 

 

IntelliJ Plugin

This has been a requested capability for some time and we’re excited to announce that our phase1 plugin is now available.  If you’re using Git or SVN, you can now easily create reviews from within the IntelliJ interface by adding commits to a review.

 

Electronic Signatures

Collaborator has offered e-signatures for some time but we’ve improved the capability by attaching them to Review Templates.  With this change, electronic signatures can be required based on the template that is driving the review versus the previous global setting which required e-signatures on all reviews.

 

 

Download the latest release of Collaborator.

 

 

You can view the full list of fixes and improvements here.

 

If you have any questions about licensing, please contact sales. If you have any technical support questions, please contact SmartBear Support.

 
Best Wishes,

Justin Collier & The SmartBear Team