Collaborator Release Notifications

Welcome to Collaborator v9.4.0!

 Collaborator 9.4 - the latest release from SmartBear Software’s peer review team.  This new version continues to improve upon our GitHub integration.

It is also important to note that we will be deprecating several features with this release.

GitHub

We continue to improve our GitHub integration with this new release.  Since we introduced our GitHub integration in Collaborator 9.2, we’ve received plenty of great feedback about how to improve the experience.  One suggestion that has been included in the 9.4 release is the ability to add GitHub repositories via the CLI.  This allows Collaborator administrators to quickly and easily add GitHub repositories in bulk.

Deprecation

There are a number of items that are being deprecated and are no longer needed within Collaborator because of improvements to the product.  Here is the full list:

• Print-to-review: This capability was introduced so that MS Word documents could easily be added to a review. This is no longer need because a Collaborator MS Word add-in is now available.

• SOAP API: We transitioned to our JSON API, which provides significantly more capabilities.

• XML RPC: This is the protocol that was used within the Collaborator Client. In Collaborator 9.2 the XML RPC calls were completely transitioned to use the new more efficient JSON API.

• Visual Studio add-in: We are currently building a new VS add-in to support VS 2013 & 2015. The add-in will be similar to our more fully featured Eclipse plug-in.

To learn more about Collaborator 9.4, 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