Review Board

Review Board is a web-based collaborative code review tool, available as free software under the MIT License.

Original authorsChristian Hammond and David Trowbridge

Initial releaseMay 17, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-05-17)^[1]

Stable release

7.0.4^[2]  / 6 August 2025; 7 months ago (6 August 2025)

Written inPython, Django^[3]

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Review Board
Original authors	Christian Hammond and David Trowbridge
Initial release	May 17, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-05-17)[1]
Stable release	7.0.4[2]  / 6 August 2025; 7 months ago (6 August 2025)
Written in	Python, Django[3]
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Type	Code review
License	MIT License[4]
Website	www.reviewboard.org
Repository	github.com/reviewboard/reviewboard

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An alternative to Rietveld and Gerrit, Review Board integrates with Bazaar, ClearCase, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, and Subversion.^[5]

Review Board can be installed on any server running Apache or lighttpd^[6] and is free for both personal and commercial use.^[7]

There is also an official^[8] commercial Review Board hosting service, RBCommons.

Review requests can be posted manually or automatically using either a REST Web API, or a Python script.