RhodeCode Enterprise 5.9.0 Release Notes

Release Date

  • 2025-11-05

New Features

  • AI-powered Code Review: Added UI button to simplify running AI code review on pull requests. Added detailed audit logging for AI review actions. (Enterprise Edition only)

  • AI-powered Code Review: Admins can fetch latest list of AI model versions from corresponding API, instead of using static list.

  • User management: Added CLI commands for admins to find, notify, and delete inactive users with configurable inactivity thresholds and email notifications.

  • Default Branch Configuration: Added system-wide setting to configure default branch name (e.g., ‘main’, ‘master’, ‘development’) for new Git repositories.

  • Celery Task Deduplication: Implemented deduplication mechanism for Celery background tasks. Disabled by default, enabled via celery.enable_deduplication setting in .ini file.

General

  • dev: Added local SMTP server support for testing email notifications in dev env.

  • tests: Improved test cleanup with automatic temporary file removal after test execution.

  • deps: Migrated from deprecated pkg_resources library to importlib for package metadata handling.

  • docs: New scaling and performance tuning page with detailed guidance on configuring Gunicorn workers/threads, Docker replicas for HTTP/SSH/SVN/Celery services.

Security

Performance

Fixes

  • ai-review: Fixed UI layout issues in AI code review interface and improved API key field security (password type input).

Upgrade notes

  • RhodeCode 5.9.0 is a planned feature release.

  • Enhancements to AI code review capabilities, configurable default branch names for Git repos.