Internal and external releases
==============================
The Plastic SCM development team works in short iterations delivering frequent
releases. Our goal is to have at least one new release every week, with new
functionalities, bug fixes and performance tweaks.
Every 'weekly' release is not published to our customers, but we like to detail
each of them in the release notes so users can easily follow what we achieved
on every short iteration.
The releases marked with the word "external" are the ones we do publish on the
website. The ones marked as "internal" are the releases we create in-house to
keep the project moving week after week.
Version numbering
=================
Starting in Plastic SCM 4.0 the version numbering schema has been modified:
major.minor.compatibility.buildnumber
Sample: 5.0.44.511 means:
5 -> major release number
0 -> minor release number
44 -> compatibility -> all clients and servers with "44" in the compat number are
compatible, even if the build number changes
511-> internal build number
Public Release 5.0.44.537 (March 6th 2014)
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New
Eclipse plugin: Implemented Team Project Sets support.
The eclipse projects can now be exported to a Team Project Set File (PSF)
or import projects from a PSF file.
New
Eclipse plugin: Show label info when the workspace is configured to work
in a specific changeset.
New
Eclipse plugin: several improvements performed:
* Implemented label-changeset support when importing from a PSF files.
When the PSF points to a label, Eclipse translates it to its
equivalent changeset.
* Implemented the 'switch to changeset' action in the eclipse's
branch explorer view.
* When creating a new workspace, Eclipse plugin now proposes the
Eclipse project path instead of the Eclipse workspace path.
New
Maven plugin: Implemented the 'status' command for the Maven plugin.
New
Visual Studio package: Now, VSIX installation is silent, so no popups
are opened when registering the package.
New
Command line client: XML output is now available for certain cm commands.
Flag "--xml" has been added to the following commands to get an output
in XML format: showacl, log, history, ls and update.
New
Command line client: 'cm find' command: Now, the 'find' command can
show the hash of a revision.
Example: "cm find revision --format={hash}".
Bug
Eclipse plugin: The eclipse plugin was not performing the checkin
opeartion of a single deleted file properly. Fixed.
Bug
TeamCity plugin: now the plugin preserves executable permissions when
creating the build patch so that the agent can run them.
NOTE: To use this upgrade of the plugin, it is required to run
TeamCity with Java 7.
Bug
GUI: Method history: When clicking the "Load more" button continuously
and very quickly, sometimes the information displayed was not correct.
Some elements were remaining as "loading" when in fact the information
was already loaded. Some other revisions appeared as not connected,
when in fact, all revisions were also conected. Fixed.
Bug
Mergetool: An exception was thrown when clicking on navigation buttons
and there were no conflicts in the file. Fixed.
Bug
Merge: interval changesets merge: When the same interval is merged to
multiple destinations and, at least one destination is already replicated,
the next replication process will fail, showing an error message.
Fixed. (Broken since release 5.0.44.502).
Bug
GitSync: Push branches or tags with non ASCII characters was failing.
Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: Plastic labels with spaces and other illegal git characters
were not being pushed to Git. Fixed. Now they are pushed, the name
exported to git will be the same in plastic but replacing these
illegal characters with a dash ('-').
E.g.: "Label 1" will be pushed as "Label-1".
Bug
There was an issue when you had two xlinks to the same repository and
a file (or directory) is moved between them manually (not with a 'cm
mv' command but directly using the Windows Explorer or command prompt).
The Pending Changes view should detect the scenario but it wasn't
working properly.
Since the move between xlinks (even on the same repository) is not allowed,
the Pending Changes view should show the result as a file being deleted on
the source and a file being added (private file) on the destination.
Now it's Fixed.
Bug
Command line client: 'cm describebranchhistory' command: The command output
was not sorted by date. Fixed.
Bug
Merge operation: The recursive merge could fail when multiple intermediate
merges calculate the same writable xlink to be copied (added).
Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio package: There was an issue wihen uninstalling and reinstalling
the VSIX package without opening the IDE. Fixed. Now, the following command
is executed in the uninstallation process in order to force to unregister
the package inmediately (This affects the upgrade process as well):
'devenv /setup /nosetupvstemplates'.
Bug
Visual Studio package: Issue when Visual Studio 2012 was installed and
Visual Studio 2013 wasn't. The unregistering of the Visual Studio package
was not performed during the uninstall process. Fixed.
Internal Release 5.0.44.536 (March 3rd 2014)
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New
GUI: The differences window is able to give more information about the
differences at code level, like the number of lines changed, added or deleted.
Using the external application 'cloc' is even able to identify if the changes
are only in blank lines and comments.
Bug
GUI: Starting the GUI on Linux having several tabs opened crashed sometimes.
Fixed.
Public Release 5.0.44.534 (Feb 25th 2014)
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New
The LDAP provider was unable to query a subtree if the domain
path didn't start with 'dc='.
Now, the following format examples are supported:
- Dotted notation:
'codicefactory.com or mydepartament.codicefactory.com'
- Path notation:
'dc=codicefactory,dc=com'
'dc=mydepartament,dc=codicefactory,dc=com'
Also organizational units are supported:
'ou=USA,ou=CODICE SOFTWARE,dc=development,dc=codicefactory,dc=com'
New
Command line client: Added a summary at the end of the output obtained
with cm li to provide extended license information.
Example:
cm li -wks=localhost:8084
Plastic SCM license information:
* User-license information:
mark ACTIVE
michael ACTIVE
santiago INACTIVE (Not licensed)
helga INACTIVE (Not licensed)
Licensed to: The Cool Company
Expiration date: 22/06/2007 13:34:23
Total licensed users: 4
Total activated users: 2
Total available users: 2
Bug
GitSync: Fixed a very rare synchronization case: Import a commit
where several file paths are now directories, and the original files
were moved inside the new directories will fail. This happens
if the machine where it is executed is very fast.
Bug
Move operation: When a move operation was performed between two
different mount points loading the same repository,
the move operation was wrongly allowed. Fixed.
Bug
Unity 3D: The "ignore.conf" file was not automatically ignored in Mac.
Fixed.
Bug
Command line client: Issuing a 'cm status --changelist' command in a
partial path was causing that some non-persistent changelists were deleted.
Fixed.
Bug
Mergetool: An exception is thrown when clicking on navigation buttons and
there were no conflicts in the file. Fixed.
Bug
GUI Linux: "Open with" a custom tool was not working from the repository
explorer. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: Branch Explorer: The format rules were lost after restarting the GUI.
Fixed.
Bug
GUI: Merge view: When pressing 'F5' key in a merge view, the following
error was shown: "RefreshView not implemented for this view". Fixed.
Bug
GUI: Branch Explorer: When the "home" changeset was not visible in the
branch explorer because of the date filter, an error message was shown
refreshing the view. Fixed.
Bug
Merge operation: The merge operation could apply a change in the wrong
path in an edge case (when the destination contributor had left on the
same path another item with the same internal identifier from the same
repository but a different mount point. Fixed.
Public Release 5.0.44.533 (Feb 19th 2014)
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Bug
GUI: An error message in the pending changes appeared when showing the
embedded diffs for a moved and changed file
(locally moved with changed contents) out of the control of Plastic SCM.
Fixed.
Internal Release 5.0.44.531 (Feb 14th 2014)
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New
Branch Explorer: When a new branch is created inside a custom Branch
Explorer, it is now added to the selected branches used to create the
custom Branch Explorer, so the new branch is visible.
Bug
Permissions: An advanced sequence of operations (that implies breaking
the permissions inheritance chain) over a secured path could end up with
denied read and view permissions on the secured path. Fixed.
Bug
Semantic Method History: Fixed a NullReference exception that could
happen when showing an item under some special circumstances.
Bug
An error ocurred when renaming the working branch if the branch name was
the same of any of its parents; for example: /main/task001/task001.
Fixed.
Bug
Diff on GUI failed if an involved Xlink was not reachable. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed a bug when sorting by date modified in the Diff View (diff branch,
diff changeset).
Documentation
Command line interpreter help: Command options reviewed and updated
accordingly. Some options were not public, some of them were obsolete or
confusing.
Internal Release 5.0.44.530 (Feb 11th 2014)
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Internal changes and improvements.
Internal Release 4.1.10.529 (Feb 10th 2014)
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Internal changes and improvements.
External Release 5.0.44.528 (Jan 31th 2014)
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Bug
The Proxy Server got stuck with some data requests when they involved
revisions with size 0. This was just happening when the server was using
SQL Server as backend.
External Release 5.0.44.527 (Jan 31th 2014)
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New
Now it is possible to add multiline autocomments: in the preferences
window, "Comment options", select "Custom" in the Comments section.
In addition to User ({0}) and Date ({1}) you can add new lines ({2}).
New
When creating a workspace it is possible to see a repository list
showing all the repositories in all the registered servers.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Now it does not set a file as non-readonly when
it is not controlled by Plastic SCM.
Internal Release 5.0.44.526 (Jan 30th 2014)
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New
Now the Branch Explorer can filter the branches to show. The old
conditional format tab has been updated to include new filtering rules.
It is possible to define inclusion and exclusion rules.
To get further information about this feature please see the blogpost
related to this release in our blog.
New
Added some shortcuts to the GUI:
* Ctrl+D to show branch and changeset differences from the Branches
View, Changeset View and Branch Explorer.
* Ctrl+V will focus an item in the Items View if you have copied the
item path in the clipboard.
* The diff view (diff branch, changeset) uses the following shortcuts:
** Ctrl + Alt + + to navigate to the next file
** Ctrl + Alt + - to navigate to the previous file
** Ctrl + Shift + Alt + + to navigate to the last file
** Ctrl + Shift + Alt + - to navigate to the first file
** There is no need to focus the differences control to navigate
through differences (Ctrl+ + or Ctrl + -).
Bug
When the result encoding is set to NONE, mergetool will check the
contributors encoding instead of saving the result without encoding.
Bug
The cm ls command did not show proper information if the --tree option
was used along with a workspace or a non-existent path. Fixed: Now, if
--tree or --selector="rep..." are specified, the path provided must be a
server path (/dir/file.txt), not a workspace path
(C:/Users/myuser/mywk/dir/file.txt).
Bug
Documentation: cm help reviewed in depth and fixed several issues
regarding spelling and formatting.
External Release 5.0.44.523 (Jan 23rd 2014)
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New
Now the diff command can download the content of the changed (modified,
added and moved) items to a given folder using the option --download.
Internal Release 5.0.44.522 (Jan 21th 2014)
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New
Maven: Implemented Plastic SCM Maven SCM plugin, according to the
"http://maven.apache.org/scm/maven-scm-plugin" specifications.
The commands the plugin supports are:
* scm:add
* scm:branch
* scm:checkin
* scm:checkout
* scm:tag
* scm:update
The scm connection spec for a pom.xml file, has the following syntax
(in one single line):
scm:plasticscm:[objectSpec]@[rep:]repository_name@[repserver:]
@servername:portnumber[:path:repository_path_to_download]
where:
"objectSpec" is: (br:/name | cs:N | lb:name)
"repository_path_to_download": is only affected by the checkout and
update commands.
Example of repository path "/src/main/java/myapp".
(The repository path must exist in the branch, label or changeset
to download).
Example:
"scm:plasticscm:br:/main/Rel1.1@thirdpartytools@blackpearl:8087"
* NOTE: The plugin is not provided by the installers. A manual
installation in the maven repository is required instead (using the
"mvn install:install-file" or "mvn deploy:deploy-file" plugins).
Please, contact support (support@codicesoftware.com) to get the plugin
.jar binaries.
Performance
The changeset trees were not correctly cached by the server when they
contained xlinks. It could break the performance in some scenarios with
large trees and xlinks. Fixed.
Performance
The update operation performance has been improved significantly when
working with cloaked items.
Example:
Workspace with 192.818 files, 33.877 folders and more 400 cloaked rules:
Version 5.0.44.519
Update (Nothing to update)
With cloaked: 34102 ms
Without cloaked: 18127 ms
Now
Update (Nothing to update)
With cloaked: 14867 ms
Without cloaked: 17722 ms
Bug
The update command now is able to work correctly (download changes) with
the exception rules in the cloaked system. It means that:
cloak /src except the /src/code/lib folder and its content will work
fine now.
External Release 5.0.44.519 (Dec 23th 2013)
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New
2D version treee adds an embedded diff viewer to quickly check the
differences on each changeset. This functionality is known as
"time lapse view".
New
Diff window navigation: all diff windows (changeset, branch) now show
if a file has been viewed or not which is very useful when going
through a big diff. Navigation history has also been added so now it
is possible to go back to the previously visited file.
New
Merge "to" functionality has been improved:
* Core: The "merge to" operation now stores the needed information
in the server to calculate annotate's and version tree 2D of a
file more accurately, having into account this kind of merges.
* GUI: A new feature has been added for branches, labels and
changesets: the "Merge to..." context menu option. This
merge runs in the repository, so users don't need to load
the branch, label or changeset they want to merge into
another branch in a workspace.
Constraints:
- If the merge detects any kind of conflict that needs manual
resolution, the merge will be cancelled.
- Xlinks merges are not supported yet.
* GUI: The "Merge-to" operation now shows a warning message if
the operation finds manual conflicts just after the manual
conflicts are detected.
New
The Annotate/Blame can now show if a given line was manually changed
during a merge operation which greatly helps understanding the
history of the file. It also allows calculating finer grained stats
since the 'ownership' of the line is easier to understand now.
New
Branch Explorer: Now it is possible to search changesets by GUID.
New
Installer: Now the first time that Plastic SCM is installed on a
machine, the client wizard checks if there's a server up and
running in localhost:8087 (which is the most common scenario,
especially during evaluation) and if that is the case then the
client field is filled with these information; therefore the
user doesn't need to type it and the configuration process is
faster and more comfortable.
New
Oracle backend: Connector upgraded to a version that supports the .NET 4
framework, so now the .NET 4 Plastic SCM version can be used with this
backend.
Bug
When searching on a textbox (diff viewer, annotate, ... ), it only found
the first occurrence of a search pattern on a line. Fixed.
Bug
GUI and CLI: When the server location was changed, the "update" operation
was throwing "No channel found" errors, when it was suposed to connect
against the new server location. Fixed.
Bug
GUI and CLI: The "Browse repository on this branch/changeset/label"
feature on GUI, and "cm ls" command on Command Line Client were not
showing any results if an involved xlink cannot be resolved (the
server the xlink repository belongs is down, the target changeset was
not replicated yet, not enough permissions...). Fixed.
Bug
Exclusive checkout: The exclusive checkout operation was showing an error
message under the following conditions:
- the branch doesn't have changesets yet.
- the branch base is not the last changeset on the parent branch.
- the "requirehead" lock rule was set.
Fixed.
Bug
Diff viewer: Fixed some bugs, and improved the diff view navigation
(go back, go forward).
Bug
Sync dialog: Aesthetical issues regarding labels not shown and progress
cut fixed in Linux and Mac.
Bug
Admin tool and User Mode Tool GUI: These applications did not load the
user configuration correctly.
External Release 5.0.44.513 (Dec 5th 2013)
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New
Branch Explorer: Now it is possible to search by changeset GUID.
New
Installer: Now the first time that Plastic SCM is installed on a
machine, the client wizard checks if there's a server up and
running in localhost:8087 (which is the most common scenario,
specially during evaluation) and if that is the case then the
client field is filled with these information; therefore the
user doesn't need to type it and the configuration process is
faster and more comfortable.
New
Diff window: Implemented navigation. The user can navigate forward
and backward in the history.
New
Merge "to" functionality has been improved:
* Core: The "merge to" operation now stores the needed information
in the server to calculate annotate's and version tree 2D of a
file more accurately, having into account this kind of merges.
* GUI: A new feature has been added for branches, labels and
changesets: the "Merge to..." context menu option. This
merge runs in the repository, so users don't need to load
the branch, label or changeset they want to merge into
another branch in a workspace.
Constraints:
- If the merge detects any kind of conflict that needs manual
resolution, the merge will be cancelled.
- Xlinks merges are not supported yet.
* GUI: The "Merge-to" operation now shows a warning message if
the operation finds manual conflicts just after the manual
conflicts are detected.
Bug
When searching on a textbox (diff viewer, annotate, ... ), it only found
the first occurrence of a search pattern on a line. Fixed.
Bug
GUI and CLI: When the server location was changed, the "update" operation
was throwing "No channel found" errors, when it was suposed to connect
against the new server location. Fixed.
Bug
GUI and CLI: The "Browse repository on this branch/changeset/label"
feature on GUI, and "cm ls" command on Command Line Client were not
showing any results if an involved xlink cannot be resolved (the
server the xlink repository belongs is down, the target changeset was
not replicated yet, not enough permissions...). Fixed.
Bug
Exclusive checkout: The exclusive checkout operation was showing an error
message under the following conditions:
- the branch has no changesets yet.
- the branch base is not the last changeset on the parent branch.
- the "requirehead" lock rule was set.
Fixed.
External Release 5.0.44.509 (Nov 21st 2013)
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New
Show pending changes grouped by changelists: Now it is possible
to organize pending changes in changelists. This feature is
available in the command line (type "cm help changelist"
to learn how to use it) and the GUI (managed in the
pending changes view).
These are the feature highlights:
* Added a new checkbox in the pending changes view options to
enable/disable the changelist view mode.
* When enabled you will see the changes grouped by changelists.
* You can move controlled changes to new or existing changelists.
* You can checkin, undo, shelve changes included in a changelist.
* When you merge from a branch, the merged changes are grouped
in a built-int changelist called "Merge from xxx"
* Hidden changes are gruped in a special built-in changelist called
"Hidden changes".
* User-defined changelists can be deleted.
* Added functionality to preserve the status of the expanded
nodes in the pending changes view, both for changelists and
traditional modes.
New
The annotate view has been improved:
* Improved annotate view control.
* Improved look and feel.
* The annotated lines can be colored by user or by date.
* Added date and line age to the annotations section.
* The user can choose the annotation fields using the context menu.
* Added user statistics (who added/changed/deleted more lines).
* Add options to the right texbox context menu.
* The annotated file is automatically selected when the diff view is
launched (diff branch and diff changeset)
New
The Visual Studio package now shows the improved annotated view
as the Plastic SCM GUI does.
Bug
The semantic method history was removing some workspace files
by mistake when closing the view.
External Release 5.0.44.506 (Nov 13th 2013)
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New
Improved cloaked support. New, simpler rule formats have been
added to the cloaking system:
* Now all workspace-relative paths can be represented as if
the workspace path were the root element of the file system ('/').
* Single names will represent directories (and all their
nested contents) and files as well. There's no longer need to
specify two rules to cloak a directory.
* This way, cloaking a directory (or overriding its cloak) will
cloak (or uncloak) everything nested under it.
* Expressions have had their syntax improved. Now a wildcard (*)
will represent a string of non path separator characters, where
as a double wildcard (**) will represent a string of any kind of
character.
New
Implented kinetic scrolling for the branch explorer. Now you can
drag the diagram as a tactile screen, and the diagram will move
smoothly with inertial deceleration.
New
Added Leap Motion support for the branch explorer. If you have a
Leap Motion controller (https://www.leapmotion.com), you will be
able to move the branch explorer.
* Only available if running under .NET4
* Install the leap motion software: https://www.leapmotion.com/setup
* Create an empty file in your plastic configuration directory,
called leapmotion.conf (usually c:/users/xxx/appdata/local/plastic4/leapmotion.conf)
* Plug-in your leap motion to your USB
* You will see the leap motion icon in the branch explorer
* Gestures to control de diagram:
- Pan horizontally: Place you hand hover the Leap Motion
controller with your fingers slightly apart from each other.
Move hand left and right to move the diagram horizontally.
- Pan vertically: Use the 'key tap' gesture (like pressing
a button with your finger) to change the displacement mode
from horizontal to vertical. Then, move your hand up and down
to move the diagram vertically.
- Zooming: Place your both hands around the Leap Motion controller,
like holding a ball. Then move both hands, towards or away from each
other (like compressing or expanding the ball).
External Release 5.0.44.505 (Nov 13th 2013)
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NOTE: Take into account that the compatibility has been changed in this
release (commontypes = 44); this means that Plastic SCM servers must be
upgraded as well as Plastic SCM clients.
New
Enhanced Item Merge Tracking - now Plastic SCM stores more information
to improve the way in which merges are explained. It does not affect the
core merging capabilities but it greatly improves how users will diff,
annotate and browse file history.
The following core functionalities have been improved:
* Diff: now a changeset and branch diff shows which files and
directories were merged. The interface is much clearer and self
explanatory than ever.
* Annotate: it gains more precise tracking. In order to calculate where
a line comes from the new item merge tracking information will be used
to navigate back through merges.
* Improved 2d tree: it now shows a precise history of the file or
directory, with all the merge links, the operations that happened
during merges, where the file was added, moved, modified or even
deleted.
* Improved method history: it also benefits from better tracking and it
will now precisely show when a method was merged. Remember that the
new Method History is only available in the Plastic SCM installer with
.NET 4 assemblies, available in our website along with the rest of
regular installers.
IMPORTANT note for existing users: if you want to take advantage of the
improved item merge tracking you will need to run the following program
(included) to calculate the historical information. From now on the new
information will be generated during checkin. The program is included in
the Plastic SCM server directory.
builditemmergeinfo reponame
Run it for each repository and the new enhanced information will be
generated.
New
The Visual Studio Package look and feel has been upgraded to VS2012 and
VS2013. New icons and theme support has been added.
Bug
Fixed a GDI+ error setting some images for the user avatar in the branch
explorer.
Bug
When a merge was performed that had not changes inside a xlink but the
merge for the xlink was needed for traceability (it was an empty merge
for that xlink), and xlink had an out-of-date expansion rule (it was not
working against the current branch) because no changes had previously
done inside it on the current branch, the pending mergelink could not be
committed on the checkin operation. Fixed.
External Release 5.0.43.504 (Nov 12th 2013)
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New
Unity3D support (v4.3 or higher): Added a plugin that
integrates the Unity3D IDE with Plastic SCM.
Internal Release 5.0.43.495 (Oct 17th 2013)
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New
The cm diff command is now able to diff copied and replaced revisions
correctly (for example after a merge or a shelve).
New
GitSync: Now Git submodules are imported as text files with the SHA of
the target commit as content. This way it is possible to track changes
in the submodules. The file mode for this kind of files is set as 000.
Bug
Diff tool: The horizontal scroll was not updated when switching between
several files. Fixed.
Internal Release 5.0.43.490 (Oct 11th 2013)
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New
Semantic Method History: Available only in the .NET 4 installer. We have
improved the good old method history taking advantage of our deep
semantic knowledge; thus the semantic method history is able to give
information about what happened to a code element (say method, delegate,
property...): the same way as the semantic merge does; it will tell the
user if the element was changed, added, moved, removed...
Please, take into account that the Visual Studio package for 2005, 2008
and 2010 as well as the Office plugin and the Shell Extension are not
available here, so we STRONGLY recommend not to use them if the .NET 4
installer is used.
New
GUI: Added a vertical scroll to the comments textbox in the Pending
changes view and the review comments textbox in the Code Review.
New
Visual Studio Package: Added support for Visual Studio 2013.
New
Eclipse plugin: Implemented diff branch, diff changeset and diff
selected changeset actions on the new Branch Explorer for Eclipse.
New
GlassFS: It is now able to deal with temporary files, so it is possible
to do a "go to references" in Visual Studio (requires creation of
temporary files due to the required build).
It can also be launched in a much easier way:
glassfs z: 51628@codice@localhost:8084
Bug
GUI: The xlink edition form showed an error editing an xlink that had no
rules. Fixed.
Bug
Pending changes view: Change the revision type of a changed item was
throwing an error. Fixed.
Bug
The ls --format={guid} was throwing a "key duplicated" exception when
there were multiple checked out items in the workspace. Fixed.
Bug
The replica was performing some useless database locks under SQLServer.
Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: It was using the default server when loading a remote
Branch Explorer. This was broken when introduced the new Branch Explorer
for Eclipse. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: The overlay animation text was not shown when a view was loading.
Fixed.
Internal Release 5.0.43.483 (Sept 26th 2013)
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New
Button icons in merge/diff tools have been updated to the new themes.
New
GitSync: Added a new configuration file "gitsync.conf", in order to
define a mapping between Plastic SCM users and e-mail addresses in
order to use them as authors and committers e-mail addresses when
commiting to git a changeset created in plastic.
New
GitSync: Improved the algorithm of assignment of commits to branches.
Before, sometimes changesets where imported in a branch after its head.
New
Eclipse plugin: Branch Explorer added to the plugin. Now you can use
this view within Eclipse.
New
Eclipse plugin: Branches view, Labels view and Changesets view are now
independant: they are opened in a new Eclipse View. All of them have a query
field, as the GUI has.
Bug
The filters (ignored, cloaked, hidden, locks...) were handling wrongly
the rules with dots, such as *.prefab.meta; the file extension handled
was .prefab.meta, but only .meta is the extension. Now they are properly
handled.
Bug
When the latest changes on the server have already been merged, the
update process was asking for a merge again. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: Some small bugs and performance issues fixed.
Internal Release 5.0.42.482 (Sept 20th 2013)
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Internal improvements and features.
Internal Release 5.0.42.481 (Sept 18th 2013)
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Internal improvements and features.
Internal Release 5.0.42.480 (Sept 13th 2013)
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Bug
Shell extension: An unhandled exception was being thrown when labeling
a changeset. Fixed.
Known issues for current version:
* The merge-to feature does not expand branches in xlinks.
* Xlink renaming is not supported.
Xlinks can't be moved or renamed. You will see a warning message if you
try to do it.
cm xlink xxx / 1@CmdRunnerGitHub@localhost:8084 -w
cm ci
cm mv xxx yyy
-> Xlinks cannot be moved
* Restore operation is not implemented yet.
The restore operation for deleted items is not available yet.
You can, however, use the subtractive merge in order to recover a removed
item.
* The sync view does not take into account labels unless they are pointing
to a new (not replicated yet) changeset. Otherwise they are not intended
as pending changes to replicate.
* Undo changes does not update the workspace inside xlinks after a merge
operation.
The changes done inside a xlinked path are not updated after an undo
changes operation if the changes comes from a merge proccess.
You can have missing or outdated files, a simple update operation will
recover all the files.
cm mkbranch br:/main/scm001
cm stb scm001
cm co XlinkPath/FileUnderSlink.txt
cm co XlinkPath/FileUnderSlink2.txt
cm co XlinkPath/FileUnderSlink3.txt
-> Edit files
cm ci
-> Created changeset
cs:5@br:/main/scm001@rep:xlinkMergeTest@repserver:TIZONA:8084
cm stb main
cm merge br:/main/scm001 --merge
cm unco
-> c:\xlinkMerge\XlinkPath\FileUnderSlink.txt unchecked out correctly
-> c:\xlinkMerge\XlinkPath\FileUnderSlink2.txt unchecked out correctly
-> c:\xlinkMerge\XlinkPath\FileUnderSlink2.txt unchecked out correctly
cm update .
-> Copied XlinkPath/FileUnderSlink.txt
-> Copied XlinkPath/FileUnderSlink2.txt
-> Copied XlinkPath/FileUnderSlink3.txt
* When (re)opening the advanced search in the Branches view, the default
query no longer displays.
To work around this, simply type in the default query ("find branches") or
type in your own custom query to suit your needs.
* A new attribute applied to an item is not shown in the Attributes list.
When you are adding a new attribute to a branch, for example, the new
attribute created is not immediately shown in the attribute list. If you
refresh the view after creating the attribute you will be able to see the
new attribute.
* If you're reviewing branch attributes in the Branch view, and you use
the branch filter, the attributes view is not updated.
Instead, it shows the attributes for the last selected branch, which may
or may not be a part of the query. To update the attributes view, simply
click on the branch you're interested in.
* Writable XLinks Merge does not support the xlink edition (cm xlink -e)
to a conected changeset, an ancestor changeset.
Merge operations having xlinks in a source contributor targeting an older
and already connected changeset are not finding conflicts. The changesets
in the external repository are already connected.
* Scenario: create two xlinks pointing to the same rep.
When trying to perform an update, it fails.
It's not possible for PlasticSCM to perform an update operation having two
or more xlinks pointing to the same repository. It's not allowed to load
the same item in multiple workspace paths.
* The check-in between several repositories should be atomic.
Currently, the check-in is done and committed from the deeper repositories
to the root repository. If something fails in the higher mounted repos, the
check-in done in the deeper repos is still committed, so, the operation is
not atomic between repos.
A check-in operation that affects several repositories is not atomic.
The check-in operation iterates over each xlinked repository with changes
and performs a commit one by one. If one of these steps' "commit" fails,
the operation is cancelled but the commits already done are not rolled
back.
cm stb br:/main/scm002
cm co fileInLocalRep.txt
cm co xlink\fileInExternalRep.txt
//edit both files
cm acl -user=manu -denied=+ci br:/main/scm002
cm ci
You don't have permissions for operation ci.
* Support xlink evil twin rename resolution
Plastic SCM is not able to handle evil twin conflicts with a rename
resolution. Only "Keep source" and "Keep destination" options are valid
for this kind of conflict.
mkdir SecretProject
cm xlink SecretProject / 1@CmdRunnerGitHub@localhost:8084 -w
cm ci
cm mkbranch scm001 --changeset=1
cm stb scm001
mkdir SecretProject
cm xlink SecretProject / 1@CmdRunnerGitHub@localhost:8084 -w
cm ci
cm merge main
Please enter a new name for the destination:
xlink-dst
Item -1 could not be found in the tree. The new tree cannot be built.
* Since 4.2.15.319 introduced three new permissions ('move',
'rmrepository' and 'replicatewrite'), performing an upgrade from
versions older than release 4.2.15.319, will leave these permissions
as disabled. Users have to set these permissions manually by
themselves.
New installations will set these permissions allowed, just the same
as the rest of the permissions.
* Unity3D: Checkout the "Assets" folder won't execute recursive checkout.
The other folders inside "Assets" folder will.
* Unity3D (Mac OSX): The "Show branch explorer" feature will show the
branch diffs and changeset diffs in background, instead of the foreground.
The other views launched from the Unity Branch Explorer will work as expected
(repository browser, pending changes view windows works well).
* Unity3D (Mac OSX): If Plastic SCM is not installed yet, the informative
message notifying the case is not show in the Unity console until the
LogLevel is set to Verbose.
* Unity3D (Mac OSX): The first time the Plastic SCM plugin is running on MAC,
and the "Version Control" dialog is opened, an "Assert Null" error could be
shown in the Unity Error console. This error has no effect on the normal using
of the plugin. Just type a workspace name and a repository name for the project
and click "connect". Next executions shouldn't show this error message.
External Release 4.1.10.493 (Oct 15th 2013)
====================================================
New
The update behavior when there are xlinks that cannot be resolved has
been improved:
- The xlink is set as unresolved instead of checked out.
- The old content is left as controlled instead of as private. Anyway,
changes are not allowed inside an unresolved xlink.
- Unreachable servers are supported.
- Multiple unresolved xlinks are supported.
New
GUI: Fine adjusted the textbox selection (mergetool, difftool, annotate,
etc ...). Some users reported that they had problems selecting text.
This should fix it.
Bug
When a cloaked xlink was out-of-date in the workspace and a merge that
modified the xlink (but there were no changes inside the xlink) was
executed, the committed xlink changes could result in a wrong content.
Fixed.
Bug
Team City plugin: it was not reusing a workspace to perform an
incremental build.
Internal Release 4.1.10.492 (Oct 14th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Web UI: Support Korean characters (item detail, item annotate, item raw
view, diff view). A new server property called DefaultEncoding has been
defined:
When a file encoding cannot be obtained, for example (windows-1252 or
euc-kr) the DefaultEncoding property is used. If the property is not
defined, Encoding.Default is used instead.
External Release 4.1.10.489 (Oct 9th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Checkin with issue tracking extensions activated was failing if the
Plastic SCM server was not reachable by name. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.477 (Sept 19th 2013)
====================================================
New
Added LDAP support to input a login when a user or password is not
valid.
Bug
Fixed an error that happened when a shelve operation was executed in
the GUI.
Bug
Update operation was failing in Windows when the path to update
contained a directory with trailing dots in the name. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed navigation issue in the "Code review" window.
Bug
Added the option for selecting a custom encoding and specifying
a comparison method:. Four comparison methods are available:
IgnoreEol, IgnoreWhitespaces, IgnoreEolWhitespaces and NotIgnore.
More info in the comand usage. This options are available in the
merge and shelve commands.
Bug
Team City plugin: Fixed issue with moved items, it will now detect them
as added and deleted.
Bug
Documentation: Usage and help texts for the 'archive' command have been
clarified and fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.42.479 (Sept 10th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Security system: Path permissions for paths in xlinked repositories
were not being set correctly. The following scenario has been fixed:
repA
|______ XlinkrepB
Deny change permission to user2 in a XlinkrepB file. User2 could modify
the file. This has been fixed.
Bug
Code Review: When selecting a comment in the bottom panel, the last one
could not be scrolled ok. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.473 (Aug 21st 2013)
====================================================
New
An internal option has been added to launch an external editor if no
comment specified for all commands that allow comments.
Those commands will check the environment variable PLASTICEDITOR that
shall contain the path to a text editor. If is present in the system, an
instance of the editor will launch to input the command comments (i.e.
the checkin comments).
New
Support for xlinks has been added to the extensions checkin log in Jira,
Fogbugz, Rally and OnTime.
Performance
Avoid unneeded connections to repository servers in the profiles when
creating a workspace.
Bug
The update progress was not showing any update phase or the elements
that were copied during the update operation. Fixed.
Bug
cm fast-import: The sequence of two move operations like this:
"mv /doc /src" "mv /src /src/src"
,(i.e. The source path is being replaced by another move) was not being
properly imported. Fixed.
Bug
Mono 3: More dialogs fixed when working under mono related to resources
files.
Bug
Jenkins plugin: Issue related with the non-ASCII characters included on
the date on some cultures such as Korean culture fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.42.478 (Aug 27th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Fixed an issue that happened with the new Plastic SCM icon under Mono.
Internal Release 4.2.42.475 (Aug 22th 2013)
====================================================
New
The branch expansion behavior (the branch created/used for the changes
inside the writable xlinks) has been changed:
Before, the branch on the xlink repository and the target repository
were linked by name (the short name). When no branch with that short
name was found, a new child branch from the loaded changeset was
created with that short name.
From now on, the xlink include one or more rules that specify which
branch on the target repository must be used for the branch on the
current repository. When there is no rule for the current branch, a new
child branch will be created from the loaded changeset with the same
short name.
The user can edit, add or remove the existing expansion rules for a
given xlink.
Performance
TFS Sync: Performance improved when importing repositories with
branching. Import process up to 6 times faster.
Bug
When we had two xlinks pointing to the same repository, an incorrect
exclusive checkout message was shown when trying to modify the same
item in both xlinks, in the same check-in operation. Fixed.
Bug
TFS Sync: For changesets with a branch created in TFS, the branch was
not being imported. Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: Importing a Git repository that contains a head pointing to an
annotated tag shows the following error: "An item with the same key has
already been added". Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: In repositories with subbranches or tag branches an error
"SHA not found" could arise during the pull operation. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.41.472 (Aug 15th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Fixed the following scenario:
1.- Create a branch /main/am
2.- Create another branch /main/am-moved
3.- Switch to branch /main/am-moved
4.- Rename branch (from branch explorer) /main/am a /main/am-added
The branch was renamed but an exception was raised "can't load the root
item".
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed a cross thread operation exception that happened
the first time that this view was opened.
Bug
Web UI: Fixed an issue that caused an exception on creating a code
review and assigning it to a user in a single step.
External Release 4.1.10.468 (Aug 15th 2013)
====================================================
Performance
Checkin operation: The time processing the paths during the checkin
operation has been noticeably improved. In a workspace with 200K items
it passes from 93s to 8s, so the improvement is about 91%.
Performance
Improve the time of adding a large number of items. Example:
Workspace information:
319.856 files
20.859 directoriees
3.03 GB
Time WITH the change: 18 min
Time WITHOUT the change: 3h15min
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed a crash when a CustomQueryRule searched for
attributes that were not defined in the repository.
Bug
Diff Tool Fixed a Null Reference Exception calculating differences
inside a line that is very long.
Bug
SQL Server Backend: Plastic SCM was not working properly when SQL
Server was configured with Turkish collation (it might be fail also
with some other collations different than Latin1). Fixed.
Bug
Fixed a bug in the checkin operation on the command line that displayed
a -1 in the total field.
Internal Release 4.2.41.470 (Aug 12th 2013)
====================================================
New
Icons: We have changed all the icons in the GUI!! Now they are more
coherent with the themes. This is a beta version, so it's possible
that you still find some issues pending to fix.
New
Now the replication process is able to encrypt the data during the push
operation and decrypt them on the pull operation. This way we can have
a central server with all the data encrypted.
The encryption is configured using the 'cryptedservers.conf' file.
This file contains pairs server encryption file. When replication is
taking place, if the remote server is one of the servers included on
'cryptedservers.conf' then data will be encrypted if it is a push
operation or decrypted if it is a pull operation.
The encryption file contains the encryption method and the password
(see example). The supported encryption methods are: AES128, AES192 and
AES256. The password could be plain text or it could be cypher as any
other password in Plastic SCM (using the cm crypt command).
Bug
GUI: The mount points are now supported on the custom queries views.
Bug
Editable diffs: Fixed an index out of range exception when removing the
last difference from the diff viewer in the pending changes.
Bug
The changeset locking for some operations like creating a new branch
or checking in changes is now less restritive. The previous locking
model was too restrictive and it was noticeably slow under really heavy
load.
Bug
SQLServer Backend: Plastic was not working properly when SQL Server
was configured with Turkish collation (it might be fail also with some
other collations different than Latin1. Fixed.
Bug
SQLServer Backend: The database schema has been improved. The system
ids are now stored as Int32 instead of being stored as Int64, reducing
the space needed to store information.
Bug
TFS sync: Moved items in TFS were not being properly imported in
some special scenarios. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.39.466 (Jul 29th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
GUI: The differences summary bar is not shown on the differences
tool. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: An internal improvement has been made in order to ensure the
correctness of the differences that are shown when editing the
workspace contents on the differences tool.
External Release 4.1.10.465 (Jul 24th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Log command: Fixed an issue related to non-ASCII characters
included on the date on some cultures such as Korean culture.
External Release 4.1.10.464 (Jul 19th 2013)
====================================================
New
CLI: The 'replicate' command has new usage and help information.
Bug
CLI, GUI: Fixed a bug that prevented the configure server wizards from
loading the configuration from disk.
Bug
GUI: Fixed an error caused when trying to edit a profile with no
profile selected on the preferences window.
Bug
(Non-Windows platforms)
GUI: Fixed some missing chars at the end of a line inside the
difference textbox, when the line had the ampersand (&) character.
Bug
Fixed an error ('The authentication or decryption has failed.') being
displayed when working against an SSL server and the plastic
configuration wizard is launched alone (i.e., without starting the
Plastic GUI, package or SCC before).
Bug
Visual Studio Plugin: When renaming, the case changes (e.g., ACLInfo.cs
to AclInfo.cs) are no longer being discarded.
External Release 4.1.10.463 (Jul 15th 2013)
====================================================
New
Fast-export and fast-import: a new option "--branchseparator" has been
added to specify the character to use in the export file to separate
branches.
If no branch separator is specified, it will use "-" by default.
Internal Release 4.2.39.461 (Jul 11th 2013)
====================================================
Internal improvements.
External Release 4.1.10.460 (Jul 09th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
GUI: A workspace connected to a server that is not the default
one was asking for credentials after finishing the checkin.
The checking finished correctly but there was always an
authentication prompt. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: The PlasticSCM GUI now displays a controlled error message
if the active workspace has not set a valid workspace selector.
Bug
TeamCity plugin: The agent was failing if it found a symlink
whose target could not be reached for security permissions or
file not found issue. The TeamCity server worked fine.
Internal Release 4.2.39.458 (Jul 04th 2013)
====================================================
New
Previously a repository could be loaded only once in the workspace.
Now it can be loaded multiple times. Remarks: In order to upgrade to
this version neither pending merges nor merges in progress are
allowed in the workspace, because their meta-data information is not
compatible).
New
TFSsync: support for TFS 2012 added. Now it is possible to sync with
Team Foundation Server 2010 and 2012.
Bug
GitSync: The import of a branch with a name lager than 100 characters
was failing. Fixed: The limit has been increased to 1000 chars.
External Release 4.1.10.457 (Jul 02nd 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Command Line Client: The checkout command retrieved a null reference
error when trying to checkout a private file. Fixed: Now it is possible
to checkout mixed controlled and private files, and the checkout
command will not fail. Only the controlled files will be checked out,
as expected.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The tooltip shown when hovering over a changeset was
retrieving a null if the comments were empty, the changeset was created
by means of merge-to and the backend used was MySQL (checked in that
case, but it could happen in some other scenarios, all of them
involving empty comments).
Bug
TeamCity plugin: Several issues fixed:
* Fixed a couple of problems related to symbolic links whose targets
do not exist in the local drive or are located outside the
workspace. An error was retrieved during the build in this case.
* Differences in TeamCity: This feature has been reviewed and
completed. Now the differences under a xlink are properly shown. The
xlink node itself is hidden, along with all the directory differences
(the same behaviour as differences of a changeset / branch in GUI).
The only difference here is that the differences of the xlink node
are hidden, too. Regarding symlinks, the differences behaviour is the
same as the GUI: if a symlink is edited in the workspace (removed and
added with the same name and different target), the differences shown
will be the differences of the symbolic link itself, and not the
differences between targets.
Bug
Web UI: After logout and log in again with other user, permissions were
not correctly applied. Fixed.
External Release 4.2.37.455 (Jun 26th 2013)
====================================================
New
Editable differences: When the right revision is the workspace revision
and it is checked out, the user can edit the right textbox.
We have added two bars to manage each difference. See the release
blogpost to get further information and screenshots.
New
Draw changeset colors based on the changeset owner. Supported the old
option (color changesets by changeset replication source). Both options
can be used simultaneously: in this case the changeset is drawn using
two colors. See the release blogpost to get a better understanding on
how this works.
Bug
Security: Creating a label on a changeset did not check the
"applylabel" permission that changeset. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.454 (Jun 25th 2013)
====================================================
New
Now the Encoding option in CodeReview, DiffTool and MergeTool has been
split into 2 different ones:
* Default encoding that defines the encoding to use when no encoding is
detected. By default it is NONE, which implies that the files are
handled on raw mode.
* Result encoding that specifies the encoding for the result file. By
default it is NONE that implies that the encoding of the result file
will be set depending on the contributors encodings.
Remarks:
- The old option has been mapped to the default encoding, so the old
configured encoding will be used as default encoding.
- In order to use the new "result encoding" option, please configure
it on the mergetool command. This can be done adding the parameter
"-re="@resultencoding" or selecting "Plastic SCM merge tool",
which already includes it.
New
The recent comments from the new branch dialog and the Pending Changes
dialog has been improved. If a comment is reused on a branch it will
be placed on the top of the list.
New
A new "Open with" menu has been added to the Preferences panel, where
the user can customize the tools that will be displayed in the
"Open with" menu, available on the Pending changes view, the Items
view, and finally the History view.
New
GUI: Branches, Changesets and History views now highlight the row
corresponding to the loaded item in the workspace.
New
The Branch Explorer now shows a panel with the branch/label/changeset
properties, when you hover an object with the mouse.
Performance
The number of needed server calls to perform a differences operation
from the Branch Explorer has been reduced to the half.
The number of server calls to perform an add operation have been
significantly reduced. Approximately from 1 call for each added item
to 2 in total.
Bug
When the server is unreachable under some special network
configurations the replication command could return a null reference
error. Fixed.
Bug
When the Pending Changes contained a pending merge that was already
merged on the new Head, the update merge could not be allowed. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: When a workspace was deleted, some views belonging to the deleted
workspace were not disposed. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: Jira preferences panel: Minor aesthetic issues fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: An issue that caused the display of the "Home" icon
in two different changesets has been fixed.
Bug
Code review tool: The informative panel was displaying overlapped
lines. This message was shown when there were newer changesets than
the ones that were commented in the review. Fixed.
Bug
Several aesthetical issues fixed related to buttons alignment.
In addition to that the "View contributors" button image in the Merge
dialog has been replaced with text, and the tab-order has been fixed
as well.
Bug
Fixed an issue that did not allow the following dialogs to display
correctly with newer (> 3.0) versions of Mono under Linux:
* Add to cloaked
* Add to ignore
* Add to hidden changes
* Delete item.
Internal Release 4.2.35.452 (Jun 18th 2013)
====================================================
New
Zip installers tested and verified in 4.2 series. Now you can use them
and they should work in every platform. Minor changes done, specially
in the Readme file.
External Release 4.1.10.450 (Jun 17th 2013)
====================================================
New
Improved scrolling options in the Branch Explorer.
The mouse wheel behaviour will be the following:
- Scroll: Will scroll horizontally (or vertically if the layout
selected is the vertical layout).
- Ctl + Scroll: Will zoom in or out (like the previous default
behaviour).
- Shift + Scroll: Will do the alternate scrolling, vertical if
horizontal layout, and horizontal if vertical layout.
New
Branch Explorer: Added "Display full branch names" option to the "Display
options" panel to show the full or the short branch name.
New
DiffTool, MergeTool, CodeReview Tool: Navigation buttons were disabled
when there was only one element to navigate (differences, conflicts or
files). Now, navigation buttons are always enabled.
New
Command line client: cm find command now it's able to filter labels on
a certain branch, by adding a branch name in the where clause of the
find command. Example:
cm find "label where branch='br:/main/Release1.x' --format={name}"
Output:
Rel1.0
Rel1.1
Example 2: Print all labels:
cm find "label --format={name}"
Output:
Beta2.0
Beta2.2
Rel1.0
Rel1.1
IMPORTANT REMARK: It is neccesary to upgrade both client and server to
this version (or later) to have this feature. Otherwise, the
compatibility between client and server will not be broken, but the
feature will not be available.
Bug
SCC Plugin: Solved some issues when using this plugin in Visual Fox Pro
regarding the "Keep checked out" option on the "Add to source control"
dialog.
Bug
Bamboo plugin: Error when upgrading the plugin to the newest version.
The artifact ID had been changed and it should not, since this
parameter is used by Bamboo to upgrade registered plugins. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.34.448 (Jun 10th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
GitSync: Fixed an error that happened pulling two copied revisions
(same SHA) from git in the same commit.
Bug
SCC Plugin: The add operation did not apply the "keep checked out"
option. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.447 (Jun 07th 2013)
====================================================
New
A new preference has been added to the GUI: "Hide ignored items".
This is available in the "Other options" tab, and if checked it hides
all the ignored items in the Items view, for all the existing
workspaces. By default this option is unchecked, so the ignored items
are shown. This option does not modify the Pending Changes view
behaviour, so ignored items can be listed there if the "Show ignored
objects" option of the Pending Changes view is checked.
Bug
GUI: An error was being thrown when the user removed a workspace and
then performed a switch to a branch (or changeset, or label)
operation on a different workspace. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: A workspace pointing to an unreachable server does not hang the
items view anymore. Now the GUI is able to identify the server as
unreachable, and an update to the right server will get the issue
solved.
Bug
Pending Changes view: The differences shown for a replaced item that
has been moved too shows only the content instead of the differences
with the previous loaded revision. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: The second time the user clicked on the
"Show pending changes view" context menu option of the Branch Explorer
pending changes changeset, no action was executed. Fixed.
Bug
Web UI: The calculation of the graph that appears in the home page
(when listing repositories) has been fixed. The information was correct
but there was a wrong condition that did not make it load.
Bug
Working in a certain changeset (the selector is loading a specific
changeset), when a checkin required an update merge (there were newer
changes on the server) the selector was not updated to the resulting
changeset. Fixed.
External Release 4.2.33.444 (Jun 03rd 2013)
====================================================
New
Added new triggers for replication read and replication write operations.
This means that you can configure triggers before / after a push / pull
operation.
The environment variables available are:
* before-replicationread:
PLASTIC_BRANCH -> Full spec of the branch (including repository and
server) that has been replicated.
* after-replicationread:
PLASTIC_BRANCH -> Full spec of the branch (including repository and
server) that has been replicated.
* before-replicationwrite:
PLASTIC_BRANCH -> Full spec of the branch (including repository and
server) that has been replicated.
PLASTIC_REPLICATION_SOURCE -> The replication source where the data
comes from. Full spec of a repository.
* after-replicationwrite:
PLASTIC_BRANCH -> Full spec of the branch (including repository and
server) that has been replicated.
PLASTIC_REPLICATION_ID -> The identifier of the replication
operation. Use this ID to query what is the information that has been
introduced during the replication operation.
Example: cm find replication log where id=xx.
New
Added a column in the "Labels" view to show the branch of the labeled
changeset.
Bug
Replica: Fixed a bug that may cause that the replication process got
stucked if an exception was raised during one of the GetPackage()
executions.
Bug
Proxy server: Fixed a problem when trying to cache data, due to a
recent change in the serialization process between the proxy and the
server.
External Release 4.1.10.445 (May 31st 2013)
====================================================
New
Pending changes view: The "Diff" context menu options have been
improved. Now, two options are available from the context menu:
- Diff workspace contents: Shows the differences between the current
workspace contents with the previously loaded contents on the
workspace with the configured diff tool. (The differences shown are
the same as the embedded diffs viewer from the Pending Changes
viewer).
- Diff revisions: Show differences between revisions stored in the
repository, or differences between the workspace contents and a
revision in the repository.
New
Pending changes view: It now includes a new context menu option to
undo the selected changes. The behavior is the same as the
"Undo changes" button, but considering only the selected items (and not
the checked items).
New
GUI: Added a "Repositories" column in the "Workspaces" view.
New
GUI: Added a "GUID" column to "Sync Replication" view to show branches
and changesets GUID.
New
Branch Explorer: now the properties tab shows the full branch name
(i.e.: /main/preproduction/release/task001) instead of just the branch
name (task001). You can select the text and copy it to the clipboard.
New
Added a new configuration file: "readonly.conf". This one follows the
same pattern oriented syntax as "ignore.conf" or "writable.conf". When
the option in the client GUI "Update and Checkin operations set files
as read-only" is disabled the files specified in "readonly.conf" will
be set as readonly. Take into account that if a file is matched by any
pattern in both "readonly.conf" and in "writable.conf", the
"writable.conf" is preferred, and it will remain writable.
New
Bamboo plugin: The plugin has been adapted to the new API 4.2; now you
can use this plugin with the latest version of Bamboo.
New
Bamboo plugin remote agents support added. Now you can distribute the
workload of a Bamboo server among different agents remotely
located. See blogpost to get more information and screenshots.
New
Office 2013: Added support for diff and merge in Word 2013. This is the
capability of diff and merge only, not the Office plugin.
Bug
Pending Changes view: When showing differences of a Private or an Added
item, the file information shown in the header of the embedded diff
tool of the view was wrong ("cs:0") because Plastic SCM could not find
repository information for that item. Fixed: Now the information shown
is the path of the item, which is the only information available for
those items.
Bug
Merge view: after changing the contributor of a merge item, the view
was reloaded showing all the items involved in the merge, although
the user could have a filter applied. Fixed: now the filter is applied
after reloading the view.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The text displayed in the information overlay panel
for merge links appeared cut in Linux. Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The arrows were being painted with solid,
non-transparent colors in Mono 3. Fixed.
Bug
db.conf file: If the database suffix/prefix was set, the database file
name had the suffix/prefix duplicated.
External Release 4.1.10.443 (May 27th 2013)
====================================================
New
A new configuration option has been added to display the changeset
arrows in the Branch Explorer from parent to children (instead of the
opposite, which is the default behaviour). In order to use it the user
must add the following line in the branchexplorer.cfg file:
display.options.show_parent_to_child_arrows=true
New
Command line client: A new command, named "switch" has been created.
This command is an alias of "switchtobranch" (a.k.a.: "stb").
From now on, both of them allows switching the workspace to a branch, a
label or a changeset. To switch to a label or a changeset, the user is
able to specify a label /changeset spec ("lb:name", "cs:number") or use
the "--label=name" or "--changeset=number" parameters.
Examples:
"cm switch br:/main/HotFix-237@docu@atenea:8087"
switch to branch "/main/HotFix-237" on "docu" repository at
"atenea:8087" server.
"cm switch /main/HotFix-237"
switch to branch "/main/HotFix-237" on default repository and server(*).
"cm switch lb:Rel1.1"
switch to label "Rel1.1" on default repository and server(*).
"cm switch cs:4375"
switch to changeset number "4375" on default repository and server(*).
(*) The working directory where this command is executed must be located
within a valid Plastic SCM workspace. The default repository is the
workspace selector repository, and the default server is the configured
server to work with the Plastic SCM client.
New
Command line client: The "update" command now accepts a new parameter
("--last"), in order to update a workspace to a branch configuration.
This parameter is intended to be used when the workspace selector is
configured with a read-only selector (that's it, a changeset selector
or a label selector) and the user wants to change the selector to the
branch the changeset or label belongs to.
Bug
GUI: Close button for workspace tabs has been moved a little bit to the
left so the button does not collide with the left side tab border.
Bug
The "diff branch" action in the branch context menu and in the
Code Review was showing the diff with previous revision instead of the
diff of the file in the entire branch. This is now fixed.
Bug
TeamCity plugin: Fixed an issue when retrieving the file differences for
an already executed build. The contents of the revisions in the diff
view were not being displayed. Fixed. NOTE: There is still an issue when
the file differences implies a file move / rename and content changed.
The contents of the "moved from" revision cannot be displayed.
Bug
TeamCity plugin: Fixed an issue when TeamCity had to create a patch that
involved a change on a symlink. (The java diff command was unable to
parse the "symlink" filetype). In addition to that, removed an extra
whitespace when executing a command line "cm diff" command that involves
printing the diff status of involved items.
Example (before, "*" means a whitespace):
$>cm diff cs:1 cs:2
D**foo.c
A**m.c
$>cm diff cs:1 cs:2 --added
*m.c
Example (now) :
$>cm diff cs:1 cs:2
D*foo.c
A*m.c
$>cm diff cs:1 cs:2 --added
m.c
Internal Release 4.2.31.441 (May 21th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Symlinks: There were three commands that were not working properly with
these items:
* cm ci --symlink was checking in the target instead the symlink. Fixed.
* cm rm was removing the target instead the symlink. Fixed.
* cm ls was failing when the target was out of the workspace. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.440 (May 17th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
When a local move is applied, the operation could fail with the error:
"Selector can't locate a revision for the item...". This issue was
happening because the local moves were not taken into account properly
as dependencies. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed Plastic SCM to work with Mono 3.0. This is not the provided
version of Mono for Plastic SCM, but if you want to use it now it works
fine.
Bug
Merge: An error was thrown when running a merge on Windows platforms
that implieed changing the contents of a symlink. Fixed.
Bug
Checkin: When this operation was performed from the GUI and there were
big files implied, the progress was not updated correctly for those
files (Plastic SCM should show an additional progress for those files,
but it was not showing it). Fixed: now, the progress for each file will
be displayed for any file larger than 4 MB.
Internal Release 4.2.31.439 (May 16th 2013)
====================================================
New
IntelliJ 12 plugin: Now Plastic SCM includes a plugin for IntelliJ 12.
This plugin is compatible with the latest IntelliJ 12 version (12.1.2).
The features are basically the same as the ones provided in previous
versions of this plugin.
Bug
Merge: An error was thrown when running a merge on Windows platforms
that implied changing the contents of a symlink. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.31.438 (May 15th 2013)
====================================================
Internal improvements and development.
Internal Release 4.2.31.437 (May 10th 2013)
====================================================
Performance
GitSync: Improved performance in the "Receiving references" phase.
Now the process only ask for the necessary references, instead of
retrieving all of them. This will improve the speed of the process,
depending on how many references the target repository has.
Bug:
GitSync: cm sync was failing during the resynchronization operation
when the URL of the Git repository included the port specification.
Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.436 (May 09th 2013)
====================================================
New
Workspace tabs are now closable in the Plastic SCM main window. Check
the release blogpost to see screenshots.
Bug
Switching to a workspace that contained multiple views (opened) with a
SEID condition (such as owner='me') could lead to a "Item has already
been added" error. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.31.435 (May 07th 2013)
====================================================
Bug:
Visual Studio Package 2012: The VSIX package was broken. Fixed: there
was a missing library that was recently added to the project.
External Release 4.1.10.434 (May 06th 2013)
====================================================
New
Now the merge operation can be performed when there are cloaked items
involved on it even when the cloaked items have been locally deleted or
changed.
Bug
Some checkin operation issues have been fixed:
* When a copied item that was locally changed and locked was commited
(there are some exclusive checkout configuration here involved), a new
revision was created skipping the lock. Fixed.
* When a moved item that was locally changed was committed without
considering the local change (find local changes disabled on the GUI or
checkin without -all on the CLI), the local change was not detected
anymore. Fixed.
Bug
Command Line: The revision spec for an item inside an xlink did not work
properly when there were multiple xlinks on the workspace. Fixed.
In addition to that, some commands help have been updated to reflect the
revision specification of Plastic SCM 4.2.
Bug
Merge: When a merge operation contained a directory conflict and an
added writable xlink, the content inside the xlink was not applied and
the merge did not finished. Fixed.
Bug
Several cases related to labelling from the command line fixed:
* If you tried to label outside a workspace, the command failed.
* If the full specification of the changeset was not provided, the
operation failed.
* If some problem happened labeling in the server, a null was retrieved.
In addition to that, now if the changeset full specification is not
provided we assume the specification (repository) of the label.
If no path is provided, we assume the current path. See examples in the
blog post related to this release.
Internal Release 4.2.31.433 (May 02nd 2013)
====================================================
Internal improvements.
Internal Release 4.2.31.432 (Apr 29th 2013)
====================================================
New
Fox Pro integration: The SCC plugin has been adapted to work with Fox
Pro IDE, using the SCC interface.
New
Java client: We have developed a Java client for non-supported
environments (platforms that cannot run Mono). i.e.: Solaris, HP-UX.
This client is still in alpha phase.
External Release 4.1.10.431 (Apr 26th 2013)
====================================================
Performance
The update and status operations performance have been improved
significantly when working with cloaked items.
Example:
Workspace with 192.818 files, 33.877 folders and 400 cloaked rules
Version 4.1.10.426
Update (Nothing to update)
With cloaked: 644846 ms
Without cloaked: 18938 ms
Status (No changes)
With cloaked: 326089 ms
Without cloaked: 9376 ms
Now
Update (Nothing to update)
With cloaked: 21419 ms
Without cloaked: 18127 ms
Status (No changes)
With cloaked: 9485 ms
Without cloaked: 8814 ms
Bug
Fast import: Repositories that included spaces in the items paths,
exported from Git version 1.8.x or upper were failing. Fixed.
Bug
Merge to: It could fail when a moved to apply operation included more
changes inside it. Fixed
Bug
Working with a Windows client, the update operation returned a "The
type initializer for 'Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall' threw an exception.
at Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.getcwd(StringBuilder buf, UInt64 size)"
message error when a symlink had to be removed. Fixed.
Bug
AdminTool: The database migration to SQLite was not migrating the
creation date for branches correctly. Now it's fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.429 (Apr 25th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
GitSync: An error occurred importing paths with dots on it. Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: Git old file modes (664) were not properly imported. Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: Git commits messages with empty lines at the beginning were
not properly imported. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.428 (Apr 24th 2013)
====================================================
New
Unity 3-D Plugin: first internal version. Not distributable yet.
External Release 4.1.10.427 (Apr 19th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
The lock operation (exclusive checkout) has been protected against
out-of-date workspaces, in order to avoid unexpected errors.
Bug
Replica: Problems solved related to replication between servers with
different auth modes:
1) Any replication error was incorrectly asking for credentials prior to
show the exception, confusing the user.
2) Temporary profile caching was case sensitive hence causing mistakes.
3) Remote authentication issues were incorrectly prompting the user for
local credentials.
Bug
Xmerge wizard had some overlapping labels. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.425 (Apr 11th 2013)
====================================================
Internal improvements and new features integrated in this release.
External Release 4.1.10.423 (Apr 10th 2013)
====================================================
New
The FogBugZ Issue Tracker extension now has a checkbox in the
configuration panel that allows the user to enable/disable the checkin
log feature. The checkin log feature writes automatically a report of
the items changed on a recently created changeset after the
checkin operation on the associated task from the Issue Tracker System
(in this case, FogBugZ). By default, this option is selected, thus
logging the checkin operations.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed a 'file is being used by other process'
exception that could happen (not very often) when saving a file in
Visual Studio 2008.
Bug
Suppose you have a workspace pointing to a repository that does not
exist anymore. If you try to switch to another branch in another
repository Plastic SCM failed (both on CLI and GUI). Fixed.
Bug
The diff operation in the command line was not working properly when it
was executed outside of a workspace. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.422 (Apr 8th 2013)
====================================================
New
Improved search mechanism in the diff textboxes: Added an additional
search bar for the Diff tool, Merge tool and Code Review, so it is
easier to identify where you are searching in. Each textbox has its own
search bar now. Added functionality to set a red background when a
search did not find any result.
Internal Release 4.2.30.421 (Apr 4th 2013)
====================================================
New
Git sync: Now it checks the conflicts at branch level instead of at
repository level. This means that if two different branches are
modified both in Git and Plastic SCM, the user does not need to run two
sync commands as he/she had to do before (one for pulling the Git
change and other to push the Plastic SCM change).
New
Git sync: Now, the file system protection attributes are properly
handled.
New
Git sync: The sync is now independant of the platform. From now on it
is possible to import Linux repositories from Windows.
Bug
Git sync: Now it uses the commiter timestamp instead of the author one.
This way, there will not appear strange diagrams in the Branch Explorer
such as children older than their parents.
Bug
Git sync: When a comment had several empty lines in a row, only one was
imported. Fixed.
Bug
Git sync: Null error when pushing changes to Git if the parent of the
item pushed was a reference revision. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.420 (Apr 2nd 2013)
====================================================
Internal improvements that will be out available and published soon.
External Release 4.1.10.419 (Apr 1st 2013)
====================================================
Performance
Replica: The memory usage during the fetch step of the replication
operation has been reduced.
Bug
Sync view: Fixed an error that happened when connecting to a SSL
server: a "No channel found" message was retrieved.
Internal Release 4.2.30.418 (Mar 25th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Visual Studio Package: A NullReferenceException was raised when showing
the content of a recently added file from the pending changes view or
checkin dialog. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.417 (Mar 22th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Command line client: The "cm ls --selector -R" command was throwing
an error message when printing the children of a xlink. Fixed.
Bug
When sorting changesets by date or by name, the triangle that
represented the sorting in the Plastic SCM views was reversed. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed an unco issue related to moving an item inside a xlink with the
move source in use by other operation that causes an undo. Fixed.
Bug
A wrong dependency dialog was shown when trying to checkin a deleted
file that was not previously deleted on disk. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.416 (Mar 21th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
GitSync: Some repositories with annotated tags were importing
duplicated commits. Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: Sync process got stuck when "Compressing objects" when there
were new changesets in Plastic SCM older than one month. Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: Timeout exception fixed that happened when synching to GitHub
or BitBucket under Linux. This happened eventually. Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: A GUI thread was hanging the GUI after synchronizing because a
native call was not correctly mapped. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.415 (Mar 18th 2013)
====================================================
New
Security trigger: Now the security trigger writes the repository name
of the object that caused the security exception.
External Release 4.1.10.414 (Mar 14th 2013)
====================================================
New
Added context menu actions for items in the Diff view. When you compare
branches, changesets, branches, etc ... now the items in the list can
execute the following actions:
* Open
* OpenWith
* Save revision as
* Annotate
* View History
* ViewHistoryAs2DRevisionTree
These diff actions are now also available in the diff viewer.
Bug
The checkin operation could throw a 'duplicated itemId' exception
because the specific method for generating item ids could build
duplicates. Fixed.
Bug
The replica process could throw an 'object out of date' exception
because a wrong parent id could be used when checking the permission
for creating a child branch. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.413 (Mar 13th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Git Sync: It was getting hung after doing several sync operations.
Bug
Git Sync: Sync without authentication against some public repositories
was failing. Fixed.
Bug
Git Sync: The date of the commits pushed to Git was incorrect. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.412 (Mar 12th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Replica: The replica process could throw an 'object out of date'
exception because a wrong parent id could be used when checking the
permission for creating a child branch. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.411 (Mar 11th 2013)
====================================================
New
Mantis extension: Added encoding support to the mantis extension. Thus,
tasks that contain special characters are properly handled in Plastic
SCM.
New
Sync view: The sync dialog now tells you the repository of the branch
that is being replicated.
New
Sync view: During replication, the "close dialog" button is now
disabled to avoid undesired effects.
Bug
Sync view: Pushing a branch and clicking on the Retry button after
failing was showing an incorrect progress.
Bug
Merge: When a full check in was performed from the CLI and there were
not xlinks involved and there was a moved item (or more) and there was
a checked out item without changes, the check in command failed with a
null message. Nevertheless the checkin operation finished properly.
This is now fixed.
Bug
Merge: When a delete operation was undone during a conflict resolution
an unneeded File System protection to apply operation could take place
when we were working with File System permissions. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.30.410 (Mar 08th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
GitSync: A timeout of 30 seconds has been set to avoid the client
hanging when using the HTTP or HTTPS protocol.
Bug
GitSync: The pull operation was failing when importing a commit with a
referenced tree. Fixed.
Bug
GitSync: Fixed an error that happened when importing a reference
revision under a moved directory.
Internal Release 4.2.29.409 (Mar 05th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
The items view did not focused a node correctly when you used Ctrl+F to
find it. Fixed.
Bug
Sync command: Fixed a bug in the pull operation that happened when
applying a copied revision under a new directory.
Bug
GitSync: Merge Links were not being imported when the source changeset
was already present in Plastic SCM. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.407 (Mar 04th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Cloaked items: When you cloaked a directory, the local changes made
under it were shown in the Pending Changes view. Fixed: now they are
not shown.
Bug
Cloaked items: The merge operation was not performed fine when there
were cloaked items involved in it. Fixed.
Bug
Diff Tool: When diffing a file that contains tabs, the scroll did not
reach the maximum right margin of the left file. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.29.406 (Feb 26th 2013)
====================================================
New
Sync command: It now avoids to push a branch that has been deleted in
the remote repository.
Internal Release 4.2.29.405 (Feb 25th 2013)
====================================================
Performance
The performance of the git synchronization process has been greatly
improved for big repositories. As an example, the mono repository takes
a 60% less time synching.
External Release 4.1.10.404 (Feb 22th 2013)
====================================================
New
Now the Diff Tool and the Merge Tool support files with different
encodings. A different encoding can be set for each contributor and the
result as well.
The encoding set on the preferences is used as the result encoding.
Furthermore, it is used as the default encoding when the specific
contributor encoding cannot be detected. But the contributor encoding is
not changed, in order to avoid issues with wrong configured encodings.
When the configured encoding is set to "NONE", the resulting encoding
will depend on the contributors encoding.
* It will use the same as the source and the contributor, if both
contributors have the same encoding.
* If only one contributor change the encoding, the new encoding will be
used for the result encoding.
* If both change the encoding the result encoding will be the less
restrictive.
* If no encoding can be found, the content will be processed on raw mode.
Finally, the UTF-8 by default will not write the BOM unless the encoding
has been changed to UTF-8 with BOM. In that case, the BOM will be
written to the result. No UTF-8 BOM is added by default for UTF-8
encoding anymore.
Bug
Annotate of a checked out item said that the item was private, which was
not true. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.29.402 (Feb 20th 2013)
====================================================
New
Internal improvements done, for beta release series.
Internal Release 4.2.29.401 (Feb 18th 2013)
====================================================
New
Security system: Improved grant all, deny all permissions behaviour.
The button "grant all" is enabled when you enable any permission in the
list (the same for deny all). When you grant all the permissions, those
that are allowed are set if possible (when the permissons are not
inherited or if they have been overriden). The same for deny all.
New
Sync command: Now it is possible to use credentials to synchronize with
Git in the pull operation.
Bug
Sync command: The "Null in ReadBlob" error message has been fixed when
pulling from Git.
External Release 4.1.10.400 (Feb 13th 2013)
====================================================
New
Frontend server functionality has been added. The frontend server is a
process that listens on a port capturing all network requests and then
sending them to a plasticd process running on the same machine.
Connections are negotiated through the frontend. If a backend dies, the
frontend launches a new one. It can also kill the backends if they grow
larger than a certain amount of memory.
The following example launches a backend in console mode:
plasticfrontend --console --publicport=7070 --frontendport=7071
--remotingfile=remoting.backend.conf
New
The branch explorer now shows a panel with the branch/label/changeset
properties, when you hover on an object with the mouse.
Bug
Branch Explorer: A null reference exception was thrown sometimes when
deleting changesets. Fixed some concurrency problems.
Bug
Server: Now, the "plasticsd" script in Debian does not show the
annoying "too many arguments" warning.
Internal Release 4.2.29.399 (Feb 12th 2013)
====================================================
New
Internal improvements done, for beta releases.
Internal Release 4.2.29.398 (Feb 08th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Sync: Items could be lost when perfoming some complex move operations
with files and directories. Fixed.
Bug
Sync: It was not detecting the delete operations when they were
performed under a directory move (both operations in the same commit).
Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.397 (Feb 06th 2013)
====================================================
New
Installer: Mylyn for Eclipse has been included in the installer! Now it
is available for Plastic SCM 4.
New
The CLI now takes into account the preference to allow / do not allow
when trying to switch / update a workspace with changed items.
This preference has been moved from GUI configuration (guiclient.conf)
to the common configuration (client.conf). The old value for this
setting will be upgraded to the new behavior the first that Plastic is
loaded.
On the other hand, this preference could still be changed from the GUI
from "Preferences" -> "Other options" -> "Behavior when trying to
switch / update the workspace with changed items":
* "Allow"
* "Allow, showing a warning"
* "Do not allow, showing an error"
Bug
Server: The stats logging was failing in some concurrency scenarios
(the call user was not set yet).
Bug
Version tree 2D: Fixed a crash (stack overflow exception) that happened
when the main branch has a long history.
Bug
Version tree 2D: the changeset number was cut when drawing the vertical
layout. Fixed.
Bug
Method history: A null was raised in linux when the view was opened
(from the Annotate view, as usual). It is a mono 2.6.x issue that
happens when setting the value of a DataGridViewCell object. Fixed:
The problem has been workarounded by initializing the rows of the grid
in a different way.
Internal Release 4.2.28.396 (Feb 05th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
The sync command was crashing when pushing an empty changeset child of
the zero changeset. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.28.395 (Feb 01st 2013)
====================================================
New
Internal improvements done in our beta series and testing.
External Release 4.1.10.394 (Jan 31th 2013)
====================================================
New
Method History: now it is possible to check the history of a method that
it is contained in a file that it is not loaded in the workspace. To do
that, from the Repository browser view or the History view, open the
Annotate view and then right click on the left panel and select
"Show method history", as usual. In addition to that, some texts that
appeared cut have been fixed.
Performance
LDAP performance has been improved (most of the improved things are
common for all the security providers):
* Users and their relationships are refreshed periodically as usual, but
only the users that are still in use, instead of all the known users
by Plastic. So if no user is active at that moment (no one is working
with Plastic) no user will be reloaded.
* The DB access has been avoided during the users refresh. The refresh
interval has been increased from 5 minutes to 15 minutes, as several
customers demanded.
* Some LDAP calls have been avoided, getting the common information
among different users and groups.
Bug
When a different client (or clients) are checking the workspace content
(reading it), while the current client is trying to save the new
workspace content (the operation result), it was possible that the new
workspace content could not be stored so the old workspace content
(without the operation changes) was preserved. Fixed: now if the
workspace content cannot be stored the operation will fail.
In addition to that, the concurrent read and write operation on the
workspace content have been improved.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed a crash that happened when:
1) Issue tracking integration enabled (branch mode), and
2) enter visibility mode in branch explorer, and
3) show "Legend". Error: Key cannot be null.
Bug
Fast import: It has been improved:
- Better progress notification,
- fixed some bugs and
- improved performance.
Bug
Team City plugin: The patches applied on the remote agents were not
performing the delete operations properly. Now the items that have been
deleted between the previous build and the current one are properly
applied.
Internal Release 4.2.28.393 (Jan 30th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Bisync: Code protected from corrupt objects in the Git repository.
Internal Release 4.2.28.392 (Jan 24th 2013)
====================================================
New
IntelliJ plugin re-enabled for Plastic 4!!! Now you can work in
Plastic SCM from your favourite Java IDE.
Available for IntelliJ 8 and IntelliJ 11.
External Release 4.1.10.391 (Jan 23th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Code Review: When a deleted item was selected, a "Value cannot be null."
error was returned. Fixed.
Bug
Merge: A merge resolution issue that happens when a directory is removed
and added again during the merge resolution, has been fixed. Example:
We keep the source resolution on the following merge case:
base:
/src
/src/foo.c
src:
add /doc
mv /src/foo.c to /doc/foo.c
delete src
dst:
add /src/bar.c
add /src/qux.c
Bug
Branch Explorer: Improved the mechanism to preserve the position when
the diagram is refreshed. In addition to that the following has been
fixed:
* It scrolled down and right a little bit when it was refreshed. Fixed.
* It sometimes showed a blank part of the diagram when the
workspace working information was not found. Fixed: now it focuses on
the LAST changeset (last checkin).
* Fixed some errors when refreshing the view intensively.
Bug
Documentation: All the "revno" appearances deleted, since they are
pointless in Plastic SCM 4.
Internal Release 4.2.28.390 (Jan 21th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Sync command: The pull operation was failing in these two scenarios:
- Case sensitive renames importing from Windows.
- Directories replaced by files in the same commit.
Both are fixed now.
Bug
Sync command: It was crashing when Git had two tags o heads that are
only different based on the '/' and '-' characters.
e.g.: when the repos had the tags 'version-1.0' and 'version/1.0'.
Fixed.
Bug
Sync command: It was crashing when a file was moved inside a directory
that was located in its old path.
e.g.: moving the file '/feed' to '/feed/index'.
Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.28.389 (Jan 16th 2013)
====================================================
New
Internal improvements done in our beta series.
External Release 4.1.10.388 (Jan 11th 2013)
====================================================
New
The version tree 2D filter algorithm has been improved:
1) Only relevant labels are shown.
2) Included some options to filter. Now you are able to see:
a) Only revisions.
b) Revisions and merges from revisions to other changesets.
c) Availability to view/hide labels.
d) Availability to view all merges related to the history of the
current file.
New
Plastic GUI: Added a hint when a custom logo is shown.
New
Office plugin: The Plastic SCM tab can be shown / hidden.
Bug
Diff: Diffs on Xlinks were calculated incorrectly when the xlink
containing the differences was pointing to a different repository.
It was always trying to solve the differences locally on the same
server. Fixed.
Bug
Diff: An "out of memory" exception during the file differences process
that could happen under some special conditions, has been fixed.
Bug
Diff: The diff and merge tools configured for a specific extension were
returned for another extension that starts with the defined extension.
Fixed.
Bug
Diff: When UTF8 encoding is set as comparison encoding (UTF8 is always
used for differences and merges) and the file is not an UTF8 file, the
first byte is not handled properly. Fixed.
Bug
Pending Changes view: The merge is shown multiple times when it is in
progress. Fixed.
Bug
Office plugin: Backend for PowerPoint 2010 has been disabled. It was not
working properly.
Internal Release 4.2.28.387 (Jan 10th 2013)
====================================================
Performance
Bysinc: Review the memory usage and the performance of the sync command
using the Mono repository.
Bug
Bisync: If a git commit had an already synchronized parent, the merge
dependencies were not taken into account and the process could fail.
Fixed.
Bug
Bisync: The sync command failed when it needed to export a changeset
child of the zero changeset that loaded the same tree of the zero
changeset (not very common scenario). Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.28.386 (Jan 9th 2013)
====================================================
New
Bisync: More matching cases are supported on Git synchronization.
Internal Release 4.2.28.385 (Jan 8th 2013)
====================================================
Bug
Bisync: Improve the calculation of the directory differences to fix an
issue related to items that have the same name and different type and
consecutive commits/changesets.
Bug
Bisync: The branch head was not correctly updated when two references
were mapped to the same branch. Fixed.
Bug
Bisync: The progress of the sync operation has been improved. Some
localization issues fixed.
Bug
Bisync: Bisync dialog tab order has been fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.28.384 (Dec 21th 2012)
====================================================
New
Lots of internal improvements in code and stability made.
Internal Release 4.2.27.383 (Dec 17th 2012)
====================================================
New
Git Bisync: Now the credentials for the repository will be saved, so you
do not need to enter them in the next sync.
External Release 4.1.10.382 (Dec 14th 2012)
====================================================
Performance
Merge performance fixed. It was broken in 4.1.10.378 and now it has been
fixed.
Bug
When multiple items are checked out, and some of them must be locked,
all of them were locked wrongly. Fixed.
Bug
Some issues have been fixed related to directory differences:
* "Index was outside the bounds of the array" error that happened
under some special conditions. Fixed
* The xlinks now handle properly the differences. They are not shown
as files anymore.
* The checked out directories were showed with empty content. Fixed.
Bug
Xlinks create and edit dialog: taborder fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.27.381 (Dec 12th 2012)
====================================================
Several internal improvements done.
External Release 4.1.10.380 (Dec 10th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Shell extension: On some odd circumstances, the attributes extended
panel that is available from the Branches view and the Changesets view
got stucked. Fixed.
Bug
Method History: Under some special conditions the method history wasted
CPU although it was closed, when used from the Visual Studio Package.
Fixed.
Bug
GUI: under very special circumstances the "plastic.exe" process was not
closed altough the GUI was closed. Fixed: now the GUI closes all its
subprocesses when it is shut down.
Internal Release 4.2.27.379 (Dec 05th 2012)
====================================================
Performance
The performance has been improved by 50%-70% with the tested repositories.
Code protected to support some issues with weird paths & the LibGit2Sharp
library.
External Release 4.1.10.378 (Dec 04th 2012)
====================================================
New
The update-merge operation can work now with writable xlinks when there
are not any conflicts in any of the involved repositories.
Bug
The checkin recent comments were not being correctly read (from the
disk file) when the comments contained any of these characters:
'_', '#', '@'.
Bug
Diff: Lines that contain some special characters that can be handled as
prefixes (such as: &) were not being drawn properly on Linux by the
differences and the mergetool (Mono issue). Fixed.
Bug
Repository browser view: If this view was the first items view opened
the folder icons were wrongly painted as a special icon (volume icon).
Fixed.
Bug
Shelve: When a shelve was applied the locks were not taken into account.
Fixed.
Bug
Shelve: When a file is left as checked out by the shelve operation the
readonly permission is properly removed.
Internal Release 4.2.27.377 (Nov 30th 2012)
====================================================
New
GIT Bisync: Added a new Summary view control, with the processed
branches, imported changesets and conflicts, if any.
External Release 4.1.10.376 (Nov 29th 2012)
====================================================
New
Now the move search by similar content can be restricted to the same
file extension for text files, binary files or both. By default, the
binary files are restricted to process only the files with same
extension.
New
Advanced queries can be executed now by hitting . There is no
need to go and click on "Execute".
Bug
Trigger examples removed from the installer, as they were not correct in
4.0.
Bug
Small aesthetical issues fixed. The client configuration wizard includes
an example attached to the "server" text box, in order to help the user
what information goes there.
Bug
Branch Explorer: navigation keys did not work properly when the "Display
only relevant changesets" option was enabled. Fixed.
Bug
WebUI: the repository description has been removed, as it was pointless.
Bug
WebUI: When downloading raw data of a .zip or .dll file, the name
suggested by the Internet browser was "Raw" instead of the item name.
Fixed: the name was only set if the content type was octet-stream, which
was not correct.
Internal Release 4.2.27.375 (Nov 27th 2012)
====================================================
New
The permissions form design has been improved with detailed explanations
and tooltips with reduced fields. Now there are options for allowing all
permissions, or denying them. The Linux compatibility has been improved.
Bug
Method history "Could not find file..." issue fixed.
Bug
The sync command was throwing a null exception when detecting the moves
in scenarios with multiple items with the same hash under a moved
directory.
External Release 4.1.10.374 (Nov 26th 2012)
====================================================
New
Shelves with more than one file to be merged can now be partially
applied: not all of them need to be merged. The applied shelve
does not show up in the Pending Changes View anymore as an
in-progress merge.
Bug
Fixed a problem when discovering servers. The second run may got
stucked. This happened only in some special circumstances and was not
easy to reproduce, so this is a minor issue.
Internal Release 4.2.27.373 (Nov 22th 2012)
====================================================
New
Semantic merge pre-alpha release.
External Release 4.1.10.372 (Nov 21th 2012)
====================================================
New
Visual Studio Package: Now the plugin includes a toolbar showing the
most common views available: Pending changes, Branches, Branch
Explorer, Labels, Changesets, Repositories, Synchornization, Workspace
explorer, Pending changes in the workspace.
By clicking on these buttons the corresponding view will appear, the
same way as clicking on the View -> Plastic SCM menu.
In addition to that, shortcuts have been added to open these views:
Pending changes view -> Alt+Shift+P
Branches view -> Alt+Shift+B
Branch Explorer view -> Alt+Shift+E
Labels view -> Alt+Shift+L
Changesets view -> Alt+Shift+C
Repositories view -> Alt+Shift+R
Synchronization view -> Alt+Shift+S
Workspace Explorer view -> Alt+Shift+I (Items)
Pending changes on workspace view -> Alt+Shift+W (Workspace)
Bug
Fixed an internal null that could happen if the server did not have any
activity. This could lead, under very weird circumstances to a
non-responding server. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: plastic.exe application was closing the differences dialog just
after being shown. This issue only happened when launching the
application using '--showbranch=full_branch_spec' or
'--showchangeset=full_changeset_spec' parameters (example:
'plastic.exe --showbranch=br:/main/Rel1.1@tools@localhost:8087'). Fixed.
Bug
GUI: Update progress dialog size increased to avoid cut texts.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: localization issue in the changesets view fixed.
Bug
WebUI (beta): The branches and changesets view were not showing any
information when the date separator on the regional settings was not
'/'. Fixed.
Bug
WebUI (beta): The charts were not showed when the repository name
contained some special characters. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.27.371 (Nov 20th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
The items preview was throwing a null exception when it was shown. Fixed.
Bug
The items view did not focused a node correctly in the Items view
view after an item search. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.27.370 (Nov 19th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added a GUI for the Git Bisync. Alpha version.
External Release 4.1.10.369 (Nov 15th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
The findchanged command raised an error when the workspace had locally
removed items and they were not inside a removed directory. Fixed: now
the list of changed files in the workspace is displayed.
Bug
The numericUpDown WindowsForms control did not fit correctly when using
the Windows Classic theme. Fixed.
Bug
The scrolls were not updated correctly after finding a text (Ctrl+F) in
the textbox. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.27.368 (Nov 14th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
The 'sync git' command could not push packages bigger than 40Mb to
github. It also failed when pushing file names with accents or other
strange characters. Both issues are fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.27.367 (Nov 09th 2012)
====================================================
New
Security system: New rm permissions for different kind of objects has
been implemented. The new permissions are: rmlabel, rmtrigger, rmattr
and rmchangeset. The already existent "rm" permission is only checked
during the checkin operation, when there are secured paths defined to
control whether a certain path can be removed or not.
New
Security system: Now it is possible to use the override mask to
forcibly define a secured path permission. This way, if a given path is
about to be checked in matches with another secured path with different
permissions, these different permissions won't be considered for the
security check.
Performance
Branch Explorer: The performance has been greatly improved when
calculating the layout of repositories imported from Git.
Example with the Git repository:
Time: from >> 6000 seconds to 4 seconds.
Memory: from 1.2Gb to 250Mb.
Bug
Triggers: There was a problem when a security trigger was defined and a
security exception was thrown when pushing a branch to another
repository. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.366 (Nov 08th 2012)
====================================================
New
Annotate view available from the History view and the Repository
browser view.
New
Installer: Removed the "migration from version 3 to 4" message, as it
is not useful anymore.
Bug
It was not possible to annotate a locally deleted item; the item was
not found. Now this case is supported.
Bug
The update merge operation was updating wrongly the revisions of the
xlinked repositories. This scenario led to weird results when trying
a merge operation (with changes inside these xlinked repositories)
afterwards. Fixed.
Bug
The items view mode (list, tree) was changed in an items view instance
if you changed the items view mode A in other items view B instance
and then refreshed A. Fixed.
Bug
Replica progress dialog aesthetic issue regarding a cut label fixed.
Bug
SCC Plugin: The "Get" operation has been fixed on the SCC plugin. It
was not correctly implemented, and this was only noticeable when using
the plugin in PowerBuilder, apparently. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.26.365 (Nov 06th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Security: Several issues on concurrent scenarios related to secured
paths fixed.
Bug
Security: Aesthetic improvements on the Path Permission Dialog done.
External Release 4.1.10.364 (Oct 31th 2012)
====================================================
New
Go to line feature (Shortcut: Ctrl+G) in the textbox, so that users can
scroll directly to a certain line when working with Differences,
Mergetool and Annotate. This feature works the same way as it works in
Visual Studio or Notepad.
New
Pending Changes view adds more information about the merges in progress.
Each file in Pending Changes view coming from a merge is decorated with
merge source information.
Bug
During merge, if the option "Find changed files in workspace before merge"
is set, and there are changed files in the workspace, a dialog shows up
warning about the situation. Now the dialog is properly refreshed if a
subset of changes is undone.
Internal Release 4.2.25.362 (Oct 30th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
IntelliJ IDEA Plugin: small bugfixes done, related to performance issues,
aesthetical small details and features that are no longer used.
External Release 4.1.10.363 (Oct 29th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
There could be review comments or attribute realizations that were lost
during the replication process, on some special bidirectional
replications or replications that involved more than 2 repositories.
Fixed.
Bug
The merge to issue "Can't add an entry with the same name." , that was
related with multiple changes on the same item, has been fixed.
Bug
Having changed files before an "update-merge" operation could lead to
missing local changes. Fixed.
Bug
When a local change was undone and someone else owned an exclusive
checkout, the operation failed. Fixed.
Bug
When an item exclusively checked out was removed, the locked items never
were released. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.361 (Oct 22th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
When the destination revision was checked out, the destination parent
revision was the ancestor revision and the destination content size was
the same as the ancestor content size, although the destination content
was different than the ancestor content, the source contributor was
wrongly left as result. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: The views that support querying had a problem when reseting the
query: if Plastic was restarted the custom query was reloaded again,
instead of loading the reseted query. Fixed.
External Release 4.2.25.360 (Oct 19th 2012)
====================================================
New
Git Bisync to synchronize Git repositories with Plastic SCM. Alpha
version. This way developers can use Git as well as Plastic SCM in the
same projects.
External Release 4.2.25.358 (Oct 16th 2012)
====================================================
New
A new trigger type has been introduced, named "security".
This new trigger type is a server trigger that it is fired every time a
security exception happens.
Bug
Security: Several aesthetic issues in the permissions forms have been
fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.357 (Oct 08th 2012)
====================================================
New
WebUI: Available as a beta version.
Internal Release 4.2.24.356 (Oct 08th 2012)
====================================================
New
Improvements and internal bugfixes related to the Git - Plastic SCM
synchronization.
External Release 4.1.10.355 (Oct 06th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Working with xlinks. Under some special conditions, if the checkin
operation failed but some of the repositories have already been committed,
the committed data was not sent. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.354 (Oct 05th 2012)
====================================================
New
Atlassian Crucible plugin reviewed and added support for Xlinks. Also
performance improved when listing changesets and calculating diffs.
Beta version.
New
Branches view: Implemented a tree-mode. Now the branches can be
displayed in a list (as usual) or in a tree.
Bug
Fixed a checkin operation error: "The changed node (ItemId:) cannot be
null". This error could happen during a checkin operation when an
xlinked repository had only unneeded changes (same data changes) and
its parent repository had needed changes.
Fixed the issue "You've pending changes in your workspace" when there
are not any change on the Pending Changes view. This issue could happen
after a checkin operation error under some special conditions.
Bug
An "Index out of range" error that was happening while all merges were
processed, has been fixed. This error occurred when all the modified on
source files were locked by an external application.
External Release 4.2.24.353 (Oct 03rd 2012)
====================================================
Performance
Security: Server was performing unnecesary security checks during the
checkin operation. Fixed.
Bug
Security: Minor aesthetic issues fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.352 (Oct 02nd 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Exclusive checkout: Several issues related have been fixed:
1) directories are no longer locked or unlocked.
2) files that were locked failed to be merged since merge was trying to
checkout (and lock) again
3) checkout (and then lock) and move was making the unlock to fail, the
lock was held incorrectly.
All these have been fixed.
Bug
Replica: The replica system was not taking into account some types of
merge links under certain circumstances. Fixed: Now, the replication
package includes all the related interval links.
Internal Release 4.2.24.351 (Oct 01st 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Web UI: Code review comments with "show original revision" link were
broken. Fixed.
Bug
Web UI: Side by side diffs had no styles applied if the web application
was not installed in the root directory of the website. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.350 (Sept 27th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added support for Atmel Studio 6.0 in the installer. This IDE is based
on Visual Studio 2010. The package will be installed in Atmel Studio
by means of the VSIX installer used for Visual Studio 2012.
New
New checkdatabase command is available. This command checks the
databases integrity.
Usage:
cm checkdatabase [spec]
spec: server or repository spec.
Remarks:
- If [spec] is not specified, the checkdatabase will use the value of
the WorkspaceServer property defined in the client.conf file.
Examples:
cm checkdatabase repserver:localhost:8084
cm checkdatabase rep:default@localhost:8084
Bug
When a full checkin was done from the CLI using the option
"--applychanged", only the changed items under the current directory
were committed instead of applying all the workspace changed items.
Now it is fixed.
Bug
Export View: When exporting the History view an error appeared. Fixed:
Labels column has been removed, as it is no longer used.
Internal Release 4.2.24.349 (Sept 25th 2012)
====================================================
New
Security: The new permissions form has been redesigned due to usability
issues. The same functionality is available.
Internal Release 4.2.23.348 (Sept 24th 2012)
====================================================
Performance
Performance improved in the merge operation by means of custom
serialization in merge conflicts.
Bug
Security system: Permissions dialog was not printing the secured path
owner. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.22.347 (Sept 20th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Permissions form: Wrong behavior when adding and removing users and
groups to an object permissions on the same session. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.22.346 (Sept 18th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Security: The ACL of an attribute or a label was lost after renaming it.
Fixed.
Bug
Security: Overriden permissions were lost after a server restart. Fixed.
Bug
A workspace pointing to an unreachable server does not hang the Items
view anymore. Now the GUI is able to identify the server as unreachable,
and an update to the right server will get the issue solved.
Bug
WebUI: fixed problem in initialization after install.
External Release 4.1.10.345 (Sept 17th 2012)
====================================================
New
Shell Extension: Show the 2D revision tree instead the 3D revision tree.
Bug
Security system: The system will show an error message if the user
tries to leave the permissions of the repository server without any user
or group specified, to prevent situations where there's no permissions
to do anything.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Showing the remote changesets for a single branch
caused that the view calculated the layout incorrectly. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: Fixed alignment of Preferences and RSS Notifications icons, and
some small issues in the About form.
Bug
Images Diff Tool: Now the form has a default minimum size.
Internal Release 4.2.21.344 (Sept 12th 2012)
====================================================
New
Server: Now the administrator has all permissions granted, even when
performing a checkin operation and there are secured paths defined.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Showing the remote changesets for a single branch
caused that this view calculated the layout incorrectly. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: An error was shown when showing path permissions of a secured path
with a reference to a deleted branch. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.10.343 (Sept 11th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
The merge conflict resolution has been improved in order to avoid
impossible conflicts resolution combinations and reduce the number
of conflicts.
Bug
Query command: The --repository option did not work outside a workspace.
Fixed. In addition to this, a bug related with the --solvepath option
has been fixed.
Bug
Replica: the command was looking into the workspace repository even when
non-related repositories were involved in replica. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed a crash when when cancelling changing the
current workspace in the Workspace Working Info view. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.21.342 (Sept 10th 2012)
====================================================
New
Web UI: Branches view now has a date filter, like the changesets view.
It now displays the branches that have changes in the given date range.
Bug
Web UI: code review comments could not be added to items in xlinked
repositories. Now it is possible to add comments in xlinked repositories.
External Release 4.1.10.341 (Sept 07th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Now, the directory or file name that contains special chars, such as
'$' or '^' can be matched with the regex system used in the
cloaked.conf, ignored.conf and hidden_changes.conf files.
Bug
The search bar in the diff and merge tool was searching the next
occurrence when clicking on the button search previous. Fixed.
Bug
The cm log command could not be executed from a profiled workspace.
Bug
The "path in use" situation is undone when the original path, that was
in use during the merge process, is released after the merge process.
Bug
The replica was not working correctly when a checkin operation was
performed between two specific steps of the replica process, due to a
concurrency issue very unlikely to happen.
Internal Release 4.2.21.340 (Sept 04th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
GUI: The permissions form was showing the wrong object owner when
showing the permissions form twice. Fixed.
Bug
cm acl command: now users are able to specify the secured path through
--branches parameter without specifying any tag.
External Release 4.1.10.339 (Sept 03rd 2012)
====================================================
New
Implemented a mechanism to dectect new changes on the repository from
the Pending Changes View. This mechanism is useful in a single branch
working pattern. When multiple developers are working on the same
branch, it is usual to get your workspace out-of-date because other
developer checked-in some changes that could overlap your changes. You
can activate an option called "Look for newer changes in the repository"
to use this feature. When selected, the Pending Changes view calculates
if there are newer changesets in your working branch; in this case,
it shows an informative panel. This panel will show you the new changes
in a merge panel, and you can update your workspace to the lastest
changeset of your branch.
New
The update command supports a new option, --parallel, provided with the
options: --parallel and --noparallel. By default, the option
--noparallel is used.
New
The diff view includes this new features:
* The date of the change (timestamp) is shown in the details, along with
the timestamp for the reviewed object.
* Now it is possible to copy the file name. Added a context menu with
the option "Copy" in the file list.
* The selected file color is more noticeable (it was not visible in some
screens, due to brightness and contrast configurations).
* Preserved the syntax highlight preference when switching between files.
Bug
Xlinks: Some issues related with an xlink that reuse an old controlled
path have been fixed.
Bug
Merge: An issue related to having a moved deleted conflict has been
fixed when the move source and destination has been deleted. Some
conflict raised by the "path in use" protection has been avoided.
The conflict dependencies detection has been improved.
Bug
Shelve: When a shelve with an added structure was applied and committed,
then the children were not properly stored under some special
circumstances. Fixed.
Bug
Sync view: Fixed an unhandled exception when cancelling a replication
operation that failed from this view. The form was disposed when the
user updated the GUI.
Bug
GUI: Fixed an aesthetic issue in the main form that was noticeable when
showing the GUI at 120 dpi. In addition to this, the left panel that
lists the Plastic views now preserves the size when you close and
reopen the GUI. Fixed a problem with the Extended information panel
and the Advanced view in the Branches view.
External Release 4.2.20.338 (Aug 31st 2012)
====================================================
Upgrade security changes applied; internal, so no release notes this time.
Internal Release 4.2.20.337 (Aug 21st 2012)
====================================================
New features integrated in 4.1.10.336 are now available.
New
New security system. The ACL-based permission system has been
rewritten to improve performance and simplify previously tedious
operations. Path-based ACLs are a new an easier way to specify
permissions for items.
New
Web interface installer
Bug
Web interface: fixed chart colors on newer versions of several
browsers.
Bug
Web interface: fixed code review comments in side-by-side mode.
Bug
Extensions: The checkin log into an extension was not logging the
deleted items. Fixed. Now, the items are printed along with a decorator
telling whether the item has been changed (C), added (A), deleted (D),
moved (M) or moved and changed (M+C).
Internal Release 4.1.10.336 (Aug 21st 2012)
====================================================
New
Improved the directory conflict resolution when merging.
Now conflict dependencies are checked on the server side
during the conflict resolution.
New
Improved the bugtracker integration mechanism.
The checkin log into an extension was not logging the deleted items.
Now it's fixed. Now, the items are printed along with a decorator
telling whether the item has been changed (C), added (A),
deleted (D), moved (M) or moved and changed (M+C).
Bug
Showing the differences of a file with an other previous revision
was throwing a null exception in some scenarios working with xlinks.
Bug
The update operation will continue if there are xlinks that
cannot be resolved because they are pointing to a non-existent
changesets or repositories.
External Release 4.1.10.335 (Aug 14th 2012)
====================================================
New
RSS view: Now, the avatars are stored in the plastic4 local folder
instead of the Temp local folder. Also, the image file resource is
immediately released after it's loaded in memory. Finally, a better
mechanism for non-available images has been implemented.
Bug
The locally moved operations could not be applied when a directory was
renamed to its old name plus some new characters and it contained other
directory inside. Fixed.
Bug
The recent items list might became a mess if it stored more than 5 items
because the separators were taken into account as normal items, and when
restarting the GUI new separators were introduced every 5 items... Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.19.334 (Aug 11th 2012)
====================================================
New
Overriden permissions have been added to the show acl command.
External Release 4.1.10.333 (Aug 10th 2012)
====================================================
New
Now, the merge process, on a case-insensitive filesystem, supports
case-rename operations (when the name is changed only from lower-case to
upper-case or vice versa).
Bug
Changeset Explorer: The view was listing the changesets ordered by ID.
It would be more useful to order them by date. Fixed.
Bug
Pending changes view: It could show a file locked exception when
calculating locally moved items and at least a private item was locked
by an external application. Fixed.
Bug
Fast import: The "An element with the same key already exists in the
dictionary" error has been fixed. The process could generate duplicated
item ids.
External Release 4.2.11.332 (Aug 08th 2012)
====================================================
New
The AD integrated security now supports multi-domain (forest)
environments.
New
The sync command tries to use the changeset user when pushing Plastic
changesets. If the user does not exist in TFS, it uses the authorized
one. Also, the comment of the changesets that mean a conflict resolution
can be customized with the '--commentwhenmerging' option.
Internal Release 4.2.18.331 (Aug 08th 2012)
====================================================
New features integrated in 4.1.10.326 and 4.1.10.328 are now available,
together with features in 4.1.10.330 (the release previous to this one):
New
Any conflict that was causing a "path in use" message are now avoided.
New
Added chmod support to fast-export. Fast-export was adding all entries
with 10644, now it is able to export 10644 or 10755. Git only supports
these two to distinguish from writable and executable.
Performance
The performance of the delete operation when it is applied to lots of
items has been improved.
Bug
Items View: Improved rendering performance of the TreeList controls
inside the view.
Bug
Installer: Prevented from a situation of trying to remove Plastic
entries in the Windows Registry without being the administrator, during
an upgrade or uninstallation operation.
Bug
When a directory permissions change is checked in from a Windows client
(as a result of a merge), the previous directory revision has been
checked in from a Linux client and the directory has children but they
have not been changed, the directory children were lost. Fixed.
New in this release:
New
A new permission has been added: replicatewrite permission.
From now on, the replica will check that you have this permission in
order to carry out the replication process.
External Release 4.1.10.330 (Aug 06th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
It could happen that multiple instances of the same revision existed in
the TreeCache. Now, the instances will be unique.
Bug
A moved item from a copied structure to outside it could be left loaded
twice on the workspace under some special conditions. Fixed.
Bug
There could happen an error if checking in files after a merge that
involved a repository with xlinks and the changes inside some xlinks are
debt only by a rebase, but not for real changes. In addition to this,
this issue only happened if there were after-checkin triggers configured
on the server. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.10.328 (Aug 03th 2012)
====================================================
New
Any conflict that was causing a "path in use" message are now avoided.
Performance
The performance of the delete operation when it is applied to lots of
items has been improved.
Bug
Items View: Improved rendering performance of the TreeList controls
inside the view.
Bug
Installer: Prevented from a situation of trying to remove Plastic
entries in the Windows Registry without being the administrator, during
an upgrade or uninstallation operation.
Internal Release 4.2.17.327 (Aug 02th 2012)
====================================================
New
Security system: Two new options have been added to the acl command in
order to let you override inherited permissions: -overrideallowed and
-overridedenied.
New
Implement override inherited permissions in the GUI. If you want to
override an inherited permission, you have to click on the label
permission so that the override checkboxes will appear in the
permissions form. When clicking on the override checkbox, the inherited
checkbox will be enabled to let you change it.
Bug
Branch Explorer: the base changeset of an empty branch was filtered out
if the "display only relevant changesets" option was set. The base
changeset is now displayed.
External Release 4.1.10.326 (Jul 31th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added chmod support to fast-export. Fast-export was adding all entries
with 10644, now it is able to export 10644 or 10755. Git only supports
these two to distinguish from writable and executable.
Bug
When a directory permissions change is checked in from a Windows client
(as a result of a merge), the previous directory revision has been
checked in from a Linux client and the directory has children but they
have not been changed, the directory children were lost. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.324 (Jul 27th 2012)
====================================================
New
Checkin triggers (both server and client) now include the status of the
change as well as the item changed and the type of the item: FILE, DIR
or XLINK. The acronyms are the same as the ones used in the cm status
command: AD= added, CH=changed, MV=moved, DE=deleted. Example:
AD C:\wkpath\fileadded.txt FILE
DE C:\wkpath\dirdeleted DIR
CH C:\wkpath\xlinkchanged XLINK
The server triggers retrieve further information, such as changeset,
branch, repository...
AD C:\wkpath\fileadded.txt FILE#br:/main;changeset:2345@rep:myrepo@repserver:localhost:8087
DE C:\wkpath\dirdeleted DIR#br:/main;changeset:2345@rep:myrepo@repserver:localhost:8087
CH C:\wkpath\xlinkchanged XLINK#br:/main;changeset:2345@rep:myrepo@repserver:localhost:8087
Please, take this into account if you are currently using checkin
triggers in your setup.
New
Adjusted main GUI screen to support higher DPI and big fonts.
Bug
Shelve: Fixed a "No checkout branch" exception that happened when
trying to shelve changes while working on a label.
Internal Release 4.2.16.323 (Jul 26th 2012)
====================================================
New
IntelliJ 8 plugin version alpha developed.
New
IntelliJ 11 plugin version alpha developed.
External Release 4.1.10.322 (Jul 25th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added support for Microsoft Office diff and merge:
Diff support: MS Word, MS Excel MS PowerPoint (<= 2003 version)
Merge support: MS Word
New Plastic SCM installations will have pre-configured the scripts to
perform diff and merge.
Current Plastic SCM users need some manual work. There are two options:
1) Delete client.conf file and launch the configuration wizard again, or
2) Configure the scripts manually:
NOTE: All diff and merge tools must be defined **BEFORE** other tools,
since we need to place the more specific rules first.
- Word diff: Add the following diff tool as external tool:
wscript.exe "client\diffscripts\diff-doc.js" "@sourcefile" "@destinationfile" //E:javascript
Suffix: .doc;.docx
- Excel diff: Add the following diff tool as external tool:
wscript.exe "client\diffscripts\diff-xls.js" "@sourcefile" "@destinationfile" //E:javascript
Suffix: .xls;.xlsx
- PowerPoint diff: Add the following diff tool as external tool:
wscript.exe "client\diffscripts\diff-ppt.js" "@sourcefile" "@destinationfile" //E:javascript
Suffix: .ppt;.pptx
- Merge Word: Add the following merge tool as external tool:
"client\diffscripts\merge-doc.exe" "@destinationfile" "@sourcefile" "@output"
Suffix: .doc;.docx
Happy diffing and merging!
New
Now, if the path to the audit log file is a relative path (it can be set
in the server.conf file), the audit log file will be created at the
Plastic server directory.
Bug
When undoing a replaced item inside a xlink the item was deleted from
disk. Fixed: now it is restored with the previous content.
Bug
Fixed some wrong text in the Annotate context menu under Linux and
Mac OS X.
Internal Release 4.2.16.321 (Jul 21th 2012)
====================================================
New
The security system has been improved adding the possibility of
overriding inherited permissions. This change is intended to avoid
cutting inheritance so often and make it simpler to use and simpler to
understand.
Bug
Security System: Path permissions were being checked twice. Check them
just once.
External Release 4.1.10.320 (Jul 20th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Textbox: Fixed a problem selecting text containing spaces or tabs in the
texbox in non-windows platforms.
Bug
Plastic GUI: The columns header was semi-transparent. This was broken
during the visual studio 2012 package development, to adapt the style
to this IDE. Fixed.
Bug
Plastic GUI: Sometimes the views did not execute the double click
action. This was specially noticeable in the Items view, when trying to
open a file. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.2.15.319 (Jul 19th 2012)
====================================================
New features and bugfixes integrated on 4.1.10.315, 4.1.10.317 and
4.1.10.318 are now available:
New
Visual Studio Package: Added all the Plastic SCM commands to the editor
context menu. Now it is not necessary to go to the Solution Explorer to
perform Plastic SCM actions on an item, but it is possible to do that
from the Visual Studio editor.
New
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 package: Plastic SCM includes now a (beta)
version of the package for Visual Studio 2012.
New
Now, the "Switch to the new branch" checkbox option in the New branch
dialog is recorded, so the next time this dialog is opened this option
appears automatically selected / unselected depending on whether it was
selected or not the last time the dialog was opened.
New
Now Plastic SCM supports modifying the file system permissions of xlinks.
Bug
The checkin operation was failing with an "item not found" error when
it tried to commit changes inside an xlink and the xlink was not
pointing to the branch head (i.e.:it is not updated). Fixed.
Bug
The merge operation was failing with an "item not found" error when the
merge source was inside an xlink and the workspace contained changes.
Fixed.
Bug
Xlinks are now updated properly even if the target tree is the same.
This happens when 2 different changesets load the same tree.
Bug
Shared workspaces: Improved support when using samba-winShare. Undesired
changed files appeared when performing an update or a switch to branch
operation.
Added a new option "Enable shared workspace support (Samba/Winshare)"
that fixes this problem.
Bug
Replica: Concurrent replication processes involving the same changesets
could cause duplicated objects in the database. Fixed: There was a lock
to protect against these cases, but there were still some missing cases
that were not correctly protected. Now they are.
Bug
Proxy: It was not working properly when a client was using it while
working against servers with different authentication modes (i.e.: LDAP
and UP). Fixed.
Bug
Merge: On some complex merge scenarios that are related with Evil Twin
conflicts and move operations with the destination under the Evil Twin
conflicts, when the merge changes are processed (after clicking on
"process all merges" or using the "--merge" option) a "duplicated key
error" was thrown. Fixed.
Bug
Replica: The timestamp of the zero changeset can be updated after
pushing in order to keep it as the oldest changeset in the database.
Bug
GUI on Mac: Fixed an issue with the menu in the dropdown buttons in the
Pending Changes view: the second time that the menu was displayed
it was not possible to click on the options.
New features and bugfixes in this release:
New
Security system redesigned in Plastic SCM 4; alpha version.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed error with empty branches that happened
sometimes when checking the option "Display only relevant changesets".
External Release 4.1.10.318 (Jul 17th 2012)
====================================================
New
Visual Studio Package: Added all the Plastic SCM commands to the editor
context menu. Now it is not necessary to go to the Solution Explorer to
perform Plastic SCM actions on an item, but it is possible to do that
from the Visual Studio editor.
Bug
The checkin operation was failing with an "item not found" error when
it tried to commit changes inside an xlink and the xlink was not
pointing to the branch head (i.e.:it is not updated). Fixed.
Bug
The merge operation was failing with an "item not found" error when the
merge source was inside an xlink and the workspace contained changes.
Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.317 (Jul 12th 2012)
====================================================
New
Now Plastic SCM supports modifying the file system permissions of xlinks.
Bug
Xlinks are now updated properly even if the target tree is the same.
This happens when 2 different changesets load the same tree.
Bug
Shared workspaces: Improved support when using samba-winShare. Undesired
changed files appeared when performing an update or a switch to branch
operation.
Added a new option "Enable shared workspace support (Samba/Winshare)"
that fixes this problem.
Bug
Replica: Concurrent replication processes involving the same changesets
could cause duplicated objects in the database. Fixed: There was a lock
to protect against these cases, but there were still some missing cases
that were not correctly protected. Now they are.
Bug
Proxy: It was not working properly when a client was using it while
working against servers with different authentication modes (i.e.: LDAP
and UP). Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.315 (Jul 12th 2012)
====================================================
New
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 package: Plastic SCM includes now a (beta)
version of the package for Visual Studio 2012.
New
Now, the "Switch to the new branch" checkbox option in the New branch
dialog is recorded, so the next time this dialog is opened this option
appears automatically selected / unselected depending on whether it was
selected or not the last time the dialog was opened.
Bug
Merge: On some complex merge scenarios that are related with Evil Twin
conflicts and move operations with the destination under the Evil Twin
conflicts, when the merge changes are processed (after clicking on
"process all merges" or using the "--merge" option) a "duplicated key
error" was thrown. Fixed.
Bug
Replica: The timestamp of the zero changeset can be updated after
pushing in order to keep it as the oldest changeset in the database.
Bug
GUI on Mac: Fixed an issue with the menu in the dropdown buttons in the
Pending Changes view: the second time that the menu was displayed
it was not possible to click on the options.
External Release 4.2.14.314 (Jul 11th 2012)
====================================================
New features and bugfixes integrated in releases 4.1.10.309, 4.2.11.310,
4.1.10.311, 4.1.10.313:
New
The Active Directory integrated security now supports multi-domain
(forest) environments.
Bug
GUI: Edit Xlink dialog failed to fill in repository details for
relative Xlinks when the server was not defined in the server
connection profiles list.
Bug
GUI: The Branch Explorer was causing a crash when the user was
introducing a wrong conditional format rule. Fixed.
Bug
Showing the content of a changeset with symlinks raised an error.
This is fixed now and symlinks are displayed in changeset content.
Bug
Improved the directory differences, showing more info: FSProts, RevId,
Type, Name. The File System Protections field is shown only if there are
any file system protection defined for any child. The revision Id field
is shown to differenciate the changes between two directory revisions.
The type indicates whether the child is a dir or a file. The name is the
child name, as usual.
Bug
Fixed several aesthetical issues in the server and client configure
wizards in Linux.
Bug
Now Plastic SCM supports checking in the result of a merge operation
with xlinks involved where all the changes inside an xlink are same
data.
Bug
Bisync importer: The username was hardcoded for the changesets imported
by using the 'cm sync' command.
New in this release:
New
The intermediate conflict operations are not returned on the operations
to apply anymore.
Bug
Admintool: Fixed aesthetical issues when showing controlled error
messages.
External Release 4.1.10.313 (Jul 10th 2012)
====================================================
New
The Active Directory integrated security now supports multi-domain
(forest) environments.
Bug
GUI: Edit Xlink dialog failed to fill in repository details for
relative Xlinks when the server was not defined in the server
connection profiles list.
Bug
GUI: The Branch Explorer was causing a crash when the user was
introducing a wrong conditional format rule. Fixed.
Bug
Showing the content of a changeset with symlinks raised an error.
This is fixed now and symlinks are displayed in changeset content.
External Release 4.1.10.311 (Jul 06th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Improved the directory differences, showing more info: FSProts, RevId,
Type, Name. The File System Protections field is shown only if there are
any file system protection defined for any child. The revision Id field
is shown to differenciate the changes between two directory revisions.
The type indicates whether the child is a dir or a file. The name is the
child name, as usual.
Bug
Fixed several aesthetical issues in the server and client configure
wizards in Linux.
Bug
Now Plastic SCM supports checking in the result of a merge operation
with xlinks involved where all the changes inside an xlink are same
data.
External Release 4.1.10.310 (Jul 04th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Bisync importer: The username was hardcoded for the changesets imported
by using the 'cm sync' command.
Intenal Release 4.2.13.308 (Jun 30th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the changes from 4.1.10.306 and 4.1.10.307:
New
Glassfs system to mount virtual volumes that can map repository contents
of Plastic SCM in your hard disk, so that you can compare and work with
a Plastic SCM selector without updating any workspace. This is like a
repository browser but much more advanced, since you can work with the
files (only in readonly mode): open them with your favourite editor or
IDE, compile the sources are just a couple of common examples.
New
GUI is now able to create a merge link on cases where the merged trees
have same changes, as the CLI.
Bug
Fixed GUI hung on startup when an embedded differences view was left
open last time the GUI was closed. This was broken since the GUI views
load process was changed to be faster, in release 4.1.10.285.
Bug
GUI: When checking-in with a Task Control integration enabled working
in Task on Changeset mode, hitting "Cancel" in the task-association
dialog still performed the checkin (without associating the changeset
to any task). Fixed: hitting "Cancel" in this dialog now cancels the
checkin as well.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed location of empty branch at the end of the column.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Key navigation fixed after clicking the "Home" button.
External Release 4.1.10.309 (Jul 04th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Fast-export has been improved to support incomplete replicated
scenarios. If the parent of a branch (to calculate the diffs) cannot
be found, will calculate the diffs with cset 0. This task was already
integrated in 4.1.10.288, but this release was generated in a different
production line.
External Release 4.1.10.307 (Jun 29th 2012)
====================================================
New
Glassfs system to mount virtual volumes that can map repository contents
of Plastic SCM in your hard disk, so that you can compare and work with
a Plastic SCM selector without updating any workspace. This is like a
repository browser but much more advanced, since you can work with the
files (only in readonly mode): open them with your favourite editor or
IDE, compile the sources are just a couple of common examples.
New
GUI is now able to create a merge link on cases where the merged trees
have same changes, as the CLI.
Internal Release 4.1.10.306 (Jun 28th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Fixed GUI hung on startup when an embedded differences view was left
open last time the GUI was closed. This was broken since the GUI views
load process was changed to be faster, in release 4.1.10.285.
Bug
GUI: When checking-in with a Task Control integration enabled working
in Task on Changeset mode, hitting "Cancel" in the task-association
dialog still performed the checkin (without associating the changeset
to any task). Fixed: hitting "Cancel" in this dialog now cancels the
checkin as well.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed location of empty branch at the end of the column.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Key navigation fixed after clicking the "Home" button.
Internal Release 4.2.13.305 (Jun 27th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the changes from 4.1.10.302, 4.1.10.303 and 4.1.10.304:
Bug
Now when working with xlinks, the check in is verified in all the
repositories before confirming it in none of them. This way, we avoid
commiting changes to the children repositories when the check in fails
in the parent repository.
Bug
Fixed a checkin issue that left a tree pointing to a missing existing
revision on really special conditions. Fixed a checkin issue that
happened when we were trying to commit a deleted plus and an added
xlink on the same path.
Bug
Replication does not try to reuse existing changeset identifiers
anymore. There was a problem with concurrent checkin and replica
(pushing data to the same repository) that could end up in duplicated
changesets. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed a null reference error resolving a conflict when we had a
writable xlink modified only on source and some additional conditions.
Bug
Repository Browser view: A branch icon was shown on xlinks in this view.
Fixed.
New features and bugfixes in this release:
New
Find merge only returned the merge realizations for the normal merges,
but the special merges, such as: cherrypick and subtractive were not
returned. Now the find merge is able to return the merge realization
of every type of merge or just the merge type we are asking for.
In addition to this, when a branch containes merges (one or more merges
have been done to the branch), the branch differences included all the
merge changes and not only the changes that had been done on the
branch. Now the branch differences can be cleaned; this way all the
changes that came from the merge changesets (the changesets that are
created as the merge destination) are skipped from the branch
differences.
It is very important to take into account that if the merge destination
changeset includes more changes than those related to the merge, all
those changes will also be skipped.
Bug
Avoid empty commits that happened when we were working with a writable
xlink and we only had one or more checkouts without changes (same data)
inside the xlinked repository.
Internal Release 4.1.10.304 (Jun 23th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Replication does not try to reuse existing changeset identifiers
anymore. There was a problem with concurrent checkin and replica
(pushing data to the same repository) that could end up in duplicated
changesets. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed a null reference error resolving a conflict when we had a
writable xlink modified only on source and some additional conditions.
Bug
Repository Browser view: A branch icon was shown on xlinks in this view.
Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.303 (Jun 23th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Fixed a checkin issue that left a tree pointing to a missing existing
revision on really special conditions. Fixed a checkin issue that
happened when we were trying to commit a deleted plus and an added
xlink on the same path.
External Release 4.1.10.302 (Jun 22th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Now when working with xlinks, the check in is verified in all the
repositories before confirming it in none of them. This way, we avoid
commiting changes to the children repositories when the check in fails
in the parent repository.
Internal Release 4.2.12.301 (Jun 18th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the changes from 4.1.10.298, 4.1.10.299 and 4.1.10.300:
Bug
Small issue regarding the log added in the previous release.
Bug
Improved the directory differences, showing more info: FSProts, RevId,
Type, Name. The File System Protections field is shown only if there are
any file system protection defined for any child. The revision Id field
is shown to differenciate the changes between two directory revisions.
The type indicates whether the child is a dir or a file. The name is the
child name, as usual.
Bug
When comparing a branch and there is no content to compare an error was
shown. Now a message is shown as an informative message.
Bug
In the Plastic SCM GUI, labels flickered unnecessarily sometimes. Fixed.
Bug
The replica could build wrong changeset trees in destination under high
load scenarios. Fixed.
New features and bugfixes in this release:
New
Branch Explorer: New subdiagram: show branches related to a specific
changeset.
External Release 4.1.10.300 (Jun 16th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
The replica could build wrong changeset trees in destination under high
workload scenarios.
Internal Release 4.1.10.299 (Jun 15th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Improved the directory differences, showing more info: FSProts, RevId,
Type, Name. The File System Protections field is shown only if there are
any file system protection defined for any child. The revision Id field
is shown to differenciate the changes between two directory revisions.
The type indicates whether the child is a dir or a file. The name is the
child name, as usual.
Bug
When comparing a branch and there is no content to compare an error was
shown. Now a message is shown as an informative message.
Bug
In the Plastic SCM GUI, labels flickered unnecessarily sometimes. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.298 (Jun 15th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Small issue regarding the log added in the previous release.
Internal Release 4.2.12.297 (Jun 15th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the changes from 4.1.10.295:
New
Branch layout in the Branch Explorer has been optimized for cases with
many small and contiguous branches.
New
GUI: During checkin, if non-conflicting changes are present on the
workspace branch, the user can now automatically update before checking
changes in. Before, the Platic SCM GUI required the user to manually
merge the head of the branch to the workspace and then check in the
changes.
Bug
Code review: Null fixed when closing the Code Review dialog just after
being opened, if the controls have been disposed when they are not
loaded yet.
Bug
Fast-export: It has been modified to support special characters in
branches, labels and owner names (author/commiter). Fast-import command
has been also modified to use only UTF8 to avoid encoding problems.
External Release 4.1.10.296 (Jun 14th 2012)
====================================================
New
New log added to replica; it is now able to dump trees on source and
destination. In order to enable it:
External Release 4.1.10.295 (Jun 14th 2012)
====================================================
New
Branch layout in the Branch Explorer has been optimized for cases with
many small and contiguous branches.
New
GUI: During checkin, if non-conflicting changes are present on the
workspace branch, the user can now automatically update before checking
changes in. Before, the Platic SCM GUI required the user to manually
merge the head of the branch to the workspace and then check in the
changes.
Bug
Code review: Null fixed when closing the Code Review dialog just after
being opened, if the controls have been disposed when they are not
loaded yet.
Bug
Fast-export: It has been modified to support special characters in
branches, labels and owner names (author/commiter). Fast-import command
has been also modified to use only UTF8 to avoid encoding problems.
Internal Release 4.2.12.294 (Jun 13th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the changes from 4.1.10.292 and 4.1.10.293:
New
The cat command has a new option, the debug option.
Usage: cm cat spec [options] spec: file or directory spec
Options: --file=output: file to save the output.
By default it is printed on the standard output.
--debug: When a directory spec is specified, the command shows
its revision id and fs protection.
New
Added support for multiline comments on the compare changes tool.
Bug
Shell Extension: Fixed a crash when closing a Branch Explorer subdiagram.
Bug
Oracle backend: Plastic SCM failed when displaying the history of an
item when the Oracle backend was used. Fixed.
Bug
If an xlink cannot be resolved (because it is pointing to a non-existent
repository or changeset), the update operation will keep the items under
the "unresolved" xlink as privated and the xlink will appear with a new
icon as "unresolved xlink". The update report dialog will show the
errors differently (in red color) and cannot be selected. An informative
message will appear if the user tries to select them (they have to be
resolved manually, as the update operation cannot resolve the problem by
itself).
Bug
Branch Explorer: When the view was refreshed the working
changeset/branch was always focused. Now, when it is refreshed, it
preserves the selected object position, which seems more useful and
correct.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Explain merge was not correcly drawn using the
"merge to" functionality. The working changeset was not correctly
represented. Fixed.
Bug
If you had enabled the option "Find changed items in workspace before
merge", the merge-to functionality was looking for changed elements on
disk. That was not necessary, because merge to is a server-side
operation. Fixed.
Bug
A problem detected regarding workspace locks has been fixed. The problem
was that some transactions were unlocking the workspace when they had
not locked it. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio package: Fixed an sporadic IDE problem when checking out
files.
New features and bugfixes in this release:
New
Merge to: Added an advanced query functionality when selecting a branch
in the "merge-to" action. Also, added the ability to enter comments when
"merging to".
New
Enable diff on xlinks on a remote cset.
Internal Release 4.1.10.293 (Jun 09th 2012)
====================================================
New
The cat command has a new option, the debug option.
Usage: cm cat spec [options] spec: file or directory spec
Options: --file=output: file to save the output.
By default it is printed on the standard output.
--debug: When a directory spec is specified, the command shows
its revision id and fs protection.
New
Added support for multiline comments on the compare changes tool.
Bug
Shell Extension: Fixed a crash when closing a Branch Explorer subdiagram.
Internal Release 4.1.10.292 (Jun 08th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Oracle backend: Plastic SCM failed when displaying the history of an
item when the Oracle backend was used. Fixed.
Bug
If an xlink cannot be resolved (because it is pointing to a non-existent
repository or changeset), the update operation will keep the items under
the "unresolved" xlink as privated and the xlink will appear with a new
icon as "unresolved xlink". The update report dialog will show the
errors differently (in red color) and cannot be selected. An informative
message will appear if the user tries to select them (they have to be
resolved manually, as the update operation cannot resolve the problem by
itself).
Bug
Branch Explorer: When the view was refreshed the working
changeset/branch was always focused. Now, when it is refreshed, it
preserves the selected object position, which seems more useful and
correct.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Explain merge was not correcly drawn using the
"merge to" functionality. The working changeset was not correctly
represented. Fixed.
Bug
If you had enabled the option "Find changed items in workspace before
merge", the merge-to functionality was looking for changed elements on
disk. That was not necessary, because merge to is a server-side
operation. Fixed.
Bug
A problem detected regarding workspace locks has been fixed. The problem
was that some transactions were unlocking the workspace when they had
not locked it. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio package: Fixed an sporadic IDE problem when checking out
files.
Internal Release 4.2.11.291 (Jun 07th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the changes from 4.1.10.287, 4.1.10.288, 4.1.10.289
and 4.1.10.290:
New
Mylyn plug-in: Enable plugin to work with PlasticSCM 4.1.
New
BranchExplorer: Conditional Format rules renamed to be more intuitive.
Also, the default colour used in the 'Active branch' rule is more
noticeable.
Finally, the search is now case insensitive.
New
Server: Changed log configuration file in order to log "cm query"
commands on a different log file.
New
Fast export: Improved to support incomplete replicated scenarios. If the
parent of a branch (to calculate the diffs) cannot be found, it will
calculate the diffs with cset 0.
New
Microsoft Team Foundation Server - Plastic SCM bidirectional
synchronizer (alpha version).
New
cm ls is now able to list GUIDs and also list changeset trees by GUID.
Bug
When we solve a merge that has multiple Delete Move conflicts and the
deleted item is a parent of the move source but not the direct parent
(there are intermediate directories), the conflict remains after
processing all the merges. Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: If the update operation fails when switching to an
empty branch, it was possible that the Branch Explorer drew two "home"
icons, one in the empty branch, and another one in changeset loaded in
the workspace. Fixed.
Bug
Some usability and aesthetical issues fixed:
- The "Explain merge" button in the Merge view now shows the text,
instead of an image. This way is more noticeable.
- Configure client wizard: the autodiscovery button "..." has been fixed
in the I3 theme and also the tab indexes.
Bug
Mylyn plug-in: When working on task per branch mode, if the switch to
branch operation is cancelled or fails, the internal tracked task is not
recorded. This way the next time the user reactivates the same task, it
will be prompted again to perform the switch to branch operation.
Bug
On some special merge cases, after resolving the conflicts and
processing all the merges, the conflicts and the operations appeared
again. These cases were related to a structure that has been moved
from a directory that has been deleted to a new directory that has been
added using the same path, and some of those changes are in conflict
with the changes of the other contributor. Fixed.
Bug
Fast export: It has been corrected a scenario (deleted under moved)
where the fast-export was not sorting the operations to be applied
correctly: during the import, a deletion was not being applied because
the path was not valid until the moved was applied. The moved has to be
applied before the deleted.
Scenario: deleted under moved moved:
"guitest/PlasticSuite/PluginTest" -> "guitest/PlasticSuite/VisualStudioTest"
deleted:
guitest/PlasticSuite/VisualStudioTest/Script/JDeveloperCommonFunctions.scs
New features and bugfixes:
New
Shell Extension: Added a context menu option when clicking on an item to
update the workspace.
Bug
Bidirectional synchronizer: bugfixes.
External Release 4.1.10.290 (Jun 03th 2012)
====================================================
New
cm ls is now able to list GUIDs and also list changeset trees by GUID.
Internal Release 4.1.10.288 (Jun 06th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the changes from 4.1.10.290:
New
cm ls is now able to list GUIDs and also list changeset trees by GUID.
New features and bugfixes:
New
Server: Changed log configuration file in order to log "cm query"
commands on a different log file.
New
Fast export: Improved to support incomplete replicated scenarios. If the
parent of a branch (to calculate the diffs) cannot be found, it will
calculate the diffs with cset 0.
Bug
On some special merge cases, after resolving the conflicts and
processing all the merges, the conflicts and the operations appeared
again. These cases were related to a structure that has been moved
from a directory that has been deleted to a new directory that has been
added using the same path, and some of those changes are in conflict
with the changes of the other contributor. Fixed.
Bug
Fast export: It has been corrected a scenario (deleted under moved)
where the fast-export was not sorting the operations to be applied
correctly: during the import, a deletion was not being applied because
the path was not valid until the moved was applied. The moved has to be
applied before the deleted.
Scenario: deleted under moved moved:
"guitest/PlasticSuite/PluginTest" -> "guitest/PlasticSuite/VisualStudioTest"
deleted:
guitest/PlasticSuite/VisualStudioTest/Script/JDeveloperCommonFunctions.scs
Internal Release 4.1.10.287 (May 30th 2012)
====================================================
New
Mylyn plug-in: Enable plugin to work with PlasticSCM 4.1.
New
BranchExplorer: Conditional Format rules renamed to be more intuitive.
Also, the default colour used in the 'Active branch' rule is more
noticeable.
Finally, the search is now case insensitive.
Bug
When we solve a merge that has multiple Delete Move conflicts and the
deleted item is a parent of the move source but not the direct parent
(there are intermediate directories), the conflict remains after
processing all the merges. Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: If the update operation fails when switching to an
empty branch, it was possible that the Branch Explorer drew two "home"
icons, one in the empty branch, and another one in changeset loaded in
the workspace. Fixed.
Bug
Some usability and aesthetical issues fixed:
- The "Explain merge" button in the Merge view now shows the text,
instead of an image. This way is more noticeable.
- Configure client wizard: the autodiscovery button "..." has been fixed
in the I3 theme and also the tab indexes.
Bug
Mylyn plug-in: When working on task per branch mode, if the switch to
branch operation is cancelled or fails, the internal tracked task is not
recorded. This way the next time the user reactivates the same task, it
will be prompted again to perform the switch to branch operation.
Internal Release 4.2.11.286 (May 31th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes all bufixes in 4.1.10.285:
Performance
Minor performance improvements on server cache.
Bug
Fixed an unco issue after a merge operation that has a path in use
warning regarding a not previously loaded item, and some additional
conditions, that leaves the item with the path in use warning loaded
twice.
New in this release:
New
A new button to update the workspace has been included on the toolbar of
the items view. The context menu options "Update" and "Update forced"
have been removed.
New
According to the previous feature, the Shell Extension does not include
the "Update" and "Update forced" context menu options. To update the
workspace using the Shell Extension, a new background menu option has
been implemented.
New
Jira extension: The checkin log now writes the branch, UTC timestamp and
changeset comments on new log entries.
Internal Release 4.1.10.285 (May 30th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the new features and performance improvements included
in 4.2.11.282.
Performance
Tree cache on server: The changest 0 is not cached.
Bug
Fixed an unco issue after a merge operation that has a path in use
warning regarding a not previously loaded item, and some additional
conditions, that leaves the item with the path in use warning loaded
twice.
External Release 4.1.10.284 (May 28th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Replica: Scenario: Replicate a branch from repository A to repository B,
but do not replicate one of its parents branches or one of its merge
source branches (we do not replicate one of its related branches).
When we replicate this branch from the repository B to the repository C,
the replication will fail with the error
"The root revision -1 of the changeset ...". Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.283 (May 26th 2012)
====================================================
Performance
Fixed memory leak in the GUI under some circumstances with items-based
views (like browse branch or changeset content).
Performance
Save the last used changesets when shutting down the Plastic server.
This way they are loaded faster in the next startup.
Bug
The replica could assign wrong GUID's to some revisions if some of them
could not been calcutated. Fixed.
Bug
Update operation stopped when a file pointed by a controlled symlink
that was deleted in the old selector already existed on disk and the
"Set repository dates on update" option was set in the client
configuration. Fixed.
Bug
Clients were hanging randomly due to an incorrectly released buffer on
the channel layer. This was noticeable when browsing repositories.
Fixed.
Bug
When the client was configured in User Password authentication mode and
was trying to connect to a server running in LDAP authentication mode,
in Windows asked for credentials, which is right, but in Linux was
retrieving an "authentication methods are different" error. Fixed: The
problem was that Mono deserializes the method response of the server in
a different way than .NET does. Now both types of messages are correctly
managed.
Bug
GUI: Labels view was not sorting labels by changeset number. The list
was sorted by label name instead. Fixed.
Bug
Replica: Creating a replication package failed with the error: "Trying
to use a previously finished transaction. Invalid transaction found.
Aborting operation", when the branch to be replicated was very big.
Fixed.
Bug
Replica: Added more log to the server to check the inner exception when
executing database commands.
Bug
Fast export: Initial export from Plastic to Git failed, because the
initial mark was not declared. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.11.282 (May 24th 2012)
====================================================
New
Implemented a discovery service. The client sends a UDP packet using the
broadcast IP. The server implements a small UDP server that listens for
these messages. The response consists of a message containing the server
address, port and version. The client listens for responses and filters
servers that are not compatible with it. Then the user can select a
server from the list. Included a setting in the server to disable the
discovery service (enabled by default): In order to disable this service
edit the server.conf file and add the following line:
yes
New
Now when you hide a branch, the branch and all its children are
automatically hidden. Also, when new child branches appear, children
branches are automatically hidden. This mechanism also allows showing
hidden children. When you hide a branch and its children you can double
click on the hidden child and make it visible. Additionally, an action
has been introduced to "clear visibility config". By clicking on this
action, you will show all the branches again.
Performance
Improved GUI client startup time.
Internal Release 4.1.10.281 (May 22th 2012)
====================================================
New
Implemented a mechanism to ensure that an exclusive checkout has as base
changeset, the HEAD changeset on the working branch. This way the user
avoids unnecesary merges. To setup this mechanism, the adminitrator
needs to add the "requirehead" keyword after each rule in the lock.conf
file on the server. Example:
rep: myrep lockserver:localhost:8084 requirehead *.pdf
Performance
The merge and differences performance has been improved.
Bug
Attributes for an object are now correctly displayed after applying a
new attribute to an object in the GUI. Besides that, the
"Apply attribute" dialog is simpler now. It has a drop-down list with
the possible attributes to apply, instead of requireing the user to open
a new dialog to select the attribute. Attributes are now also available
as a tab in the options panel in the Branch Explorer view.
Bug
Revert: When trying to revert from the History view opened from the
Repository browser view, the action was not performed at all.
Fixed: the problem was that the Repository browser handles repository
paths (/dir/mysubdir/file.txt) instead of workspace paths
(C:\mywksdirmysubdirfile.txt), so when trying to get the revision
information using this path nothing was retrieved and the operation was
internally cancelled.
Bug
It was possible to perform the "switch to changeset" operation with
checkouts in the workspace, under some special circumstances. From now
on, if you have checkouts, you cannot switch to a different changeset as
you cannot switch to a different branch.
Bug
Shelve: It was not possible to perform a commit result when applying a
shelve that was deleted after being applied. It was failing because
Plastic was trying to find the shelved revision (revision not found)
instead of its parent, which is the real result parent.
Case:
1� Apply a shelve
2� Delete the shelve
3� Commit -> ERROR : revision not found
Fixed.
Bug
Shell Extension: There was a restriction when updating two workspaces at
the same time. This restriction limited quite a bit the use of this
feature, so it has been removed.
External Release 4.1.10.280 (May 21th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Handle the situation of 2 xlinks pointing to the same repository during
the update operation properly. Now an "item loaded twice" error is
reported when the update operation finishes.
Internal Release 4.1.10.279 (May 18th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Fix the xlink management of xlinks that were created in releases before
4.1.x.252. Make both mechanisms compatible.
Internal Release 4.1.10.278 (May 18th 2012)
====================================================
New
GUI: Workspaces and views tabs can now be freely rearranged, as most
tabs-based applications do.
New
Eclipse plug-in: Now the merge dialog shows the merge warnings
(discarded conflicts that will not affect to the merge result but that
the user may want to know about them), just as PlasticSCM GUI does.
Bug
Using exclusive checkout with xlinks, the checkin operation was throwing
an "Index out of bounds" exception. The problem was that it was trying
to use the main repository instead of the xlinked repository to unlock
the items under an xlink. Fixed.
Bug
The command "cm log" was broken in a repositoy with xlinks; it was
throwing an "Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an
object" exception. The problem was that it was trying to print some
information that xlinks do not have. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.10.277 (May 16th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added a new checkbox to select whether to use SSL or not when connecting
to the server in the client configuration wizard.
New
Branch Explorer: Now, the remote data sources appear ordered
alphabetically; also a small performance improvement has been done
related to graphical controls reused when showing remote data.
Finally, taborder fixed in the upper controls and an overlapping button
has been fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed "An error occurred processing your request" that
eventually happened in Linux.
Bug
Pending Changes view: When a file after a merge was checkedout, replaced
and also moved, view showed the Move operation duplicated. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed an eventual IDE hang when checking out
files. Also fixed a System.InvalidCastException that happened when
checking out files or doing a refactor that modified checked in files.
The Visual Studio IDE is unable to retrieve a sane IUIService to be used
to show dialogs when using the Resharper extension.
Internal Release 4.1.10.276 (May 11th 2012)
====================================================
New
Display current selected view in the GUI window title.
Bug
1. When applying the local changes in the destination tree for the merge
it was not taken into account that the moved items could also be copied.
This could lead to file conflicts that were not detected in the first
find merge operation.
2. The warnings detected during the merge were not filtered with the
already resolved conflicts.
Bug
Replica: The replication process is aborted when some data cannot be
linked, instead of skipping the data that cannot be linked.
New
Branch Explorer: Now the home icon is shown in the workspace branch when
it is an empty branch. In previous versions the home icon was shown in
the changeset that is loaded in the workspace; this could lead to
misunderstanding.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The checkout changeset did not appear after a merge
when the workspace only had replaced, moved, or copied items. Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The overlay animation when it was being loaded was not
displayed correctly.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Improved key navigation. Now, pressing the left key
with a changeset selected, it moves to the parent changeset. If you want
to move to the closest changeset on the left, use the Alt + Left
combination.
Bug
Office 2003 plugin: The icons for Plastic SCM actions have been changed
to use the ones used in Source Safe.
Bug
Office plugin: It was not able to compare a previous version of a
document if it had been renamed. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.10.274 (May 10th 2012)
====================================================
New
Installer: Added the plugin for Office 2010.
Bug
The findmerge is also recalculated after the destination resolution of
the Item Loaded Twice conflicts. Before this change, this was only done
with the source resolution.
Bug
History view: Revision comments are now shown.
Bug
Shell Extension: Minor aesthetic issues fixed. Also, Shell Extension
remembers the last size and position when showing a new view.
External Release 4.1.10.273 (May 08th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Now, a shelve with a file that has been moved (or renamed) and modified
at the same time is correctly applied.
Internal Release 4.1.10.272 (May 08th 2012)
====================================================
Performance
Checkin memory consumption reduced after adding large file trees.
Adding 400.000 files in a single checkin operation now consumes about
200MB less RAM.
Bug
Shell Extension: Minor aesthetic issues fixed. Also, Shell Extension
remembers the last size and position when showing a new view.
Bug
The cycle moved conflicts detection has been improved.
Internal Release 4.1.10.271 (May 04th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
A warn message, detected on cm.log.txt, has been corrected.
"WorkspaceLock - Error trying to unlock .../.plastic/plastic.lck because
the lock is not held. The problem was that some transactions were
unlocking the workspace when they had not locked it. Fixed.
Bug
Replica from GUI: The PlasticSCM GUI client was not showing the real
error message of a database exception on a border case. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.10.270 (May 03th 2012)
====================================================
New
A new functionality has been added to the branch creation dialog: recent
comments. Users will have available the most recent comments used in the
branches creation, by simply clicking on the "Comments" button.
Bug
Replica: Concurrent replication processes involving the same changesets
caused duplicate objects in the database. From now on, a lock has been
included in the replication process. If one user tries to make a second
replication involving any of the changesets that are already been
replicating, the system will tell the user that he has to wait until the
first replication is finished.
Bug
When we have an add operation involved on directory conflicts, all
operations to apply and conflicts under it will be filtered until the
conflict is resolved.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: several bugfixes:
* Allow sharing multiple projects with Plastic SCM by selecting several
projects -> Right click -> Team -> Share ...
* Deleted items did not appear in Undo Pending Changes
* Icons did not appear in the Pending Changes view
* Move resources inside private package of a new project failed.
* Fixed a localization issue when switching to a label.
* Fixed some minor localization issues
Internal Release 4.1.10.269 (Apr 27th 2012)
====================================================
New
Branch Explorer: Changed the checkout changeset icon. Draw the "home"
icon in the checkout changeset when it is available.
Bug
Fixed an error that popped up in the Create xlink dialog if the default
repository was used.
Internal Release 4.1.10.268 (Apr 25th 2012)
====================================================
New
Xlinks can now be created and edited on the GUI. A new context menu is
available on the items view when right clicking a directory that lets
the user create a new Xlink. Similarly, right clicking on an existing
Xlink lets the user modify some of its properties.
New
Now the update command returns an error code if something went wrong,
based on the severity level of the Update Report. This is useful for
automation, specially in Continuous Integration tools. Examples of
error situations are: denied permissions to read, paths too long, non
existing changeset, uncompression error...
Bug
If a user deleted the changeset used to xlink a repository to other one,
this caused that all the workspaces that were loading this xlinked
changeset reported a null during update. Fixed: Now, a "changeset not
found" error is reported, which is the correct behaviour.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The marker icons were not correctly shown in spanish.
Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The icons were overlapped when resizing the GUI. Fixed.
Bug
Configure server wizard: The last dialog, which allows configuring or
migrating the backend, was not localized in spanish. Fixed.
External Release 4.1.10.267 (Apr 20th 2012)
====================================================
New
Plastic server shutdown minor improvements:
* Stop the worker thread pool when plastic channel is closed.
* Stop the network thread when there are no connections.
New
The merge operations to apply and the conflicts under the add operation
in a Move / Add or Add / Move conflict are filtered until the conflict
is resolved.
Bug
On a merge with an Evil / Twin conflict for a directory, some operations
were not properly filtered in same special conditions. Fixed.
Bug
The MoveSourceDelete conflicts were not discarded if the move was
applied in source and destination. This could lead to an infinite
conflict resolution. The issue comes from the optimization of the
Change / Delete conflicts detection (BL265). Also, the dependencies of
the move operations to undo were not checked.
Bug
It was not possible to carry out the shelve operation with a workspace
pointing to a label, because it was trying to perform checkout and
checkin operations that require a working branch. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.10.266 (Apr 19th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes all bugfixes integrated in 4.0.239.25.
New
The after-update trigger now gets from the standard input the list of
changes done in the workspace, such as:
C:/mywks/filecreated.txt
D:/mywks/filedeleted.txt
M:/mywks/filemodified.txt
U:/mywks/fileupdated.txt
Bug
Fixed flickering of the GUI main window after an operation with progress
(like update or checkin).
Bug
Fixed an unco issue after a merge operation that has a path in use
warning regarding a not previously loaded item, and some additional
conditions, that leaves the item with the path in use warning loaded
twice.
Bug
The 'General' tab in the Preferences window became disabled when a
different tab was selected. Fixed.
Bug
Admintool: It does not complain anymore about audit.log file not found
on startup.
External Release 4.0.239.25 (Apr 18th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Having a workspace that is pointing to a label, if you tried to checkin
pending changes to other branch, the "No checkout branch found" error
was appearing. Fixed: now you can checkin your changes to a different
branch when working on a label.
Bug
The user can configure how Plastic SCM must behave when the user sets
the selector with changed items on it. The check was done before the
change selector dialog appeared. From now on, the check will be done
after pressing OK in the change selector dialog. If you simply want to
see the selector, you do not need to wait until the changed search has
finished. The selector is restored if the operation cannot finish.
Bug
Installer: When the installer was run in text mode, the configure wizard
was filling the screen with '*' characters when asking the user for a
password. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.10.265 (Apr 17th 2012)
====================================================
New
Bamboo Plug-in: Now Bamboo plug-in supports the Bamboo 4.0 version.
Performance
The searching of the Change/Delete and Move/Delete conflicts have been
greatly improved. Tested in a huge merge operation from 11s to 0.6s.
This improvement is only noticeable when working with big merges (tested
with merges that implied more than 8000 directory conflicts and 2000
file conflicts, branches containing more than 20000 changes on them).
Bug
If the GUI window size was small enough a cast exception might arise if
hovering the mouse over the Workspace information bar. This was caused
because the tooltips' size that appear in each tab were not calculated
correctly.
Bug
Merge view: When there were several Delete/Change conflicts, if you
performed a multiple Delete/Change selection and tried to resolve the
conflicts, you got an errror message saying that you needed to solve
conflicts in order. Fixed: now this message is shown only if you do not
select pending Delete/Change conflicts with higher priority than any of
the selected conflicts.
Bug
The Diff dialog was not working correctly when handling items inside
xlinks. Fixed.
Bug
"Merge to" was creating the changeset incorrectly in the parent branch
of the destination branch instead of doing it in the branch destination
when the branch was empty. Moreover, from now on, the destination of
the "Merge to" only can be a branch to avoid multiheading.
Internal Release 4.1.9.264 (Apr 13th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Check if we need to resolve a move/delete (or delete/move) conflict
before resolving the current conflict (that is: check the conflict
move/delete dependencies).
Bug
The conditional format rule "Active branch(es) in this workspace" was
not refreshed when switching between branches. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.9.263 (Apr 12th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the bugfixes already integrated in 4.0.239.23.
New
Plastic Upgrade now supports connecting to the server using SSL.
Bug
The merge can handle case-sensitive scenarios in a Windows client.
Example: Applying new /foo.c item with the item /FoO.c already loaded.
Bug
The merge is checking the missing parents when it is undoing move
operations under an added path to undo. This complex scenario can happen
when resolving some weird conflicts with EvilTwins and moves under them.
External Release 4.0.239.24 (Apr 11th 2012)
====================================================
New
The TcpChannel has been modified to:
* Remove coupling between network related threads and working threads
* Ability to enqueue requests
* A new thread pool of worker threads to deal with all the load
* By default 4 threads per core
* Configurable number of workerthreads: MaxThreads and MinThreads param
at the channel level
* Enhanced "Channel" log to show information about the number of queued
requests
Bug
The merge operation sorter has been improved to avoid unneeded
operations and to cover more cases.
Bug
While deleting a changeset, it is not possible to create a child
changeset (doing a commit with the changeset to delete as the parent
changeset of the new one). Also it is not possible to create a child
branch from that changeset.
Internal Release 4.1.9.262 (Apr 10th 2012)
====================================================
This release includes the bugfixes already integrated in 4.0.239.23.
New
Add database configuration to the server configuration wizard. Now, when
configuring the server in GUI mode (configureserver.exe), the last step
allows configuring the database backend for the Plastic SCM server.
This launches the admintool and migrates databases to the new backend,
keeping the old database files, of course.
New
Bamboo Plug in: It has been adapted to work with the Bamboo 3.4 version.
This is an Atlassian API change, so from now on we will publish two
plugins: Bamboo versions < 3.3 and Bamboo versions 3.3 and 3.4.
New
A new option has been added in the merge command: --to / --destination.
This option allows the user to perform the merge without having the
workspace updated to the branch or changeset destination of the merge.
This is possible only if the merge is automatic and there are not manual
conflicts.
Example:
cm merge br:/main --to=br:/main/Branch_Task001 --merge
(cm merge br:/main --destination=br:/main/Branch_Task001 --merge)
The file /src/bar.c#cs:8 was modified on source and will replace the
destination version Created changeset 10 Main branch can be "promoted"
to child branches using the merge to (old branch inheritance).
External Release 4.0.239.23 (Apr 04th 2012)
====================================================
New
Scc Plug-in: Disabled "Exclusive checkout" on advanced options from the
Checkout dialog, as it was useless.
New
Installer: The application name that appears in the Control Panel is
"Codice Software Plastic SCM 4", to distinguish between this and a
Plastic SCM 3 installation.
New
Eclipse Plug-in: The merge operation now supports processing filesystem
permissions differences.
Bug
Avoid loaded twice items on a merge in a conflict where the destination
change is a discarded Delete and it contains items that have been moved
on destination to different positions. Fixed.
Bug
Fix a NullRefenceException during checkin operation when the user checks
in a deleted xlink and a deleted or moved item.
Bug
Replica: The identification of the merge link in the replica was done
using the object id instead of using the GUID. This can lead into issues
when setting the branch head replicating between different versions of
Plastic.
Internal Release 4.1.8.261 (Apr 04th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Fixed a problem calculating diff statistics in x64 machines (percent
bar greater than 100%)
Internal Release 4.1.8.260 (Apr 04th 2012)
====================================================
New
Fast-export: The IgnoreDirectoriesMoved option has been removed, as it
was not very useful.
Bug
Avoid loaded twice items on a merge in a conflict where the destination
change is a discarded Delete and it contains items that have been moved
on destination to different positions. Fixed.
Bug
Now Plastic SCM checks if a path is already in use when it needs to
restore a missing parent as it already does when resolving a conflict.
Otherwise this scenario might fail. Fixed.
Bug
The Move Delete conflict was not restoring the full content of the
directory with a source resolution. The issue only happened if the move
and the delete were done on the same directory. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.7.259 (Mar 28th 2012)
====================================================
New
It's possible to search for files and directories in the workspace
from the items view. Both private and controlled items can be searched.
New
Display a message the user when using the command-line server installer
and selecting User/Passwrod as the authetication method: users need to
be added before the server can correctly operate (needs to be done
after installing). This is not an issue with the graphical installer.
New
Inside any differences window (like diff branch content, or diff
changset content), a new graphical representation of the changes is
shown next to each item.
Bug
All bugfixes integrated in 4.0.239.22 have also been integrated in this
release.
External Release 4.0.239.22 (Mar 28th 2012)
====================================================
New
Zip installers available. Now they can be used not only for clean
installations in non-supported platforms but also for upgrades.
Bug
Fixed the error "Argument cannot be null" during a merge operation.
It's related to conflict dependencies the merge operations to apply
based on them.
Bug
The performance of the calculate merge operation has been greatly
improved in merges with a lot of changes and conflicts.
Bug
Fixed an issue in the User/password mode with password retries.
Internal Release 4.1.7.258 (Mar 21st 2012)
====================================================
New
Exclusive Checkout: Unlock command. Added a new command in command
line client to undo the lock over an item on a specified lockserver.
The name of the new command is: "unlock".
New
TreeListView: Improved font rendering on Windows systems.
Bug
Fix the replication error "Trying to use a previously finished
transaction" on large replication operations over a slow network
connection.
Bug
User preference "Show user in title bar" was not correctly updated.
It is fixed now.
Bug
Fix an issue with the EvilTwin conflicts containing move operations
that in some special situations could leave pending delete/move
conflicts behind.
Bug
All bugfixes integrated in 4.0.239.21 have also been integrated in this
release.
External Release 4.0.239.21 (Mar 23rd 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Merge: if a file is copied as the result of the merge and it
is locked in the workspace (for instance, open by another program),
it was not correctly updated. Now it will be left as "pending" in
the merge view.
Bug
Fixed a problem under some circumstances where a long
operation could incorrectly abort a running transaction.
Internal Release 4.1.7.257 (Mar 21th 2012)
====================================================
New
The Administration tool now features a new section to configure the
ports where the server listens for both encrypted (SSL) and
non-encrypted data. It also provides configuration fields to setup the
certificate used in SSL connections.
New
A new variable has been added in the before-checkin trigger:
PLASTIC_SHELVE. Its value will be "true" if it is a shelve. Otherwise,
if it is a checkin, its value will be "false".
Bug
All bugfixes integrated in 4.0.239.20 are now available.
Bug
Using exclusive checkout, if you can not reach the lock server when
performing the checkin, the checkin was not carried out. It is
neccessary to unlock the exclusive checkouts when checking in them.
Bug
Fixed a "Value does not fall within the expected range" during the merge
operation on special conditions related with a path already in use.
Bug
GUI: The exclusive checkout could cause a deadlock when the lockserver
was configured with a different authentication mode than the client, and
no profile for that server was defined. Fixed.
Bug
When using the SyncView with repositories on the same server, there was
an error using SQLite backend. SQLite does not allow more than one
transaction on a database at the same time and in this case,
it attempted to begin a second transaction on the database repositories.
Fixed.
Bug
Shelve operation was failing using before-checkin triggers. Shelve is
not associated with any branch and it was not protected.
External Release 4.0.239.20 (Mar 21th 2012)
====================================================
New
Proxy server adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0 (Linux).
Bug
When showing the differences of a symlink, the symlink was deleted. The
merge process left the symlink in a wrong state. Also, the use of
mergetool with symlinks has been adapted.
Internal Release 4.1.7.256 (Mar 20th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added a new column (created by) in the show differences tool. When you
compare two changesets, labels or branches, the list that shows added,
modifed now has a new column showing the user that performed the change.
New
Code Review: The changeset comment visible when you show changeset
differences allows now to select the comment and copy it to the
clipboard.
New
The shelve is now able to work with local changes (locally changed,
locally moved, locally deleted and private files).
Before these changes the user had to apply local changes manually.
New
Admintool now features a new section to configure and validate the
auditing log.
Bug
All bugfixes integrated in 4.0.239.19 are now available.
Internal Release 4.1.7.255 (Mar 16th 2012)
====================================================
New
Draw a changeset in the Branch Explorer (BrEx) that represents pending
changes in the workspace. Now if there are checkouts in the workspace,
the BrEx renders a "checkedout" changeset. The BrEx only looks for
checkouts, doesn't find changed on disk for performance reasons.
The "checkedout changeset" is also rendered in the "explain merge"
diagram.
The available actions on the "checkedout changeset" are:
* show pending changes view,
* checking pending changes
* undo pending changes.
New
Added bookmark functionality to the Branch Explorer. This view is now
able to bookmark the selected objects (branches, changesets and labels,
not available for merge links), and then navigate between these objects.
New
The exclusive checkout (locking) can now be configured per path.
To configure it create a file "lock.conf" in the server directory
with the following format:
rep:local_repname lockserver:server:port
path_rules
where
* local_repname: is the name of the repository where you want
to perform exclusive checkouts
* server: the lock server
* port: the port where the lock server is configured
* path_rules: an entry per rule specifiying file names
with wildcards
Example:
rep:default lockserver:localhost:8084
*.doc
*.xls
*.jpg
document.vcs
/install/readme/*
Once the file "lock.conf" has been created and the server restarted,
each time a file matching the rules is checkedout, it will be checkedout
in exclusive mode (locked), so no other checkout can happen.
New
Double clicking on a branch now runs a diff branch, instead of
showing the branch properties. This change has been done for
consistency: double clicking on a changeset shows the differences on
that changeset.
New
The interval cherry pick is now available from the GUI. It works the
same as the interval subtractive merge: the user selects the
initial and final changesets of the interval to be merged.
Consider that the left border of the interval is open (like when you
specify (0-4] in maths).
Use this feature wisely, because this is an advanced operation that
could lead to misunderstanding or unexpected results if not used
carefully. Check the documentation to get further information about
the interval merge.
New
Supported Ctrl+Backspace in the text boxes to delete words in the
pending changes (commit) message field.
New
A new audit log is available in the server that logs these events:
* Checkin: Added / changed / moved / deleted items
* Owner changed for any object
* Changeset deleted
* Object comment changed
* Add / rename / delete branch
* Add / rename / delete label
* Label reapplied
* Add / rename / delete attribute
* Attribute applied / removed from object
* Add / rename / delete repository
* Access denied to object
* Update (only revision id is logged)
* Annotate / diff (only revision id is logged)
New
Admin tool: New users plugin in the administration tool, featuring the
authentication provider migration wizard. It lets you migrate seamlessly
from one authentication mechanism to another.
Bug
All bugfixes integrated between 4.0.239.17 and 4.0.239.18 are now
available.
Bug
Diff tool: Directory diffs were incorrectly displaying directory
contents when there were changes in the filesystem permissions (rwx).
Bug
Shelve specs were displayed as a negative changeset (cs:-3@...) in code
review entries and other labels throughout the GUI. Fixed: now it shows
sh:3@... instead. The owner was not correctly displayed (it rendered
a number) in the left part of the differences in the code review tool.
Bug
Items view: Fixed the tab order in the items view toolbar, and also in
the repository browser view toolbar.
Bug
Merge view: The merge warnings pane re-appeared when recalculate merge
even if the user closed it. Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Better disposal of objects after close.
Bug
Fast-import command help fixed and localized in Spanish.
Bug
Added repository info in the no common ancestor found merge message.
Bug
Several texts that appeared cut fixed. Localization issues in Spanish
fixed.
External Release 4.0.239.19 (Mar 16th 2012)
====================================================
New
Improved TCP channel to handle socket connections in async mode.
This reduces thread count by 2 and multiplies performance by 2 under
really heavy load (>300 concurrent connections).
New
Proxy server adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0.
Bug
After unchecking-out symlinks, they appeared as changed because their
timestamp was not being correctly calculated. Fixed.
Bug
An AssertNull on checkin operation has been fixed. It was related to
checking out an item without changes under directories with file system
protection changed and some special conditions.
External Release 4.0.239.18 (Mar 15th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Update: Fixed an error in the cm update --changeset command when a full
repository specification was used in the workspace selector. Prevented
Pulse plugin from working when the workspace selector configured in
Pulse settings was using a full repository specification including the
Plastic SCM server name and port.
Bug
There was an exception in the server log when trying to save the
LastUsedCset if the option was not defined (db.conf file). Fixed.
Bug
Fast-import: Found a null due to deleted directories that were not fully
processed so necessary information was lost during the process. Fixed.
Bug
Admin tool: It now asks for UAC elevation upon start. This was required
since it modifies files in the server installation folder.
Bug
Team City plugin: Deleting a changeset was killing Team City. Fixed.
Bug
Upgrade: Fixed an error launching automatic Plastic SCM client upgrade:
"Binary sequence '0' does not contain a valid BinaryHeader".
External Release 4.0.239.17 (Mar 13th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added a new preference: 'Find changed files in workspace before merge'.
This preference is implemented to help the user to detect "hijacked"
(ClearCase terminology) files (files changed in the workspace out of the
Plastic SCM control) before starting a merge. If the user is unaware of
these files, the merge result could be unexpected. When this preference
is enabled and there are changed files in the workspace, the GUI will
show a Pending Changes view in a dialog before the find merge, and the
user will be able to undo changes there. This preference is not set by
default, but we recommend to enable it.
Internal Release 4.1.7.254 (Mar 13th 2012)
====================================================
New
Added preview feature to the history view on GUI.
Bug
All bugfixes integrated between 4.0.239.13 and 4.0.239.15 are now
available.
Bug
Command Line Interface: Now the command line client shows a
human-readable error message when the client version is not compatible
with the server version.
Bug
The command switch to branch was failing when switching to different
server. The server was not set. Fixed: all possible cases (switch to
branch, switch to label and switch to changeset) have been taken into
account.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed an StackOverflow exception showing the merge
explanation when the tree was very big.
Bug
Branch Explorer: It was not correctly filtered when the merge
explanation is shown, and the 'Show only relevant changesets" option was
enabled some changesets were shown and they should not.
Fixed: the explain merge relevant changeset filter has been improved.
External Release 4.0.239.16 (Mar 09th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
The checkin could undo changes if there were changed symlinks in the
workspace pointing to controled changes. This issue could also lead to
an Assert.Null exception.
External Release 4.0.239.15 (Mar 08th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Fixed the merge issue when we are working without changed files and
Plastic is killed while the merge operations is merging the file
conflicts; then the already merged files are not committed because they
are changed but not checkedout.
Internal Release 4.1.6.253 (Mar 08th 2012)
====================================================
New
The merge UI has been improved with the following features:
* Added a textbox to filter the merge trees
(directory conflicts, file conflicts and merge warnings)
* Added a column "severity" for the merge warnings list
* Allowed sorting on the merge warnings list
* Allowed to close the merge warnings panel
* Allowed to maximize/restore each section
(dir conflicts/file conflicts/merge warnings)
* Supported multiple resolution for directories (select a bunch), right
click and chose a resolution method for them.
Useful when the merge is too big.
* Simplified "Choose a resolution method" options, now the user can
only choose 2 options. Automatic or manual.
* Changed right click context menu on files.
Add options to resolve selected files using Automatic or manual
conflict resolution, and also keep source or keep destination.
New
Visual Studio Package: Implemented a mechanism to select the current
workspace in the case that Visual Studio does not identify the current
workspace correctly.
Performance
Branch Explorer: layout calculation time greatly improved in
repositories with many sub-branches.
Bug
The merge is able to resolve automatically scenarios (when applying the
resolution of the conflicts in the workspace), if there is another item
loaded in the destination path that does not collide with any other
item. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.239.14 (Mar 07th 2012)
====================================================
New
The checkin merge needed inside an xlink is now supported. It is
possible to do a merge from any of the linked repositories configured in
the workspace and not only from the workspace repository.
New
ChannelCall log improved to add deserialization, method time,
serialization and compression time.
Performance
The diff operation has been greatly improved when there are a lot of
delete differences. The filtering of this differences is much faster
now.
Bug
When deleting a changeset, which was a branch head, the new branch head
was not correctly updated in all the scenarios. Fixed.
Bug
There was an error renaming a branch when working in a label. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed an error in partial merges: Scenario: (/dir/foo.c)
1. Create child branch and switch to it.
2. Move foo.c to dir and modify it.
3. Switch to main and modify foo.c again so that requires manual merge.
4. Merge from child branch There are 2 items to merge:
Changed on both source and destination: /dir/foo.c Moved: /foo.c
When processing the merge and the merge tool appears,
exit without saving.
* Expected result: The merge view should propose foo.c for merge
* Actual result: The merge view shows "No merges detected"
Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.5.252 (Mar 06th 2012)
====================================================
New
Fast import: Now it is possible to import a "--no-data" package from
Git.
Performance
Merge: The performance has been improved using custom serialization in
the differences calculation.
Bug
Shelve: Do not propose merge conflicts again after applying a shelve.
Bug
When deleting a changeset, which was a branch head, the new branch head
was not correctly updated in all the scenarios. Fixed: all the failing
cases have been covered.
External Release 4.0.239.13 (Mar 05th 2012)
====================================================
New
The update --forced option has been disabled. Not required anymore and
leading to wrong use of the update command.
Bug
The permissions were wrongly stored when working in crossed
environments with Windows and Linux clients. Fixed.
Bug
If the server cannot resolve a SEID when loading a changeset tree,
it will leave without resolving the rest of the SEIDs. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.239.12 (Mar 01th 2012)
====================================================
New
The user can configure how Plastic SCM must behave when the user
switches his workspace to a branch/label/changeset, sets the selector or
updates the workspace with changed items on it. Plastic can:
* Allow the operation
* Allow the operation but show a warning
* Do not allow the operation.
This change improves the single branch working workflow, because when
you have pending changes (changed files) and an update merge is
executed, the files could be out of date after the merge.
New
Improved an update message when there are not available changesets to
update, and the user has changes on his workspace.
New
Pulse plugin has been adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0 and integrated here.
New
Show merge warnings on the GUI.
New
More log has been added to the merge operation on the client side.
Bug
Merge: Fixed a merge issue related to the changeset 0 that has not the
oldest date. This can happen on a replicated repository. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed an unco issue related to a move operation inside a xlink with the
move source in use by other operation that will undo. Fixed.
Bug
Checkin operation did not commit the pending merge link. Fixed: the
issue was related to some special configurations of the Plastic client
and the network.
Internal Release 4.1.3.249 (Feb 29th 2012)
====================================================
New
Improvements in the differences tool regarding image differences:
* Support a wide type of image formats using the preview generators.
* Implemented swipe mode in the image diff viewer.
* Show image properties differences in the image diff viewer.
Bug
Bugfixes and new features integrated in 4.0.239.10 and 4.0.239.11 are
now available.
Internal Release 4.1.3.248 (Feb 28th 2012)
====================================================
This version requires upgrade on both server and client.
New
A new preference added (unchecked by default) that shows in the Plastic
GUI title bar the current Plastic user and whether it is administrator
or not.
New
Plastic server now allows using prefixes for the databases as they do
with suffixes. There are two possibilities to specify the prefix: in the
db.conf using a tag as well as using the
--dbprefix=whatever in the plasticd command line.
New
Exclusive checkout context menu option removed, as it is not currently
working in Plastic SCM 4.0. Soon this feature will be reenabled.
Bug
cm help revert fixed. It was not correctly updated with the new
behaviour in Plastic SCM 4.0.
Bug
Branch Explorer: When using an issue tracker integration, task titles
were not correctly displayed. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.239.11 (Feb 24th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Merge: The merge system was unable to resolve automatically a
Change / Delete conflict (with source resolution) when other loaded item
exists in the path of the delete to undo. Fixed: now it supports this,
renaming with a temporal name the loaded item.
Bug
Fixed an issue when undoing a removed directory that contains an xlink
inside.
Bug
Merge tool: It was not able to parse the -m (mergeresolutiontype)
parameter, meaning the mergetool options on GUI were useless. Selecting
to show Merge tool even when no manual conflicts happened on a file
was not launching the Merge tool in interactive mode.
Bug
Fast import: The changeset zero did not had the oldest date after
importing a repository using fast-import. Fixed: now the changeset 0
will always have the oldest date.
Bug
Fast Export: Fixed a problem when exporting a repository that contains
xlinks.
External Release 4.0.239.10 (Feb 22th 2012)
====================================================
New
Replica: Move and remove realizations are replicated as they did in
Plastic SCM 3.0.
Performance
The performance of the Find Merge operation has been improved a little
more.
Bug
Merge: Fixed an issue related to added writable xlink merge, when the
xlink had a relative server and the merge is not done on the original
server where the relative xlink had been created but on a replicated
server.
Bug
Merge: The merge was missing the status if there was some exception when
sorting the operations to apply. Fixed.
Bug
Merge tool: Fixed an "Index out of range" issue, related to composed EOL
on very long lines and some specific circumstances.
Internal Release 4.1.2.247 (Feb 21th 2012)
====================================================
This version requires upgrade on both server and client.
New
Implemented a thumbnail preview in the Items view.
Supported formats:
* Built in support in all OS's for basic image formats: jpg, ico, png,
bmp, gif.
* Additional file format support:
** Windows7/Windows vista: Show OS thumbnail image (supports PDF, video
formats such as .avi, .mov, .mpg ... and others)
** WindowsXP, Linux, Mac: Show custom icons.
** Allow the definition of image preview generators using external
programs that are able to convert a unsupported file type to an image.
** Built-in templates to devine preview generators:
*** Support for ImageMagick, supporting lots of image formats using in
gaming development (TGA, TIFF, PSD, RAW, etc...). Check all supported
formats at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/formats.php
New
The cm ls command is now able to admit field names to specify output,
also dump hash and chmod and ls directly from tree.
Sample: cm ls / --tree=30 --format="{chmod} {name}"
New
Command line client: A new command (cm iostats) has been implemented in
order to show statistics about hardware status that could affect to
Plastic SCM performance. The new command allows to measure the network
speed between client and server, and the disk read & write speed. Also
the command shows Operating System's disk and network performance
counters (this feature is only available on Windows).
Bug
When executing an update from the Items view, the Branch Explorer did
not show the house icon, so it was a bit confusing to know the changeset
loaded in the workspace. Fixed: now, when updating from the Items view,
if a Branch Explorer view is opened, it is refreshed; this way the house
is shown.
Internal Release 4.1.1.246 (Feb 16th 2012)
====================================================
This version requires upgrade on both server and client.
New
Shelve command added to the CLI and GUI, the same as it worked in
Plastic 3.0 but adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0.
To create a shelve, go to Pending Changes view, drop down the checkin
button context menu and select Shelve pending changes.
To delete a shelve, go to shelve view and right click a shelve and
select "Delete".
To view shelve changes, go to the shelve view. Right click a shelve and
select "View shelve"
To apply a shelve, go to the shelve view. Right click a shelve and
select "Apply shelve in my workspace".
New
About form with links to the website.
New
Performance, new features and bugfixes integrated in BL239.6-BL239.9
have been integrated.
Bug
TeamCity plugin: The TeamCity variable %build.vcs.number% value has been
changed to the changeset number instead of the changeset spec as it was.
Example:
lb:1.17-cs:15@rep:default@repserver:localhost:8084 -> lb:1.17-15
Internal Release 4.1.0.245 (Feb 15th 2012)
====================================================
New
Delete changeset operation added to the log so that this action is
registered.
New
A new program has been included into the server installation folder.
This new program parses the server channel log file and print stats
regarding the channel usage during the logged time.
Performance
The memory usage when sending tree data has been greatly improved.
Bug
Fixed the error "The item XXXX is not a change in current..." performing
a full checking from the GUI, when we have a move in source under more
than one deleted level and we are looking only for controlled changes.
External Release 4.0.239.9 (Feb 15th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Diff tool: File or directory file system permissions differences were
not shown when the left files had no-defined permissions (-1). Fixed.
Bug
Fixed the "The node was not found" issue on recursive merge. The
problem was related to directories with file system protection changed,
and changes inside them, during the merge of the recursive common
ancestors.
External Release 4.0.239.8 (Feb 13th 2012)
====================================================
Performance
Improve the find merge perfomance.
New
Now it is possible to choose the type of resolution for all the
directory conflicts of the same type.
Examples:
cm merge cs:2 --merge --automaticresolution=changedelete-src
(This will solve all the change delete conflicts choosing the source)
cm merge cs:2 --merge --automaticresolution=eviltwin-dst;changedelete-src
(This will solve all the evil twin conflicts choosing the destination
and the change delete conflicts choosing source)
External Release 4.0.239.7 (Feb 10th 2012)
====================================================
New
More info has been added to not supported exceptions on the merge cm
log.
Bug
Fixed the error "The item XXXX is not a change in current..."
performing a full checkin from GUI, when we have a move src under more
than one deleted level and we are looking only for controlled changes.
Bug
Only the non-applicable file system protection are left as pending.
The already processed file system protections are filtered from the
current merge in progress.
Performance
Merge performance has been improved for file conflicts and files
modified on source.
Internal Release 4.1.0.244 (Feb 09th 2012)
====================================================
New
Office plugin: The Office 2003 and Office 2007 plugin has been adapted
to Plastic SCM 4.0.
New
New showmethodlist command for plasticd --console. Sample output:
showmethodlist
Active method calls
Name IP Time User
GetRepositoryList 127.0.0.1 00:00:10.3530000 pablo
showmethodlist
New
Logging for several operations improved in the client side.
Bug
The unneeded ".private" after unco operations has been avoided.
The issue was related to case-sensitive paths on a case-insensitive
file system. Fixed.
Bug
The issue with undo checkout over checkedout directories, with file
system protections changed and without changes inside, has been fixed.
Bug
History tree 2D: When it was shown the first time, the relevant
changeset filter was not correctly applied. Fixed.
Bug
"cm unco" command was not honoring the --stack argument. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.239.6 (Feb 09th 2012)
====================================================
New
Logs and counters improved. Use 'perf TreeReader' in console mode.
The 'showcaches' command shows specific info for each TreeCache cache.
Performance
When starting up the Plastic server it loads the changesets used the
last time it was running; thus the time needed to load the server is
greatly decreased
Performance
The first load of a huge changeset tree is pretty much faster.
Performance
The memory usage when sending tree data has been greatly improved.
External Release 4.0.239.5 (Feb 07th 2012)
====================================================
New
New showmethodlist command for plasticd --console.
Sample output:
showmethodlist
Active method calls
Name IP Time User
GetRepositoryList 127.0.0.1 00:00:10.3530000 pablo
showmethodlist
Bug
The unneeded ".private" items after unco operations has been avoided.
The issue was related to case-sensitive paths on a case-insensitive file
system.
Bug
The issue with undo checkout over checkedout directories, with file
system protections changed and without changes inside, has been fixed.
Bug
Fast import: Problem fixed related to importing packages with long
branch names (more than 100 chars, maximum length) in some backends
(i.e.: SqlServerCE backend).
External Release 4.0.239.4 (Feb 06th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Some weird cases of check in and undo changes after a merge operation
have been fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.0.243 (Jan 08th 2012)
====================================================
New
The items view now allows cutting (Ctrl+X) and pasting (Ctrl+V)
controlled items, in order to move them.
New
Zutubi Pulse continuous integration server plugin adapted to
Plastic SCM 4 and Pulse versions ranging from 2.0.42 to 2.4.x.
New
Command line client: Added the "--nolog" flag in order to disable the
logging of the cm.exe process, if desired.
Bug
Fixed a problem in the pending merge links data store. When two clients
started a merge against the same workspace, the pending merge link
entry could be duplicated.
Bug
Assert null on checkin operation that happens on really strange cases
has been fixed. List has been changed on undocheckout operation has
been fixed. Partial undo checkout operation related with (sensitive &
insensitive File systems) after merge has been fixed.
Bug
It was not possible working on changesets with SQLite backend. There
was a transaction problem because SQLite does not allow to have more
than one transaction simultaneously. Fixed.
Internal Release 4.1.0.242 (Jan 04th 2012)
====================================================
New
Pending Changes view: The comment area now is resizable.
New
Items view: New button to show a list of the last used paths
(Recent button); Expanded nodes are saved when closing the view or the
Plastic GUI. Finally, the focused item now is also saved and restored.
New
OnTime Extension: Now, the OnTime extension allows to log into an
OnTime object the paths affected on a checkin operation, along with the
changeset number and the branch name. The log message is written into
an OnTime custom field. Also, when clicking on the link of the logged
branch or changeset, the Plastic SCM Code Review tool is automatically
opened to show the differences of the branch or changeset.
Bug
Replica: When pushing a branch and there are conflicts on destination,
instead of the expected message "Error: There will be conflicts on
destination" a "Trying to use a previously finished transaction" error
message appeared. Fixed.
Bug
Command line client: The cm deactivateuser command was trying to solve
the specified user with the default server first, altough the
"--server" flag was specified. In that case, when the user did not
exist on the default server, an "User unknown" error was thrown.
Fixed: now the command solves the user with the proper server.
Bug
Command line client: After executing a changeworkspace command, the
listworkspaces command was ommiting the recently moved workspace.
Fixed.
Bug
Partial Merges: Scenario: /dir/foo.c; 1. Create child branch and switch
to it. 2. Move foo.c to dir and modify it. 3. Switch to main and modify
foo.c again so that requires manual merge. 4. Merge from child branch.
There are 2 items to merge: Changed on both source and destination:
/dir/foo.c Moved: /foo.c When processing the merge and the merge tool
appears, exit without saving. * Expected result: The merge view should
propose foo.c for merge * Actual result: The merge view shows
"No merges detected". Fixed.
Bug
Fast import: Fix problem when importing packages with long branch names
(more than 100 chars, maximum length) in some backends
(SqlServerCE backend, for instance).
Internal Release 4.1.0.241 (Jan 31th 2012)
====================================================
This version requires upgrade on both server and client.
New
Four new types of triggers have been created:
* before/after create review (before-mkreview / after-mkreview)
* before/after edit review (before-editreview / after-editreview)
Code Review variable block:
PLASTIC_REVIEW_TITLE, PLASTIC_REVIEW_STATUS, PLASTIC_REVIEW_ASSIGNEE,
PLASTIC_REVIEW_TARGET, PLASTIC_REVIEW_TARGET_TYPE
Performance
Syncronization view performance has been improved noticeabily.
Performance
Visual Studio Package: Improved performance checking out files when
Visual Studio requests to save files (QuerySave).
Bug
Replica: The transaction used during the process could be abandoned by
the destination server in long operations implying lots of data due to
the push operation. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed the error "Can't add an entry with the same name.
Duplicated child" on Changed/Deleted conflicts with added on deleted
path. Fixed the error on Deleted/Changed conflict with added on
deleted path that causes that some added candidates will never be
processed and remain as candidates.
Bug
Fixed a NullRefenceException that occurs when we keep the changed on
a "Change / Delete" conflict on a recursive merge. Fixed: the error only
occurred if the restored tree had intermediate conflicts (conflicts
on the virtual ancestor).
Bug
The Items view allowed deleting checked out items. Fixed some issues
related to items actions menu enablement.
The hidden changes decorator is only shown when the item is changed.
Bug
Linux and Mac GUI: Several aesthetic improvements.
Bug
History 2D tree: Fixed a drawing performance problem.
External Release 4.0.239.3 (Jan 27th 2012)
====================================================
New
Version tree 2D: Now this feature is fully functional, with a better
filtering algotithm, and it shows moved and deleted items.
New
Branch Explorer and Version tree 2D: A new option available to show
the layout horizontally as usual (default) or vertical.
Bug
Command line client: "cm diff" command did not expand the differences
contained on a xlinked changeset. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.239.2 (Jan 24th 2012)
====================================================
New
Now it is possible to switch to a certain changeset from the GUI, as it
is done for a branch.
New
Plastic CLI: From now on, the mklabel command will create the label
attached to a changeset always as the GUI does. If --changeset is not
specified, the command must be executed in a workspace (the label is
created attached to the current changeset).
The --allselectorrepositories switch has been renamed to
--allxlinkedrepositories in order to apply the label to all xlinked
repositories.
New
Diff command supports a full branch name, showing the differences of
that branch. Example:
cm diff br:/main/mytask
New
The queries preferences will be saved per any single workspace.
From now on, it is possible to set different default queries in each
workspace.
New
Shell Extension: Now it is possible to checkin a folder that contains
controlled changes inside.
New
ReviewBoard plugin has been adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0. You can create
reviews from a specific changeset or branch typing the following
command within a workspace:
post-review --username= --server=http://:
[cs:cset_num | branch_full_name ]
The plugin is included in the ReviewBoard tool itself, so this plugin
will not be available until a new version of ReviewBoard is released.
Optionally, you can ask us for the code and simply replace the
plastic.py files.
New
Jenkins plugin adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0. It will be ready as soon as
the changes are integrated in the Jenkins project, but in the meantime
you can ask support for the plugin.
New
The Admin tool now has a shortcut in Windows included in the Start
menu, Programs, Plastic SCM and finally Server tools.
New
Java-related plugins: Added more log entries. The logger name is
"PlasticSCMJavaCore". Fixed a potential deadlock when syncing the java
core with cm.exe process.
Performance:
The fast-import performance has been greatly improved.
Bug
Subtractive merge for writable xlinks has been fixed. The merge of
multiple writable XLinks that has been modified only on source has been
fixed.
Bug
Unco error with directories on checkout without changes inside has been
fixed.
Bug
Replica: There was a problem with unknown users that could be caused by
a fast-import. The problem was only reproducible in Active Directory
authentication mode.
Bug
Plastic GUI: After renaming the current branch, it was neccessary to
update the selector in order to continue working because otherwise the
branch was not found. Fixd: an update automatically takes place after
renaming the current branch.
Bug
Plastic GUI: If the file paths were too long they were not displayed
in the progress dialog. Fixed: long paths appear with ellipsis.
Bug
Plastic GUI: Do not permit to rename objects (branch/label...) with an
empty name. Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: A crash with a huge diagrams has been fixed.
Bug
XLinks: An error message appeared when trying to checkin a readonly
xlink creation from the GUI when it was the only change. Fixed.
Bug
Fast-import: After performing a fast-import the following changeset
created had number 1 instead of the last one. Fixed.
Bug
FogBugZ extension: Altough the extension was working fine, the test
connection was broken. Fixed.
Bug
TeamCity plugin: it was labelling always the changeset loaded in the
workspace, which could not be the changeset used in the build.
The plugin has been changed to label the appropriate changeset: the
one that has been tested in the build.
Bug
Admin tool: When started the application, a DOS console was opened.
Also, the main form had the default WinForms icon. Both fixed.
Internal Release 4.0.239.1 (Jan 18th 2012)
====================================================
New
Version tree 2D: Very similar to the Branch Explorer, it replaces
the good old version tree 3D; much easier to handle, available
from the context menu of the Items view and the Pending Changes
view.
External Release 4.0.239 (Jan 10th 2012)
====================================================
This release requires to upgrade both server and client.
New
Keyboard Shortcuts: Most used buttons have an ALT shortcut key.
This is available from the most common buttons and checkboxes available
in the GUI. Pressing the ALT key, they will appear highlighted.
Examples:
Checkin -> ALT + i
Undo changes -> ALT + u
Show / Hide diffs ALT + d
New
Diff tool: Big files management: Do not calculate differences if any of
the files involved are bigger than 2Mb. The control shows a message and
lets the user calcuate differences later by clicking on a button.
New
Merge operation supports the directories FS protection. This was not
implemented in Plastic SCM 4.0 yet.
New
Command line client: Now it is possible to list the history of a branch
from the command line client by using the following command:
cm dbh
New
Log command: Available in Plastic SCM 4.0. Now there is no I (Merge)
change, and R (removed) has been renamed to D (delete).
New
Eclipse plugin: Now it is able to show the properties of a branch,
along with its history of merges. This behaviour was already available
in the GUI and now it has been added to the Eclipse plugin.
Bug
Diff tool: Fixed a crash in GUI/Linux when changing encoding using
files with Unicode characters.
Bug
Pending Changes view: Fixed The checkin error "Cannot perform a partial
checkin if there are pending merge links" with all the pending changes
checked that happened when the user had a checked-out directory from
the command line or a directory without changes inside the structure
had changed its FS protection.
Bug
Pending Changes view: The tab order of this view was broken in BL237.7.
Bug
Visual Studio package: It is able to work if the solution file is not
bound to Plastic SCM. Supported the "hidden" solution pattern
(Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Always show solution).
Also fixed a bug that happened when creating a repository from the
New Workspace dialog: after creating the repository it was not selected
in the combo box by default.
Bug
Visual Studio package: Switching to a branch / label / changeset that
changed the solution file from Visual Studio, did not reload correctly
the solution. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: Fixed a problem deleting resources in Eclipse.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: It was not able to add or checkin files when the
project was located in a directory that was not under the Eclipse
workspace. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.237.8 (Jan 05th 2012)
====================================================
Bug
Pending Changes view: The merge links were not shown. This bug appeared
in the last release 4.0.237.7. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.237.7 (Dec 23th 2011)
====================================================
This release requires to upgrade both server and client.
New
Crucible plugin adapted to Plastic SCM 4. This version of the plugin is
compatible with the Crucible 2.7.8 version.
New
New: CruiseControl plugin has been adapted to work perfectly in
Plastic SCM 4.0, both Java and .NET versions. This plugin will not be
available until a new release of CruiseControl is published, But if you
want to use it you can download and compile the source code of
CruiseControl.
New
The server checks when a child item name is going to be duplicated in
the same directory.
New
New trigger available: before-rmrep and after-rmrep, executed when
deleting an existing repository.
New
XLinks: Xlink creation from a label.
Example: cm xlink codesecondrepo / lb:LB001@second@localhost:8084
New
Hidden changes: You can add items to a hidden changes list if you do
not want that they are displayed in the Pending Changes view. You can
add and remove elements from both the Items view and the Pending
Changes view. This feature works exactly the same as the ignored or the
cloaked feature. There is an option in the Pending Changes view to show
them. In addition to that, there is a new Pending Changes view option:
"Show hidden changed items"; disabled by default. Enable it in case you
want to see these items in the Pending Changes view. The icon
identifier is the same as a changed item, but in a gray color.
New
Implemented a new feature to checkin changes to a new branch. Allow the
user to create a new branch or select an existing one (in this case the
target branch must be empty). Also, an option has been implemented to
avoid checkin changes (only move them to other branch).
New
The GUI allows specifying the merge contributor for each file conflict
(modified on source and destination) before processing the merge. This
is available from the file conflicts context menu.
New
Merge frontend GUI and CLI support merge from items that changed only
their file system protections.
New
Uncounchanged (unuc) command has been adapting to 4.0. Also this
feature has been added to the Pending Changes view. The "undo changes"
button can be expanded to display the new option ("undo unchanged").
New
A checkbox to the new branch dialog has been added so that you can
switch to the branch after its creation. Also other improvements have
been made as if the branch already exists when trying to create it, the
dialog does not close as it happened before. This way, you can edit it.
New
The create top-level branch warning has been deleted, as it does
not make sense in Plastic SCM 4.0.
New
cm stb -wk=workspace path now supported. Allows specifying a wk path to
the stb command.
Performance
The amount of memory usage on update operation has been reduced.
Bug
Merge: Fixed a merge issue with Move Deleted conflict, with a Changed
Deleted conflict inside, when the Move Deleted is resolved with the deleted
option.
Bug
GUI: Fixed a merge issue with Evil Twin conflicts and moved
destinations inside it. This issue causes that some elements will be
purposed as added, but never applied.
Bug
GUI: Fixed a problem when the merge operation detects a writable xlink
conflict whose result ends with no further actions to apply. Command
line client: A full workspace checkin was not allowed when there were
changes on a xlink unless the checkin operation was launched from the
root of the workspace. Fixed in order to allow to run the full
workspace checkin from any valid workspace path.
Bug
Branch Explorer: Changed the label context menu. When there was
multiple branches in a changeset, the label menu was correctly built
(a two level context menu) but when there was only one label, this was
not necessary. Not the label context menu is shown directly only if one
label exists.
Bug
Branch Explorer: A branch was not correctly drawn when a subbranch had
subpaths with the parent changeset placed in a different branch. Fixed.
Bug
Diff tool: Differences inside a line were incorrectly drawn in the
textbox when the line had tabs. Fixed.
Bug
Diff tool: When showing differences and the file paths were too long,
they were disappearing from the panel. From now on, diff tool will
show short paths with ellipses in the middle when they are too long.
In addition, a tooltip has been added showing the full path. Fixed.
Bug
Sync view: Fixed an error connecting to a remote LDAP server when
storing credentials. If you wrote invalid credentials and remembered
them, credentials were not requested anymore. Fixed cross-thread
operations when showing errors in the Sync view.
Bug
Fast import: It was not handling the scenarios with an item loaded
twice in the same changeset tree. Fixed.
Bug
Fast import: Now it supports the automatically change of a directory to
a file in the fast-export file.
Bug
Fast import: It could not import move operations of files if an empty
directory existed in the destination. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Manage correctly moved files between different
Visual Studio projects. Allow Plastic SCM to search for deleted and
moved files, instead of applying a delete operation when the file is
deleted in Visual Studio. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: The first time using the Visual Studio package
appeared a dialog to select workspace when it was not necessary. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: The ignored patterns on the Eclipse Team provider were
not being considered for folders. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.237.6 (Dec 16th 2011)
====================================================
New
Server: Writable permissions (user, group and other) are managed by
Plastic SCM, the user changes over these permissions are not
considered.
Bug
GUI: Fixed a crash when trying to switch to a branch in linux.
Bug
GUI: The checkin error "Cannot perform a partial checkin if there are
pending merge links" with all the pending changes checked that happens
when there are local changes on a controlled item that has been changed
(such as a copied element that is locally removed), has been fixed.
External Release 4.0.237.5 (Dec 15th 2011)
====================================================
New
Now it is possible to change a symlink, detect it as changed (it
already does) and check it in. Limitations: only symlinks whose content
has been changed can be checked in; otherwise the symlink will remain
on the pending changes view. In order to undo the unchanged links
please do the following:
"cm unco linkUnchanged --symlink"
"cm update linkUnchanged --forced"
This is a first version; we will improve this feature to full support
it in the future.
External Release 4.0.237.4 (Dec 14th 2011)
====================================================
New
Merge takes into account the item file system protection, so if a
contributor changes the permissions on a file this change will be taken
into account in a merge operation. This only works from the CLI and
only for files, not directories (first version).
New
Plastic SCM workflow changed to non-read only. Since the SCC Plugin
needs the readonly workflow to detect changes a new message appears
when opening a controlled project asking the user to change that
preference.
New
Write asterisks in the console when the user is typing a password.
This is now possible, since the client is compiled in .NET Framework
2.0.
New
GUI: Context menus reorganized for usability reasons.
New
Pending changes view: Added a new overlay icon for deleted files and
folders.
New
Diff tool: When showing differences of an empty branch, an error
message appeared, explaining that there were no differences to show.
Fixed: The message has been replaced with an informative one, because
this situation is not an error.
New
Diff tool: When showing differences between changesets or branches,
the oldest item or file is now placed always on the left panel.
New
JetBrains TeamCity plugin adapted for Plastic SCM 4.0.
New
Visual Studio Package: Now it sets checked private files in the Pending
Changes view when checking in from the Solution Explorer or from the
Pending Changes Under Solution view.
New
Visual Studio Package: Add the syncronization view image icon in the
Plastic SCM menu of VSPackage.
Performance
The replication package format has been improved to reduce the size and
the memory usage.
Bug
Server: In some cases, server error messages appeared twice. The reason
was that the SSL channel messages were the same as the server ones.
Fixed: Now SSL channel messages only will be displayed when they are
different than the server messages.
Bug
Fast import: It was not setting correctly the revision type of the copied
(C) items. This led to an "Out of memory exception" in some scenarios.
Fixed.
Bug
XLinks: Fixed issues when updating and checking in xlinks with the same
content but different GUID. The system did not recognize them as
different. Fixed.
Bug
The locally moves detection has been fixed for checkedout elements.
Bug
GUI: Using server profiles, it was not possible to create a workspace
from the GUI pointing to a different server than the client is using.
An error message appeared saying that the repository cannot be found
and the workspace was created with empty selector. Fixed.
Bug
Installer: SCC Plugin was not being registered correctly in Visual
Studio 2005. This bug appeared since the Plastic SCM client was moved
to .NET Framework 2.0. Nevertheless, it was working correctly in Visual
Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. Fixed: the regasm tool used to
register the SCC Plugin is the one provided by the .NET Framework 2.0
instead of the 1.1 one. This works fine in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and
2010.
External (special) Release 4.0.237.3 (Dec 07th 2011)
====================================================
Performance
Improve tree load performance and mkwk performance (doesn't load
last changeset on branch anymore)
External Release 4.0.237.2 (Nov 28th 2011)
===============================================
New
Now, the database exceptions (such as: the credentials are wrong,
cannot connect to the database server and so on) are retrieved to
the client. This way when a user executes a command and the server
is not working for a database issue he gets a proper message.
New
Xlinks (readonly): Change error message when trying to perform a
checkout inside a readonly xlink: It is not possible to modify items
inside a readonly xlink.
New
DiffTool & MergeTool: Implemented a diff summary control to show
differences in the diff and merge scrollbar.
New
Bamboo plugin: Adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0 and added a new working mode
(Test branch): If you specify "BRANCH_NAME" as the branch to test, the
plugin will search for branches that have an "status" attribute set to
"RESOLVED" value. If there are not any branches found with this
attribute value, /main is tested as default case.
New
Installer: Visual Studio Package setup changed to use the
/nosetupvstemplates option of devenv.exe. This makes the installation
of the plugin much faster in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.
Performance:
Improved the time reading the changeset trees.
Performance:
Optimized the changeset deletion operation (it was taking a lot of time
performing a database query).
Bug
PostgreSQL backend: There was a problem creating repositories. Fixed.
Bug
Replica: It was not checking correctly the activated users when the
destination database backend was SQLite. Fixed.
Bug
GUI: The textbox was duplicating words when typing Korean characters.
Bug
DiffTool: The GUI got frozen calculating differences for big files.
Bug
Merge view: Explain merge/show info contributors failed when it was
shown for an empty branch. Fixed.
Bug
Installer: Install Plastic SCM 3.0, then install Plastic SCM 4.0, then
upgrade Plastic SCM 4.0. In windows it was upgrading the 3.0
installation instead of the 4.0 one. In linux this worked fine. Fixed.
Bug
Installer: Issue detected during the upgrade process when the Plastic
Server was about to be started up if the mmc.exe (Windows Services
Management program) was running. Fixed: Now, if the mmc.exe process is
running a message appears, asking the user to close the program.
Bug
Admintool: There was a problem in the database migration feature when
the fields of the tables were different between destination database
and source database. Fixed.
External Release 4.0.237.1 (Nov 21th 2011)
===============================================
New
Now a merge result that does not modify the destination and has xlinks
involved, can be committed.
Bug
Shell Extension: It got hung when showing OpenFile/SaveFile dialogs.
Fixed.
Bug
Replica: The case of a destination head existing in destination but
being a reference was not properly handled. Fixed.
Bug
The server could not calculate the branch history for a branch that had
serveral changesets with the same parent in a different branch (a git
import scenario).
Bug
Branch Explorer: Fixed a null showing this view when the changeset data
was not the usual (a changeset in a sub-branch points to a parent
changeset that is located in other branch).
External Release 4.0.237 (Nov 17th 2011)
===============================================
New
RSS Info Panel: this panel shows news published in the Plastic SCM blog,
at http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/. This way Plastic SCM users will
know what is up in the Plastic SCM world.
New
Profile management improved in the replication. In addition to this, the
profile functionality has been extended to the whole system. Now the
client is able to connect to multiple servers.
New
Merge: Now the user can define the common ancestor for the merge
operation, as an advanced option. This option is available from the
GUI and the command line.
New
Initial merge recursive implementation: This strategy (set by default)
will look for the available ancestors and will build an ancestor merging
all of the ancestors found. This is the initial implementation and
there are lots of restrictions and limitations in its use.
New
Merge: Multiple ancestor functionality: A merge now returns all the
available ancestors and not only the best (the more similar) one. All
the available common ancestors will be used on merge recursive.
New
Pending changes view: The options have been moved to a separate dialog.
New
Last changeset removal: Now users are able to regret checkins.
Only the "LAST" changeset can be removed.
New
Triggers: --filter option added to limit the trigger scope to certain
items only (in case that the trigger is applied to items, for instance a
checkin trigger or a checkout trigger).
New
All checkouts view has been removed from Plastic GUI.
New
Change statistics: This view has been reviewed, filtering out directory
revisions.
New
Cherry picking and Subtractive merge implemented in Plastic SCM 4.0.
New
Second part of the merge recursive implementation.
New
Merge: Directory merge messages localized in english and spanish.
New
SSL certificate: Now the client is able to store SSL certificates on
Windows using the .net 1.0 profile.
New
Sync view: This view allows creating replication profiles and check
which changesets and branches have not been replicated yet. This makes
easier than ever to work distributed.
New
Merge in steps: This feature allows users merging individual conflicts
in steps, eventually deciding different merge resolution strategies.
New
Diff changes in the Commit View: Now it is possible to diff revisions in
the commit view. By clicking on the button, users will be able to check
what changes have been done in the listed items.
New
Label creation and application in a single step: Now, when creating a
new label it is applied to the loaded changeset. Optionally you can
specify the changeset to mark.
New
Revision numbers have been deleted from the GUI, since they are not
useful anymore in Plastic 4.0.
New
Delete view has been hidden.
New
Revert operation has been redesigned and reimplemented for the DAG
model.
New
SQL Server CE is now the default backend, instead of Firebird.
New
Visual Studio Package annotate added to context menu.
New
Recursive merge strategy: 3rd part (which involves the client) has been
implemented, so this feature is finished.
New
Fast-export updated with the last changes performed in the 3.0 exporter.
New
The Branch Explorer includes a mechanism to navigate to the parent
changeset of a selected one. Also, the parent changeset is shown in the
properties when a changeset is selected.
New
The default backend has been set to SQLServer CE 4.0.
New
Empty changeset in a merge operation when the result is exactly the same
as the previous existing content.
New
Items view: A new decorator has been added to the directory nodes that
have changes. Also, the checkout operation has been disabled for
directories, since it does not make sense with the new DAG model.
New
The branch properties dialog has been redesigned. Now it shows the
labels applied to the changeset that is the starting point of the
branch. Also, for every merge to the branch starting from a
labeled changeset, the dialog shows the branch has been rebased.
New
Create changeset / rev / links with same timestamp on server when doing
a checkin operation.
New
A connection dialog has been provided when a user tries to connect to a
Plastic SCM server and he or she has not credentials to connect.
New
More information added to the assert in replica that happens when an
empty branch GUID is sent.
New
Fast import/Fast export rebased and adapted to the last features
available in Plastic SCM 4.0.
New
Added context menu actions for directory conflicts resolution.
Now it is possible to show the differences between affected revisions.
New
A new context menu action to remove private items has been added
to the pending changes view.
New
Sync replication view: Several improvements have been made. Now it is
possible to filter branches and to sort the view by column fields.
New
Debug and release versions have been adapted to be compatible; this way
we internally will be able to debug a release version.
New
Atlassian Bamboo plugin: A new plugin has been developed to integrate
Plastic SCM 4.0 with Atlassian Bamboo (Continuous Integration tool).
New
Password encryption: All the passwords (databases, task controls
credentials) are now encrypted. To enter the password encrypted in the
db.conf, a user must type cm crypt , which returns the
password encrypted. This is the password that must be specified in the
db.conf file.
New
Branch properties view: Now it is possible to diff branch contents
and replicate the branch that is shown in the view.
New
Checkin same data dialog removal: Now, if Plastic SCM detects that a
user tries to checkin a file without changes, it silently undoes the
checkout.
New
Display warnings to the user when new SSL self-signed certificates are
received from the server, or a server certificate changes.
New
Export view data: Now it is possible to export the data of a view to
different formats (XML, CSV and plain text).
New
Recursive merge: Support multiple common ancestors in the recursive
merge strategy.
New
Replica: code has been protected to check corrupted packages.
New
Installer: fr and nl folders have been removed from both server and
client folders. Also, server log has been renamed to plastic.server.log.
New
Update operation: The --checkdisk option has been removed; now, by
default Plastic SCM performs a normal update and there is a preference
in GUI and an option in CLI (--quick) to perform the update operation
only if the changeset loaded is different from the one expected.
New
Pending changes view: The items listed in the 'Deleted' list are not
selected by default if they are local changes, to prevent a not desired
checkin of them.
New
Improvements in the starting up of the GUI: now the location, size and
screen are saved. This way the next time the Plastic SCM GUI it is
started, it will be in the same location, screen and size that it had
before closing it.
New
Now, when deleting the last changeset of a branch, Plastic SCM checks if
there are pending changes and cancel the operation if it is the case. If
there are not changes, it asks for an update, which is necessary to
continue. If the user does not want to update the workspace, the
changeset is not deleted.
New
Merge interval cherrypick command has been changed to be more
user-friendly. Example:
cm merge --merge --cherrypicking --interval-origin=cs:.
New
Checkin operation: the speed of this operation has been improved.
New
Mergetool: Now you can drag and drop files from Windows
Explorer to the Mergetool left, right and base textboxes (when invoking
mergetool without arguments as a standalone).
New
Set selector operation: Now after a set selector operation an update
operation starts automatically. The option to disable the automatic
update option has been removed.
New
SSL communication: autogenerate self signed certificate if there is
none.
New
Visual Studio Package: Solution folders support added.
New
Scc Plugin: Now the history command shows a form with the history view
inside. All the operations are working from the context menu.
New
Installer on Linux: Now, the Plastic server runs using the 'plasticscm'
user instead of root, unless Plastic SCM is installed in a limited
user account; in this case the server is launched by the owner of the
installation directory. Also, a bug fixed in Debian deployments which
caused that the Plastic server was not launched automatically when
booting the system.
New
Sync view added to the Shell Extension and the Visual Studio Package.
New
IME support in Mergetool, so any two byte language is displayed and
managed properly.
New
Code protected against command timeout updating indexes.
New
By default, update and checkin operation set files as read-write.
New
SQLite: make pooling = false by default to prevent SQLite from running
out of connections.
New
Fast-import: now it is able to skip tags that were already imported.
Required for incremental import scenarios from git.
New
Support user-defined encodings in guiclient.conf file. Enables support
for any encoding, setting it manually on the configuration file.
New
The replica is now able to replicate git-imported branches that have two
changesets whose parents are located in different branches.
New
Non-monospaced support in merge tool.
New
Now it is possible to change fonts on diff, merge tool and the annotate
editor.
New
Atlassian Crucible plugin: Support for Atlassian Crucible.
New
Admin tool first release: introduces the ability to migrate data between
different database backends. Find it on the server's directory:
admintool.exe
New
The Sync replication view shows the branches using the full name,
instead of the short one.
New
The Sync replication view now shows also the total number of outgoing
and incoming branches and the number of changesets per branch.
New
Several options added to the find command: "changesets" option added to
the cm find branch command, the ability to find an object using the
GUID, "returnparent" option added to cm find changeset, "parent" field
added to cm find changeset; "replsrcdate" field added to cm find of
replicated objects; finally Date constants for common date queries
implemented, such as 'yesterday'. Examples:
cm find branch where changesets >= 'yesterday'
cm find branch where changesets >= '2 days ago'
New
Plastic GUI Views: Make visible the reset query and the save query
buttons in the changesets view.
New
All system encodings supported in Plastic GUI (also Difftool and
Mergetool).
New
Comments in Plastic GUI: The checkin is the only operation that creates
revisions so now the comments are only valid for this operation.
New
When the server throws a database exception, the client receives the
real backend error instead of receiving an incomprehensible error as
it was happening until now (cannot find assembly Mysql.Data.dll, etc).
New
Eclipse plugin adapted to Plastic SCM 4.0.
New
XLinks feature implemented.
New
XLinks: relative xlinks feature added. Now it is possible to use xlinks
in a distributed scenario where each developer has his own server.
New
cm diff command now allows differences between changesets. Example:
cm diff 1234 1455
New
The children items are stored in blob's instead of using the childrenitem
table.
New
Replica: Null in replica fixed, due to some changes in ACL security
management.
New
XLinks writables: now it is possible to use writable xlinks: you can
merge the contents of a linked repository from the "host" repository.
To use writable xlinks, specify the "-w" option from the command line
interpreter.
New
XLinks and diff: now the differences of a changeset, branch or label
can be expanded to show the xlinks contents, if any.
New
Branch Explorer: the compress layout algorithm has been improved.
New
SCC Plug-In: Implemented Update-Merge feature. The SCC plug-in now is
able to merge the changes made when working on two different workspaces
on the same branch.
New
Axosoft OnTime integration: Now, the extension allows logging the paths
affected on a checkin operation into an OnTime object, along with the
changeset number and the branch name. The log message is written into an
OnTime custom field. Also, when clicking on the logged branch and
changeset, the Code Review tool is automatically opened to show the
differences of the branch or changeset.
New
The checkin is the only operation that creates revisions so Plastic SCM
shows the comment dialog when the user executes that operation.
New
The revision number field has been removed. Now, a revision can be
referenced through the changeset number where the specified revision was
affected.
New
Recursive merge resolution for writable Xlink conflicts implemented,
including absolute and relative XLinks.
New
Unneeded intermediate conflicts are filtered so no user resolution is
needed for them.
New
The collecting data performance of the Branch Explorer view has been
improved.
New
Switch to branch action is performed inside a background operation to
avoid executing it in the main user thread.
New
Support explain merge and show contributors for Xlinked repositories
during a merge.
New
MergeTool: The manual conflicts number can be printed into a file.
New option:
--conflictsreportfile=x.txt
-crf=x.txt
New
Installer: Support installation of Plastic SCM 3 and Plastic SCM 4 in
the same machine. This is possible in Windows and Linux (not in Mac).
To do that, the Plastic server service has been renamed to 'Plastic
Server 4', the default installation path has been changed to PlasticSCM4
(windows) / plasticscm4 (linux), the default server port has been
changed to 8087 and the local plastic folder that contains client.conf,
guivisualstate.xml, etc has been renamed to 'plastic4'. Also, SQLite
dlls included to support this backend in Windows. Finally, a problem
detected with the requirements check in Windows 2008 R2 Web Server has
been fixed.
New
Plastic server: New option --tray to start up a server as a system tray
application. The process detaches from console and hence can be run from
start up programs on Windows without leaving an open console. When
launching from a console it will stay there but will be only closed from
the system tray icon.
New
New restrictions to operate with Xlinks:
* Edition of the Xlink type is not allowed.
* Edition of the Xlink repository or server for a read-only Xlink is
not allowed.
New
SCC Plugin: Implemented Update Merge feature. The SCC plug-in is able to
merge the changes made when working on two different workspaces on the
same branch.
New
Bamboo Plugin: The Atlassian Bamboo Continuous Integration System plugin
has been adapted to work with Plastic SCM 4.0.
New
Shell Extension: The views displayed are now minimizable.
Bug
GUI: Localization aesthetical issues fixed.
Bug
Annotate view: It did not show the correct font if the user changed it.
Fixed.
Bug
Undo checkout command: It did not clear the pending merge links when the
unco did not involve any files. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed a crash closing the branch when the attributes pane was visible.
Bug
Update merge operation: It has been fixed for workspaces that have
xlinks and pending changes. Update structure changes has been improved.
Bug
Pending changes view and Items View: Undo changes and add + checkin did
not refresh the Branch Explorer automatically. Fixed.
Bug
Mergetool: Merge hints showed buttons with the old style yet (I3 style).
Change them to the new 4.0 GUI style! Fixed.
Bug
Admintool: It was not working properly due to a resources issue. Fixed.
Bug
Replica: After retrieving a changeset as reference during the replica
operation, it was not updating correctly the owner value. Fixed.
Bug
OnTime Extension: Disabled until potential problems on plastic:// links
are resolved. At the moment, the OnTime extension is able to log the
checkin information with plain text only.
New functionality in Plastic SCM 3.0
====================================
Plastic SCM 3.0 has just been released and it includes the following major
features:
* Integrated distributed code review: built-in code review system that tightly
integrates with branches and changesets. A review can easily be created from
these elements and then replicated, enabling a distributed review process.
* Shell extension: Windows Explorer integration that allows developers to
perform all the version control operations within Explorer. All the GUI views
are accessible from the shell extension too.
* New Subversion and Perforce importers: improved Subversion importer (both
performance and usability) and a brand new Perforce importer.
* New "pending changes view" on the GUI: now checked out items (i.e. items
marked for edition from the GUI, command line or the plugins), changed items
(modified outside Plastic control) and private items (potentially new files)
can be checked in together from a single view.
* Xmerge / Xdiff 2.0: the merge and diff tools get updated with "cross merging"
technology capable of detecting moved (and modified) code in the same file.
Xdiff is able to locate modified code and render it accordingly, and Xmerge
is able to handle moved code (normally refactor) during the merge process.
* External data storage: it is possible to "extract" data from file revisions
in a repository and save them on secondary devices like DVDs, hard drives and
so on) so they don't consume main database storage. It is possible to plug
the media to the server for transparent access or to access the "extracted"
data directly from the client machine (Plastic will prompt to introduce the
right media when accessing a "extracted" revision). It is useful for projects
using really big files.
* Annotate support on GUI: now annotate (cm annotate or cm blame) is also
available on a graphical view, integrated with the GUI's view system. It's
possible to explore the changeset or branch that altered any line in the
annotated item.
* SQLite backend support: Plastic servers can now use SQLite as backend. SQLite
adds a new backend to the existing set of supported databases: Oracle, MySQL,
SQL Server and Firebird. SQLite is very fast on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
environments, but it is better suited for distributed development (a
developer running a small footprint server on his laptop or workstation).
SQLite is the default on Linux and Mac OS X evaluations.
* Selector explorer: it is possible to explore branches, labels and changesets
without having to download them to a workspace. Advanced users can edit the
selector to try more complex configurations.
* Performance improvements: as usual every new Plastic release is faster than
the previous one. We thoroughly tested Plastic with big workspaces (>250k
files and 40k directories) and big repositories in several scenarios: from
heavy load (hundreds of concurrent users (computer simulated) against a
a single server) to single user operations (quickly adding a big workspace
into a repository) where we can consistently beat all our major competitors.
External Release 3.0.187.32 (Nov 30th 2011)
===============================================
New
Fast-export: Improvements in this command to support more cases with
bigger repositories.
External Release 3.0.187.31 (Sep 9th 2011)
===============================================
Bug
Importers: CVS parser was not cutting the comments longer than 1000
characters.
External Release 3.0.187.30 (Aug 31th 2011)
===============================================
New
Mergetool: It is possible to drag and drop the files to use as base,
source and destination in mergetool when invoked without arguments.
Bug
Branch Explorer: This view was showing the branches with view permission
not granted. This was happening since 3.0.187.18. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed an invalid cast exception when trying to
select items in the Solution Explorer of Visual Studio 2010. This bug
happened ocasionally.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed duplicated project entries in the Pending
Changes view when checking in from the Solution Explorer. This happened
in Visual Studio 2010 when the project was under a Solution Folder.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: The solution file did not appear in the pending
changes view in Visual Studio 2010. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.29 (Aug 23th 2011)
===============================================
New
Visual Studio Package: Solution files appeared twice in the Pending
Changes view. Also, solution folders appeared as projects to be bound on
the "Change Source Control" dialog when they should not. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: When having a Windows Presentation Foundation
project some checked-out files were not shown in the Pending changes
view. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.28 (Aug 10th 2011)
===============================================
Bug
Replica: When importing a damaged package, it could fake the metadata
size, causing a temporary replication file much bigger than expected.
Fixed: some extra verifications added to detect this rare case.
External Release 3.0.187.27 (Jul 27th 2011)
===============================================
Bug
If during a label application a SQL command timeout fires, the
rollback operation was not correctly performed, so at the end it was
possible that the marker realizations were written in the
markerrealizations table but not in the object table, leading to an
inconsistence in the databases. Fixed. Also, an error in the cm help
label fixed: to apply a label recursively from the current directory
the command is: "cm lb lb:LB001 . -R".
External Release 3.0.187.26 (Jun 27th 2011)
===============================================
New
Zutubi Pulse plugin: The plugin now supports the version 2.3 of Zutubi
Pulse.
Bug
Bamboo plugin: there was a problem when setting a custom selector and
several other issues related to the building process. Fixed.
Bug
Filtering dialog (ignore /cloaked): Now the dialog is sizable, so users
can see long rules. Fixed.
Bug
Mac installer: there was a problem when trying to start up the server in
some configurations, related to the setup of the /Library/Startup
directory. Fixed.
Bug
Installer: The authmodetranslator.exe was included in the installer.
Fixed: This application should not be there, so it has been removed.
Bug
Checkin big files: When a user checked in a file bigger than 2GB, the
update failed. It did not download the entire file. There was an
overflow with the size of the file. Fixed.
Bug
filetypes.conf: The file was written without skipping the read only
permission, so Plastic SCM failed to write on it when this permission
was set. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.25 (May 27th 2011)
===============================================
New
Merge: Included an option to filter contributors without changes in
a merge operation (conflict contributor is "None"). This is optional and
by default it is not set. Once the option is set on a merge it will be
saved as default.
Bug
Small typos fixed in several error messages. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.24 (May 20th 2011)
===============================================
New
Bamboo plugin: Plastic SCM now includes a plugin to work with the
Atlassian Bamboo continuous integration application.
New
Eclipse plugin: A checkbox has been added to include changed items
on the sync view and the commit dialog.
Bug
Compatibility check between client and server was not correctly handled
when the authentication mode was LDAP. Fixed: now the client checks the
compatibility and shows an appropriate message, explaining the client
version of the commontypes library and the server version of that
library.
Bug
Branch Explorer: The statistics chart did not show the expected days
(the same as the Branch Explorer was showing) for the daily number of
checkins. The problem was that the data was not sorted correctly. Fixed.
Bug
Code review: There was a bug when trying to add a note in a recently
added item. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: The offline checkouts were not restored when
Visual Studio was restarted. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: The Plastic SCM context menu should be disabled
for unbinded items. Fixed.
Bug
Proxy installer: problem solved related to a library not included in
the installer. Fixed.
Bug
The sbb command returned a null pointer when it was executed out of a
workspace. Fixed: now it shows a correct message.
Bug
LDAP authentication: sometimes it could not get a response when getting
users. Fixed: this happened because sometimes the calls were not
correctly processed and they did not return the control, so the thread
kept busy.
External Release 3.0.187.23 (April 08th 2011)
===============================================
New
When a branch is rebased to a changeset or a label, a warning message
informs that a merge should be performed in order to resolve any
existing conflicts. This warning can be disabled in the Preferences
dialog.
New
Eclipse plugin: Annotate support for Eclipse. This view can be opened
by right clicking on an item, in the Team submenu, like the rest of
the item's options.
New
Eclipse plugin: The "Import from Plastic SCM" wizard dialog has been
redesigned, to allow expanding the repositories to show the existing
branches on each repository, so that users can select directly the
desired branch to import.
Bug
Code Review: some customized label controls were not correctly painted
in Mono. Fixed.
Bug
The repository browser view was empty if the "List mode" was selected
and a "Refresh" was performed. Fixed.
Bug
Mergetool: if the result of the merge was empty, this result was not
saved and the merge was suggested again. Fix: The result is saved
independently of its contents.
Bug
Installer: The uninstaller could not delete the eclipse folder that it
is created when the Eclipse plugin is selected to be installed. This
happened only in Mac. This issue affected also the upgrade: as the old
Eclipse jars were not deleted, all the jars were copied in the plugins
directory of Eclipse at the end of the upgrade process. Fixed.
Bug
Installer: When the Shell Extension for Windows was selected to be
installed, the cm.exe was not added to the PATH environment variable.
This could only happen in Windows. The reason is that after installing
and registering the extension the Explorer process was restarted, so the
changes done in the PATH variable were lost. Fix: The PATH variable is
written at the end of the installation process.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: Diff with previous of a recently added item showed an
error message that Plastic SCM could not find any other revision, when
the right message should be "There is no revision on this branch to
compare with". Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: When F5 is pressed, the .java items's status was
refreshed, but some other extension files did not. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.22 (March 25th 2011)
===============================================
New
Text files are automatically detected and set as "text" type files by
reading the first bytes of the file.
New
The status of the extended panel in the Branches, Labels and
Changesets views is saved when closing the GUI, so the next time the
GUI is opened the panel is showed.
New
Eclipse plugin: When creating a new workspace (from the Share Project
dialog) it is also possible to create a repository.
New
Eclipse plugin: New menu option: diff with LAST revision on branch when
right clicking on an item. This operation is available also in the Sync
view.
New
Eclipse plugin: Now when you are importing several projects to Eclipse,
it shows only 1 progress monitor for all the projects binded.
New
Eclipse plugin: Now branches and labels are loaded asynchronously;
this way the Plastic SCM view is not blocked while the data is being
loaded.
New
Eclipse plugin: Allow multiselection for branches and labels in the
'Plastic SCM' perspective.
New
Eclipse plugin: Now selector errors are shown in the 'Console' view of
the 'Plastic SCM' perspective.
Bug
In Linux, when a Mono library was not found, an "Error: z" message was
shown, which is not informative. Now, the message error tells what file
is missing.
Bug
Binmergetool: Scrollbars on the side by side image diff were not
working properly when the form was resized. Fixed.
Bug
The server was trying to resolve SEIDs which data had not a valid SID
structure. It should avoid the call/exception and return the data.
Fixed: Now it is not asking for non seid formats in AD mode.
Bug
The update report dialog may show very long messages and require
scrolling to view them. Now, the full message is shown, and can be
copied by right clicking on it and selecting "Copy error text".
Bug
If an item was locally changed, when a user tried to diff different
revisions of that item from the history view it was loading the local
changes instead of the server revisions. Fixed: only if the item is
checked out the local changes are loaded; otherwise server revisions
are compared.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: The refresh button of Eclipse was not updating the
items' status. So, the user had to click on the 'Refresh status' menu
item from the Plastic SCM Team Menu to update the status. Fixed:
Pressing 'F5' has the same effect as selecting the 'Refresh status'
option.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: The checkin pending changes dialog size was too small to
show long paths. Fixed.
Bug
Team City plugin: there was a problem when several Windows drives were
configured to be used. Fixed.
Bug
Shell Extension: A new "Pending changes" view was opened each time a
user selected the option. Fixed: now one view is opened and reused each
time the user tries to view pending changes.
External Release 3.0.187.21 (March 21th 2011)
===============================================
Bug
Copy merge performance improved. When a lot of files (hundreds of them)
had to be copy merged, the operation was very slow. Now it is much
faster.
Bug
Changeset browser: the comments of the changesets did not appear.
Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.20 (March 11th 2011)
===============================================
New
Bugzilla versions 3.6 and 4.0 support.
New
Allow deleting files that are not loaded on disk. Now it is possible to
right click on an item that is not loaded on disk and delete it from
the Items view.
New
Eclipse plugin: A user was not able to create a label on a repository
different than the repository loaded currently on the workspace.
Bug
Solved a problem regarding a null when a replication package was
created and the first revision to include in the package was bigger
than 5Mb. Fixed.
Bug
If the newest created repository was deleted and a new repository was
created after restarting the server, the ID for the new repository was
the ID of the last deleted repository and the operation failed. Fixed:
a new ID is generated and assigned to the new repository.
Bug
Running Plastic SCM with a Task control in TaskOnChangeset mode, if a
checkin was executed from the GUI and the user specified more than one
task to link to the changeset, only the first task was listed. Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: fixed a visual problem regarding links that were not
unselected when other object (a changeset, for instance) was selected.
Bug
Selector had problems when specifying a path rule with metacharacters.
Fixed.
Bug
Command line interpreter help reviewed and reformatted, and some
typos corrected.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed an issue regarding a use case in which
the workspace was not initialized correctly after adding a solution.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed a bug related to open Plastic SCM views
after adding a new solution to version control.
Bug
IntelliJ plugin: The comments specified on the checkin operation were
not reflected on Plastic SCM. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: If there was not any label on the repository, the
Labels container from the Workspace Explorer view was not shown,
and no labels action could be performed. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: When the Eclipse workbench and the Plastic SCM were not
in the same location and the project was multiproject, an update
operation failed because Plastic SCM took the workbench root path as
the workspace root path. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: The plugin did not check if the Plastic SCM client
was configured. Fixed: if Plastic SCM client is not configured, the
plugin asks the user to configure it; otherwise no Plastic SCM
operations will be available.
Bug
Subversion importer: Escape the apostrophe character, a new not-valid
character in Plastic SCM objects. The verification of the imported
data could fail for this reason. Fixed.
Bug
Installers: The installer replaced the remoting.conf file in an upgrade
operation with the default one. Fixed.
Bug
Installers: The installer replaced the loader.log.conf file in an
upgrade operation with the default one. Fixed.
Bug
Installers: The installer allowed non-administrator users to run the
uninstaller although the operation did not take any effect at all.
This only happened in Windows. Fixed: a message is shown in case that
a non-privileged user tries to uninstall and the operation is aborted.
External Release 3.0.187.19 (February 28th 2011)
===============================================
New
Team City plugin: Plastic SCM includes a Team City plugin to allow
users perform VCS operations from this continuous integration tool.
To install it, copy the zip plugin in the BuildServer folder of
TeamCity and restart the TeamCity server.
New
Shell Extension: Include the annotate view. Now, when right clicking
on an item, users will be able to annotate that item.
New
Search boxes in difftool, mergetool, code review and annotate view:
Now not only the buttons are clickable, but also the labels area.
New
filetypes.conf now supports file names without extension, such as
Makefiles. Also it supports regular expressions.
New
Mantis integration: reviewed to support the latest version (1.2.4).
New
When Plastic SCM is configured to work with a task control on task on
changeset mode, the check in dialog now allows including recent
comments, as the usual check in dialog.
New
Visual Studio integration: Added support for solution folders.
New
Installers: The SCC Plugin has been moved down in the list and it is
not selected by default in windows installations, to avoid installing
both SCC Plugin and Visual Studio package by mistake.
Bug
Branches that included an apostrophe in their names were not usable.
Fix: now this condition is checked and Plastic SCM does not permit
creating branches with apostrophes.
Bug
When diffing identical revisions a message with the caption "Error" was
shown. Fix: Now the caption is "Information". Also, several
usability changes have been made on the mergetool main dialog to check
that the contributors are not empty.
Bug
The command setowner was failing if a workspace was used as argument,
because Plastic SCM does not have workspace permissions since
version 2.9.
Bug
Annotate view: there was a problem with the scroll synchronization
between the metadata panel and the content file panel when the mouse
wheel was used to scroll up and down.
Bug
Adding items from the GUI in Linux was failing sometimes. This was a
Mono issue related to return the focus to the parent window when the
Comments dialog was prompted. Fixed.
Bug
The update report message "Can't load root item..." has been improved
to include more information about the causes of the error. In addition
to this, if the user clicked on 'retry update' an assert false was
reported. Fixed.
Bug
Selecting a file and a directory and performing an add operation from
the GUI did not add the directory recursively. Fixed: now the user can
add recursively or non-recursively when a directory is selected.
Bug
Sometimes when the GUI was opened, the views were not properly loaded.
The current workspace contained the stored views of a different
workspace. Fixed.
Bug
Several views and dialogs were not resized correctly. Fixed.
Bug
Plastic server: the installservice option was not working correctly
because it was setting daemon.dll as executable. Fixed.
Bug
Active Directory authentication: Plastic SCM was directing all the user
queries to the central server instead of a remote (local) one if
existed. This was causing performance problems. Fixed.
Bug
Code review: description textbox has been changed to a label to improve
the resizing; it's also possible to copy to clipboard the text shown.
Finally, these changes fix a flickering issue when resizing the window.
Bug
When diffing items from the merge dialog or the tree, the difftool was
opened embedded as a Plastic SCM view (when this setting was configured
this way), which was not usable, since the difftool was opened behind
the dialog. Fix: now the diff is opened as a separate window when it is
called from the merge dialog or the 3D tree.
Bug
When clicking on the 'X' button to close the add cloak rules dialog or
ignore rules the action was performed instead of being cancelled.
Fixed.
Bug
Branch Explorer: When a "current branches on workspace" conditional
format rule was applied, the highlighted branch was not refreshed
correctly when a switch to branch was performed from the branches view.
Fix: every time a switch to branch operation is executed from the
branches view, the branch explorer is refreshed automatically.
Bug
Branch Explorer: When the last two changesets on a branch had exactly
the same date, the latest was drawn outside the branch. Fixed.
Bug
Shell Extension: Performance problems noticed on the Windows Explorer
related to external drives (especially floppy disks) and network
mapped drives when the Shell Extension was installed. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio integration: There was a problem when the workspace that
contains a solution binded to Plastic SCM was deleted. Then, when
the solution was opened in Visual Studio and the user executed a
Refresh Status operation a null was reported. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio integration: The pending changes view should only show
private, changed and checked out items that are inside the opened
solution. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.18 (February 11th 2011)
===============================================
Bug
There was a problem when trying to obtain the full branch name of a
child branch that has a parent branch without permissions. Fixed.
Bug
The update operation failed when switching to a branch if the
destination branch included a moved item and an added item in the
same location and with the same name that another item in the source
branch.
Bug
There was a problem when changing the owner of a branch, since the
branch cache did not reflect that change; then, when trying to checkout
a file, Plastic SCM reported a 'No checkout branch found' error. Fixed.
Bug
Null when applying a label to a non existing path. Fixed.
Bug
Method history: added log, error management and several grammar fixes.
Bug
Installers on MAC: The Eclipse location selector was cut in MAC. Fixed.
Bug
SVN Importer: It crashed when the specified URL was not valid
(i.e.: non existing host, etc...) and the command was executed from a
SVN workspace path pointing to a valid SVN URL. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: There was a bug when binding a project in a Plastic
workspace that was created, deleted and created again. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: The branch properties dialog was wrongly drawed on MAC.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: There was a problem when getting the status of the
items if the Eclipse workbench was located outside a Plastic SCM
workspace. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: When a user tried to import a Maven project from the
Checkout from Plastic SCM feature, the project was not binded
afterwards. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: When creating a new branch it was not automatically
selected. The same happened with labels. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plugin: The first "list branches" action from the Plastic SCM
view on MAC threw an exception. It did not fail again after that and
it was only reproducible on Eclipse 3.6. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.17 (January 28th 2011)
===============================================
New
The workspace creation dialog now allows to create a Plastic SCM
repository.
New
Now, the code review shows a panel with information about the selected
object.
New
The GUI views show a triangle indicating the column that is sorted
and if this order is ascending or descending.
New
Zip installers created for Linux and Mac distributions. These zip
installers do not include Mono, so it is necessary to have Mono 2.6.4
or higher previously installed on the computer.
Bug
Replication problem when the branch pulled does not include the
parent revisions of some revisions. The problem only happened if
after this pull the user pulls a branch from another repository that
includes the missing parent revision but not the child revisions. In
that case there was no reference between parent and children revisions.
Fix: When the parent it is not on destination we create a reference.
When a reference is replicated we fix it and the revisions pointing to
it.
Bug
SQLite backend: This backend was leaking file handles. Fixed.
Bug
Server: The Plastic SCM server does not support ssl connections. Fixed.
Bug
Mono.Posix.dll and Mono.Security.dll removed from Linux and Mac
installers. This way, the dlls used will be the ones installed with
mono.
Bug
Command line interpreter: Creating a label from outside a workspace
did not work. Fixed: now it is possible to create labels from
any location if the repository specification is provided.
Bug
Changeset browser: make the "Show only changed items" preference
not checked initially to avoid showing this view empty when a branch
introduces only new items. Fixed.
Bug
Pending changes view: fixed a problem when trying to apply the undo
checkout operation to a changed file (for instance, when a checked
out item and a changed item were selected simultaneously).
Bug
Branch Explorer was not refreshed automatically when the starting point
of a branch was changed. Fix: now this change is refreshed
automatically.
Bug
Branch Explorer: When the server date does not match the client
date, sometimes some changesets were not shown. Fixed:
More flexible time date edges added, to minimize this problem.
Bug
GUI Views: The columns were not correctly resized when a double click
was performed between two columns. Fixed.
Bug
Items view: Although the add operation failed with a trigger error,
the check in operation was applied to the checked out elements
selected: the check in was not atomic. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: If the default source control provider is not
the package, adding an existing project that is controlled by the
package failed: the project was not added. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Save files before perform a check in operation.
Fixed.
Bug
Code review: The information panel was cut in Linux and Mac when the
text did not fit in the window. Fixed.
Bug
The revert operation did not use the repository or server of the item,
but the one configured in the client.conf. This was a problem when
this operation was applied in a workspace configured with several
repositories and/or servers.
Bug
The ignore.conf file did not work properly when it was created in the
user's local folder. This only happened when there were rules in
conflict with other rules (ignore exception rules). Fixed.
Bug
Error deleting privates when a dir and one of its files contained were
selected at the same time and deleted. Fixed.
Bug
Error deleting items in Linux and Mac when pressing the Esc key. The
action was performed, actually. Fixed.
Bug
Several typos fixed in the GUI and several texts changed to other more
appropriate ones. Also, some column text headers have been changed and
some visualization issues have been fixed.
Doc
Several typos fixed and missing documentation added.
Bug
Eclipse plug in: Null when renaming the name of a project. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plug in: The MyLyn extension did not detect related branches
when using Trac as task control system. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plug in: When the workspace configuration was changed outside
Eclipse without updating the workspace and after that an update was
performed from the Eclipse plug in, it did not change the workspace
contents properly. Detected in Eclipse 3.6. Fixed.
Bug
Eclipse plug in: When a multiline comment was added to a commit,
the end of line characters were shown in the Changesets view of the
Plastic SCM GUI. Fixed.
Bug
IDEA plug in: When trying to create a new branch from a changeset and
the previous month is December, the year shown is the current one,
instead of the previous one. Fixed.
Bug
SVN importer: The SVN importer did not work if it was launched from a
location that did not found the svncat script. Detected in Linux.
Fixed: the installer creates a symlink to the svncat script to avoid
this problem.
Bug
SVN importer: The summary page of the GUI Importer showed certain
parameters coming from a previous import process. Fixed.
Bug
P4 importer: The importer was ignoring several entries because the
container path did not match with any of the branches configured
to be imported (different path due to case sensitiveness).
External Release 3.0.187.16 (January 25th 2011)
===============================================
Bug
LDAP issue regarding some client calls. The server returned a wrong
context (the one of the last attended call by the current thread).
Now, the context is cleaned after every call to prevent this problem.
External Release 3.0.187.15 (January 12th 2011)
===============================================
New
When saving a revision as an external file from the history view, the
full item specification (name, branch, revision number) is suggested
as the file name.
New
Importers: Added an insensitive integrity test to adapt the behavior of
the custom insensitive mode to its integrity test.
Options:
--checkonlysource=true -> only checks that the source files are the
same as plasticscm, but not vice-versa.(default on p4).
--dontcheckmain=true -> the integrity test does not check the main
branch (default: false). The importer checks the branches on the
custom.conf file (branches section and custom-branches section), and
the branches on the import.conf appropriate parameter.
--p4integritypath=path -> specifies the path where the p4 files will be
downloaded (the plasticscm files are downloaded to the specified
workspace path).
The insensitive behavior must be specified in the import.conf file.
New
Importers: P4 core changed in order to organize the changeset entries
that are related to branches requested to be imported.
New
Eclipse: The Plastic SCM tool bar menu has been disabled, since it was
causing some problems with the status of the items.
Performance
In the private view of the GUI, stop looking for private items on
directories that are ignored, instead of filtering them out later.
Performance
Diff revisions performance from the GUI improved. The improvement has
been carried out when retrieving the last item name of the revisions.
Bug
The changeset comment information in the Changeset Browser was cut.
Now it uses the whole space available to write the changeset comment.
Bug
Textbox: The vertical scroll bar did not allow to scroll to the end
of the file. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: A crash fixed in VS2010 when opening the Branch
Explorer view after creating a Windows Presentation Foundation project.
Detected in Windows 7 (64 bit).
Bug
Visual Studio Package: When selecting "Diff with previous" in a form,
a window was shown to select the item files to diff. The caption of the
window was incorrect. This window is used when selecting the Annotate,
Diff with previous, Show tree or Show history options. Now the caption
text is general for any of these purposes. In addition to this, some
typos were fixed.
Furthermore, Diff with previous does no longer allow multiple selection
since embedded viewer does not show multiple panels. Now it behaves
like the history window.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed a null in the selection manager with
private and empty directories.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: Fixed a problem related to command enablement of
the change revision type command applied to empty directories.
Bug
Replication: Fixed a bug related to pulling between three repositories.
Bug
Eclipse: the status of the items after importing a project from Plastic
SCM was not correct. Fixed.
Bug
Mergetool: The merge candidate was not discarded when the user repeated
the same interval merge. Fixed.
Bug
Importers: the report created after the import process was reused if
the user launched another import process. This was an issue if the
importer did not have permissions to overwrite the existing file.
Now, every time an import process begin, a new report file is created.
Bug
Importers: If the user that launches the importer did not have
permissions to write on the Plastic SCM client location, the log file
could not be created. Now, if the log configuration file does not exist
(import.log.conf) then it is created in the user's local directory; if
it exists in the client location then the importer checks whether it
can write on that location or not; if it cannot write there then the
importer creates the log file on the user's local directory; otherwise
it writes the log file on the client location.
Bug
Found and fixed a case in which the user could not open the Items view
of the Plastic GUI when opening and closing the workspace view, items
view and restarting Plastic GUI repeatedly.
Bug
Mergetool: found and fixed a case in which the added lines at the end
of the file were not shown in the scroll bar.
Bug
Mergetool: If the user pressed "Save and Exit" with non-resolved
pending conflicts, the result was saved; then the tool prompted a
message telling the user that there were pending conflicts; if the user
then pressed "Exit without saving" the merge result had already been
saved, so this action was useless. Now, if there are pending conflicts
when trying to close the mergetool, it will detect that there are
pending conflicts and will save or not depending on the user's answer.
In addition to this, the result file will be proposed on the "save as"
dialog.
Bug
If the user created a workspace, opened an empty item window, then
he created a new workspace and switched to it and finally he deleted
the first workspace, the GUI got busy indefinitely.
External Release 3.0.187.14 (December 23th 2010)
================================================
Bug
Method history: Fixed an issue in Visual Studio 2010 when you tried to
open this view: sometimes it was shown and sometimes did not.
External Release 3.0.187.13 (December 21th 2010)
================================================
New
Method history: this new powerful feature will allow users to explore
the history of a method: it tells whether the method exists or not,
what has been changed within the method, and what differences exist
between the selected revision and the previous revision of that
selected revision. In additon to this users can see differences in the
whole file or only in the selected method. The method history feature
is available from the Visual Studio package.
Bug
Eclipse: Problem when moving resources from a controlled resource to a
private resource. Fixed.
Bug
The replication was adding the groups in the list of active users. Now
only users are added to the list.
Bug
The push replication operation was not able to finish a replication if
the time inserting the metadata was longer than the transaction
timeout. Fixed.
Bug
Merge dialog appearance has been improved when resizing it, that was
affecting the help button and the source (branch or label) textboxes.
Bug
Merge dialog: Some localization issues in Spanish and English fixed.
Bug
Preferences dialog: localization issue in English fixed in the "Other
options" tab.
External Release 3.0.187.12 (December 17th 2010)
================================================
Bug
The ignored rules were not loaded correctly when there were brackets
and other special symbols. Now it is possible to ignore directories
that have (, ), [, ], {, } and other symbols in their names.
Bug
If the path is too long, the "Merge needed dialog! could not show the
entire path correctly. This dialog appears when there is a merge needed
during a check in operation. Now the path is shown correctly.
In addtion to this, the dialog has been visually improved.
Bug
Several typos fixed in the server and client wizard in Spanish.
Bug
Server and client text based configuration wizards: some problems fixed
when passing parameters to the clconfigureserver.exe and
clconfigureclient.exe applications.
Bug
Installers: Now it is not needed to restart the Plastic SCM installer
when the .NET Framework dependencies are being installed.
Bug
Trac integration: if the Trac server was not running, the GUI was
waiting for a response within a couple of minutes. Now, if it has
no response from Trac in 5-10 seconds, it returns the control to the
user.
Bug
Under Linux and Mac, the scrollbars were drawn incorrectly, due to
the transparency of the thumb area. Fixed.
Bug
Some typos fixed in the documentation and the command line
interpreter (cm.exe help).
New
Mergetool: the item specification or paths that are shown now can
be copied by maximizing one of the contributors panel and clicking on
"Copy to clipboard" (mergetool) or right clicking on the item and
selecting "copy to clipboard" (difftool).
Bug
SVN Importer: Fixed a problem detecting the SVN ra_API on some
Windows 7 configurations.
New
Pulse integration: included compatibility with Pulse 2.2.
External Release 3.0.187.11 (November 25th 2010)
================================================
Bug
Visual Studio Package: on the pending changes view, if you did a double
click on a pending checkout, a new Visual Studio instance was opened to
show the file content. Now, the file is opened in the current Visual
Studio instance.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: the pending changes view was not refreshed when
a checkout was performed inside Visual Studio. Now it is updated
properly.
New
Keyboard shortcuts in Mergetool and Difftool: to close the
program and a bunch of shortcuts to navigate to next/previous
differences, such as go to first diff (Ctrl+Shift+-), go to previous
diff (Ctrl+-), go to next diff (Ctrl++), go to last diff
(Ctrl+Shift++), go to previous conflict (Ctrl+PagUp), go to next
conflict (Ctrl+PagDown) and select base, source, destination and
result (Ctrl+1,2,3,4 respectively).
Bug
User Password authentication mode issue: changing the password for a
user on the Plastic server was not taken into account until the server
was restarted. Fixed.
Bug
Visual Studio Package: problem fixed regarding the antlr library that
was causing problems in the switch to branch operation.
Bug
Mac installation issue: when restarting the Mac host after the Plastic
SCM server was installed on the machine, the Plastic server was not
starting correctly. Fixed.
New
A new preference added to the GUI so that users can choose if they want
to perform the add + checkin in a single step (default behaviour) or
separatedly in different steps (first add, then checkin).
Bug
SVN importer: If the repository root was the same as the trunk path, no
entries were imported to Plastic SCM. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.10 (November 18th 2010)
================================================
Bug
The library System.Web.Services.dll was not bundled in mono for osx.
Fixed.
Bug
Defining an external Diff tool in client.conf with full path that
includes white spaces did not work even if it was encapsulated with
Quotation Marks.
Bug
The Visual Studio Package could not add to Plastic SCM correctly
special items, such as 'Service References'. Fixed.
Bug
The MySQL provider did not accept a timeout for connections. Fixed.
Bug
The checkin same data dialog did not show the entire path if it did not
fit in the window. Now, if the path is longer than the window size,
it is wrapped.
Bug
After installing the Shell Extension, the installer asked the user
to reboot the system, which is not needed. Now it only restarts
the Explorer process automatically.
New
When a user changes the server authentication mode, a message informs
that the server must be restarted to apply the changes.
New
Plastic SCM GUI help option: plastic --help. It provides general help
of the GUI and the cm command.
Bug
Switch to branch was slow when SQLite was configured as backend because
the step of looking for pending checkouts was searching checkouts of
all users. This was noticeable in SQLite. Fixed.
Bug
Allow the user to insert comments in an add operation.
Bug
The Plastic server is able to recover if during the start up the DBMS
is not available, and to run properly when the DBMS is ready.
Internal Release 3.0.187.9 (November 15th 2010)
===============================================
New
Eclipse plugin is able to detect merge operations and resolve the
conflicts as the Plastic GUI does.
New
Code review: The user can now create and view multiline comments, until
now the code review comments were displayed on a single line which was
unconfortable for the reading.
New
Improved SSL support, the client can detect now if the server
certificate is no longer valid.
Bug
The create workspace dialog allows to create a new workspace without
having any repository available. This dialog should disable the
"OK" button in this case. Fixed.
Bug
The items view shows a "Cannot resolve path" message referring to
the workspace path if it was created on the root of the file system.
Fixed.
Bug
Dependency issue in the installer regarding the mono libpng library in
OpenSuSE 11.3 installations. Fixed.
Bug
If the .NET 3.0 or .NET 3.5 Framework is the only framework installed,
the Plastic installer asks the user to also install the .NET 2.0,
which is not needed. Fixed.
External Release 3.0.187.8 (November 1st 2010)
===============================================
Performance
Improved performance on SCC and Visual Studio Package doing refresh
operations and finding checkouts
New
Code review: improved functionality in "branch review" when a new
revision is added after a reviewed one. Now it is possible to check
the original reviewed change and also how it differs from the new
changes.
Bug
The acl command only accepted a full spec on the -inherit option, the
default repository wasn't considered
Bug
Install on a clean OpenSuse 11.3 x64 didn't work well because
libpng12.so.0 wasn't found. Fixed.
Bug
After opening the preferences dialog the "help hints" on view are
displayed again. Fixed.
New
Eclipse: new "export" menu enabled from "pending changes" view.
Performance
Update on Linux greatly improved. There was a string method
underperforming on Mono.
External Release 3.0.187.7 (October 21th 2010)
===============================================
New
Mylyn plugin for Eclipse. This release includes a totally new plugin
for Eclipse/Mylyn capable of linking the tasks provided by Mylyn with
Plastic SCM branches (branch per task integration mode) or changesets
(changeset integration mode). While two modes of operation are
available, the preferred way of working is "task per branch" where a
branch is associated to every issue coming from the issue tracking
system linked to Mylyn. Each time a developer "activates" a different
task, the Plastic SCM plugin will help selecting, or creating, the
right branch.
New
Annotate view on GUI: implement horizontal scrollbar
New
Annotate: Color gradient by date on both Visual Studio and GUI.
New
Eclipse plugin synchronization view. Now it is possible to have a
"synchronization" perspective in Eclipse using Plastic SCM.
New
Eclipse plugin import from Plastic SCM functionality. Now it is
possible to directly import projects from a Plastic repository into an
Eclipse workspace.
New
filetypes.conf is now case insensitive on Windows, making it much
easier to configure.
Bug
There was an error peforming the add/ci cycle with a SQLite backend
only if the checkin was aborted due to a 'case sensitivity' collision
(trying to add a file on Windows with different 'case' than an existing
one).
Bug
Mergetool: "Save as" button wasn't active.
Bug
Crash when find command had an invalid field on the "where" clause.
The error was correctly detected on the GUI but wasn't correctly
displayed (wrong formatting string) causing an issue.
Bug
CodeReview: DblClick on a comment doesn't jump to it. Fixed.
Bug
Fixed issues loading FogBugZ tasks on the Branch Explorer.
Usability
GUI scrollbar: mousedown on arrow now repeats movement.
Usability
Usability in items view in list mode: now navigating to a parent
directory keeps the child one selected to have a better context.
External Release 3.0.187.6 (October 7th 2010)
===============================================
New (since 3.0.187.3, made public on this release)
New SCC Package for Visual Studio 2005 and higher. So far there was a
base SCC plug-in (compatible with Visual Studio 6 and higher) handling
basic version control operations (checkin, checkout and so on) and a
Visual Studio 2005 and higher package (add-on) able to show advanced
information like the branch explorer and other Plastic GUI views.
This new package leverages the existing SCC integration and replaces
the previous "add-on" (for VS2005 and higher) integrating both basic
version control operations and all the Plastic SCM functionality
through the integrated GUI views.
Integrated diff within Visual Studio and annotate are now available
using the new package.
Note: old SCC (for 2003 and older Visual Studio versions) is still
available.
New
New MySql connector. It enables to use "connection pooling" on Linux,
which was not previously available due to previous connector
limitations.
New
Merge tool: when you edit a conflict manually in the merge tool,
it's marked as resolved too without having to explicitly set it as
resolved.
New
Local file dates can be optionally set from revision date on update.
Now Plastic can be configured to use the revision creation date as
local file date. Using this mode when performing an update operation
the revision date is set overwriting the file system date.
Fixed
Visual Studio "open from SCC" operation raised an error when using it
with an empty repository.
Fixed
Zutubi Pulse plugin: running builds continuously made some of them fail
due to wrong console comunication (CLI).
Fixed
The CLI add command returned duplicated error messages.
Fixed
Branch explorer date filtering: the branch explorer was not refreshing
properly when the end date was not enabled on negative UTC offset time
zones (UTC-1, UTC-2...).
Fixed
When GUI was started in maximized mode (from a shortcut), the context
menu didn't work on the initial workspace.
Fixed
On IDEA plugin, when a new branch was created with the same name as an
existing one, but with a different parent branch, the new branch was
not selected by default.
Fixed
Using the SQLite backend the dates were not correctly shown on the
branch explorer.
Fixed
Branch explorer: sometimes merge lines had incorrect graphical
representation.
Fixed
P4 importer: Some paths cannot be accessed when importing a non /main
branch.
Fixed
Replication issues when .NET 1.1 framework wasn't installed. It is a
very strange issue that was only reproducible under certain
circumstances on systems with .NET 2.0 or higher installed but not
.NET 1.1. The "call context" (remoting) wasn't correctly handled and
then communication between servers with different security modes was
not possible.
Aesthetic
Fixed a long list of aesthetic and localization issues.
Documentation
Mergetool documentation is updated.
Internal Release 3.0.187.5 (September 28th 2010)
================================================
Fixed
The Visual Studio Package deleted incorrectly the Tools -> Options ->
Source Control options when it was unregistered.
Internal Release 3.0.187.4 (September 17th 2010)
================================================
New
Plastic client is now insensitive on insensitive file systems.
New
Workspace tabs are painted as real tabs.
Fixed
If the same branch is replicated against multiple servers, the last
server is not always proposed on replication dialog.
Fixed
Merge conflict regions aren't painted correctly when a contributor is
turned off and turned on again.
Fixed
Visual Studio package fails adding the entire solution when the
solution file is on a different location.
Fixed
Potential race condition detected and solved on database backends with
greatly reduced performance (memory trashing or wrong configuration).
Under these conditions there was a chance to restart a previously
rolled back transaction (due to a time out) instead of detecting it as
abandoned.
Aesthetic
Fixed the extended inheritance text size on the permissions dialog.
Documentation
Visual Studio Package doucmentation is updated.
Internal Release 3.0.187.3 (September 2nd 2010)
===============================================
New
New SCC Package for Visual Studio 2005 and higher. So far there was a
base SCC plug-in (compatible with Visual Studio 6 and higher) handling
basic version control operations (checkin, checkout and so on) and a
Visual Studio 2005 and higher package (add-on) able to show advanced
information like the branch explorer and other Plastic GUI views.
This new package leverages the existing SCC integration and replaces
the previous "add-on" (for VS2005 and higher) integrating both basic
version control operations and all the Plastic SCM functionality
through the integrated GUI views.
Integrated diff within Visual Studio and annotate are now available
using the new package.
Note: old SCC (for 2003 and older Visual Studio versions) is still
available.
New
A new integrated differences tool in the Plastic GUI.
New
Differences and merge tools can be configured in the GUI preferences.
New
When switching to a different label, the tool checks if you have
changed or checked-out elements on your workspace.
New
Selector checkout rule behaviour. Now Plastic SCM uses the
corresponding rule for the repository and path (respecting the rules
order) of the element, instead of using the co branch of the loading
rule for the current revision of this element.
Fixed
Find merge discarded some copy merge elements that had been moved on
the source branch in some special conditions.
Fixed
If destinations are changed or checked-out and they have been changed
and moved on source, the merge doesn't work properly.
Fixed
View merge contributors dialog doesn't show the contributors info.
Fixed
3D revision tree movement doesn't work properly, after control key has
been pressed.
Fixed
On directory history, double click on an element fails.
Fixed
The first time that the client is configured, the test connection on
LDAP mode fails.
Fixed
VS2010 in off-line mode doesn't work properly in some rare situations.
Fixed
Using top level branches the revert operation and difference operation
can fail in some situations.
External Release 3.0.187.2 (August 26th 2010)
=============================================
New
When the server is configured in ActiveDirectory authentication mode,
and clients configured in LDAP authentication mode , they will also
be able to connect to the server.
New
Version tree, difference and open functionalities have been added to
the merge items (on merge items view).
New
When switching to a different branch, the tool checks if you have
changed or checked-out elements on your workspace.
New
Eclipse plug-in allows creating a workspace.
New
Merge conflict with added lines over removed or changed lines can be
split in separated conflicts.
New
Get main branch command (getmainbranch) has been added to the command
line, used on third party integrations.
Performance
Improve the performance of the update when the revisions are empty.
Fixed
An error on the client-server communication can occur in some rare
scenerios.
Fixed
In some occasions the dialog asking for the external storage file
location appears twice.
Fixed
In some rare occasion the branch base can be replicated wrongly.
Fixed
P4 import fails when changeset 1 is empty.
Fixed
A moved label is not correctly replicated, if the label was replicated
before the move.
Fixed
On a workspace with multiple repositories loaded it is not possible to
update a partial structure.
Fixed
Replication fails on GUI when the servers are configured with different
security modes and previous replication has not been made.
Aesthetic
Advance query panel has been fixed on Spanish version.
Aesthetic
Fixed some aesthetic and minor issues.
Documentation
Improve some examples on the log command help.
Remove
Remove the merge trigger type.
External Release 2.9.174.10 (August 2nd 2010)
=============================================
New
When the server is configured in ActiveDirectory authentication mode,
and clients configured in LDAP authentication mode , they will also
be able to connect to the server.
External Release 3.0.187.1 (July 28th 2010)
===========================================
Plastic SCM 3.0.1 official build.
New
Add tree to source control menu item on GUI to replace the "add/ci"
combination. It is a step ahead simplifying the UI and reacting to
improve usability.
New
Selector support for 'root' keyword now is compatible with 'mount' too.
This is still experimental functionality.
New
The 'deactivateuser' command now only applies to the specified
repository instead of all the known ones.
New
Multi-prefix support in OnTime integration. Now the integration with
OnTime is able to support not only bugs but also the other different
types of issues.
New
3-way merge tool usability enhancements. Several changes on the 3-way
merge tool. Now manual conflicts need to be explicitly set as resolved.
The UI has been simplified removing extra buttons.
New
SSL support. Now communication between the client and the server can be
configured to use SSL.
New
SQLCE backend support. Still experimental but already available for
early adopters.
Fixed
Windows uninstaller in 3.0 (BL187) was raising an exception due to a
wrong x64 key on the Windows registry. It is now solved.
Fixed
Shell Extension and Delphi 2010 had an interaction and Delphi wasn't
able to start up explorers when the Shell Ext was installed. The
problem was related to Delphi capturing dll loading from the Shell Ext.
Fixed
Pending changes view didn't remember the 'check privates' preference.
Fixed
Eclipse plug-in was not correctly handled messages displayed by
before-checkin and after-checkin triggers.
Fixed
Eclipse plug-in was incorrectly detecting checkouts when applying a
label if there were checkouts on the branch after switching branches
back and forth.
External Release 3.0.187.0 (July 15th 2010)
===========================================
Official Plastic 3.0 release.
New
Key usability greatly improved in GUI. Now all views
are accessible using keys. Users can press CTRL+TAB to
switch between the different open views and navigate
them using TAB. They can use CTRL+F4 to close the current
view.
New
Online help updated for 3.0. All links on the Plastic GUI
have been reviewed.
New
Replication support for code reviews. Integrated code
reviews can now be replicated, enabling fully distributed
review scenarios.
New
Branch explorer: reset the date filter. New button to
reset the branch explorer date filter to the default
(date calculated as one month ago)
New
Created new "replication" permission to improve security
configuration on distributed scenarios. The following
permissions: mkbranch/mkchildbranch, mklabel, mkrevision
and applylabel are now considered during replication,
enabling finer grained control.
New
Hint dialog before merge explaining the basics of
merging with Plastic to new users. Focused on helping
new developers learn branching and merging.
New
Pending changes view launches the diff of changed items
on the selected ones only instead of the entire list.
Fixed
Command line "ls" now manages wildcards the same way
the "dir" or "ls" commands do.
Fixed
Jira extension tried to reconnect to the server during
unbind. Now it doesn't try anymore, speeding up the
process.
Fixed
OnTime test connection failed with error "too many
automatic redirections attempted". It is fixed now.
Fixed
Version One 'integrated windows security' option was
not disabling the user and password edit boxes, making
it confusing for the user.
Fixed
Branch explorer didn't allow clicking on merge links if
"show branch bases" options were enabled.
Internal Release 3.0.186.0 (July 13th 2010)
===========================================
Fixed
The 'svn importer' wasn't working with blank spaces
in the http url.
Internal Release 3.0.185.0 (July 06th 2010)
===========================================
New
The GUI client now remembers the last comments typed.
New
'Mergetool' color highlights can be customized.
Fixed
The 'Branch Explorer' view wasn't correctly scrolling
horizontally when displaying a lot of branches.
Fixed
The 'workspace' and 'repository' views could be opened
more than once.
Fixed
The 'find private items' operation was throwing an exception
when there weren't enough OS privileges over the items.
Fixed
The 'code review' view was calculating wrongly the vertical
scroll.
Fixed
The databadase upgrade doesn't retry the access to the
workspace database anymore, as is no longer necessary.
Fixed
The mono runtime version packaged with the proxy server
installer was outdated.
Fixed
Broken on BL184: The caption text from views was not
visible when the view was not the selected one.
Fixed
Broken on BL182: The entire branch content was being
fetched when replicating it.
Fixed
The mysql database upgrade was broken.
Fixed
The 'find label on repository' operation was throwing
an exception when the specified repository didn't exist.
Fixed
Visual Studio Package: The 'setsetlector' operation was
not working.
Fixed
The 'Branch Explorer' view was working on 'bind issues to
branches' mode when an issue tracking system was configured
on 'bind issues to changesets' mode.
Fixed
There was a problem when launching several replication
operations from the same source server. They could create
fetch branches when it wasn't necessary.
Fixed
The GUI client was being closed on Linux when closing
a view during its load process.
Fixed
The replication was showing a wrong error message when the
replication was failing caused by a controlled problem.
Fixed
The 'more help' link button from GUI views was not being
drawed correctly in some cases.
Fixed
Now, the 'Pulse integration' shows more detailed error
messages when the 'check connection' button is pressed.
Fixed
The intaller upgrade was not properly working in 64-bit
machines.
Performance
The filter and reload button of the eclipse plugin's
'workspace explorer' view has been improved.
Aesthetic
The 'Binmergetool' now uses the same layout as 'Mergetool'
Aesthetic
The replication's 'pop' operation has been renamed
to 'pull'.
Internal Release 3.0.184.0 (Jun 23th 2010)
==========================================
New
The code review form gets the comparison method from
the configured PlasticSCM preferences.
New
The 'machine' column from the 'Workspaces' view has
been removed, as it's no longer meaningful.
New
Added HTML-related file extensions as 'text' revision type.
New
SVN Importer is able to work with Slik SVN.
New
The 'Pending Changes' view only shows the checked out items
loaded on the workspace, filtering those checked out
revisions located on another branch.
Fixed
The merge operation was not retrieving the changes from
the source of the merge when a private item exists with
the same name.
Fixed
Jira Extension: Field mapping was not working when the
'jiraextension.conf' file was modified in client-side.
Fixed
OnTime2006 Extension: Test Connection was showing a warning
message about HTTP request redirections.
Fixed
OnTime2009 Extension: PlasticSCM was unable to link branches
or changesets to defects. Fixed.
Fixed
Eclipse plugin: Removed unnecessary Update View events.
Fixed
Pulse Integration: A branched project basing off the last
contents from the main branch was not updating the workspace
of the pulse project when a new change was introduced on
the main branch.
Fixed
The way the importer tool executes external commands has
been improved to avoid potential problems on Linux systems.
Fixed
The Configuration Server wizard was jumping a radiobutton
when navigating through the cursor keys.
Fixed
The 'Update' operation was not showing a proper message
when trying to set file attributes to a file withouth
enough permissions.
Fixed
The 'Options' button was disabled when there were no
differences to show on 'DiffTool'.
Fixed
The 'MergeTool' was not removing the whitespaces when they
were placed at the end of the line.
Fixed
The 'Mergetool' was not updating the differences on the
vertical scrollbar when a preference was changed.
Fixed
Changing the Encoding from 'None' to another one was not
allowing to switch again to 'None' on 'MergeTool'.
Fixed
SVN Importer: Fixed a problem loading shared ssl libraries
when using svn_ra API.
Fixed
The Code Review form was not moving to the commented line
when double-clicking on a comment from the comments list.
Fixed
Shell extension was showing an error message when there was
several views opened.
Fixed
The refresh button from the workspace view was not refreshing
the content when a workspace was created from the command line
or a plugin.
Documentation
The documentation has been improved:
- Installers
- Plastic SCM GUI
- Branch Explorer
- Jira Integration
- Annotate View
- Shell Extension
Aesthetic
Fixed several aesthetic and minor issues.
Internal Release 3.0.183.0 (Jun 17th 2010)
==========================================
New
The Linux and Mac installers use SQLite as the default
server backend.
New
The Linux installer creates shortcuts to the Plastic SCM
executables.
New
Plastic is UAC aware. When a user modifies the content of
a configuration file without privileges, UAC will pop up.
New
The Plastic SCM Windows installer is recognized as a trusted
one.
New
The command line client configuration tool only requests
for user and password parameters when LDAP working mode
is chosen.
New
The Shell Extension has a configurable operations log.
New
The command line client has two new commands to help
diagnosing issues related to guid's.
Fixed
The upgrade system was not working properly on x64 machines.
Fixed
Removing a controlled file from disk and creating it again
with the same name was causing an error when updating the
workspace.
Fixed
Permission system: Adding inheritance from an object whose ACL
doesn't exist was causing an exception.
Fixed
The 'last changeset on parent branch' option from the branch
properties dialog was only considering changesets with revisions.
Fixed
The checkout operation wasn't updating the 'items' view in Linux.
Performance
The replication was taking a long time fetching the object's
attributes.
Aesthetic
Fixed several aesthetic issues on Linux and Mac.
External Release 2.9.174.9 (June 17th 2010)
===========================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
Fixed
The replication was taking a long time fetching the object's
attributes.
Fixed
The 'cat' command fetches the data of the parent
revision recursively if the revision doesn't have it.
Internal Release 2.9.182.0 (Jun 15th 2010)
==========================================
New
Windows Explorer Shell Extension integration.
New
The 'licenseinfo' command doesn't need to be
executed in a workspace path.
New
The loading of the GUI visual state has been
protected and it notifies to the user whether
there was any error.
New
The LDAP configuration wizard has been improved.
New
The workspace creation dialog shows additional
help when filling the requierd fields.
New
The code review form preserves the comparison method
when switching to another item.
Fixed
When removing a carriage return character just before
a deleted line on the Mergetool's result file textbox,
a "��" string was appearing.
Fixed
Renaming a repository was allowed even if the user doesn't
have 'rename' permission.
Fixed
The option 'listgroupmembers' in the umtool command
wasn't working.
Fixed
Mergetool wasn't saving the 'moved code' preferences.
Fixed
The 'addrep' command only was allowing lower case
characters in the database name.
Fixed
The rebase operation was throwing a "key duplication"
exception when an item is loaded twice on the source
of the merge.
Fixed
The AltGr + 2 was changing the focus to the 'branches'
view on a Spanish keyboard.
Fixed
Plastic server couldn't start with an unreachable
LDAP server.
Fixed
When the same replicated branch was receiving changes on
two servers simultaneously and those changes didn't collide
(no fetch branch was created), the replication could
leave unordered changesets.
Fixed
The changeset walker wasn't resolving the proper
repository with some selector configurations.
Fixed
Scrolling the branch explorer with the mouse wasn't
working when the click was done over an invisible link.
Fixed
An exception was thrown when closing the commit view
while it was loading the content.
Fixed
Spelling errors on the 'cm help'.
Fixed
A repository could appear twice after a rename
operation.
Fixed
There were two "find" buttons when exploring the
changesets in a branch.
Fixed
The 'annotate' view was throwing an exception with an
empty revision.
Fixed
The key movement wasn't working on the 'annotate' view.
Fixed
Localization issues on the 'code review' view.
Fixed
The 'history' command Wasn't displaying the new name of
renamed branches or labels.
Fixed
Localization issues on the import tool.
Fixed
Mergetool wasn't detecting the file encoding when it
was launched from the Plastic SCM GUI.
Fixed
The headline of the branch's linked task didn't fit
to the branch bounds in the Branch Explorer view.
Fixed
The 'Control - =' shortcut was automatically submitting
the commit view dialog.
Fixed
Plastic GUI was showing the drive icon for a folder
in Windows 7.
Fixed
Checking in a file without permissions was throwing an
exception.
Fixed
The svn importer didn't recognize some operations with
a non-standard structure.
Fixed
The selector browser was showing the workspace path as
root path instead of the "/" base path.
Fixed
The navigation arrows on the 'Compare branch content' form
were disabled.
Fixed
The 'renamebranch' command executed without arguments
was throwing an exception.
Fixed
The revision owner wasn't being updated in the workspace
tree when the authentication mode was changed between
ActiveDirectory and LDAP Working Mode.
Fixed
The replication didn't check whether the starting changeset
exists.
Fixed
Unable to show the Replication dialog when there was an
unavailable server (replication source server or
replication destination server).
Fixed
The 'activate/deactivate user' commands couldn't work with a mixed
state.
Fixed
The Mergetool's 'moved code' dialog was showing an error message
when the 'mergetool.conf' file was not valid.
Fixed
Broken on BL180: The checkin forced operation was hanging
the GUI in some scenarios.
Aesthetic
Rearranged the GUI top bar so that it consumes less space.
Internal Release 2.9.181.0 (Jun 4th 2010)
=========================================
New
Reactivated the XMerge in the release mode.
Fixed
The differences tool was incorrectly showing the
parent revision.
Fixed
Broken on BL180: can't load the shellextension
because the proxy wasn't obfuscated.
Internal Release 2.9.180.0 (May 31th 2010)
==========================================
New
Improved the commit view adding the branch field.
Fixed
Localization issues in the import tool and
in the smart branch form.
Fixed
Broken on BL179: can't load the workspace
tree upgrading to BL180 if there were
checkouts left.
Internal Release 2.9.179.0 (May 24th 2010)
==========================================
New
The advanced query permission has been removed from the
default permission set.
New
Changed the look & feel of the importer tool. Improved the
SVN and Perforce importers.
New
Added a new option in the create branch dialog to select
the last changeset on parent branch as branch base.
New
Added two new options to the annotate command:
--ignore: ignore whitespaces
--encoding: show annotated file content with a encoding
Fixed
When you executed the ls --selector command if you did not
specified the path in the server format (repository format)
it failed. Improved the error message so the user can
understand better what is happening.
Fixed
Having a 'root' rule established in the selector, if you
switched the workspace to a branch from the GUI it
reported an "unexpected token error".
Fixed
Changed the command line to behave as the GUI tool comparing
changed items with the previous revision.
Fixed
When you was using the code review tool for changeset
walking, if you wrote something in the filter and changed
the changeset, the filter for items was not reaplied to
the new file list.
Fixed
When you replicated from or to a server, the specified
server was not kept as replication source.
Performance
Add and checkin operations have been optimized.
Documentation
The documentation has been improved.
Integrated from 2.9.174.8 and 2.9.174.6
---------------------------------------
Fixed
The progress dialog didn't show the progress bar properly
in Linux systems.
Fixed
Fixed an uppercase-lowecase issue with usernames in LDAP
(OpenLDAP, SunOne, ...)
Fixed
Some checkouts could be desynchronized when the server was
out of a transaction in the checkin operation.
Fixed
Fixed an error with DateTimes when client and server was
configured to use different versions of .NET Frameworks.
Fixed
Replication: Fixed buffer UTF-8 error
External Release 2.9.174.8 (May 18th 2010)
==========================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
Fixed
The progress dialog didn't show the progress bar properly
in Linux systems.
Fixed
Fixed an uppercase-lowecase issue with usernames in LDAP
(OpenLDAP, SunOne, ...)
Fixed
Some checkouts could be desynchronized when the server was
out of a transaction in the checkin operation.
Fixed
Fixed an error with DateTimes when client and server was
configured to use different versions of .NET Frameworks.
External Release 2.9.174.7 (May 18th 2010)
==========================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
New
Aesthetic improvements in the installer
External Release 2.9.174.6 (April 17th 2010)
============================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
Fixed
Replication: Fixed buffer UTF-8 error
External Release 2.9.174.5 (April 26th 2010)
============================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
Internal changes to the testing environment
Not public release
External Release 2.9.174.4 (April 17th 2010)
============================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
Bug
Fixed a problem with the Jira global configuration.
Internal Release 2.9.178.0 (May 10th 2010)
==========================================
New
The annotate command has been included on the GUI.
New
The GUI tool now include an integrated Code Review system.
New
A Windows shell extension prototype has been implemented.
New
The P4 importer has been improved.
Doc
Upgraded the importers documentation.
Fixed
Diff and merge tool refreshed properly when other window overlaps.
Fixed
The branch explorer disabled the toolbar if an exception was
raised while loading.
Fixed
The changeset comment was not updated in the oracle Backend.
Internal Release 2.9.177.0 (April 29th 2010)
============================================
New
Added a commit (pending changes) view in the GUI tool. This view
allows the user add private items, checkin changed and checked out
items in only one step.
New
Added a summary screen in the importer tool before start
importing
New
Implemented ignore support in the GUI tool, to ignore private
items.
New
Implmented the "cloak file/dir" in the GUI tool.
New
Implemented an external storage system to archive old revisions
New
Added a new import mode to treat SVN tags as Plastic SCM
branches
New
The new feature "Perforce importer" has been added to the
import tool (supports only import the depot)
New
Improved the update command to be more efficient preserving
the local disk structure when it can be re-used.
New
Added a final report to the importer tool when it ends with
any issue
Documentation
Improved the importer documentation
Fixed
The getfile command lost file encoding with the --file option
Fixed
A ZLib error has been fixed for x64 bits machines
Internal Release 2.9.176.0 (April 16th 2010)
============================================
New
Improved the selector to support not having to mount the
root of the repository. It basically let's you load only
a part of a repository on your workspace. It also allows
hosting several projects on a single repository and still
easily make different teams download only their part of
the repository.
New
New repository browser in the GUI. It allows browse a
label, branch or changeset (also custom selectors) without
download into the workspace.
Performance
The system performance and memory consumption has been
improved
Fixed
The client is able to recover when a workspace tree file is
corrupt.
Fixed
plasticd daemon did not stop properly on Mac
Internal Release 2.9.175.0 (April 15th 2010)
============================================
New
Supported SQLite as new backend. Very fast but only for one user
New
New XMerge look and feel. Improved the usability searching
automatically the moved code.
Fixed
The SVN importer has been improved and stabilized.
External Release 2.9.174.3 (April 12th 2010)
============================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
Fixed
Fixed an "out of memory" exception on tcp channel serialization
with very quick server calls.
Fixed
Pulse integration was doing unnecesary builds.
Performance
Improved the performance with huge repositories.
External Release 2.9.174.2 (April 07th 2010)
============================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
New
Now Plastic SCM allows to see differences when a revision is
checked out by other user.
New
Documentation has been reviewed and improved.
Fixed
The checkin dialog was not showing the details view in Linux.
Fixed
The update command has been protected against workspace
inconsistences.
Fixed
Java plugins new detect and recover when killing the cm
process.
Fixed
Fixed "key already been added to dictionary" resolving users
Fixed
Fixed "The output char buffer is too small ..." in replication.
External Release 2.9.174.1 (March 15th 2010)
============================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
Fixed
Binary merge tool did not work properly when the destination
revision was checked out.
Fixed
The Proxy Server installer did not pack the zlib library.
Fixed
An unexpected error was thrown during the workspace upgrade
process when the server was configured in LDAP mode.
Fixed
An OutOfMemory exception was thrown showing the permissions
form.
External Release 2.9.174.0 (March 07th 2010)
============================================
Plastic 2.9 bugfix release.
New
Create an installer for the Proxy Server.
Fixed
Select changeset/label buttons are hidden in create label
dialog.
Fixed
Replication inserted inactive users incorrectly.
Performance
Improved the common ancestor calculation for merge.
Performance
The update report dialog was too slow with a lot of items
New functionality in Plastic SCM 2.9 series
===========================================
* Integrations:
o IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 / 8 integration
* Includes support for add, checkout, checkin, update,
un-checkout, delete, move, annotate, history and
merge operations.
o Pulse continuous integration server
* Remote agents are supported.
o Support for Visual Studio 2010
* Shared Workspaces: Workspaces are no longer tied to the machine
on which they were created and can now be shared among machines
via network shares.
* Extended Branch Review: The review interface can now be used to
walk through the changesets in a branch allowing a step-by-step
review of a task branch implementation.
* Symlink Support: Symbolic links are fully versioned items
inside Plastic.
* Oracle Database support added as a Plastic backend database option.
* Sparse Tree / Cloaked Items Support: A user can choose to specify
folders that will not be downloaded by default by an update
operation.
* CVS and VSS importer improvements
o CVS importer: Added support for import of multiple projects
o VSS importer: Support for incremental import (import only
elements created after a given date and add them to an
existing repository).
* Performance
o Performance and stability improvements in the Linux server
which takes advantage of 64 bit support improving memory
allocation and higher server load.
o Find changed and update operations: Directory structure
navigation has been enhanced to use a lower level API and
overall performance on these operations is increased by a
factor of 3.
o Selectors using a changeset as a base have a 5 times speed
increase.
o Annotate performance speed has been doubled for large files
with extensive history.
o Large copy merge operations are 4 times faster.
* GUI:
o Support of List Mode in Items View: This is an alternate
mode to the traditional tree-based items view. A "location"
textbox has been added with the "current folder" displayed
similar to the Windows Explorer.
o Item Option added to allow an item to be made private. This
action deletes the item from Plastic, but keeps the file on
the user's disk.
o New branch option: shows changesets in a branch
o The total number of items is displayed on the views.
* Branch Explorer:
o Improved search and navigation through search results. Now
the user can navigate to the next and previous search result
using navigation buttons.
o Visibility editor added to filter the number of branches
displayed.
o Load performance improved via a two stage loader and changes
to the transmission protocol.
* Automatic Client Upgrade Option: When the Plastic client attempts
to connect to a non-compatible server with a newer version of
Plastic SCM, an automatic upgrade is offered to the user.
* Extensions
o Global configuration for extensions.
o Jira extension
* Logged checkins are plain text so Jira issue history is easily
readable and the default custom field is now a free text area,
with space for unlimited logs.
Other Improvements
==================
* Eclipse: Filter to select an object on the view
* LDAP authentication Mode: Clients are no longer required
to have an active connection with the LDAP server - only the
Plastic server requires an active connection to the LDAP
server.
* Ability to directly check-in changed items which were not
checked out and were modified.
* Exclusive Checkout is now an option on the GUI client.
* Replication: Specifying end changesets is supported
allowing splitting of large replication into multiple
smaller packages.
* Support for Exceptions in the ignore.conf file allows the
user to ignore items with a particular pattern and accept
items with another pattern.
* Mergetool textbox allows selecting text out of the viewing
area by scrolling when dragging outside the control bounds.
* Visual Studio +2005: Workspace status is displayed as a new
panel inside Visual Studio.
* The Plastic service can register more than one instance of
the service per machine.
* Added Installer option to close open Plastic applications
and retry the install.
* Installer tracks packages previously selected for ease of
running an upgrade.
* Installer is able to open the download webpages for required
third party components.
* Installer disables checkboxes for options that are not
available.
* Added Keyword Expansion Sample Trigger.
Issues fixed
============
* GUI:
o Reduced the memory consumption on normal operations by 50%
o List of changesets for selecting branch base was
previously limited to the last month and has been expanded
so it can be customized.
* Branch explorer:
o Objects without view permission were being displayed.
* Apply label permission is checked not only at revision level
but also at the label level, enhancing flexibility.
* User 'owner' extra license use fixed.
* Jira password was stored in plain text in the client
configuration files.
* Jira issue status was displayed as a numeric value instead
of its textual description.
Detailed list of fixed issues
=============================
General Updates
* Refresh will happen automatically after a rename.
* Filter performance is 10 times faster.
* Fixed adding files with single quotes in the filename issue.
* Fixed displaying the tree view on paths with capitalized
drive letters issue.
* Getting file status from server is 10 times faster.
* Ignore.conf documentation update.
* Reduced number of connections for LDAP Auth mode.
* Fixed directory merge info text appearing in the wrong
language.
* Selectors using a changeset base is 10 times faster.
* Changing date range filter on the branch explorer sporadic
error fixed.
* Many additional minor issue fixes.
IDE Updates
* Eclipse Improvements
o Path Variable added as cm was sometimes not found by
Eclipse.
o Delete package fixed.
o Improved message windows for doing branching and labeling.
o Fixed move non-private files to private folders issue.
* JBuilder
o Performance and documentation improvements.
o Several minor bug fixes.
* IntelliJ
o Support for non-ASCII chars during Diff added.
o Several minor bug fixes.
