Release Notes

All platforms - PlasticX: New cross-platform GUI available!

Hi everyone!

We are happy to announce that we are currently working on a new cross-platform GUI for Plastic SCM, code-named PlasticX!

At this stage in development, we are looking for early adopters who would be willing to try the new GUI and give us some feedback. All you need to do is sign up and we will contact you with instructions on how to get started, provide feedback and report issues.

SIGN UP HERE

There is no commitment - you will be able to easily switch back to the GUI you are using today if needed.

PlasticX is available for our developer GUI at this time. It will eventually replace the existing GUI, so this is a wonderful opportunity for you to influence the direction of Plastic SCM!

The latest alpha version also provides significant macOS stability improvements that you can benefit from right away. And we are almost at feature parity! The missing features will be available in the coming weeks.

You will also be able to try out our new dark theme which is now an option in the new GUI!

Find some eye opening screenshots below! :-)

macOS running light theme:

And now the same Branch Explorer in dark theme full glory:

Continuing with macOS, see how great diffs look in both light and dark themes:

And dark:

Now compare to the very same Branch Explorer screenshots in Linux and Windows:

And now Linux dark theme:

And Windows:

Thanks!

The Plastic SCM Team @ Unity!

All platforms - PlasticX: Show progress while saving code review comments

When you create a new code review comment, or modify an existing one, saving the comment may take some time (especially if you have configured a trigger to run after the operation). We weren't showing any feedback during this operation. Now we have added a progress control next to the save button, to let the user know that the comment is being saved.

All platforms - PlasticX: image diff viewer completed

Completed the image diff viewer with the following new modes:

* Onion skin: places one image over the other, with a slider to control transparency.

* Differences: displays the differences between two images, calculated pixel by pixel.

* Swipe: overlays the two images and allows you to transition between them using a slider.

This updated image diff viewer also allows you to:

* View the differences between images of different sizes.

* Zoom with a smooth animation.

* Navigate around an image by clicking and dragging.

All platforms - PlasticX: Improvements in the create workspace dialog

We added a checkbox in the create workspace dialog that lets you create workspaces in dynamic mode. Check it out:

For now this feature is only available on Windows. To see it, you need to enable it manually by adding the following line in your guiclient.conf file:

<EnableCreateDynamicWorkspace>false</EnableCreateDynamicWorkspace>

You can learn more about dynamic workspaces here: [https://blog.plasticscm.com/2021/07/dynamic-workspaces-alpha-for-windows.html Dynamic Workspaces (alpha) for Windows: A new way to interact with version control]

In addition, we added a "New" button, next to the repository label, that lets you create a new repository right from that dialog