Release Notes

Windows - Visual Studio Plugin: Plastic SCM now supports new Visual Studio 2022!!!

Installer now shows a new plugin for Visual Studio 2022 and above. As the IDE turned 64 bits, it required a new version of our plugin, which by the way can coexist with the old one, just in case you want to keep both Visual Studio 2019 and 2022 installed in your system.

As usual, if Visual Studio 2022 is present in the system, the extension will be suggested to be installed by default.

macOS, Linux - Plastic SCM API: The Plastic SCM API is now embedded in the CLI!

We created a new cm api command that starts the Plastic SCM API. It allows the same arguments as the old plasticapi.exe application. See more usage details here

Warning: this command is only available in macOS and Linux, as those platforms run our new .NET Core CLI client. We removed plasticapi.exe from all installers, so the Plastic SCM API is temporarily unsupported in Windows. It will be back as soon as we distribute our .NET Core CLI client in the Windows installers.

All platforms - Server: The Jet storage backend is now faster when reading files.

We changed the way we access the Jet backend files for reading. This change decreases the time needed for just reading content, making the overall time of reading calls to the server lower.

All platforms - All clients: The status operation performance has been improved by changing how the stats times are tracked.

This is only noticeable in super-huge workspaces.

The overall time of the status operation is a 17% faster in a workspace with 1M of directories and 5M of files.

All platforms - server: more detailed information in the relevant log and shell's 'htop' regarding internal and Web UI method calls.

Previously, every internal method call was tagged as "Internal", both for the server stats (relevant log) and shell's htop command. Now these calls are more qualified displaying the name of the method in execution. It has been also fixed on "ChannelCall" log where these calls are no longer tagged as "WebUI" but as "webui-Method'sName"

For example: on shell's htop, after executing a long-enough-lasting task (for instance a huge merge to) it should display "MergeTo" under Active requests or "webui-MergeTo", relying on the source of the method call. Remember that if the call is executed too fast, htop might not be updated in between and therefore not displaying any method at all.

All platforms - CLI: Checkout CLI command (co) now supports --machinereadable

We added the possibility of using --machinereadable parameter to the checkout command. Now it will be possible to specify --machinereadable argument to configure special chars which will be inserted where needed:

"--machinereadable" -> Outputs the result in an easy-to-parse format.

"--startlineseparator" -> Used with the '--machinereadable' flag, specifies how the lines should start.

"--endlineseparator" -> Used with the '--machinereadable' flag, specifies how the lines should end.

"--fieldseparator" -> Used with the '--machinereadable' flag, specifies how the fields should be separated.

Execution example:

cm co . --machinereadable --startlineseparator=">"
The selected items are about to be checked out. Please wait ...
>XXXXXXXXXX Item XXXXXXXXXXXX was correctly checked out
CommandResult 0

(Checkouts the current directory, and prints the result in a simplified, easier-to-parse format, starting the lines with the specified strings.)

All platforms - Client: cm partial configure now supports a machine readable format

To obtain an easily parseable output, just use the "--machinereadable" option:

$ cm partial configure --machinereadable +/file.txt

STAGE Plastic is updating your workspace. Wait a moment, please...
STAGE Calculating...
STAGE Updated 0 bytes of 13.89 MB (0 of 1 files to download / 0 of 1 operations to apply)
STAGE Updated 13.89 MB of 13.89 MB (0 of 1 files to download / 0 of 1 operations to apply):/file1.txt

Remember you can override the default separators by using formatting options. You might need to double quote them depending on your shell:

$ cm partial configure --machinereadable "--startlineseparator=[" "--endlineseparator=]" "--fieldseparator=:" +/file.txt

[STAGE:Plastic is updating your workspace. Wait a moment, please...]
[STAGE:Calculating...]
[STAGE:Updated 0 bytes of 13.89 MB (0 of 1 files to download / 0 of 1 operations to apply)]
[STAGE:Updated 13.89 MB of 13.89 MB (0 of 1 files to download / 0 of 1 operations to apply):/file1.txt]

All platforms - Plastic: Alpha new and Alpha bug release notes in help panels

We added two new categories to the release notes: Alpha new, and Alpha bug. They already appeared in the web (https://www.plasticscm.com/download/releasenotes), but now you will also see them in the plastic client, inside the new version notification. Check it out: