Release Notes

All platforms - Plastic, PlasticX: support environment variables in custom tool configuration

You can now include environment variables when defining custom actions that can be launched from the context menu.

See the documentation about configuring external tools.

* Example:

In the configuration file 'externaltools.conf':

item | My custom tool | %PATH_TO_TOOL_EXE% | @object

This will create a menu item "My custom tool" under the "Open" menu of the Workspace Explorer which will open the selected path using the executable pointed to by the environment variable "PATH_TO_TOOL_EXE".

You can add multiple external tools - just add a line to the config file for each one.

All platforms - Plastic, Gluon: Unity files considered as text by default

We added the following extensions to our list of known text extensions, and now they will be considered as text files by default:

.anim
.asmdef
.asset
.controller
.giparams
.mat
.meta
.mixer
.overrideController
.physicMaterial
.playable
.prefab
.scenetemplate
.shadergraph
.shadervariants
.signal
.spriteatlas
.unity
.uss
.uxml

Also, the following file will be considered as a binary file by default:

LightingData.asset

Remember that you can override this behavior, adding your custom extensions, by modifying your filetypes.conf file. Learn more about it here: Custom file types

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

This is only noticeable in super-huge workspaces (> 4M of files).

The overall time of the status operation is a 10% faster, but this is only noticeable when the watcher is enabled and after the first status run.

In this particular case the 'cm status' went from 6s to 5.4s.

Command-line client: Updated the Spanish command-line help for several commands.

We keep on updating the Spanish documentation of the command-line help. These are the commands whose Spanish documentation has been completely updated on this round:

* api

* findchanged

* findcheckouts

* findprivate

* getconfig

* getfile

* getrevision

* getstatus

* gettaskbranches

* getworkspacefrompath

* help

* history

* iostats

* issuetracker

* licenseinfo

* linktask

* listusers

* location

* lock

* lock list

* lock unlock

* wi

All Platforms - Server: Improved the plasticd shell start up time

plasticd shell uses communication files to interact with the server. The problem came when these files became too big (> 1GB). It could take more than 10 min to connect with the server.

Now, it does a smart reading starting from the end of the communication file, so it doesn't depend on the size of the file. It always takes around 1-2 seconds to connect.