Release Notes

Public

11.0.16.6825: Apr 07 2022

New

All platforms - PlasticX: Help panel for code reviews

Added Help button and panel to:

* Main window Code Reviews view

* Code Review Window

New

Watchdog: Added monitoring for the Plastic Server tcp ports.

The watchdog opens periodically connections against the tcp ports of the Plastic Server instances it started (unsecured tcp & ssl if configured). If the connections cannot be opened by any reason, it will recycle the instance.

New

Watchdog: Added monitoring for the Plastic Server https endpoint.

The watchdog runs periodically requests against the https endpoint of the Plastic Server instances it started (if configured). If the request cannot be completed by any reason, it will recycle the instance.

Bug

Cloud: Fixed a concurrency issue with the storage version when creating organizations.

Each time a new organization was created in the Cloud server, it tried to write the storage version file. This could lead to a file access exceptions if two calls tried to write to the file at the very same time.

Now, the storage version is only written once, and the access is protected.

Alpha new

All platforms - PlasticX: Added “Browse repository in this label” action

We added a new right click context menu action in Branch Explorer View (when selecting a label) and Labels View

When you click in “Browse repository in this label”, a new Split View will appear where you will be able to browse the repository from the selected label’s changeset

Alpha new

All platforms - PlasticX: Fix filter in Code Reviews

We fixed an issue where executing a filter in Code Review, now you can filter using the field "Reviewer"

Alpha new

All platforms - PlasticX: New keyboard shortcuts

We added more keyboard shortcuts in PlasticX

Now you can use Ctrl + F (Windows/Linux) or Cmd + F in macOS, to move focus to search filter in all dialogs

Alpha new

All platforms - PlasticX: Fix scroll issue in pending changes

In PlasticX, when you had a large number of elements to be added in Pending changes, if you deleted a item the scroll always focused the first element.

Now this behaviour is fixed, the scroll will remain after a delete operation

Alpha new

All platforms - PlasticX: Added 'Comment' column in the Merge/Incoming Changes views

We completed those views by adding the 'Comment' column in order to show the changeset comment where the revision of each merge/incoming change was created.

For Merge view:

For Incoming Changes view:

Alpha new

All platforms - GluonX: Added 'Comment' column in the Incoming Changes view

We completed this view by adding the 'Comment' column in order to show the changeset comment where the revision of each incoming change was created.

[Alpha New]

All platforms - PlasticX: Added recent comments dropdown to Comments dialog

New dropdown button has been added to Comments dialog in order to allow the selection of any comment used previously.

Alpha bug

All platforms - PlasticX: Error displayed creating a new Workspace

In Create Workspace dialog, when trying to choose a repository and the repositories combobox was empty, the app displayed an error message. This error occurs when the repository list wasn't completely loaded.

Alpha bug

All platforms - GluonX: fixed directory expansion issue in workspace explorer

We fixed an issue where subdirectories would sometimes become un-expandable after refreshing the view.

Alpha bug

All platforms - GluonX: selected search results now highlighted in explorer and configuration view

When you double click on a search result, that item should be navigated to and selected in the item view. This was only happening if the item was already visible. Now, we expand the parent directories of the selected item so it can be shown and selected.

Alpha bug

All platforms - PlasticX: Fix text in Merge View

Merge result text overlapped the panel in Merge diagram, now this issue fixed.

Alpha bug

Windows - PlasticFS: Support Defender exclusions on Windows 11

Starting PlasticFS for the first time on Windows 11 with Windows Defender enabled could show the following error:

This happens if the user accepts to add initial exclusion rules to Windows Defender required by PlasticFS to improve its performance.

Now it is fixed, and the error message is gone:

Alpha bug

All platforms - PlasticX: fixed GUI hang during long branch diff calculation

We now offload the diff processing onto a separate thread so that the GUI remains responsive during the branch diff operation.