Release Notes

FIPS support: Plastic SCM can now be configured to work on FIPS compliant environments. Once set to work in FIPS mode, both client and server will use only Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.

To configure FIPS, add the following line to your server.conf and client.conf files:

<FIPSCompliant>true</FIPSCompliant>

Consider the following restrictions:

* At this point, the server won't start in a FIPS machine until it is configured in FIPS mode. The server log will say "LicenseReader - There was an error reading the license: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.". Once the server is configured in FIPS mode, it will be able to start normally.

* The server won't start in a FIPS machine with an SSL channel unless there is the PFX certificate file ssl-certificate.pfx in the Plastic SCM server installation folder to use SSL. The server log will say "WARN Channel - Failed to autocreate sha256 self-signed certificate (file:C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\server\ssl-certificate.pfx)."

* To use User/Password authentication mode in a FIPS machine, it is necessary to configure the server in FIPS mode before adding users. Otherwise, when clicking OK in the "New Plastic SCM user" dialog, an error message box will appear: "This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.".

* Not compatible with other clients/servers that are not FIPS compliant.

* Not compatible with the cloud server

* Encrypted replication is not available.

Windows GUI: SemanticSCM: Built-in semantic diff now includes a new 'reformat' option. The new toggle button in the semantic options panel reformats the code before diffing it, so the format-only changes can be ignored.

Windows GUI: Added 'Diff' key shortcut Shift + Ctrl + D to the following views:

* Diff two selected changesets on the 'Branch Explorer' view.

* Diff two selected changesets on the 'Changesets' view.

* Diff two selected items on the 'Items' view

* Diff two selected revisions on the 'History' view.

* Diff selected revisions with another revision on the 'History' view.

* Diff selected branch with another branch on the 'Branch Explorer' view.

* Diff selected branch with another branch on the 'Branches' view.