Release Notes

New Branch Explorer coming to Plastic 7.0!

We redesigned the looks of the Branch Explorer for Windows and OSX (Linux will follow soon) introducing some new ideas we have been tinkering with for a while.

We hope you like it as much as we do and it soon becomes the new standard for all the branch diagrams we draw even on blackboards :-)

Gluon for Mac learns how to undelete files, so now recovering past work becomes much easier.

Gluon on Linux learns how to undelete items :-)

A small game added to the Branch Explorer as a result of a HackWeek we did a few months ago :-)

It works in Windows.

* When the branch explorer is focused, press Ctrl+Alt+P to show the game

* Press Enter key to start the game

* Use left and right arrow keys (or use the mouse) to move the paddle

* Press 1 to decrease the game speed

* Press 2 to increase the game speed

* Press space bar to add more balls to the game

* Press P to pause the game

* Press Esc to exit the game

From now on, copied items (those modified only on the merge source) will perform exclusive checkout (if needed) during the merge operation. As a result, the merge operation will no longer be able to modify a file that requires exclusive checkout while another user has checked out that particular file in their workspace to change it.

Linux/OS X: when you ignore files, you can now edit the rules.

It works both from "pending changes" and "explore workspace".

It is very convenient to select a file and set rules to one of its parent directories.

The undo changes performance has been greatly improved.

It is specially noticeable when undoing changes from a merge.

Now undoing the changes of a big merge with thousands of changes is about 10 times faster. The bigger the merge is, the better is the improvement.

This improvement benefits the command line and all GUIs.