Release Notes

WebUI: We added move detection to the side-by-side diff viewer! The moved regions will be painted in the editors with a lighter color and a new purple region in the splitter will appear joining them! Next step, allow you to put the regions side-by-side so you can easily see the differences :)

JIRA Extension: We added a new setting, "Use default proxy credentials". It automatically sets the proxy credentials with the default credentials for all JIRA extension connections. That will solve 407 errors for all users that have a proxy where they authenticate using the same credentials as the ones they use to authenticate in their domain.

Plastic and Gluon (all platforms): Improved the wait time in checkin/undo operations. Improved the background operation polling time from 500ms to 100ms. This will improve the overall performance of Plastic and Gluon, specially in Gtk and Mac.

LDAP integration: implemented a retry mechanism when creating a connection to LDAP to deal with network issues.

Also cached SID=>Name and Name=>SID to greatly reduce the number of requests to the LDAP server.

This affects to LDAP setups, whether they connect to pure LDAP servers or to Active Directories in LDAP mode.

Longer story: One of our heaviest loaded servers that uses a federated Active Directory for authentication but connects to it using LDAP instead of built-in AD (due to how the underlying infrastructure is). Sometimes the Plastic server failed to connect to the LDAP, causing spurious issues to users saying they couldn't be authenticated, and even more importantly to automated scripts (which wouldn't recover). This improvement should greatly reduce the load imposed on the LDAP server. Also, Plastic can now cope with retries when connecting to LDAP.

What you will see in the server log is something like:

WARN  LdapProvider - Unable to connect to LDAP. Trying again (1/5)
WARN  LdapProvider - Unable to connect to LDAP. Trying again (2/5)

Until it successfully reconnects.

Unity 3D plugin: Onboarding process on an already existing project improved in order to avoid unnecessary merge conflicts.

So far, there is no good way to -let's say- checkout sources from version control in Unity Editor.

The current way to proceed using Unity is to create an empty project, bind the project to Plastic SCM, type the repository name that contains the already existing game project, and click on "Apply all incoming changes" in "Version Control" tab.

But, even if the user selects to "do not perform automatic add" in the Unity preferences, the "ProjectSettings" folder will be marked as "added" when an empty project is bound to a VCS.

This fact will likely cause a merge conflict (EvilTwin conflict) when clicking "Apply all incoming changes", as "ProjectSettings" folder will probably exist on the repository already.

Now, the Plastic SCM Unity Plugin detects this scenario and skips adding the "ProjectSettings" folder when a new empty project is bound to a Plastic repo, and the "ProjectSettings" folder already exists on the repo.

When the user clicks on "Apply all incoming changes", the "ProjectSettings" folder in the repo will be downloaded.

REMARK: If the user edited any "ProjectSettings" file before applying all incoming changes, the files edited this way will be replaced by the server version. But don't worry: the local edited file will be backed up before by appending a ".private" suffix in the filename.

WebUI: The labels table now includes a new action button for each row to display the repository contents in that label.