Release Notes

Server: Performance: We implemented a new log4net appender in the server that performs a 38% better (overall server response time) when the server is stressed with requests.

New installations of Plastic will already take advantage of these improvements.

Regarding existent installations, it's a matter of changing each log4net appender in loader.log.conf file as follows:

Having the following appender:

<appender name="ErrorAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
        <file value="plastic.errors.log.txt" />
        <appendToFile value="true" />
        <rollingStyle value="Date" />
        <datePattern value=".yyyyMMdd" />
        <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
            <conversionPattern value="%date %property{UserId} %property{ClientMachine} %-5level %logger - %message%newline" />
        </layout>
        <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter"><levelMin value="ERROR" /><levelMax value="FATAL" /></filter>
    </appender>

1- change the appender name as follows, from:

appender name="ErrorAppender"

to

appender name="ErrorInternalAppender"

2- Create a new appender on top of previous one as follows:

<appender name="ErrorAppender" type="Codice.LogWrapper.BackgroundForwardingAppender, logwrapper">
    <appender-ref ref="ErrorInternalAppender" />
</appender>

3- Do the same with other appenders.

Full example can be found on the following snippet

Windows Cloud Edition installer: We moved the selection of the client application to start to the last page of the installation wizard. Now, the last wizard page of the cloud edition installer looks like the following screenshot: