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8.0.16.3476: Aug 13 2019

New

All platforms – Plastic, Gluon, command line: Now update always goes to latest.

Suppose you switched your workspace to a particular changeset, then decided to update. You were stuck on that changeset, by design.

We thought (for a few years already) that if you had switched to a given changeset, why would you want to jump to latest during an update?

But then we realized it was a true UX pain. Why wouldn't you want to switch to latest?

So, we just changed the behavior. Now, when you update, you'll always go to latest in the branch, even if you were working on a given changeset or label before.

New

Windows - Plastic: The new Code Review system now displays questions in the comments list.

Remember, right now, you need to start with plastic --codereview to enjoy the new feature.

New

All platforms - Plastic: Small refactor and cleanup of the merge code to get ready for the "incoming changes" feature that will hopefully simplify working on single branch and will make all Perforce users rush to Plastic.

New

macOS - Plastic, Gluon: With the performance improvements we made some releases ago, we introduced a change in how the autoexpanded items in the Pending Changes (Plastic) and Checkin (Gluon) views were handled. When you refreshed the view, the only category that got expanded was the one you had an item selected in. This didn't like some users, so we reverted it - autoexpansion saving will work for less than 5000 items (whilst it won't for 5000 items or more, for performance reasons).

New

Windows - Plastic: The new CodeReview system supports outlining.

When a comment was placed in a line that was collapsed due to outlining, it was rendered in a wrong line. Now the comment is hidden when the line is collapsed and visible when the line is not collapsed.

We also improved the comments navigation. When navigating to a comment, we always ensure that the line that contains the comment is always expanded. Otherwise, in some scenarios a comment could be not visible.

Remember, right now, you need to start with plastic --codereview to enjoy the new feature.

Bug

Windows - SemanticMerge tool: Improved declaration matching mechanism to detect properly the conditional inclusion in the following 'merge' scenario:

Source contributor:

ifndef MY_VAR
include "MyInclude1"
include "MyInclude2"
int my_field1;
int my_field2;
endif

Destination contributor:

ifndef MY_VAR
include "MyInclude1"
endif

Wrong Result:

include "MyInclude1" (Moved)

Result from now on:

include "MyInclude2" (Deleted)
int my_field1; (Deleted)
int my_field2; (Deleted)

Bug

Windows - Visual Studio package: After installing .net 4.8, the Plastic SCM views were not visible in Visual Studio 2019. Now it's fixed.

.NET Framework 4.8 comes with several enhancements to support Per-Monitor V2 DPI Awareness (PMv2) and Mixed-Mode DPI hosting in both Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Unfortunately, tool windows created in Windows Forms were not render correctly when its Per-Monitor Awareness (PMA) setting is enabled. We made changes in the code to address this issue.

Bug

Windows - Plastic: we had a bug in the new code review that resulted in some branch reviews showing an empty GUID for the branch, instead of its actual GUID. Now that's solved!

Bug

Linux - Plastic, Gluon (Cloud Edition): The preferences dialog displayed duplicated ok and cancel buttons. Now it's fixed.