Release Notes

Windows, Linux - Plastic: We made the server combo box on the repository (and Cloud) view wider, so it shows long server address without truncating.

All platforms - Plastic: Did you run into some cryptic error messages such as "find is not supported for object '19'" or "The method CreateCodeReviewComment is not supported"? It's likely coming from your outdated server! It doesn't support the new code review comment, but your shiny, up-to-date client does. We improved that so the client will output readable messages to let you that you need to upgrade your server.

Windows - Gluon: Incoming changes: the context menu for the new 'Incoming changes" view is now available.

It allows you to perform the following operations:

* Merge selected conflicts.

* Merge selected files keeping source.

* Merge selected files keeping destination.

* Diffs yours with incoming.

* Diff incoming changes.

This feature is experimental. You need to manually activate it by adding the following line to the client.conf configuration file.

On Windows, you can find it in %LocalAppData%\plastic4\client.conf:

<EnableGluonIncomingChanges>yes</EnableGluonIncomingChanges>

All platforms, Server: We made the server more robust by fixing a couple of potential problems when timeouts happen.

1) Now, if the server detects a timeout while reading a request, it will close the connection. Before this change it kept the connection open and continued reading - which could lead to strange readings and logs. Not critical, but it is better now.

2) The server could abandon connections that could stay idle until the client closed them. Now this is fixed. We are not sure this was ever find in production.

All platforms - Plastic & Gluon: Diffing files with an external tool is now faster. This applies to diffing 2 revisions of a file from the item history, file conflicts during a merge…

This boost in performance comes from optimizing server calls. There was one in particular that could take even a few seconds when working with big trees (i.e. more than 100k items) in a server that uses a SQL-based backend. The server doesn't execute those calls anymore in this scenario.

By the way, we recommend you to migrate your SQL backend to our Jet backend! It's really faster and our recommended choice. Take a look at 'The story of Jet: Plastic's super-fast repo storage'.

Windows - Plastic: We improved the 2D revision tree for revisions added in merge sources. Those displayed blank diagrams, not very useful. They'll now load the added revision and its related changes, just like any other revision in the merge!

All platforms - Server: Socket receive timeout now defaults to 10 seconds.

In case you need to change it: edit remoting.conf configuration file located in the server directory and make sure your line looks like this:

channel type="PlasticPipe.Remoting.Tcp.PlasticTcpChannel, plasticpipe" port="8084" name="normal" socketReceiveTimeout="15000"

To increase to 15 seconds: socketReceiveTimeout="15000"

To make it wait forever: socketReceiveTimeout="-1"

We added this to make the server more robust in case of connection problems.