Release Notes

All platforms - Gluon: Gluon now properly handles file system permissions (r-xr-xr-x). This was available only in the Plastic client until today!

The client will set the permissions on disk during the update and configure operations. Also, the checkin operation will save the changes you might do to them.

This improvement applies to 'cm partial' commands as well.

All platforms - Plastic: The Incoming Changes feature doesn't support the sub-branches. Before these changes, you weren't explicitly notified about this scenario. Now, Plastic will detect this situation and it will let you know that you need to perform a merge to get the head changes.

What is a sub-branch, then? We call "sub-branches" the situation that happens when a single branch has more than one line of changesets evolving in parallel. This scenario is often seen when working on distributed mode. Let's say there are 2 developers, John and Kate, who have workspaces pointing to the same branch. They checkin new changes each one in their server, and eventually, John pulls Kate's changes. They'll end up having something like this:

All platforms - Plastic: The Incoming Changes feature doesn't support workspace with transformer rules. Before these changes, you weren't explicitly notified about this scenario. Now, Plastic detects this situation and it lets you know the steps you need to do to get the head changes.

All platforms - Plastic: The Incoming Changes feature doesn't support a writable Xlink edited to point to a previous changeset. Before these changes, you weren't explicitly notified about this scenario. Now, Plastic detects this situation and it lets you know the steps you need to do to get the head changes.

Windows - Gluon: Incoming changes: The incoming changes view now allows you to check the items to update/resolve instead of obtaining all incoming changes.

All platforms - Command line client: calling cm workspace with the wrong number of arguments now shows the help for the workspace command, rather than the workspace create subcommand.

All platforms - Server: We optimized the performance checking the security of a query or a branch explorer.

Checking the security of 13000 branches:

* Before: It took 2300 ms.

* After: It takes 110 ms

The problem was that the server read the administrator over and over for each object that needed a security check. Now, it's only read once for all the objects to check.

This only improves Jet backend performance, since the sql-based backends already used an internal cache for the server administrator.

All platforms - Server: The security checks were slower after the first operation that a user runs after a server restart. It happened due to some internal cache clearing. This will not happen anymore.

All platforms - Server: Fixed the log that prints enqueued requests.

The log did not print the line "Max threads have been reached. No new thread is created. Waiting for a free thread." since we allowed to create several new threads in chunks a few months ago.

All platforms - Server: We improved the message when the client abruptly disconnects.

We were sometimes printing "end of file" in the logs when in reality the client side was closing the socket.

All platforms - Gluon: Improved the way the Incoming Changes deals with files that are locally changed in the workspace, out of date and are configured to use exclusive locking.

The local changes done in these files cannot be merged with the server changes since they were configured to use the exclusive checkout.

This scenario should be avoided by the user by locking (checking-out) the file before doing any change in it. Anyway, Gluon helped nothing once it occurred.

Now, Gluon gives a better feedback to the user in two ways:

1) The "Explore workspace" view shows the 'Cannot merge' status for the files under the previous circumstances.

2) The "Incoming changes" view reports that these changes cannot be applied with a proper explanation:

"Cannot checkout '/game/art/texture.bin' because you don't have the latest version. You will need to undo your changes to update to latest and lock. If you really need to preserve your changes, backup them manually. Please remember to lock this file in the future before making changes."

Plastic SCM Wwise Plugin: we improved the way we handle resources during potentially long operations like add, checkin, update and undo. Now, the GUI remains responsive during long operations, and you can cancel operations at any point.

Plastic SCM WWise Plugin: We now check the Plastic client version when you click "Test Connection" in the configuration dialog.

Note: the current minimum Plastic client version to use the Wwise plugin is 8.0.16.3876.

All platforms - Plastic, Gluon: We updated the pending changes in all our GUIs (or Checkin views, as you Gluon users may know them) to include a "Check/Clear all" checkbox right above the changes tree. This was already present in Windows, so now the remaining platforms have one less reason to be jealous. This new control is quite useful when you have a lot of changes, or they're distributed more than one category.

Linux - Plastic, Gluon: We've enhanced the pending changes tree. You'll notice that categories will display an intermediate state when some but not all changes inside them are checked. This provides better visual feedback when you have a lot of changes in a category, especially when you have checked items inside it but the scroll position doesn't have them on display.

Please note that not all GTK themes show this intermediate state. In that case, you'll only see it checked or unchecked.

Visual Studio Package: Our Visual Studio Package now supports the Incoming Changes.

You can find more info about Incoming Changes here

All platforms - Server: you can now configure the server by running plasticd configure.

The "configure" subcommand takes the same arguments as the deprecated clconfigureserver.exe.

E.g.

Where previously you would have run

$ clconfigureserver

You can now run

$ plasticd configure

And, instead of

$ clconfigureserver --WorkingMode=UPWorkingMode --port=8084 --language=English

You can now run

$ plasticd configure --WorkingMode=UPWorkingMode --port=8084 --language=English