Release Notes

Windows - Plastic, Gluon: Users can now display differences between images of different sizes.

Now when comparing two images, the smaller image is scaled to match the size of the larger image while maintaining its aspect ratio:

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You can try out different combinations of images, see what results you get!

All platforms - Plastic, Gluon, CLI: Introducing Plastic in Chinese, Japanese and Korean!

We are pleased to share with you our progress to date in expanding the set of languages supported by the Plastic toolset.

We have added support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean to Plastic and Gluon, inlcuding the Diff and Merge tools, and to the command line interface for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

"Wow! How can I see Plastic in my favourite East Asian language?" I hear you ask. Don't worry, it's simple.

First, close any open Plastic or Gluon applications. Then,

1. Open up your "client.conf" setting file.

2. Find the "language" setting. It probably looks like this: <Language>en</Language>

3. Change "en" to one of the following:

"zh-Hans" for Simplified Chinese

"zh-Hant" for Traditional Chinese

"ja" for Japanese

"ko" for Korean

4. Save the file and open Plastic.

You should see something like this:

Traditional Chinese Plastic on Windows:

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Japanese Gluon on Linux:

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Korean Plastic on MacOS:

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Enjoy!

All platforms - IntelliJPlugin: we fixed UI lags on high latency networks

IntelliJ requires PlasticPlugin to check if a file can show its history every time the file is scrolled. Plastic was retrieving that information from the server which caused lags when the network latency was noticeable. Now this is fixed

All platforms - All clients: We improved the log for the status operation!

Do you know how many different operations involve calculating the pending changes in a workspace? Well, let me tell you - a lot. But we can classify them in three different categories: time spent traversing the disk, time spent doing network operations, and overhead time (the time spent in running the nice algorithms that so precisely identify moved files and directories, for example).

Now, when you calculate the status of a workspace, the log breaks down these times. If something starts working slow, we can diagnose it with ease!

2021-03-11 16:34:44,984 GENGAR\sergi DEBUG WorkspaceStatus - Search changes time - Total: 1266 ms. Disk: 1032 ms. Network: 109 ms. Overhead: 125 ms.

All platforms - Plastic: Updated New Label dialog

When a user now adds a new label to a changeset, and they wish to add the label to all

XLinked repositories, the label now specifies that it explicitly applies to all the

writable ones:

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All platforms - Plastic: Updated code review comment time stamps

When a user posts a new comment or a question in a code review, the and the time stamp is less than 10

seconds old, the text displayed will be "Just now", instead of "1 seconds ago", or sometimes that same amount was 0, or a negative value.

Before:

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Now:

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Plastic - All platforms: Improve merge-to dialog message

We received a request to improve and clarify the message received when a user has to re-start a merge-to process, if another user has submitted a new changeset(s) to the same branch, in the middle of that initial merge-to process.

This is the message that we were using:

The branch /main@repo_zero2@localhost:8087 (mount '/') has multiple heads because new changesets were created during the merge-to operation. Do you want to unify heads performing another merge-to operation now?

We've now clarified this, using the following format:

A new changeset has been created at branch /main@repo_zero2@localhost:8087 (mount '/') during the merge-to operation. You need to merge again to complete the operation. Do you want to merge again now?