Plastic SCM
- Release Notes

Release 2.7.127.9 (December 23rd 2008) (Public)

• New: MacOS X Plastic Client & Server installer.

• Bug: MacOS X Server: References to System.Windows.Forms has been removed. This allows Plastic Server to run within "mono-service" in MAC.

• Bug: Update under command line client was causing some troubles when running on parallel mode.

Release 2.7.127.8 (December 11th 2008) (Public)

• New: MacOS X Plastic Client Installer.

• Bug: MAC: Mergetool was showing incorrect differences.

• Bug: Mac: Case insensitive filesystem detection.

• Bug: Undo Checkout operation forces update on changed items.

Release 2.7.127.7 (December 5th 2008) (Internal)

• New: Implemented a configuration file named "writable.conf" to keep files as non-readonly on update and checkin operations.

Release 2.7.127.6 (December 2nd 2008) (Public)

• New: Extensions: Trac. Support multiple connections.

Release 2.7.127.5 (December 2nd 2008) (Public)

• Bug: Null on repository owner when restarting server.

Release 2.7.127.4 (November 24th 2008)

• Bug: Sometimes, an upgrade installation deleted files when the machine was restarted. Bug: Linux: Some error messages showed back to the progress dialog, so that error messages couldn't be clicked.

• Bug: The GUI now blocks the mouse when the UI takes a long time for a operation without progress.

• Bug: The replication dialog didn't remember the last server used in the previous replications with different authentication methods between servers.

• Release 2.7.127.3 (November 21st 2008)

• Performance: ACL loading improved.

• Bug: Visual Studio Plugin: Error after show history tree.

• Bug: Workspace queries: Error with SQL Server resolving owner.

• Bug: Plastic GUI: Create child branch, name control hasn't got the focus.

• Bug: Installer with openSUSE: Error creating users and groups.

• Bug: Installer: There were an error uninstalling Plastic with server stopped on linux systems. Fixed a problem with Windows Vista UAC on uninstalling.

• Bug: Duplicated items on dialog "Open from source control" Visual Studio plugin.

• Bug: Modified Plastic GUI behavior when invalid client.conf file.

• Bug: Plastic GUI views: "More help" control takes less space.

• Bug: Help content: Url cut when launching a navigator with mono 2.0.

• Bug: Server: Difference between user_inactive and user_unknown.

• Bug: Disable update option in Plastic GUI when isn't needed.

Release 2.7.127.2 (November 17th 2008)

• New: Eclipse plugin - New workspace configuration supported.

• New: Mono 2.0 migration.

• Performance: Copy data performance improved.

• Bug: Mergetool - GUI issues polished.

• Bug: Compare branch content on an empty branch. Error message after showing no content.

• Bug: Eclipse plugin - Share Project feature throws an exception when the operation takes a long time.

• Bug: Creating a new repository without working with a workspace server. Now this scenario is not allowed.

• Bug: Error during merge operation, when directories entries have items with the same name.

• Bug: Update operation: Verbose flag was set incorrectly.

• Bug: XMerge - Empty lines between result file lines.

• Bug: Fake changed revisions when restarting a server.

• Bug: Create a repository without registering it.

• Bug: Incompatibility issues with profiles config file between different PlasticSCM versions.

Release 2.7.127.1 (November 7th 2008)

• New: Added help links on GUI views. They are linked to web documentation.

• Bug: Fixed an update failure in Windows Vista (Out of memory error)

Release Notes. Plastic 2.7 Build BL127 (November 5th 2008)

• New: Disable autoscalling in mono distribution.

• New: Update trigger documentation.

• New: Included before-checkout and before-checkin triggers on client side.

• New: Changed location of client config files on non windows systems. Now the config files are stored into the $HOME/plastic directory for each user.

• New: Mergetool tabs replacement system has changed. Now the tab takes the next tab column on 4 or 8 character increments, eg column 5, 9, 13, 17 etc for 4 character tabs.

• New: Implemented a mechanism to filter out unwanted files and folders from the private items view with a list of patterns (wildcards are allowed). Eg. Now the user cant to ignore folders with names "Output", "Debug" and "Release", and the online help build folders. A configuration file called ignore.conf can be defined on each workspace root folder, or in the user configuration folder. This file contains
  exclude rules. This rules are applied to the add operation and to the privates view. Each file that case with some rule will be ignored for add operation and hidden for privates view.

• New: Final aesthetic adjustments to the replication GUI implementation.

• New: Server transaction alive time can be customized in a configuration file.

• New: Added a new "Properties" menu item for a branch, to set its base.

• New: Apply label action search checked out revisions before perform the apply label action. If there is checked out revisions the operation can't be performed.

• New: CI, CO and ADD operation does not change the workspace dates of files and folders. Only the update process modify dates now

• New: New look & feel for replication dialogs on GUI

• New: Replication system improvements:

• GUI Replication. We have implemented all replication options in the GUI. There is an extended branch menu with all replication options.

  • Replication process is cancellable.

  • Now you can browse remote repositories. This is useful for some replication scenarios.

  • Server profiles. A server profile system has is now available. You can define several server connections and use them to specify a source and destination for the replication.

  • Many performance optimizations.

  • Many replication bugs has been fixed.

• New: Items view on Eclipse. Now Eclipse shows items out of Eclipse workspace, so you can explore all of your Plastic SCM workspace completely. All item actions can be performed from this view.

• New: Replica tracking. All replicated objects in the database have information about the replication server source. This information is shown in the properties panel for each object in the GUI tool.

• New: Update check hash before download. If the file has the same hash, the file will be reused.

• New: Office integration (Beta). Plastic SCM has been integrated with most popular Office aplications: Word, Excel and
  PowerPoint. There are two plugins, for Office 2003 and Office 2007 systems. The operations available are:

  • Add to Plastic SCM

  • Checkout

  • Checkin

  • Refresh document status

  • Get latest version

  • Show history

  • Compare documents (only for Word)

  • We are improving this integration but a beta version is already available. If you want to test a copy of this integration, please write us to support@codicesoftware.com

• New: Eclipse plugin improvements:

  • Create branches

  • Smart branches support

  • Merge from branch

  • Merge from label

  • Changesets view

• New: Now annotate command is compatible with tortoiseblame

• New: Visual Studio plugin didn't update items using GUI system. Now it can show update view and log notifying.

• New: Trigger standard output is sent to the client as an error mesage when a trigger fails.

• New: Mac OS X improvements (several bugs fixed):

  • Mergetool: maximizing any contributor panel and then restoring was not able to set the old size back, so the panel stayed maximized.
    
     

  • 3D version tree crashed the GUI with X11

  • New compress/uncompress method didn't workd fine on Max OS X (PPC). Also a fix was done in linux systems too (bug #4349)

  • Several visual aesthetic fixes.

• New: Support fot the sandbox branching workflow. The sandbox branching workflow requires that all developers work in their own branch.This means developers must be able to merge into the main branch (or whateverbranch is set to be the integration one) but not directly work on it. So, it means they can merge but they cannot check out.

• New: Xmerge (Cross-merge) Beta. It is just a feature that helps developers merging code that has been moved and modified in parallel. This is very likely to happen when you refactor your code. See http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2008/08/xmerge-tool-to-handle-refactors.html

• New: Implemented a new annotate (blame) command. This command shows the author and the revision information in-line for the specified files. Each line of text is annotated at the beginning, with the author (username) and the revision number for the last change to that line.

• New (Beta): Implemented a Visual Studio 2005/2008 package to integrate Plastic SCM client. Now, Visual Studio IDE can show Items, Branches, Changesets, Branch Explorer, Labels and repositories. All operations from context menus are available. See http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2008/08/whats-coming-new-visual-studio-addin.html

• New: Mergetool & difftool improvements: Many improvements have been added to merge and diff tools.
   

  • New look & feel consistent with the PlasticSCM client.

  • Line differences: Mergetool and diff tools show differences between lines.

  • Mergetool and difftool scrollbars show a differences map.

• New: Added merge functionality to Eclipse plugin.

• New: The documentation is also in HTML format. It can be viewed at /xpdocumentation.aspx

• New: The GUI tool now saves a query for each view. If the user writes a custom query for the branch view (for example),
  it can be saved as default query. The view saves a full query history, and queries also can be reset to original one.

• New: Defined a new ignore.conf configuration file to ignore files when using the add command. You can define patterns in the ignore.conf, and the files that match the pattern will be be ignored by PlasticSCM. You can place this file in a workspace in order to apply rules to that orkspace, or in the client configuration directory, in order to apply rules to all workspaces.

• New: Defined a new filetypes.conf config file in order to define custom file types for PlasticSCM. PlasticSCM recognizes the most popular file extensions as text or binary by reading its extension. Some unrecognized extensions can been incorrectly assumed as binary when they are really text. Now the user can define custom file types (binary/text). If you work with files with a rare extension, but the content of these files is text, you can define it in a filetypes.conf, placed in client configuration directory.

  • Examples:
    .cpp:txt
    .jpg:bin

• Performance: Increased performance on annotate command.

• Performance: Increased replication process performance.

• Performance: Implemented a LRU datalayer caché for solvepath server operation.

• Performance: Eclipse: Right click on a resource on a big Eclipse project took about 1 - 1.5 seconds. Reduced to zero. Now all recursive actions are always enabled, and when you execute the action, if there is no elements to perform the operation, the IDE will show a message informing about this situation.

• Performance: Optimized Eclipse plugin to update item and package view only after updating all afected revisions by executed operation.

• Performance: Checkin and add performance has been improved, changing compression algorithm on file data. Some other speed improvements are:

  • Faster file/dir paths calculation on Windows clients.

  • Grouped some server calls.

  • Improvements on File/Directory exists.
     

• Bug: The advanced query combobox had a strange behavior when copy & paste text.

• Bug: Last adjusts to the GUI replication system.

• Bug: Fixed a checkin failure with a long-time transaction.
   

• Bug: In small resolution screens the 3D version tree was shown out of screen.

• Bug: The Visual Studio package was not correctly installed on Visual Studio 2008.

• Bug: Improvements on the code review tool:
  * Sometimes files were locked
  * Avoid re-paint panels on items change
  * Now the tool is launched with a progress form

• Bug: Solved a null reference during merge process with XMerge conflicts.

• Bug: Installing the Visual Studio integration caused the installer to crash if Visual Studio was not present on the machine. The installer now checks for a valid version of Visual Studio before attempting to install the integration package.
   

• Bug: There was a problem on linux machines with zlib compression.

• Bug: Sometimes the annotate command entered into a infinite loop.

• Bug: If the attribute realization value had a longer size than the field size on database the operation return an uncontrolled error from DB

• Bug: Eclipse history didn't work on Eclipse 3.4 versions

• Bug: Renamebranch command didn't check invalid chars.

• Bug: Eclipse: Making "Share" on a project when the client.conf file was not correctly configured showed ty window witout error.

• Bug: Reviewed Office plugin installer.

• Bug: Fixed some linux GUI issues.

• Bug: Mergetool file names was cut off.

• Bug: Some branch explorer branch names was cut off.

• Bug: The back search button did not work on mergetool.

• Bug: Annotate did not format dates correctly. Now the command is prepared to use format on dates, for example: --format="{date:dd/MM/yyyy};{owner};{rev}"

• Bug: In some results file of the annotate command there were lines without info.

• Bug: Mergetool: If the comparison method changed the scroll bar were not update (contained the old regions).

• Bug: The code review helper tool syntax highlight submenu repeated entries wrongly.

• Bug: Mergetool: Fixed a index out of bounds exception
   

• Bug: SVN importer does not retrieve anymore innecesary data when getting changesets.

• Bug: Solved a cm query error with changeset view.

• Bug: Combobox text was white on Mac OS X and Linux.

• Bug: GUI crashed using keyboard on Mac OS X (Leopard).

• Bug: Moving the mouse over the search bar (on the "searh" word) caused mergetool to display an invalid cast exception on Mac OS X.

• Bug: When Checkin same data with a set of items, if you didn't check the checkbox (apply this action to all items), the operation was performed for all items anyway.

• Bug: Server didn't load users and groups when LDAP retrieved a duplicated entry.

• Bug: Eclipse checkin operation failed with a long comment.

• Bug: After executing several switch to branch actions, Eclipse plugin returns an exception without message.

• Bug: Reviewed cut, paste and seleting behavior in query combobox.

• Bug: TTS extension didn´t open task on browser.

• Bug: PowerBuilder integration crashed if the user didn't type comments on add, checkin and checkout operations.

• Bug:Fixed a problem with users showing the change statistics view. A message with "The security ID structure is invalid" was shown.

• Bug: Visual Studio plugin never asks for unco when the .vsscc file has no changes

• Bug: NullReference exception showing some directories all-revisions-in-branch permissions.

• Bug: If the client.conf file is modified with invalid or improper entries the Plastic client will now throw more meaningful exception errors.

• Bug: From GUI client, editing the workspace selector without changes fired an update operation. Now, if the workspace has no changes, nothing occurs.

• Bug: Fixed a problem with smart branches updating brach base twice when the branch not was up-to-date.

• Bug: Fixed some issues checking versions between client and server.

• Bug: Queries with an string condition which contains blanks and written accent didn't work fine.

• Bug: The import failed checking the users using the UP authentication mode.

• Bug: Fixed uncontrolled error trying to set the branch base using a nonexistent label with sbb command.

• Bug: In some cases, the code review tool failed on the first file with a red cross over the textboxes

• Bug: Localization issues.

• Bug: Set attribute command did not work out of a Plastic SCM workspace.

• Bug: Many mergetool corrections:

  • One-line regions painted incorrectly

  • Scroll movements sometimes wasn't precise

  • Slow painting on the left textbox of the difftool

• Bug: GUI client was closed with a INVALID PASSWORD exception working, on User/Password mode. Now Plastic shows a form asking user and password.

• Bug: Revert command failed if the revert source was a result of another previous revert operation.

• Bug: Sometimes a merge failed with a "Index out of bounds"

• Bug: Fixed a duplicated entries error in update report.

• Bug: The client was not setting the right flag to compress files on checkin

• Bug: The cm stb command did not consider smart branches.

• Bug: Some replication scenarios failed with a NullReference.

• Bug: Spelling and aesthetic issues