Unity Version Control 11.0.16.7608

All platforms - Plastic: Semantic Visual Differences are here!

All platforms - Plastic: We ported the Visual Diff feature from the Windows Legacy GUI to the new (multiplatform) GUI, which means that now, the Visual Diff feature is available on three platforms, Windows, macOS, and Linux!

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

All platforms - Plastic: The Visual Diff is a diagram that helps to understand the changes made to a file, in a semantic way. Visual Differences are available for those file formats that support semantic differences (.NET, Java, PHP, C, C++). When the semantic differences are calculated, the Visual Diff displays a graphical representation of them. The diagram displays, classes, usings, methods, members, fields, etc, and some decorations indicating if an entity was added, changed, moved, or deleted. It also helps to display the differences between them.

All platforms - Plastic: The Visual Diff is available in three places:

All platforms - Plastic: 1- The Diff Control (note that we also implemented a couple of options for the semantic diff):

All platforms - Plastic: 2- The Diff Window, when clicking a Refactor Group when using our "analyze refactors" feature:

All platforms - Plastic: 3- The Semantic Merge tool:

All platforms - PlasticX: Visual diff window new design

All platforms - PlasticX: Some colors and layout design has been changed for the Visual diff window in order to improve legibility and visibility for both themes.

Linux - Plastic: removed mono-based GUI's

• Linux

Linux - Plastic: We finally removed the mono-based GUI's that were deprecated months ago, in favor of netcore-based counterparts: `plasticgui` and `gluon` .

• Linux

Linux - Plastic: This way we ease the setup of the Plastic SCM GUI applications, since no more "mono" and related packages will be a requirement anymore.

• Linux

Linux - Plastic: The final goal is to support newer distros, and for that goal, this removal of mono-based applications is a must.

• Linux

Linux - Client and Server: Added support for Ubuntu 22

• Linux

Linux - Client and Server: Now you can install Plastic SCM on Ubuntu 22 using the package manager! Instructions here, "Ubuntu" tab.

• Linux

Linux - Client and Server: Easy to say, long road until we made it! This Ubuntu 22 support pulls some relevant changes in the Plastic SCM software stack:

• Linux

Linux - Client and Server: All these changes were required in order to meet dependencies needs for Ubuntu 22, specially on ssl libraries and graphical toolkit libraries.

• Linux

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: Damaged image file won't show error pop up in Pending/Checkin Changes Views.

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: Selecting a damaged image file won't show error pop up message in Pending Changes/Checkin Changes Views.

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: The error message will still be visible to the user as a label notification, and also in the Details Panel (GluonX only)

All platforms - GluonX: Visual feedback when cutting items

All platforms - GluonX: When cutting items from the workspace explorer view, now there is a transparency effect in the icon of the elements that have been cut.

All platforms - GluonX: This feature was already available on Plastic, and now it's on Gluon too.

All platforms - Plastic: Allow changing the editor font.

All platforms - Plastic: Now, the diff/merge font can be changed.

All platforms - Plastic: NOTE for windows users. The default monospaced font in Windows OS (if available) is Cascadia Code, which enables font ligatures, so if you want to disable them, you can change the font to use Cascadia Mono, or other available font in your system.

• Windows

All platforms - Plastic: Full Unicode support and IME.

All platforms - Plastic: Previous versions of Plastic didn't fully support double-byte languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc ...). This Plastic version supports, not only double-byte languages and emojis, but also supports IME (Input Method Editor) for these languages, and right-to-left input support for Arabic and other languages.

All platforms - Plastic: NOTE for Open Suse Linux users: After this changes, Open Suse 15.2 is no longer supported. An upgrade to Open Suse 15.3 is required in order to run Plastic.

• Linux

Server - Merge and Incoming Changes are much fast…: Server - Merge and Incoming Changes are much faster tons of ChangeDelete conflicts.

Server - Merge and Incoming Changes are much fast…: The calculation of the merge or the incoming changes was very slow when there were tons of ChangeDelete conflicts involved in the operation.

Server - Merge and Incoming Changes are much fast…: In the studied case, 2 million of items were added in the source of the merge but all of them were added under a deleted directory in destination. It initially took more than 2 hours to calculate the merge. Now, the same scenario takes less than 15 seconds to complete it. So, it's 500 times faster.

All platforms - PlasticX: added tooltip to Branch Explorer

All platforms - PlasticX: Branches, changesets and labels on the Branch Explorer now have a tooltip which looks something like this:

All platforms - PlasticX: Clicking the links on the tooltip will open a diff of the specified branch or changeset.

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: New information to display on revision history command

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: A new option has been added: --limit. It displays the N last revisions regarding the specified items. If N is bigger than the number of available revisions, it will display the existing ones (limit will take no effect); if N = 0, it will display every revision; if N < 0 the displayed list will be empty; if 0 < N < numRevisions will display the N most recent revisions, sorted by date and changeset id.

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: For example:

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: Will display the path and itemid regarding the last 5 revisions of foo.c and bar.c

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: Note that, in the example, foo.c only has 2 revisions.

All platforms - PlasticX: Changes in Semantic Merge Window

All platforms - PlasticX: We changed the Semantic Merge Window icon, now the window will now show legacy Semantic Merge tool icon

All platforms - PlasticX: We added MinWidth and MaxWidth properties to the window

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: New information to display on revision history command --format

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: Two more fields have been added to the revision history command in order to display information such as the revision size in bytes and the revision hash code. The --long option will also regard these new fields.

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: Now it is possible to use both `{size}` and `{hash}` in order to display that information along with the --format option.

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: For example:

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: Will display the review history of both foo.c and bar.c files, outputting the item id, the size of the file at each specific revision and, in between parenthesis, the hash code identifying the content of each revision.

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: In addition, the --long format will also display the new fields:

All Platforms - Command-Line Client: Will display something like the following, considering bar.c file had only 1 revision:

All Platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: Application Zoom Support

All Platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: You can now apply a zoom level to the whole application!

All Platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: Change it via the ⋮ (triple vertical dot) menu on the top right corner -> Zoom or by pressing Ctrl + Plus, Ctrl + Minus, to increase or decrease the application zoom.

All platforms - Plastic: Added text editor options.

All platforms - Plastic: Now, the diff tool and the merge window have new options to customize the text editors. Those options allow to:

All platforms - Plastic: Demo:

Command-line client: New env variables in codereview edit

Command-line client: Previously there was no way to create a [before | after]-editreview trigger and retrieve

Command-line client: information about what editing was being done: the assignee or the status or both of them.

Command-line client: Now there are two new environment variables related to [before | after]-editreview triggers:

Command-line client: PLASTIC_REVIEW_ACTION: edit assignee or edit status or both separated by ';')

Command-line client: PLASTIC_REVIEW_ACTION_INFO (detailing "previous value" "->" "new value" for the assignee, the status or both, separated by ';').

Command-line client: Mind that only when editing the code review from the CLI both fields can be edited at the same time.

Command-line client: For instance, if you have a script which is dumping the environment variables passed as arguments to an output file (DumpEnvVars.exe), the following trigger creation:

Command-line client: And you do a code review edit like this one:

Command-line client: The script would write a file with the following content:

Skip format changes: This option ignores the indentation and EOL changes when the semantic diffs are calculated.

Reformat: This option automatically reformats the source code:

Show/hide the tabs and the whitespace.

Show/hide the line ending (EOL) characters.

Convert tabs to spaces while editing.

Customize the indent size (tab size) to 4 or 8 characters.

Add column rulers.

Mono removal: We don't require installing `mono` runtime anymore. We now rely on .NET specific OS-targeted self-contained executables for all Plastic SCM applications, even client-GUI applications (server was already compiled this way since early 2021).

Legacy GUI's removal (gtkplastic, gtkgluon, gtkmergetool). Since they were based in mono, they need to be removed and replaced by .NET counterparts: `plasticgui` and `gluonx` (mergetool is now part of `plasticgui` application and can be launched using `plasticgui xmerge` ).

Move server from .NET 5 to .NET 6

All platforms - PlasticX: Error in skip merge tracking

All platforms - PlasticX: An unexpected error was displayed when skipping merge tracking in diff window for big number of differences (>50).

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: fixed issue selecting damaged image files in Pending/Checkin Changes Views.

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: When selecting a damaged image file in Pending Changes/Checkin Changes Views, if the user had selected previously another image file, image panel still showed to the user the last viewed image, we fixed this issue.

All platforms - PlasticX: Attributes panel resizing

All platforms - PlasticX: The attributes panel was not showing the relevant info, the attribute name, when resizing. A fix has been added in order to adapt panel items sizes proportionally to the available space/width when resizing the panel horizontally.

Server: The REST API to download revisions had a memory leak.

Server: The endpoint to download a file revision content (api/v1/repos/repName/revisions/revId/raw) had a memory leak when the '?version=2' query parameter was specified.

Server: We already fixed a memory leak related to this endpoint in the version 11.0.16.7372, but a different one still happened. Fixed.

All platforms - Semantic Merge: Fixed diff color palettes for the dark theme.

All platforms - Semantic Merge: The colors used to display differences were unsuitable for the dark theme (they had low contrast). Now it's fixed. This is how it now looks:

All platforms - PlasticX: Fixed empty buttons in pending changes

All platforms - PlasticX: There was an issue with the "Save" and "Discard" buttons that appear in the pending changes view when you modify a file from Plastic. Sometimes, when changing the selection of the file, these buttons appeared without any content, until moving the cursor over them. We fixed this issue, and now the buttons work as expected

Windows - PlasticX: Fixed issue when opening files with custom tool

• Windows

Windows - PlasticX: When trying to open a file with a custom tool from the workspace explorer on Windows, there was an exception preventing the new process from starting. We fixed this issue, and now the custom tool launches as in the other platforms

• Windows

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: Preview was being calculated even when it's not visible.

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: We optimized the Details Panel behavior. Now, the app will only calculate the Preview data when the panel is visible to the user.

All platforms - PlasticX: Fixed issue when requesting credentials

All platforms - PlasticX: When you try to perform an action on a server for which you don't have valid credentials, we show a dialog asking you to authenticate. There was a bug that made this dialog appear multiple times overlapped. We fixed this issue and now the dialog only appears once

All platforms - PlasticX: Merge view issues

All platforms - PlasticX: Avoid error loading conflicts from a merge in Merge view and converted multiline texts in one single line for Comments column.

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: Tool command not properly refreshed

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: In Preferences window when the Diff or Merge Tools were opened, the Tool command text field was not properly updated with the current selected tool command line.

All platforms - PlasticX: Fixed DNS error for cloud.plasticscm.com

All platforms - PlasticX: We fixed an issue in the Plastic onboarding where a DNS error was shown after creating a new organization. This issue only appeared for new accounts that didn't have any organizations and created a new one after the sign up.

All platforms - PlasticX: Help not displayed for empty list of code reviews

All platforms - PlasticX: The help panel wasn't displayed after clicking the Help button in "Code Reviews" view when the list was empty, now the general query views help will be shown for this case.

All Platforms - PlasticX: SemanticMerge hangs

All Platforms - PlasticX: An issue has been fixed in which when resolving a conflict with the argument "--process-all-merges"

macOS - PlasticX: Fixed loading of Polarion extension

• macOS

macOS - PlasticX: When trying to load the Polarion issue tracker exception in macOS, an error was thrown because a missing dependency. We fixed this issue, and now you can use the extension on macOS as in the other platforms

• macOS

All platforms - PlasticX: Fixed issue when showing merge tracking colors

All platforms - PlasticX: We fixed an issue with the merge tracking colors menu, which was only visible when diffing branches that didn't have xlinks.

All platforms - PlasticX: Now it's also available for diffing changesets and labels, which can contain changes in xlinks

All platforms - GluonX: Details Panel didn't clear data when no row was selected in Checkin View.

All platforms - GluonX: We fixed an issue in the Checkin View Details Panel. Now, the app will always clear previous data when no row is selected or if the Checkin View is empty.

All platforms: TLS1.3 temporarily disabled.

All platforms: TLS1.3 is not supported on Windows 10. We identified some software that enables and forces it through registry editing, forcing Plastic SCM secure connections to use it, and failing to connect both to Enterprise and Cloud servers.

• Windows

All Platforms - PlasticX: Incorrect theme on ⋮ (options menu)

All Platforms - PlasticX: An issue has been fixed in which sometimes would show the incorrect theme selected on ⋮ (options menu) -> Theme.

All platforms - GluonX: Hide open repository button

All platforms - GluonX: In order to avoid opening not loaded repositories, the open repository button won't be available from Home view in Gluon app.

All platforms - Plastic: Allow restoring default font in the text editors.

All platforms - Plastic: The dialog that allows changing the editor font didn't show the "Select default font" button. Now it's fixed:

macOS - PlasticX: Fixed hang when discovering new servers

• macOS

macOS - PlasticX: There is an option when adding new accounts to auto discover Plastic servers in the local network. If the discover operation is cancelled while it is running, the application hangs, and needs to be killed.

• macOS

macOS - PlasticX: We fixed this issue, and now the operation can be cancelled without issues

• macOS

All platforms - Plastic: Fixed syntax lines are not colored sometimes.

All platforms - Plastic: In some scenarios, some lines were not colored when loading a file in the diff viewer. Now it's fixed.

All platforms - Plastic: The diff scrollbar was not visible under some circumstances.

All platforms - Plastic: A recently added option in the diff viewer that allows scrolling below the document caused the scrollbar not to be visible sometimes. Now it's fixed.

All platforms - Plastic: resolved issue where long running merge processes could accumulate on the server

All platforms - Plastic: The Plastic client checks the server for incoming changes in some operations that can affect them. This can trigger the server to calculate a merge. If this calculation took a long time, the calculation would be triggered again by other operations and these processes could accumulate, pointlessly using server resources.

All platforms - Plastic: We fix this by ensuring that the calculation will not be requested if another calculation is already in progress.

Windows - PlasticX, GluonX: Dynamic Workspaces checkbox not visible

• Windows

Windows - PlasticX, GluonX: The dynamic workspaces checkbox visibility status was not properly refreshed from Create Workspaces dialog. When "plasticfs" process is running the checkbox should be visible so the user can create a dynamic workspace, otherwise it shouldn't be available.

• Windows

MacOS - PlasticX: Cannot switch to plastic from gluon

• macOS

MacOS - PlasticX: An issue has been fixed that prevented switching from gluon to plastic via the '...' menu.

• macOS

Windows - PlasticFS: msys2 redirection overwrites files (append mode)

• Windows

Windows - PlasticFS: Trying to concatenate content through shell redirections overwrote files due to a bug related to opening files in append mode:

• Windows

Windows - PlasticFS: This has been corrected:

• Windows

All platforms - PlasticX: Error loading branch explorer

All platforms - PlasticX: Fixed error trying to load a workspace in partial mode in Branch explorer view.

All platforms - PlasticX: Error reviewing image files

All platforms - PlasticX: In the code review window, an error was raised trying to select image files, it's because the diff icons bar is not available for image files, the file differences couldn't be loaded properly, and an error message was displayed. Now it's fixed.

All platforms - Plastic: Go to moved code buttons not drawn.

All platforms - Plastic: If you selected "Go to moved code" in the diff viewer, then the action buttons in the destination are not drawn until you mouse-over the column. Now it's fixed.

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: Infinite progress after creating a shelveset

All platforms - PlasticX, GluonX: There was an issue when creating a shelveset in Plastic and Gluon, where the progress would spin forever when choosing to undo the changes after creating the shelve