QVCS Product Family Newsletter - July 2006

Publication date: July 13, 2006

Blog highlights -- Back from vacation
Forum Spam
QVCS/QVCS-Pro: In the pipeline
QVCS-Enterprise: 1.2.12 Release Now Available
QVCS-Enterprise: 2.0 Beta News
QVCS-Enterprise: Support Highlights: Problems with Ignoring Case

Blog highlights -- Back from vacation

Montreal and Quebec city are worthy destinations. See this blog entry for the travelog.

Forum Spam

The forum Spam assault continues. I have to spend at least 1/2 hour each day on forum moderation -- deleting the offensive forum posts, and deleting the offending user(s) from the board.

This means that valid posts to the forums may get delayed. My hope is that the spammers will realize their efforts are wasted, unless their goal is to waste my time -- in which case their efforts are succeeding.

In the meanwhile, please realize that forum posts may take longer to appear than they did before I had to impose forum moderation.

QVCS/QVCS-Pro: In the pipeline

There's nothing big on the near horizon for QVCS or QVCS-Pro -- the products are where they need to be on the feature set, and bug reports have shown the products to be stable.

If you have any bugs to report and/or a wish list request for either QVCS or QVCS-Pro, please let me know so I can add it to the wish list for the next release.

QVCS-Enterprise: 1.2.12 Release Now Available

The 1.2.12 release is available for download from the usual locations.

This is a 'free' update to users who have purchased their license within the past year.

This release is a bug fix build:

Fix bug that affected Linux servers. The bug caused the wrong revision description length (in some cases) to be written to the archive file, thereby corrupting the archive file.
Make it so the user can actually delete the C++ and Java named file filters.

QVCS-Enterprise: 2.0 Beta News

The QVCS-Enterprise 2.0 beta is underway. So far, there have been 2 beta builds: 2.0.2 and 2.0.3.

2.0 is not yet feature complete, but the IDE integration portion of 2.0 is very close to feature complete -- and that is the part that I wanted to get into the hands of a wider audience.

Early reports indicate that IDE integration works with Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, and I've had reports of success with PowerBuilder, though there remain some quirks there.

The biggest remaining features planned for the 2.0 release are to add support for some directory operations. For example, you will be able to select a directory, and perform a 'get', or 'get by label' operation. Similarly, you will be able to select a directory (or project), and perform a 'label', or 'remove label' operation. Currently, these operations are only supported at the file level, which can be a nuisance if you have lots of files.

The beta is an open beta -- anyone can download it to try. The major warning (aside from the generic "It's a beta"):

If you are going to use the IDE integration feature, make sure you connect to the server via a VPN -- the IDE transport is NOT secure at all.

To download the beta, go to the download page where you'll find a link to the latest beta bits.

The goal is to wrap up 2.0 for release by the end of August.

QVCS-Enterprise: Support Highlights: Problems with Ignoring Case

There is a bug in the current QVCS-Enterprise release (1.2.12) where it does not handle the 'Ignore case' project setting correctly. The symptoms are that files that you know are version controlled show up as 'Not controlled', and/or version control actions on files don't behave as you expect. The problem can occur on one workstation and not another -- if for example, the case of a filename varies from one workstation to the other.

The 1.2.13 release, which will appear at the end of July, will fix this issue.