Codice Software has released Plastic SCM 1.5, the new version of its SCM product. This new release is a step ahead in the product’s evolution and introduces many important new features and enhancements.

• Branch Explorer: Now developers will be able to visualize the whole project evolution using this new capability, together with the 3D version tree, in SCM data representation.
• Query System: The new query system is the mechanism provided by Plastic to locate metadata inside the different repositories in a customizable way. The Plastic SCM query system allows users to create advanced reports to highlight system usage, project statistics, detect usage patterns or simply monitor changes with a SQL-like notation.
• Improved Security System: The new 1.5 release introduces new capabilities allowing the definition of customized access rights to directory trees, greatly simplifying the security management. A new type of special user is introduced, the owner, allowing administrators and SCM managers to set special permissions to the objects’ creators.
• Merge System Improvements: The merge system has been improved for release 1.5. During the past months the development team has worked in merge performance and implemented an even better renaming support.
• SQL Server Support: Plastic SCM will continue including Firebird as default database back end, but now SQL Server support (2005 and higher) has been introduced, perfectly integrating with many companies IT infrastructure.
• PowerBuilder Integration: A number of IDE are compatible with SCC and the 1.5 release has been specifically tuned to include PowerBuilder as one of the supported platforms.
• CruiseControl Support: The release 1.5 is integrated with CruiseControl 2.7, allowing users to automate build and release tasks both with .NET and Java.
• JDeveloper Plugin: The new release introduces a JDeveloper plugin. Now both JDeveloper and Eclipse developers can benefit from a full-featured integration that will boost their productivity working together with Plastic.
• Enhanced Linux Installer: Release 1.5 introduces an enhanced Linux based installer. Now installing and setting up Plastic will be much easier on systems such as Ubuntu, SUSE and Fedora.