Paul Roub

Hot on the heels of SourceOffSite 5.0's release, SoS 5.0.1 is out with some important bug fixes. The SoS dev and QA team put a lot of effort into getting a solid, well-tested release out in a very short time span. Nice work.

Key changes in this release:

Client

• Get latest on a folder now correctly retrieves missing files in the immediate folder.
• Project History maintains History options for "Include Files", "Include Labels", and "Labels Only" between client sessions.
• View/Edit tool has been corrected to save the settings in the User options.
• The IDE can be configured to not emit a disconnect message which may crash IDEs such as VB 6.
• The Auto connect option used from within the IDE client now connects upon opening a project.

Server

• The server corrected a problem where project history incorporating a FROM or TO label to sets the boundaries for the History results.

If you're a SourceOffSite user and haven't yet seen SoS 5… you really, really should. Looks, features, performance — this is a huge upgrade.

Remember that SourceOffSite CTP release I mentioned? It’s here. Jeff has the details if you’d like to try it out.

Why are we doing another update of SoS? Shouldn’t everybody just get away from SourceSafe and into Vault or Fortress? In a perfect world, sure.

But we know a lot of you are still living with SourceSafe, now and in the forseeable future, for all the usual reasons — time, budget, inertia, IT priorities that outrank your SCC provider. And we feel for you, and want to continue helping via SoS.

And now, we can help even more.

A folder-spanning “pending changes” window, so you don’t forget to check in one of the 50 file in your latest web update? Got that.

Multiple tabs, allowing you to keep tabs on your searches, your history, and everything else in your multitasking day? That too.

Performance? Yep. Stability? Sure. Modern UI? Gotcha.

Give it a shot (Windows only right now, BTW) and let us know what you think.

As Jeff notes at the SourceGear Development Blog, a preview release of SOS 5 is coming your way very soon.

Watch the Development Blog for details. Jeff and the team are justifiably proud of this release.