Today we’re releasing Cornerstone 1.5 after 8 months of development and 2 months of beta testing. It’s a huge release containing numerous new features and tons of smaller improvements and refinements.
We’ve listened very carefully to input from our users since 1.1 was released and have worked hard to make Cornerstone both more powerful and easier to use. We’ve also added support for Subversion 1.6 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
The improvements made to 1.5 are listed in detail in the release notes, but the major additions are:
- Improved User Interface
Cornerstone’s user interface was redesigned to make navigation more consistent and intuitive. The new screen-based interface also makes far better use of available screen space.
- New Log View
The new log view compliments the existing timeline view by displaying a project’s log in a form similar to the output of svn‘s log command.
- New Commit View
We have made big improvements to the commit view: it’s now non-modal, files can be included and excluded, and most important of all, files can be compared right in the commit view.
- New Transcript View
The new transcript view provides progress information on operations such as updates and commits.
- New Externals Editor
1.5 now includes support for editing svn:externals properties in the form of a new dedicated externals editor.
- New Preference Pane for Subversion Configuration
The most commonly-used Subversion configuration options can now be configured within Cornerstone. Supported options include global ignores, auto properties and HTTP proxy settings.
We believe that these improvements combine to make this a substantial release, so much so that we decided it deserved the jump to version 1.5.
1.5 is a free upgrade for all 1.0 and 1.1 license holders and is available for immediate download.
A number of users have been in contact with us over the last couple of days asking about Cornerstone compatibility with the recently-released Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
First the bad news: Cornerstone 1.1 isn’t compatible with Snow Leopard.
While some users are successfully running Cornerstone on Snow Leopard, enough users are experiencing issues that our recommendation is to hold off upgrading to Snow Leopard if you need to run Cornerstone.
But the good news is that you don’t have long to wait:
We have added support for both Snow Leopard and Subversion 1.6 to the next 1.x update of Cornerstone and plan to release the new version this September.
The February Changes promotion has ended. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank the guys at Skorpiostech for their involvement in the promotion.
Cornerstone provides out-of-the-box integration with Skorpiostech‘s excellent Changes visual diff and synching application.
Extend the functionality of Cornerstone with Changes to highlight intra-line differences and interactively accept or reject edits while reviewing the modifications made to your working copy files.
Zennaware has teamed up with Skorpiostech to offer you a $10 discount on Changes if you purchase Cornerstone between 7th February and 7th March ’09.
Customers who purchase Cornerstone during this period will receive their discount code for Changes in their purchase confirmation E-mail.
Important Update
This releases contains an important fix to a regression error caused by changes made for v1.1.1 (#601). It is recommended for all Cornerstone users.
Resolved Issues
| # |
Description |
| 600 |
Application crashes with internal inconsistency exception in certain situations after entering incorrect password |
| 601 |
History is not displayed correctly for file:// repositories |
| 602 |
Repository URLs with spaces are displayed incorrectly in the recent item menu in the “Add Repository” window |
| 603 |
Error may be displayed when selecting multiple files from the history timeline for comparison |