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Release Notes
This section tracks published changes, upcoming plans, and known issues.
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Beta Status
Kimura SCM is currently in beta and should be used primarily for review and evaluation workflows. Use caution with production-critical operations, and confirm behavior in a non-critical workspace before broad adoption.
Version History
0.8.4 Beta (Latest Release)
This release includes the following improvements:
- Improved history browsing with revision paging, file details, and easier navigation from Change Lists to workspace files.
- Many Visual Client and Visual Server UI improvements across workspaces, Change Lists, Stashes, administration, preferences, file operations, themes, and localization.
- Speed optimizations to improve application responsiveness.
- Improved reliability in the Workspace changes and Live reconcile (auto-reconcile) tabs, including workspace-path and reconcile edge cases.
- Added
kscmcommands for exporting Kimura SCM skill documents.
0.8.3 Beta
Initial release of Kimura SCM.
Known Issues
| Description | Target Fix Version |
|---|---|
| Renaming or moving a directory solely by changing letter case is not currently supported. | 0.9.0 |
| When two separate processes use the same workspace and one submits changes, the other process incorrectly displays the submitted files as not latest. | 0.9.0 |
Roadmap
| Short Description | Description | Targeted Version | Release Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Localization | Add localization support across Kimura SCM interfaces and CLI output. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Linux and macOS Binary Releases | Provide binary releases of kscm-cli for Linux and macOS. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Visual Client Quality-of-Life Improvements | Improve usability across the different Visual Client tabs. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Extend Compare Capabilities | Expand compare operations across change lists, stashes, stash revisions, change list revisions, and branches. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Extend Merge Capabilities | Add support for merging a stash into a workspace and the repositories mapped to it. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Extend Merge Resolution Support | Add support for currently unavailable merge resolution cases, including reverse operations that preserve later work. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Improved Repository Map Management | Improve repository links (repository map) workflows and usability. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Inter-Branch Workflows | Add workflows and operations for working between branches. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Revision Obliteration | Add controlled revision obliteration operations for permanent removal workflows. | 0.9.0 | - |
| File Transfer Optimizations | Improve file transfer performance and reliability, especially for large and repeated sync operations. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Workspace Access Contention | Reduce contention between kscm and Visual Client processes accessing the same workspaces. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Improve Error Reporting | Return specific error details when a request fails, instead of reporting timeout for unrelated failures. | 0.9.0 | - |
| Improve Branch Management | Streamline branch creation and branch switching workflows. | 0.9.0 | - |
| File Server Cleanup | Ensure that file servers properly purge deleted repositories, branches, and attachments. | 0.9.0 | - |
Reporting Issues
When filing an issue, include: version, OS, steps to reproduce, expected vs. actual behavior, and logs/screenshots. Send reports to info@kimurascm.com.