Changelog for Castellum

Castellum 3.6.2 (Released on Mar 9, 2024)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug with logging that was crashing on very long messages with multibyte utf8 characters

Castellum 3.6.0 (Released on Feb 9, 2023)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixes in Simple Migration Mode file is deleted and recreated with same name
Minor UI improvements (one step was looking unresponsive due to lack of UI updates)

Castellum 3.5.0 (Released on Jul 30, 2022)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixes in Simple Migration Mode when branches are moved across different folders
Support for low-resolution PCs, and other minor UI improvements

Castellum 3.3.7 (Released on Jun 28, 2022)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixes in Simple Migration Mode
New feature: allows to remap top-level folder (useful for breaking a large repo into multiple small repos, without noisy path structure)

Castellum 3.3.2 (Released on May 18, 2022)

This is a major release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Simple Migration Mode (won't rebuild moves and renames - it migrates all history but under the final file structure)
Minor Wizard-UI improvements

Castellum 3.2.6 (Released on May 12, 2022)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Pre-extraction for large files (huge performance improvement)
Minor Wizard-UI improvements

Castellum 3.2.3 (Released on Feb 2022)

This is a major rewrite. The following items were fixed and/or added:

New optional feature: Append VSS revision to each message (each vss revision will go into a single commit)
New optional feature: Do not merge check-ins
Fix: Importing a single folder was bringing some unrelated folders
Minor UI improvements
Fix: Ignore SourceSafe specific files (*.scc, *.vssscc, *.vspscc)

Castellum 3.1.2 (Released on Aug 27, 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

File revisions in branches created in destroyed folders

Castellum 3.1.1 (Released on Jun 26, 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Auto-renaming git tags for VSS labels that have identical name
Minor fix in retry dialog

Castellum 3.1.0 (Released on Jun 22, 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

New Feature: Option to create a local Git repository for the migration
New feature: Labels in folders now can be migrated as Git tags
UI is more friendly for selecting http/https/filesystem protocols
Many fixes regarding files and folders which are overwritten under different case
Fixed: added or recovered files/folders with very long paths
Fixed: folders with invalid actions were ignoring the whole folder
Fixed: folder moves
Fixed: file renames was sometimes leaving old file in filesystem
Fix: repository configs with undefined core.ignorecase / core.longpaths
Performance improvements, better progress display

Castellum 3.0.4 (Released on May 26, 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Multiple fixes regarding branched files which have its history rebuilt
Multiple fixes regarding moved files and overwrites with case differences

Castellum 3.0.2 (Released on Mar 2020)

This is a major rewrite. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Low-level libraries will read SourceSafe data even if you don't have SourceSafe installed
Rebuilds history for renames, moves, deletes (as long as file wasn't destroyed)
Now the whole repository should be exported (can't export individual folders anymore)
Trial restriction was modified: Now all revisions (up to latest) will be migrated, but some of them randomly will be overwritten by dummy contents

Castellum 2.6.1 (Released on Nov 19, 2016)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Migrates revisions up to 31/Dec/2014
Fixed for Windows Server 2003

Castellum 2.6.0 (Released on Apr 6, 2016)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

New Option "Migrate Only Before "
Enhanced logging for files with many large revisions
Code Signed (better anti-virus compatbility)

Castellum 2.5.8 (Released on Feb 16, 2016)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug: Common prefix was being incorrectly removed in a few scenarios (since 2.5.5)

Castellum 2.5.7 (Released on Jan 15, 2016)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Upgraded to LibGit2Sharp 0.8.0 (with a few bugs reported by us). Now works fine on Windows 64-bit.
Fixed bug: Labels were not being applied when common prefix was removed (since 2.5.5)

Castellum 2.5.5 (Released on Oct 12, 2015)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug that revision merging was not working when steps 2-5 were skipped (like when merging multiple repositories)

Castellum 2.5.0 (Released on May 5, 2014)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Added Offline Activation (doesn't require internet)
Fixed bug with files ending in dots. (Thanks to Pascal for reporting)
Fixed bug with invalid xml chars. (Thanks to Gregory for reporting)
Fixed bug with merging different comments in a single commit. (Thanks to Heinz for reporting)
Better timezone calculation

Castellum 2.3.2 (Released on May 9, 2013)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug with long folder paths (PathTooLongException when folder path is longer than 260 chars)
Preserving original file encoding when SourceSafe bindings are removed from CSPROJ/VBPROJ/SLN files
Fixed bug when VSS folder ends with a dot (.)
More workarounds against VSS6 bugs (like duplicated histories, and physical filenames encoding issues)
Fixed bug in some exception-handling logic
Can ignore old VSS revisions based on revision date (import only revisions after specific date)
Can ignore old VSS revisions based on number of revisions (import only latest N-th revisions for each file)

Castellum 1.0.0 (Released on Feb 21, 2012)

This is first public version

Based on Krepost 2.2.0 (all SourceSafe features)
Uses gitlib2 and gitlib2Sharp
Allow multiple exports before a single import (allows merging multiple VSS repositories, or exporting huge repositories in parts)
Support for both Source Safe 6 or Source Safe 2005 client executables (most VSS users are still using VSS6)
Can break into Admin password (in case you don't have this password)
Remove SourceSafe bindings from CSPROJ, VBPROJ, SLN files
Works on 64-bit operating systems
Works with different filename encodings
Trial limitation: all revisions up to 31-Dec-2010 are migrated
Git limitation: SourceSafe labels currently are not being imported (we are working on workarounds)
Requirements: Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0

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