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P4 Admin Documentation | 2025.2

# What's new in P4 Admin

P4 Admin includes the following key features and enhancements. For a complete list of what’s new and bug fixes in this release, see the release notes.

## 2025.2

Released: June 2025

### Helix Core is now P4

Perforce has a new look and logo that reflects our place in DevOps workflows. As part of these changes, Helix Core is now P4. Name updates and new icons to align with the P4 branding will be rolled out soon. To learn more, seeRe-Introducing P4.

### Automatically log out users based on inactivity

For increased security, automatically log out users from P4 Server based on inactivity. This minimizes security risk while a ticket is still valid and a user leaves their computer. If an authenticated user remains active, the session is not interrupted when a ticket expires. To set the duration before log out, in the Group dialog box, set the Duration before idle session times out (seconds) value.

To learn more, see Idle server timeout.

### Improved user filtering with comma-separated names and browse option

To filter users on the Users and Groups tab, you can now enter a list of usernames separated by commas to more efficiently refine the results. To search for and select users without manually entering names, click Browse.

To learn more, see Search and filter.

### Support for additional security levels

For enhanced security, set additional P4 Server security levels that were previously unavailable in P4 Admin. To learn more, see About the P4 Admin Home page.

### What’s new in other P4 clients

To learn about what’s new in other P4 clients, see the following information:

- P4V

- P4 CLI

- P4 Merge

### Supported product versions and end-of-life information

To take advantage of new product features and improvements, and to ensure that your product is supported, install a current version. For a list of supported product versions, along with maintenance and end-of-life (EOL) information, see P4 End-of-Life (EOL) Schedule - Clients.

## 2025.1

- Enhanced the disk space usage with a new visual representation of disk usage with bar graphs for each mount point. The 'Mount Points' labels directly correspond to the detailed 'Mountpoint' values in the accompanying table, providing clear disk usage information. To learn more, see About the P4 Admin Home page.

- Users and groups can now be filtered by combining properties, operators, and search strings, or by specifying dates to find the exact users and groups you need. To learn more, see Manage users and groups.

## 2024.4

- The Topology feature has been promoted from Technology Preview and is now fully supported when connected to a P4 Server 2024.2 (or later). To learn more, see View Topology.

## 2024.3

The Configurables tab has a column called "Categories" that allow you to know which aspect it might affect, such as security or performance. You can also filter by a category. Also, if you are the P4 Cloud administrator, you can edit certain configurables. To learn more, see Manage configurables.

## 2024.2

- Support for saving Topology data to a file. See View Topology.

- If you have an annual subscription to P4, the P4 Admin Home page shows the date when your contract for product support will end, which is not necessarily the same as when your product license will end. See About the P4 Admin Home page.

- To make it easier to log in to P4 Admin, you have the option of temporarily showing the password in plain text. See Connect to a server.

## 2024.1

P4 Cloud is a solution for administration that affects the information displayed on the Home page of P4 Admin. See About the P4 Admin Home page.

## 2023.4

The Configurables tab enables you to manage configurables and environment variables without having to use the command line. See View Topology.

## 2023.3

- To analyze the set of P4 Server commands that result from a single user action in P4V, see About command groups.

## 2023.2

- The P4 Admin Home tab posts alerts about the limits on files, users, or workspaces of an unlicensed P4 Server, so your use of the free license can progress smoothly to a full license.

- The administrator can set P4 Server properties that override the P4V user's preferences in

  - Behavior > Warning before checking out files, if the number of files exceeds ...

  - Behavior > Warning before marking files for delete, if the number of files exceeds ...

  - Behavior > Warning before removing files from workspace, if the number of files exceeds ...

  To learn more, see Miscellaneous P4V properties in the P4 Server Administration Documentation.

## 2023.1

This release of P4 Admin has been upgraded to use the Qt6 Framework. This allows us to officially support additional platforms, among them is support for Windows 11 and the availability of Universal builds for macOS. These will provide native support for arm64 processor platforms as well as Intel platforms.

## 2022.3

- Support for limiting how much Server memory a command can use. See Group settings and limits.

- To help your organization avoid unwanted downtime, starting seven (7) days before the license expires, the P4 administrator is notified of the expiration date when logging in to the Server. The user with the `super` access level might have modified this default behavior to a different number of days, or to warn all users, or to warn no users. This depends on the settings of the `auth.licenseexpiry.warn` and `auth.licenseexpiry.warnthreshold` configurables in the P4 CLI Reference.

## 2022.2

- You can add a description to a group when you create the group (or later). Such descriptions can be useful if you have many groups. You also have the option of providing LDAP values for the group. See Create a group.

- View Topology offers filters for IP addresses and points in time. Also, your rearrangement of the nodes in the graph persist the next time you open P4 Admin.

- Connections preference allows you to specify the interval to attempt to reconnect with the server if the connection was broken.

## 2022.1

- When you Create a depot, the default depot type is `stream` instead of `local`.

- The View Topology includes a Copy data to clipboard button.

## 2021.4

View Topology to view information about your connected servers.

## 2021.3

No new features for this release.

## 2021.2

You can now obliterate files in task streams.

## 2021.1

"Applets" for P4V and P4 Admin are no longer supported. This is because the P4V WebKit-based P4JsApi (the JavaScript API for Visual Tools) has been officially retired. It is replaced by P4VJS, which is a WebEngine-based solution that supports HTML5. To learn more, see P4V API for JavaScript Documentation and P4V API for JavaScript Conversion Documentation.

## 2020.2

- P4 Admin enables you to develop added functionality. See About HTML Tools.

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