What’s new in P4 Server administration in 2025.1

For a complete list of what’s new in this release, see the Release notes and What’s new in the Helix Core Command-Line (P4) Reference.

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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, see Re-Introducing P4.

Improved replication

Added replication support to improve the delta transfer of large, uncompressed binary files. To learn more, see Delta Transfer of large binary files.
To improve replica communication transparency and monitoring, the track.log file now includes the unique identifier for a command and command group for the p4 -ztag monitor -e command. This requires setting the server configurable to 4 or higher. To learn more, see p4 monitor.

More flexible S3 authentication

For more flexible S3 authentication, when you S3 storage for archive depots two additional modes of authentication are supported: the ~/.aws/credentials .ini file and the EC2 metadata endpoint.