Perforce polling broken. No SCM triggered build are working and CI is effectively down. Below is the perforce polling log which is seemingly puking on the use of overlapping workspace chraracter "+" which has been working for us for months..

I use a workspace similiar to

//depot/trunk/accounts-payable/... //jenkins-workspace/...
+//depot/sandboxes/smacdonald/m3/accounts-payable/... //jenkins-workspace/...

Note the "+" which is a legal character in perforce workspace and has been working fine for months up until recently.. I am unsure exactly when this started occurring, but have backed off my recent upgrade 1.426 back to 1.425 and its is still occurring. All my CI builds are currently broke.

Polling Log...

Started on Aug 17, 2011 3:27:47 PM
Looking for changes...
Using node: Jenkins
Using master perforce client: jenkins_trunk_accounts-payable
[.jenkins] $ /usr/bin/p4 workspace -o jenkins_trunk_accounts-payable
[.jenkins] $ /usr/bin/p4 counter change
[.jenkins] $ /usr/bin/p4 -s changes //jenkins_trunk_accounts-payable/...@41451,@41507
Latest submitted change selected by workspace is 41506
[.jenkins] $ /usr/bin/p4 describe -s 41506
[.jenkins] $ /usr/bin/p4 -G where //depot/sandboxes/smacdonald/m3/accounts-payable/pom.xml
ERROR: Failed to record SCM polling
java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '+' near index 0
+//depot/sandboxes/smacdonald/m3/accounts-payable/accounts-payable-db/.*
^
at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(Pattern.java:1713)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.sequence(Pattern.java:1878)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(Pattern.java:1752)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1460)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1133)
at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:823)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.doesFilenameMatchP4Pattern(PerforceSCM.java:1055)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.doesFilenameMatchAnyP4Pattern(PerforceSCM.java:1043)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.isChangelistExcluded(PerforceSCM.java:1022)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.getCurrentDepotRevisionState(PerforceSCM.java:963)
at hudson.plugins.perforce.PerforceSCM.compareRemoteRevisionWith(PerforceSCM.java:844)
at hudson.scm.SCM._compareRemoteRevisionWith(SCM.java:355)
at hudson.scm.SCM.poll(SCM.java:372)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.poll(AbstractProject.java:1324)
at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.runPolling(SCMTrigger.java:420)
at hudson.triggers.SCMTrigger$Runner.run(SCMTrigger.java:449)
at hudson.util.SequentialExecutionQueue$QueueEntry.run(SequentialExecutionQueue.java:118)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)