Declare 4.26 RC2

[akurtakov]

A "go" is needed from all the components below to declare this milestone.

Current Candidate

Eclipse downloads:
https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20221123-1800

Build logs and/or test results (eventually):
https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20221123-1800/testResults.php

Software site repository:
https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.26-I-builds

Specific (simple) site repository:
https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.26-I-builds/I20221123-1800

Equinox downloads:
https://download.eclipse.org/equinox/drops/I20221123-1800

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Deadlines:

• Friday, 2022-November-25, around 1 AM (Eastern): deadline for sign-off (or, by then, comment in this issue when you expect to sign-off).
• Friday, 2022-November-25, around 3 AM (Eastern): promote approved build to S-4.26RC2-*, contribute to simultaneous release repo, and announce to mailing lists.

Remember to investigate and document here any failing JUnit tests.

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• Platform:

• • Resources
• • UI
• • Debug
• • Ant
• • SWT
• • Releng

• JDT:

• • Core
• • Debug
• • UI

• PDE

• Equinox

[SarikaSinha]

Go from

Platform

• Ant
• Debug

JDT

• Debug

JDT Debug failure is tracked by

• OpenFromClipboardTests still randomly fail eclipse-jdt/eclipse.jdt.debug#28

[sravanlakkimsetti]

Go from platform releng

[vik-chand]

Go from PDE

Intermittent test failures are tracked by

• Intermittent failures in WorkspaceModelManagerTest eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde#300
• org.eclipse.pde.api.tools.builder.tests.compatibility.BundleMergeSplitTests fails eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde#261

[noopur2507]

Go from JDT UI.

[ktatavarthi]

Go from Platform UI

Windows test failure is captured by

• JUnit tests in org.eclipse.jface.text.tests.contentassist are failing on Windows and Mac eclipse.platform.ui#890

[lshanmug]

Go from SWT

The Browser crash issue on the new macOS 13 is tracked by eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt#452. It currently looks like an Apple/Webkit issue and is being investigated by Webkit.

[akurtakov]

No Equinox, JDT Core and Platform Resources sign offs so I'm proceeding without them. Only failing test in these components tests is org.eclipse.jdt.core.tests.model.EncodingTests#test021 and on windows only. If you find some major issue please come up with PR and ask PMC for respin.

[akurtakov]

Promoted, contributed and announced.