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Eclipse IDE 2024-09 Improvements Video

• September 11, 2024 (calendar) - projects - wiki - website (New & Noteworthy) - splash screen
• Builds: latest unreleased → released (Jenkins, *.aggrcon, update sites: staging, release)
• Social media: X/Twitter, Mastodon, YouTube (Eclipse IDE playlist)

Sources

• Java, Maven, Gradle
  • Java development tools (JDT) 4.32→4.33: Eclipse 4.33 - New and Noteworthy - Java Development Tools (log), Git core UI
    • Java 23: issues
    • Drop support of Java versions older than Java 8
  • (EclEmma (Java code coverage) 3.1.9→3.1.10: changes (JaCoCo), commits, bugs)
  • M2Eclipse (Maven) 2.6.1→2.6.2: release notes, commits, issues
    • (LemMinx-Maven 0.11.1 (included via m2e): release notes, commits, issues)
  • (Buildship (Gradle) 3.1.9: review, commits, announcements)
• General
  • Platform 4.32→4.33: Eclipse 4.33 - New and Noteworthy - Platform and Equinox (log), Git UI platform
  • (Marketplace Client (MPC) 1.10.3→1.11.0: commits, issues)
  • (Mylyn (task-focused UI) 4.3.0→4.4.0: commits)
  • (Oomph 1.33→1.34: commits, issus)
  • (EPP: changelog, commits, issues)
• (JGit/EGit 6.10→7.0: wiki JGit/EGit, review JGit/EGit, commits JGit/EGit)
• Web, XML
  • Wild Web Developer 1.3.6→1.3.7: GitHub, release notes, commits
    • JavaScript/TypeScript language server ("typescript": "..."; plugins/org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper_<version>/node_modules/typescript/package.json): 5.4.5→5.5.4 releases, announcement
    • (LemMinX 0.27.0→0.28.0 (org.eclipse.lemminx ... <version>...</version>): GitHub, changelog)
    • TM4E (TextMate) 0.12.0→0.13.0: GitHub, review, releases, commits
    • (LSP4E (LSP Eclipse IDE integration) 0.26.2→0.26.4: GitHub, releases, commits, review)
    • (LSP4J (LSP Java binding) 0.23.1: GitHub, releases, commits, review)
  • (Web Tools Platform 3.34→3.35: commits JSF/JEE/Dali/Server Tools/Source Editing)
• (C/C++, PHP)
  • (CDT (C/C++) 11.6.0→11.7.0: New & Noteworthy, releases, commits, issues)
    • (Embedded CDT (C/C++ for Arm/RISC-V) 6.6.0→6.6.1: GitHub, commits, review, news)
  • (PDT (PHP) 8.2.0: issues, commits, New & Noteworthy 8.2)

Features to show

• Java (1/2) 📽️
  • Java 23 support as preview/patch via Marketplace maybe after it has been released (branch and update site exist, but composite update site is empty)
  • No support of Java versions older than Java 8 anymore (see details; in New Java Project dialog Java versions pull-down menu in reversed order: highest version on top now)
    • Update older project by going to Project > Properties: Java Compiler and hitting Apply and Close
• General/Platform (1/2) 📽️
  • Text editors
    • Find/replace overlay: enabled by default (option hidden when text editor is too small); can be disabled or moved to the bottom in the preferences General > Editors > Text Editors
    • Sticky scrolling: disabled by default; can be enabled in the preferences General > Editors > Text Editors
• Java (2/2) 📽️
  • Java editor
    • (Quick fix to change constructor type)
  • Clean-ups
    • Improved: Code Style: Convert if/else if/else chain with 3 blocks min to switch works now also for Strings and enums
    • Improved: Java Features > Java 15: Convert String concatenation to Text Block > Include StringBuffer or StringBuilder concatenations works now also without a final toString() on the StringBuffer/StringBuilder
  • (Performance)
    • (Use new IFile API IFile.readAllBytes()/readAllChars())
• General/Platform (2/2) 📽️
  • Debug
    • Possibility to pin Inspect pop-up
  • UI
    • Preview version of improved light theme
    • (Improvement to light and dark theme for Linux)
    • (Hover indicators added for tabs in views and editor - light theme and dark theme)
    • (Improvement to the existing light theme and dark theme)
    • (Dark theme: Fix color of toolbar item for macOS only (not yet fixed on Windows))
    • (Convert shared DnD icons from bmp to png and add 2x zoom variants)
    • (Code minings: unnecessary vertical spaces fixed on Windows (might be related to multi lines code minings or Draw code minings at end of line before eol character if possible))
    • (Adapt close-hovering icon for notification API)
  • (New preference to show/hide active editor name)
  • (Automatic link handler registration on macOS)
  • (Performance)
    • (Compare View for big files with Line Spacing freezes eclipse)
    • (Use InputStream.transferTo() instead of custom transfers)
    • (Speed up LocalFile.copy() by using Java-NIO's Files.copy())
    • (Replace DosHandler by a Handler calling native functions via JNA)
    • (Avoid 2nd file access on lightweightAutoRefresh)
    • (IFile.write(byte[]): reduce store.fetchInfo(), 2)
  • (Mylyn)
• Maven 📽️
  • Environment variables, system properties, etc. used in JUnit launch configurations: after editing, manually run Maven > Update Project... to update existing run configurations (documentation)
  • Embedded Maven updated from 3.9.7 to 3.9.9
• (Gradle)
• (Git)
  • (Support of X.509 signatures on commits and tags if an external GPG is used)
• Web 📽️
  • TypeScript 5.5 support
  • JavaScript/TypeScript tooling (in JavaScript enable validation via // @ts-check):
    • Regular expression syntax checking
    • Inferred type predicates
• (Under development)
  • (Windows on Arm64 (WoA): Eclipse SDK already available, but no IDE packages due to missing Eclipse Temurin JDKs (years ago done in OpenJDK in JEP 388, but no OpenJDK JDK 23 Windows/AArch64 early-access builds; Microsoft OpenJDK 21 Windows AArch64/ARM64))
  • (JDT to support javac instead of ejc driven by jdtls: incubator)
  • (Gradle: Kotlin DSL support: build.gradle.kts (does not work on Windows yet))
  • (Debug: show values inline (not yet supported in Java, JavaScript, etc.))
  • (Run/Debug As > ... right-click menu directly shows available launch configurations_: supported by JDT?)

Publish

• → As YouTube video (title prefix until release: +++Coming on September 11, 2024+++ )