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Eclipse IDE 2024-03 Improvements Video

• March 13, 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) 4.30→4.31: Eclipse 4.31 - New and Noteworthy - Java Development Tools (log), Git core UI
    • Java 22: issues
  • (EclEmma (Java code coverage) 3.1.8: changes (JaCoCo), Git, bugs)
  • M2Eclipse (Maven) 2.5.0→2.6.0: release notes, review, commits, issues
    • (LemMinx-Maven 0.11.0→0.11.1 (included via m2e): release notes, commits, issues)
  • Buildship (Gradle) 3.1.8→3.1.9: review, commits, announcements
• General
  • Platform 4.30→4.31: Eclipse 4.31 - New and Noteworthy - Platform and Equinox (log), Git UI platform
  • (Marketplace Client (MPC) 1.10.2→1.10.3: commits, issues)
  • Mylyn (task-focused UI) 4.1.0→4.2.0: commits
  • (Oomph 1.31: commits, issus)
  • (EPP: changelog, commits, issues)
• (JGit/EGit 6.8→6.9: wiki JGit/EGit, review JGit/EGit, commits JGit/EGit)
• Web, XML
  • (Wild Web Developer 1.3.3: GitHub, release notes, commits)
    • (JavaScript/TypeScript language server ("typescript": "..."; plugins/org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper_<version>/node_modules/typescript/package.json): 5.2.2 releases, announcement)
    • (LemMinX 0.27.0 (org.eclipse.lemminx ... <version>...</version>): GitHub, changelog)
    • TM4E (TextMate) 0.8.1→0.10.3: GitHub, review, releases, commits
    • (LSP4E (LSP Eclipse IDE integration) 0.24.4→0.25.0: GitHub, releases, commits, review)
    • (LSP4J (LSP Java binding) 0.21.1→0.22.0: GitHub, release, commits, review)
  • (Web Tools Platform 3.32→3.33: commits JSF/JEE/Dali/Server Tools/Source Editing)
• (C/C++, PHP)
  • (CDT (C/C++) 11.4.0→11.5.0: New & Noteworthy, releases, commits, issues)
    • (Embedded CDT (C/C++ for Arm/RISC-V) 6.4.0→6.5.0: GitHub, commits, review, news)
  • (PDT (PHP) 8.2.0→8.3.0: issues, commits, New & Noteworthy 8.2)

Features to show

• Java 📽️
  • Java 22 support as preview/patch via Marketplace maybe after it has been released (branch exists, but update site is yet empty)
  • Editor
    • New Refactoring: Make static
      • By the way, Compare Editor shows number of differences (see below)
    • Analysis of resource leaks improved with the annotations @Owning/@NotOwning
    • (Support for code completion inside text block templates: String Templates still preview feature in Java 21 (JEP 430) and Java 22 (JEP 459))
  • Formatter:
    • Switch statements/expressions: align arrows on column
  • Maven 📽️
    • Improved toolchain.xml handling: new preference Maven > User Settings: User Toolchains
    • Project preference for automated Maven project configuration updates: Automatically update Maven projects configuration
    • (Support of global and user settings in .mvn/maven.config)
    • (Improved resource linking (see also commit))
    • (Embedded and use Maven 3.9.6)
  • (Gradle)
    • (Kotlin DSL editor support via the update site https://download.eclipse.org/buildship/updates/latest/ (by Nikolai Vladimirov in the Google Summer of Code program))
  • (Performance:)
    • (Remember non-existence of files)
    • (Increase JavaModelCache)
    • (final and cache JavaElement members)
    • (O(n) StringLiteral concatenation)
    • (Less calls to isInModuleDeclaration() and reorder costly conditions)
    • (Faster TypeHierarchy)
    • (Deduplicate "eclipse" ("can be reproduced by renaming a class in Platform workspace to IPath"))
    • (Cache JARs during UI Operations: improves performance of Call-Hierarchy, Type-Hierarchy, Hover, ...)
    • (Batch reads in UI)
• General/Platform 📽️
  • Windows Defender Exclusion Check
  • Compare Editor: number of differences
  • Default editor for a content type: in preferences General > Content Types
  • Open unassociated file with Advanced Text Editor
  • UI
    • Light theme: highlighting of active editor/view: similar to dark theme
    • (On macOS, on hovering slightly different editor/view tab color)
    • Options to hide view icons: preferences General > Appearance
    • Windows 11: The text editor font defaults now to Consolas
    • Maximum number of elements to show initial in views
    • (Showing resolved workspace path in launch dialog (File > Switch Workspace > Other...))
    • (Quick Search: dialog title now with the query)
    • (Installation Details: Filter field for Features)
    • (improvement in progress bar consistency and smoothness)
  • TextMate:
    • WTP XML Classic theme
    • (Language configuration supports now also: Indentation Rules and Colorized Bracket Pairs)
  • (Language support via LSP:)
    • (Add missing keys for enabling go to next/previous annotation)
    • (Closing quick outline dialog after selection)
  • (Performance:)
    • (Linux: Speedup TreeItem retrieval by removing redundant iterations)
    • (Tree expand in reverse order)
  • (Mylyn)
• (Git)
• (Web)
• (Under development)
  • (Gradle: Kotlin DSL support: build.gradle.kts (does not work on Windows yet))
  • (Debug: show values inline (not yet supported in Java, JavaScript, etc.))
  • (Syntax highlighting and more for various languages/formats via the tm4e language pack feature)
  • (Run/Debug As > ... right-click menu directly shows available launch configurations_: supported by JDT?)

Publish

• → As YouTube video (title prefix until release: +++Coming on March 13, 2024+++ )