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Eclipse IDE 2025-09 Improvements Video

• September 10, 2025 (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) 4.36→4.37: Eclipse 4.37 - New and Noteworthy - Java Development Tools (log), Git core UI
    • Java 25: issues core/UI, Marketplace?
  • (EclEmma (Java code coverage) 3.1.10: changes (JaCoCo), commits, bugs)
  • (M2Eclipse (Maven) 2.9.0→2.9.1: release notes, commits, issues)
    • (LemMinx-Maven 0.12.0 (included via m2e): release notes, commits, issues)
  • (Buildship (Gradle) 3.1.9→3.1.10: review, commits, announcements)
• General
  • Platform 4.36→4.37: Eclipse 4.37 - New and Noteworthy - Platform and Equinox (log), Git UI platform
  • (Marketplace Client (MPC) 1.12.1→1.13.0: commits, issues)
  • (Mylyn (task-focused UI) 4.7.0→4.8.0: commits)
  • (Oomph 1.37→1.38: commits, issus)
  • (EPP: changelog, commits, issues)
• (JGit/EGit 7.3→7.4: wiki JGit/EGit, review JGit/EGit, commits JGit/EGit)
• (Web, XML)
  • (Wild Web Developer 1.3.9→1.3.10: GitHub, release, commits)
    • (JavaScript/TypeScript language server ("typescript": "..."; plugins/org.eclipse.wildwebdeveloper_<version>/node_modules/typescript/package.json): 5.7.2→5.7.3 releases, 5.6, 5.7)
    • (LemMinX 0.28.0→0.31.0 (org.eclipse.lemminx ... <version>...</version>): GitHub, changelog)
    • (TM4E (TextMate) 0.14.1: GitHub, review, releases, commits)
    • (LSP4E (LSP Eclipse IDE integration) 0.27.4→0.27.9: GitHub, releases, commits, review)
    • (LSP4J (LSP Java binding) 0.24.0: GitHub, releases, commits, review)
  • (Web Tools Platform 3.38→3.39: commits JSF/JEE/Dali/Server Tools/Source Editing)
• (C/C++, PHP)
  • (CDT (C/C++) 12.1.0→12.2.0: New & Noteworthy, releases, commits, issues)
    • (CDT-LSP 3.2.0→3.3.0: commits, releases)
    • (Embedded CDT (C/C++ for Arm/RISC-V) 6.6.1: GitHub, commits, review, news)
  • (PDT (PHP) 8.2.0: issues, commits, New & Noteworthy 8.2)

Features to show

• Java 25 📽️
  • Java 25 support via Marketplace probably soon (branch/update site)
• General/Platform 📽️
  • Compare With > Clipboard and Replace With > Clipboard
  • Sorting functionality for Quick Search results
  • (Multi-release compilation support experimental/incubation, so better show it in the next release)
  • (UI)
    • (Toggle indicator in Windows 11 menus)
    • (Provide Search Capabilities for WebKit Browser on GTK+)
  • (Support launching with a terminal console → needs Terminal Session Support to be installed from the Eclipse project which seems not be part of this simultaneous release)
  • (Debug)
    • (Breakpoints view menu: Group By > Enablement (general improvement): see Java below)
  • (Performance)
    • (Avoid useless computation of getMatchingRegexpAssociated that uses Pattern (time consumming))
• Java 📽️
  • Java editor (1/2)
    • New quick fix: Replace deprecated field: also as clean-up Source Fixing > Replace deprecated field where possible
  • Clean-ups
    • New: Source Fixing > Replace deprecated field where possible: see above
  • Java editor (2/2)
    • Java-specific sticky scrolling
    • Folding: Support overlapping start and end markers for custom folding regions
    • (Refactor > Extract Method... dialog with options for final and synchronized)
  • Debug
    • In the Java editor, in the right ruler right-click menu: Toggle Triggerpoint and Toggle Breakpoint with Hit Count
    • Breakpoints view menu: Group By > Enablement (general/platform improvement: see above)
  • (Performance)
    • (More efficient, more modern, fast failing version of computation of the abstract contracts of an interface while deriving SAM)
  • (Maven)
  • (Gradle)
• (Git)
• (Web)
• (Under development)
  • (Initiative 31: Prototyping work for candidate technology evaluation on Eclipse SWT)
  • (JDT to support javac instead of ejc driven by jdtls: incubator, commits)
  • (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 10, 2025+++ )