Announcements

Update: Note that as of October 11/2017, Java 9 is 100% supported “out of the box” by Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition; Java 9 can be used to run your Eclipse IDE, Oxygen Edition, and can be used to build Java 9 applications without additional configuration. Download or update today. Java...

We all had such a great time at the Devoxx4Kids session in San Jose this past March that we’ve decided to try running a session here in Ottawa. The goals and mission of Devoxx4Kids is to: Teach children Computer Programming while having fun and introduce them to concepts of robotics...

Intellectual Property Policy Changes Implementation You’ve likely heard about the introduction of a new type of intellectual property (IP) due diligence for third party content. The short version is that our Type A Due Diligence involves a license certification only and our Type B Due Diligence provides our traditional license...

Our third winner in the Great Fixes for Neon skills competition is Till Brychcy. Till has used the Eclipse Java development tools (JDT) since 2003, and made his first contribution in 2013. In the time between the 2015 Mars release and today, Till has had 41 separate commits accepted by...

Our second winner in the Great Fixes for Eclipse Neon Skills Competition is Nathan Ridge. Nathan made eighty qualifying contributions to the Eclipse C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) project. Nathan uses CDT both in his day job, which involves systems programming in C++, and in personal projects, which are mostly small...

Updating to GTK3 has been a bit of a challenge. While researching this problem earlier this year, I ran across countless blog posts, and forum comments from all sorts of open source project teams that were frustrated with their own efforts to update to GTK. Some had starting making plans...

A Great Fix is a contribution provides a significant improvement in the Java development experience using Eclipse. Special consideration will be given to performance or stability improvements, and patches that improve the user experience. To qualify, a fix needs to be merged into the project repository by a committer. For...

I’m very happy to introduce the Eclipse Foundation’s newest staff member, Richard Burcher. Richard will be helping me with “project stuff”. If you take a quick look at Richard’s blog or Twitter feed, you’ll notice that he’s got a an affinity for location/geo-sorts of things in particular and open source...

Dani Megert, the project lead for the Java development tools (JDT) project made this announcement earlier today: The Eclipse top-level project is very proud to announce official support for Java 8. Starting with I20140318-0830 all Luna (4.4) builds contain the Eclipse support for Java 8. For Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) a...

It’ll be another busy week next week: I have six reviews scheduled. More on that in a bit… The decentralized nature of Git makes it so that it’s no longer possible to expect that somebody who has found your source code repository will easily find the corresponding project and sort...