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| <h1>Eclipse Project 4.4 M4 - New and Noteworthy</h1> |
| <p>Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in milestone build M4 |
| (December 13, 2013) which is now available for <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/" target="_top">download</a>. |
| We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks, either via <b>Help > Tips and Tricks...</b> or <a href="#TipsAndTricks">here</a>. |
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| <li><a href="#Platform">Platform</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#JDT">JDT</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#PDE">PDE</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#Equinox">Equinox</a></li> |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Platform">Platform</td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><div align="left">[ <em>Not available yet</em> ]</div></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Resources</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"><div align="left">[ <em>Not available yet</em> ]</div></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">SWT</div> |
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| <td class="title">SWT requires JRE 1.5</td> |
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| SWT project has moved to Java 1.5 compliance level. SWT applications will now require JRE 1.5 or higher to run. |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Platform UI</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"><div align="left">[ <em>Not available yet</em> ]</div></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">User Assistance</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Platform Text</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Team/CVS</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Compare</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Ant</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"><div align="left">[ <em>Not available yet</em> ]</div></td> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Debug</div> |
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| <td colspan="2"><div align="left">[ <em>Not available yet</em> ]</div></td> |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="JDT">JDT</td> |
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| <td class="title">Java™ 8 feature patch</td> |
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| The Eclipse support for Java™ 8 is making very good progress. Interested parties can take a sneak preview using the following |
| <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT/Eclipse_Java_8_Support_%28BETA%29"> install instructions</a>. |
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| <td class="title">ECJ Requires 1.6 JRE</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| JDT Core project has moved to Java 1.6 compliance level. This means the command line compiler now requires JRE 1.6 or above to run. |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="PDE">PDE</td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><div align="left">[ <em>Not available yet</em> ]</div></td> |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Equinox">Equinox</td> |
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| <td class="title">Framework Trace Options</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The new OSGi framework implementation now supports many of the |
| previously supported trace options and adds a few more trace options |
| to help debug issues with the framework. The following trace options |
| are now implemented: |
| <dl> |
| <dt>debug/bundleTime</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out timing information for bundle activation</dd> |
| <dt>debug/cachedmanifest</dt> |
| <dd>Debug the caching of bundle headers</dd> |
| <dt>debug/location</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out location service debug information</dd> |
| <dt>debug/startlevel</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out start level service debug information</dd> |
| <dt>monitor/activation</dt> |
| <dd>Monitor persistent bundle activation</dd> |
| <dt>resolver/providers</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out information about matching capabilities returned to the resolver and why any were filtered out</dd> |
| <dt>resolver/hooks</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out information about capabilities or resources that were filtered by resolver hooks</dd> |
| <dt>resolver/uses</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out information about uses constraint violations</dd> |
| <dt>resolver/wiring</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out wiring information after the resolve process completes</dd> |
| <dt>resolver/report</dt> |
| <dd>Prints out the resolution report information</dd> |
| <dt>resolver</dt> |
| <dd>enables all resolver trace options</dd> |
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| <td colspan="2"> <div class="title">Template</div> |
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| <td class="title">First item</td> |
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| Item blurb. See <a href="../whats-new-template/eclipse-whats-new-template.html">instructions</a>. |
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| <p>The above features are just the ones that are new since the previous milestone |
| build. Summaries for earlier Luna milestone builds:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M3-201310302000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M3 (November 1, 2013)</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M2-201309182000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M2 (September 20, 2013)</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M1-201308072000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M1 (August 9, 2013)</a></li> |
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| <h2 id="TipsAndTricks">Tips and Tricks</h2> |
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| <li><a href="http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tips/platform_tips.html">Platform</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/tips/jdt_tips.html">JDT</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tips/pde_tips.htm?cp=4_4">PDE</a></li> |
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