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 <h2>Platform and Equinox</h2>

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   <tr><td class="title">Text search speedup</td>
     <td class="content">
         Text search has been sped up by a factor 3x-4x for full workspace searches on multi-core machines.
         <p>Text search now uses the <code>JobGroup</code> API added with Eclipse 4.5 (<code>org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.JobGroup</code>) to parallelize its processing.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="macapp">
     <td class="title">Mac OS X distribution now an Application Bundle</td>
     <td class="content">
       For Mars (4.5), the Eclipse SDK for OS X is now distributed in a more standard "Mac App" format,
       instead of the "directory format" we have used in the past.
       <p id="updatecaution"><strong>CAUTION:</strong> Current Mac users can <strong>not use "update"</strong> to Mars. In fact,
       <strong>doing so will break your installation!</strong> You need to start with a fresh download.
       </p>
       <p>In the event that
       you updated before reading this, and have ended up with a broken installation, see
       <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Issues_related_to_Mac_App_installations">Issues related to Mac App installations</a>
       for the steps to recover your installation, after getting a fresh download.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="default_heap_size">
     <td class="title">Default max heap size increased to 1024 MB</td>
     <td class="content">
        To improve the "out of the box" user experience on today's modern hardware,
        the default maximum heap size (-Xmx VM argument) has been increased from 512M to 1024M.
        And the initial heap size (-Xms) has been increased from 40M to 256M.
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="open-with-dialog">
     <td class="title">Improved "Open With..." dialog</td>
     <td class="content">
       The <b>Open With &gt; Other...</b> dialog now has
       <ul>
         <li>a filter field</li>
         <li>options to remember the selected editor as default for the selected file name or type</li>
       </ul>
       <p>
         <img src="images/open-with-dialog-improved.png" alt=""/>
       </p>
 	</td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="png-icons">
     <td class="title">New icons</td>
     <td class="content">
         Many icons have been updated to PNG format, which provides better alpha blending and
         a much nicer appearance especially on darker backgrounds.
         <p>
             <img src="images/ant-icons.png" alt="Some of the new Ant images"/>
         </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="close-tabs-menus">
     <td class="title">Close Tabs to the Left/Right</td>
     <td class="content">
       The context menu of editor and view tabs now offer <b>Close Tabs to the Left</b> and <b>Close Tabs to the Right</b> menu.
       <p>
         <img src="images/close-tabs-menus.png" alt="" />
       </p>
      </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="mru-tabs">
     <td class="title">"Visible tabs shown on overflow" behavior decoupled from appearance theme</td>
     <td class="content">
       In Eclipse 4.2, the non-"Classic" themes introduced a new strategy to select the editor tabs shown
       when there's not enough screen space to show all tabs. The new strategy shows a sliding
       window of tabs in their original opening sequence, cutting off tabs at the beginning and/or end of
       the full sequence.

       <p>In classic versions of Eclipse (before 4.2, and later with a "Classic" theme), the strategy
       was to show the most recently used tabs (MRU), i.e. the "working set" of tabs you're currently using.
       </p>

       <p>The coupling of behavior with styling (themes) was found to be problematic, and the
       tab visibility has has been turned into a separate preference. See
       <b>Preferences &gt; General &gt; Appearance &gt; Show most recently used tabs</b>.
       </p>

       <p>
         <img src="images/mru-preference.png" alt="" />
       </p>

       <p>
       By default, the option is <b>disabled</b>. Users of a "Classic" theme need to enable it manually
       to keep the behavior they're used to.
       </p>

       <p>
       Plugin developers and Eclipse product owners can change via preferences whether
       the CSS theme or a user preference should control this option, and
       whether MRU should be enabled by default. The preferences are for the
       "org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt" plug-in, and the keys are:
       </p>
       <ul>
       <li>
       "MRUControlledByCSS" (default is "false"),
       </li>
       <li>
       "enableMRUDefault" (default is "false"),
       </li>
       <li>"enableMRU" (default is "false").
       </li>
       </ul>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="perspective_customization">
     <td class="title">Perspective Customization</td>
     <td class="content">
       After 3 years of absence, the <b>Customize Perspective Dialog</b> and <b>Reset Perspective</b> are back to Eclipse.
       The dialog which allows to configure the visible menu, toolbar, action sets
       and shortcuts was broken starting with Eclipse 4.2, together with the the ability to reset the perspective.
       <p>
         <img src="images/cpd_toolbar_compare_M4_M5.png" alt="Configuring toolbars" />
       </p>
       <p>
         <img src="images/cpd_menubar_compare_M4_M5.png" alt="Configuring menus" />
       </p>
       <p>
         <img src="images/cpd_actionsets_compare_M4_M5.png" alt="Configuring action sets" />
       </p>
      </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="print-button-hidden">
     <td class="title">Print button hidden by default</td>
     <td class="content">
       The <b>Print</b> button on the main toolbar is now hidden by default.
       <p>The button can be added back to the toolbar via the <b>Customize Perspective</b> dialog.
       To open this dialog, right-click on the current perspective button and select the <b>Customize...</b> menu item.
       </p>
       <p>
       In the <b>Tool Bar Visibility</b> tab, expand <b>File</b>, select <b>Print</b>, and click <b>OK</b>.
       </p>
       <p>
         <img src="images/show-print-button.png" alt="" />
       </p>
      </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="perspectivemenu">
     <td class="title">Perspective menu entries grouped</td>
     <td class="content">
       The entries related to perspectives have been grouped into one menu entry to simplify the Window menu.
           <p>
             <img src="images/perspectivemenu.png" alt="" />
           </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="ui-responsiveness-monitoring">
     <td class="title">UI responsiveness monitoring</td>
     <td class="content">
       You can enable automatic detection of periods when the Eclipse user interface is unresponsive:
           <p>
             <img src="images/ui-responsiveness-monitoring.png" alt="" />
           </p>
       <p>UI freezes longer than the warning threshold are logged to the Eclipse error log
       as warnings. The logged messages include one or more stack traces of the display
       thread. Longer UI freezes are logged as errors and include stack traces of all threads.
       Please keep in mind that capturing stack traces of all threads involves extra
       overhead, so setting the error threshold below 1 second is not recommended.</p>
       <p>A UI freeze is logged at the end of the freeze or after the deadlock threshold has
       expired, whichever comes first. The latter condition facilitates logging of indefinite
       UI freezes caused by deadlocks.</p>
       <p>Please file bugs for the UI freezes you encounter, describe what you were doing
       at the time, and include the messages from the error log related to the freeze.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="apply-git-patch">
     <td class="title">Apply Patch... wizard more resilient</td>
     <td class="content">
       Patches that have been created via "<code>git format-patch</code>" sometimes couldn't be
       applied successfully using Eclipse's <b>Team &gt; Apply Patch...</b> wizard.
       <p>
       Now, the wizard properly skips lines that are not part of an actual file diff section
       (e.g. the <code>--&crarr;2.1.1</code> that Git appends).
       </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="nested-projects">
     <td class="title">Nested/Hierarchical view of projects</td>
     <td class="content">
       The <b>Project Explorer</b> now provides the ability to view the projects in a hierarchical (a.k.a. nested) form. For modular
       projects, this allows to have your Project Explorer mapping more closely the organization of your modules as they are on the
       file system. This hierarchical view of projects often makes easier to navigate modular projects.
       <p>Hierarchical view of projects can be triggered from the <b>Project Explorer</b> view menu, under the <b>Projects Presentation</b> item.</p>
       <p>
       <img src="images/nested-projects-menu.png" alt="Hierarchical view of projects can be triggered from the Project Explorer view menu, under the Projects Presentation item"/>
       </p>
       <p>
         Then it makes the folders that are at the same location as a project replaced by the project, and the projects that are nested under
         other projects will not be shown as root elements.</p>
       <p><img src="images/nested-projects.png" alt=""/></p>
       <p>This implementation relies on the Common Navigator Framework.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="open-resource-duplicates">
     <td class="title">"Open Resource" dialog can now filter duplicate resources.</td>
     <td class="content">
     	With the new <a href="#nested-projects">Hierarchical view in the Project Explorer</a>, it has
     	become more frequent to have multiple workspace projects with overlapping resource trees.
     	The <b>Open Resource</b> dialog has been enriched with a new option to allow hiding entries that
     	reference the same underlying resource, and to show only the most relevant.
     	<p>
         	<img src="images/openresource-before-filter.png" alt=""/>
       	</p>
        	<p>
         	<img src="images/openresource-after-filter.png" alt=""/>
       	</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="rename-copy-resource-dialog">
     <td class="title">Improved rename &amp; copy resource dialogs</td>
     <td class="content">
       The <b>Rename Resource</b> dialog on resource files now pre-selects the file name without the extension.
       <p>
       <img src="images/rename-resource.png" alt=""/>
       </p>
       When you copy/paste (<b>Ctrl+C</b> / <b>Ctrl+V</b>) a file onto itself to create a duplicate,
       the proposed new name is now just the old name followed by the digit 2 (or 3, etc., if that name is already taken).
       <p>
       <img src="images/resource-paste-conflict.png" alt=""/>
       </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="workspace-location-in-prefs">
     <td class="title">Workspace location in preferences</td>
     <td class="content">
       The <b>Workspace</b> preference page now shows the current workspace path.  In addition the path can be configured to appear in the
       window title, a feature that previously was only available through the <code>-showLocation</code> command line argument.
       This argument is still in effect and overrides the preference.
       <p>
         <img src="images/workspace-in-prefs.png" alt="Show the workspace in preferences and in window title" />
       </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="darktheme-section-titlebar">
     <td class="title">Improved look for Forms based editors in the dark theme</td>
     <td class="content">
 		Using the new CSS capabilities in to style the Section, the dark theme has been improved.

 		<p>
 		The following image demonstrates the old look of the Section title bar,
 		where the title bar had a hard coded white gradient.

         </p>
        <p>
         	<img src="images/dark_theme_old_pde.png"  alt="Section in the dark theme before M5"/>
     	</p>
     	<p>
 		The following image demonstrates the new default look in the platform dark theme.
     	</p>
     	<p>
         	<img src="images/dark_theme_new_pde.png"  alt="Section in the dark theme with M5"/>
     	</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="default-gtk3">
     <td class="title">GTK+ 3 used by default on Linux distributions (when installed and available)</td>
     <td class="content">
       SWT and Eclipse will use the GTK+ 3 libraries by default on all Linux platforms,
       whenever GTK+ 3 is installed and available (including GTK+ 3.10 and above).
       <p>You can force Eclipse to use GTK+ 2 port by setting the environment
       variable <code>SWT_GTK3</code> to 0 or using the launcher parameter <code>--launcher.GTK_version</code> flag in .ini file, if needed.
       (For example: export SWT_GTK3=0) </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="gtk-supported-versions-update">
   	<td class="title">Dropped support for GTK+ versions older than 2.18 in Eclipse launcher</td>
   	<td class="content">
   		GTK+ 2.18.0 or later (and its dependencies) is now the pre-requisite to
   		run Eclipse successfully on all Linux/UNIX platforms (in Luna, this was GTK+ 2.10.0).
   		Support for all versions older than 2.18 has been dropped.
   		<p>
   			Eclipse stops with the following error dialog when a GTK+ version older than 2.18.0 is detected:
   		</p>
   		<p>
           <img src="images/gtk-version-error.png" alt="[Error dialog with only an OK button to Exit]" />
         </p>

   	</td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="terminate-all-action">
     <td class="title">'Terminate/Disconnect All' in Console view</td>
     <td class="content">
       You can invoke the <b>Terminate/Disconnect All</b> action from the Console view's context menu:
           <p>
             <img src="images/console-terminate-disconnect-all.png" alt="" />
           </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="console-word-wrap">
     <td class="title">Word wrap in the Console</td>
     <td class="content">
         A new formatting option has been contributed to the <b>Console</b> view for all I/O consoles: <b>Word Wrap</b>.
         <p>
             The new option is available on the Console view toolbar and in the content popup menu within the Console view.
         </p>
         <img src="images/word-wrap.png" alt="The new word wrap toolbar and popup menu command"/>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="scroll-lock">
     <td class="title">Automatic scroll lock in Console view</td>
     <td class="content">
 		Scrolling up in the <b>Console</b> view using keys, mouse wheel, or scroll bar now automatically enables the <b>Scroll Lock</b> mode.
 		<p>
 		When you scroll down to the end of the console, the scroll lock is automatically released again.
 		</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="console-output-limit">
     <td class="title">Console output limit</td>
     <td class="content">
 		<b>Preferences &gt; Run/Debug &gt; Console &gt; Console buffer size (characters)</b>
 		is now only limited by the amount of characters the Console view can render.
 		<p>
 		The arbitrary limit of 1 million characters has been removed.
 		</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="stdin-file">
     <td class="title">Assigning stdin to a file</td>
     <td class="content">
         Stdin can now be assigned to a file in the "Common" tab of launch configuration dialogs.
         <p>
           <img src="images/stdin-file.png" alt="" />
         </p>
     </td>
   </tr>

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	<body>
	<h2>Platform and Equinox</h2>

	<table class="news">
	<colgroup>
	<col class="title" />
	<col />
	</colgroup>
	<tbody>

	<tr><td class="title">Text search speedup</td>
	<td class="content">
	Text search has been sped up by a factor 3x-4x for full workspace searches on multi-core machines.
	<p>Text search now uses the <code>JobGroup</code> API added with Eclipse 4.5 (<code>org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.JobGroup</code>) to parallelize its processing.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="macapp">
	<td class="title">Mac OS X distribution now an Application Bundle</td>
	<td class="content">
	For Mars (4.5), the Eclipse SDK for OS X is now distributed in a more standard "Mac App" format,
	instead of the "directory format" we have used in the past.
	<p id="updatecaution"><strong>CAUTION:</strong> Current Mac users can <strong>not use "update"</strong> to Mars. In fact,
	<strong>doing so will break your installation!</strong> You need to start with a fresh download.
	</p>
	<p>In the event that
	you updated before reading this, and have ended up with a broken installation, see
	<a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Issues_related_to_Mac_App_installations">Issues related to Mac App installations</a>
	for the steps to recover your installation, after getting a fresh download.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="default_heap_size">
	<td class="title">Default max heap size increased to 1024 MB</td>
	<td class="content">
	To improve the "out of the box" user experience on today's modern hardware,
	the default maximum heap size (-Xmx VM argument) has been increased from 512M to 1024M.
	And the initial heap size (-Xms) has been increased from 40M to 256M.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="open-with-dialog">
	<td class="title">Improved "Open With..." dialog</td>
	<td class="content">
	The <b>Open With > Other...</b> dialog now has
	<ul>
	<li>a filter field</li>
	<li>options to remember the selected editor as default for the selected file name or type</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
	<img src="images/open-with-dialog-improved.png" alt=""/>
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="png-icons">
	<td class="title">New icons</td>
	<td class="content">
	Many icons have been updated to PNG format, which provides better alpha blending and
	a much nicer appearance especially on darker backgrounds.
	<p>
	<img src="images/ant-icons.png" alt="Some of the new Ant images"/>
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="close-tabs-menus">
	<td class="title">Close Tabs to the Left/Right</td>
	<td class="content">
	The context menu of editor and view tabs now offer <b>Close Tabs to the Left</b> and <b>Close Tabs to the Right</b> menu.
	<p>
	<img src="images/close-tabs-menus.png" alt="" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="mru-tabs">
	<td class="title">"Visible tabs shown on overflow" behavior decoupled from appearance theme</td>
	<td class="content">
	In Eclipse 4.2, the non-"Classic" themes introduced a new strategy to select the editor tabs shown
	when there's not enough screen space to show all tabs. The new strategy shows a sliding
	window of tabs in their original opening sequence, cutting off tabs at the beginning and/or end of
	the full sequence.

	<p>In classic versions of Eclipse (before 4.2, and later with a "Classic" theme), the strategy
	was to show the most recently used tabs (MRU), i.e. the "working set" of tabs you're currently using.
	</p>

	<p>The coupling of behavior with styling (themes) was found to be problematic, and the
	tab visibility has has been turned into a separate preference. See
	<b>Preferences > General > Appearance > Show most recently used tabs</b>.
	</p>

	<p>
	<img src="images/mru-preference.png" alt="" />
	</p>

	<p>
	By default, the option is <b>disabled</b>. Users of a "Classic" theme need to enable it manually
	to keep the behavior they're used to.
	</p>

	<p>
	Plugin developers and Eclipse product owners can change via preferences whether
	the CSS theme or a user preference should control this option, and
	whether MRU should be enabled by default. The preferences are for the
	"org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt" plug-in, and the keys are:
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li>
	"MRUControlledByCSS" (default is "false"),
	</li>
	<li>
	"enableMRUDefault" (default is "false"),
	</li>
	<li>"enableMRU" (default is "false").
	</li>
	</ul>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="perspective_customization">
	<td class="title">Perspective Customization</td>
	<td class="content">
	After 3 years of absence, the <b>Customize Perspective Dialog</b> and <b>Reset Perspective</b> are back to Eclipse.
	The dialog which allows to configure the visible menu, toolbar, action sets
	and shortcuts was broken starting with Eclipse 4.2, together with the the ability to reset the perspective.
	<p>
	<img src="images/cpd_toolbar_compare_M4_M5.png" alt="Configuring toolbars" />
	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/cpd_menubar_compare_M4_M5.png" alt="Configuring menus" />
	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/cpd_actionsets_compare_M4_M5.png" alt="Configuring action sets" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="print-button-hidden">
	<td class="title">Print button hidden by default</td>
	<td class="content">
	The <b>Print</b> button on the main toolbar is now hidden by default.
	<p>The button can be added back to the toolbar via the <b>Customize Perspective</b> dialog.
	To open this dialog, right-click on the current perspective button and select the <b>Customize...</b> menu item.
	</p>
	<p>
	In the <b>Tool Bar Visibility</b> tab, expand <b>File</b>, select <b>Print</b>, and click <b>OK</b>.
	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/show-print-button.png" alt="" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="perspectivemenu">
	<td class="title">Perspective menu entries grouped</td>
	<td class="content">
	The entries related to perspectives have been grouped into one menu entry to simplify the Window menu.
	<p>
	<img src="images/perspectivemenu.png" alt="" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="ui-responsiveness-monitoring">
	<td class="title">UI responsiveness monitoring</td>
	<td class="content">
	You can enable automatic detection of periods when the Eclipse user interface is unresponsive:
	<p>
	<img src="images/ui-responsiveness-monitoring.png" alt="" />
	</p>
	<p>UI freezes longer than the warning threshold are logged to the Eclipse error log
	as warnings. The logged messages include one or more stack traces of the display
	thread. Longer UI freezes are logged as errors and include stack traces of all threads.
	Please keep in mind that capturing stack traces of all threads involves extra
	overhead, so setting the error threshold below 1 second is not recommended.</p>
	<p>A UI freeze is logged at the end of the freeze or after the deadlock threshold has
	expired, whichever comes first. The latter condition facilitates logging of indefinite
	UI freezes caused by deadlocks.</p>
	<p>Please file bugs for the UI freezes you encounter, describe what you were doing
	at the time, and include the messages from the error log related to the freeze.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="apply-git-patch">
	<td class="title">Apply Patch... wizard more resilient</td>
	<td class="content">
	Patches that have been created via "<code>git format-patch</code>" sometimes couldn't be
	applied successfully using Eclipse's <b>Team > Apply Patch...</b> wizard.
	<p>
	Now, the wizard properly skips lines that are not part of an actual file diff section
	(e.g. the <code>--&crarr;2.1.1</code> that Git appends).
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="nested-projects">
	<td class="title">Nested/Hierarchical view of projects</td>
	<td class="content">
	The <b>Project Explorer</b> now provides the ability to view the projects in a hierarchical (a.k.a. nested) form. For modular
	projects, this allows to have your Project Explorer mapping more closely the organization of your modules as they are on the
	file system. This hierarchical view of projects often makes easier to navigate modular projects.
	<p>Hierarchical view of projects can be triggered from the <b>Project Explorer</b> view menu, under the <b>Projects Presentation</b> item.</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/nested-projects-menu.png" alt="Hierarchical view of projects can be triggered from the Project Explorer view menu, under the Projects Presentation item"/>
	</p>
	<p>
	Then it makes the folders that are at the same location as a project replaced by the project, and the projects that are nested under
	other projects will not be shown as root elements.</p>
	<p><img src="images/nested-projects.png" alt=""/></p>
	<p>This implementation relies on the Common Navigator Framework.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="open-resource-duplicates">
	<td class="title">"Open Resource" dialog can now filter duplicate resources.</td>
	<td class="content">
	With the new <a href="#nested-projects">Hierarchical view in the Project Explorer</a>, it has
	become more frequent to have multiple workspace projects with overlapping resource trees.
	The <b>Open Resource</b> dialog has been enriched with a new option to allow hiding entries that
	reference the same underlying resource, and to show only the most relevant.
	<p>
	<img src="images/openresource-before-filter.png" alt=""/>
	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/openresource-after-filter.png" alt=""/>
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="rename-copy-resource-dialog">
	<td class="title">Improved rename & copy resource dialogs</td>
	<td class="content">
	The <b>Rename Resource</b> dialog on resource files now pre-selects the file name without the extension.
	<p>
	<img src="images/rename-resource.png" alt=""/>
	</p>
	When you copy/paste (<b>Ctrl+C</b> / <b>Ctrl+V</b>) a file onto itself to create a duplicate,
	the proposed new name is now just the old name followed by the digit 2 (or 3, etc., if that name is already taken).
	<p>
	<img src="images/resource-paste-conflict.png" alt=""/>
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="workspace-location-in-prefs">
	<td class="title">Workspace location in preferences</td>
	<td class="content">
	The <b>Workspace</b> preference page now shows the current workspace path. In addition the path can be configured to appear in the
	window title, a feature that previously was only available through the <code>-showLocation</code> command line argument.
	This argument is still in effect and overrides the preference.
	<p>
	<img src="images/workspace-in-prefs.png" alt="Show the workspace in preferences and in window title" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="darktheme-section-titlebar">
	<td class="title">Improved look for Forms based editors in the dark theme</td>
	<td class="content">
	Using the new CSS capabilities in to style the Section, the dark theme has been improved.

	<p>
	The following image demonstrates the old look of the Section title bar,
	where the title bar had a hard coded white gradient.

	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/dark_theme_old_pde.png" alt="Section in the dark theme before M5"/>
	</p>
	<p>
	The following image demonstrates the new default look in the platform dark theme.
	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/dark_theme_new_pde.png" alt="Section in the dark theme with M5"/>
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="default-gtk3">
	<td class="title">GTK+ 3 used by default on Linux distributions (when installed and available)</td>
	<td class="content">
	SWT and Eclipse will use the GTK+ 3 libraries by default on all Linux platforms,
	whenever GTK+ 3 is installed and available (including GTK+ 3.10 and above).
	<p>You can force Eclipse to use GTK+ 2 port by setting the environment
	variable <code>SWT_GTK3</code> to 0 or using the launcher parameter <code>--launcher.GTK_version</code> flag in .ini file, if needed.
	(For example: export SWT_GTK3=0) </p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="gtk-supported-versions-update">
	<td class="title">Dropped support for GTK+ versions older than 2.18 in Eclipse launcher</td>
	<td class="content">
	GTK+ 2.18.0 or later (and its dependencies) is now the pre-requisite to
	run Eclipse successfully on all Linux/UNIX platforms (in Luna, this was GTK+ 2.10.0).
	Support for all versions older than 2.18 has been dropped.
	<p>
	Eclipse stops with the following error dialog when a GTK+ version older than 2.18.0 is detected:
	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/gtk-version-error.png" alt="[Error dialog with only an OK button to Exit]" />
	</p>

	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="terminate-all-action">
	<td class="title">'Terminate/Disconnect All' in Console view</td>
	<td class="content">
	You can invoke the <b>Terminate/Disconnect All</b> action from the Console view's context menu:
	<p>
	<img src="images/console-terminate-disconnect-all.png" alt="" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="console-word-wrap">
	<td class="title">Word wrap in the Console</td>
	<td class="content">
	A new formatting option has been contributed to the <b>Console</b> view for all I/O consoles: <b>Word Wrap</b>.
	<p>
	The new option is available on the Console view toolbar and in the content popup menu within the Console view.
	</p>
	<img src="images/word-wrap.png" alt="The new word wrap toolbar and popup menu command"/>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="scroll-lock">
	<td class="title">Automatic scroll lock in Console view</td>
	<td class="content">
	Scrolling up in the <b>Console</b> view using keys, mouse wheel, or scroll bar now automatically enables the <b>Scroll Lock</b> mode.
	<p>
	When you scroll down to the end of the console, the scroll lock is automatically released again.
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="console-output-limit">
	<td class="title">Console output limit</td>
	<td class="content">
	<b>Preferences > Run/Debug > Console > Console buffer size (characters)</b>
	is now only limited by the amount of characters the Console view can render.
	<p>
	The arbitrary limit of 1 million characters has been removed.
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="stdin-file">
	<td class="title">Assigning stdin to a file</td>
	<td class="content">
	Stdin can now be assigned to a file in the "Common" tab of launch configuration dialogs.
	<p>
	<img src="images/stdin-file.png" alt="" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

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