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| <title>Eclipse Project 4.9 - New and Noteworthy</title> |
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| <h2>Platform and Equinox</h2> |
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| <li><a href="#ViewsAndDialogs">Views, Dialogs and Toolbar</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#Preferences">Preferences</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#GeneralUpdates">General Updates</a></li> |
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| <td id="ViewsAndDialogs" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Views, Dialogs and Toolbar </h2> |
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| <tr id="minimap"> |
| <td class="title">Minimap</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The <b>Minimap</b> gives you a high level overview of the content of the current active text editor which aids in |
| navigation and better understanding of the code. |
| <p> |
| The <b>Minimap</b> view can be opened by typing "minimap" in the <b>Quick Access</b> search box.<br/> |
| It can also be opened from the <b>Window > Show View > Other...</b> menu and then selecting <b>General > Minimap</b> in the <b>Show View</b> dialog. |
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| <img src="images/minimap-show-view.png" alt="" /> |
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| Here are the screenshots of the Minimap: |
| <ul> |
| <li>In Light theme: |
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| <img src="images/minimap-in-light-theme.png" alt="" /> |
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| </li> |
| <li>In Dark theme: |
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| <img src="images/minimap-in-dark-theme.png" alt="" /> |
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| <td class="title">Project Explorer shows problem markers on project hierarchy</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| When using the <b>Projects Presentation > Hierarchical</b> mode of <b>Project Explorer</b>, the error |
| markers from child projects are now reported to the parent nodes, including the parent projects |
| and folders from other projects. |
| <p>This allows you to easily detect errors and navigate through them from the <b>Project Explorer</b> when |
| the project hierarchy is collapsed.</p> |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/markers_on_hierarchy.png" alt=""/> |
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| <td class="title">Restart Eclipse when zoom changes for primary monitor</td> |
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| When the SWT zoom changes for the primary monitor, you are prompted to restart Eclipse to apply the changes. |
| <p>On Windows 10 with <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#win10dpiawareness">dpiAwareness</a> settings enabled, a dialog to restart the Eclipse SDK is prompted as shown below:</p> |
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| <img src="images/restart_dialog_zoom_changed.png" alt="" /> |
| </p> |
| <p>Note: This feature is currently supported on Windows 10 only.</p> |
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| <td id="Preferences" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Preferences </h2> |
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| <tr id="platform-team-gsettings-migration"> |
| <td class="title">Proxy settings migrated to use GSettings instead of GConf</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The <b>Preferences > General > Network Connections</b> preference page, now uses GSettings to detect proxy settings instead of GConf. |
| <p> |
| GConf has been deprecated for several years and isn't available on some systems anymore. GSettings is the latest and up-to-date |
| method of fetching system settings from GNOME. |
| </p> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="hide-quick-access-per-default"> |
| <td class="title">Hidden flag to hide the Quick Access field by default</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| It's now possible to hide the <b>Quick Access</b> search field (located at top right) by default, by specifying the following preference: <b>org.eclipse.ui/hideQuickAccessPerDefault=true</b>. |
| <p> |
| The field can be restored by right clicking on the area it occupies and choosing the <b>Restore Hidden Toolbar Entries</b> menu item. |
| </p> |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="history-selection"> |
| <td class="title">Link History view with selection</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The <b>History</b> view is now linked with the current user selection by default. |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td id="GeneralUpdates" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>General Updates </h2> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="ant-version-upgrade"> |
| <td class="title">Ant 1.10.5</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| Eclipse has adopted Ant version 1.10.5. |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="batik-update-1.10"> |
| <td class="title">Batik 1.10 update</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The version of Batik included was updated to 1.10 to fix <a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8013">CVE-2018-8013</a>. |
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| <td class="title">Linux file system provider millisecond precision</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The native file system provider for Linux based operating system now provides millisecond precision and has improved performance. |
| The old precision provided seconds precision. It contained no millisecond component, despite being in millisecond unit. |
| The old precision can be restored by specifying the command line argument:<pre><code>-Declipse.filesystem.useNatives.modificationTimestampMillisecondsResolution=false</code></pre> |
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