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 <h1>Eclipse Project 4.5 M5 - New and Noteworthy</h1>
 <p>Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in the Mars milestone build M5 (2015-01-30)
   which is now available for <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/#4.5_Stable_Build" target="_top">download</a>.
   <br/>
   We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks, either via <b>Help &gt; Tips and Tricks...</b> or online for
   <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tips/platform_tips.html">Platform</a>,
   <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/tips/jdt_tips.html">JDT</a>, and
   <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tips/pde_tips.htm">PDE</a>.
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 <ul>
   <li><a href="#Platform">Platform</a></li>
   <li><a href="#PDE">PDE</a></li>
 </ul>

 <table class="news" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="80%">

   <tr>
     <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Platform">Platform</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>
       <p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=420956">bug 420956</a>.</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 align="middle" 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 align="middle" src="images/nested-projects.png" alt=""/></p>
       <p>This implementation relies on the Common Navigator Framework.</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="css-section-prop">
     <td class="title">New CSS properties for the Section title bar</td>
     <td class="content">
 		The Forms Section title bar can now be styled with special CSS properties for a Section:
 		<p>
         	<img src="images/section_css.png"  alt="CSS for Section"/>
     	</p>
     	<p>
     		By using the same color for the background-color-titlebar and
     		background-color-gradient-titlebar CSS property,
     		like in the sample above, you get a solid background color.
     	</p>
         <p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=431635">bug 431635</a>.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>
    <tr id="css-section-multiple">
     <td class="title">Support for multiple style sheet rules for the same selector</td>
     <td class="content">
 		The CSS engines now scans all style sheets and combines all matching rules into a common style. This allows plug-ins to override previously defined styles:
 		<p>
         	<img src="images/css_override.png"  alt="CSS override"/>
     	</p>
         <p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458342">bug 458342</a>.</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 M5 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>
         <p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430205">bug 430205</a>.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

    <tr id="help-service">
     <td class="title">Provisional EHelpService service</td>
     <td class="content">
 		M5 provides the provisional help service <code>EHelpService</code> in the <code>IEclipseContext</code>.
 		<code>EHelpService</code> is a thin wrapper to the <code>WorkbenchHelpSystem</code> in the Eclipse IDE and allows customers to
 		provide their custom implementation in Eclipse RCP applications.
     </td>
   </tr>

     <tr id="uimonitoring_deadlock">
     <td class="title">Improved reporting of UI freezes and potential deadlocks</td>
     <td class="content">
       The interactive UI monitoring reporting has been improved to provide better error messages in case of
       potential deadlocks.
       <p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458311">bug 458311</a>.</p>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="message_registry">
     <td class="title">Message registry</td>
     <td class="content">
     	Added support for binding control attributes for localization to a value of a messages class.
     	By using such a binding, the dynamic update of widgets due to locale changes at runtime  (<i>Eclipse Translation Pattern</i>)
     	gets easier to implement, since the localized widgets (e.g. <code>Labels</code>, <code>Buttons</code>, etc.)
 		are managed by the message registry.
     	<p>
     	To use the message binding for a messages class named <code>MyMessages</code>, you need to create a specialized
     	<code>BaseMessageRegistry</code> class like shown below:
     	</p>
     	<pre>@Creatable
 public class MyMessageRegistry extends BaseMessageRegistry&lt;MyMessages&gt; {

 	@Override
 	@Inject
 	public void updateMessages(@Translation MyMessages messages) {
 		super.updateMessages(messages);
 	}
 }</pre>
     	<p>
     	It can then be used like this:
     	</p>
     	<pre>@Inject
 MyMessageRegistry registry;

 @PostConstruct
 public void init(Composite parent) {
 	Label myFirstLabel = new Label(parent, SWT.WRAP);
 	Label mySecondLabel = new Label(parent, SWT.NONE);
 	Label myThirdLabel = new Label(parent, SWT.NONE);

 	// bind myFirstLabel via method reference
 	registry.register(myFirstLabel::setText, (m) -> m.firstLabelMessage);
 	// bind mySecondLabel via method name
 	registry.register(mySecondLabel, "setText", "secondLabelMe
 	ssage");
 	// bind myThirdLabel via property name
 	registry.registerProperty(myThirdLabel, "text", "thirdLabelMessage");
 }</pre>
     	<p>
     	The <code>BaseMessageRegistry</code> supports bindings for Java version before Java 8.
     	</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <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>
     	<p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=441016">bug 441016</a>.</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="transparent-bg">
   <td class="title">Transparent background for Control</td>
     <td class="content">
     	SWT has added support to set a <code>Control</code>'s background as transparent. The <code>Color</code> class now supports specifying an alpha value (integer: 0 to 255) for transparency.
     	Calling <code>Control#setBackground(Color color)</code> with a transparent color (color with alpha value '0'), sets the control's background as transparent.
 		<p><b>List of new classes and APIs:</b></p>
 		<ul>
 			<li>Class: <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics.RGBA</code></li>
 			<li>Constant: <code>SWT.COLOR_TRANSPARENT</code> - This is a default transparent color</li>
 			<li>Methods added in <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color</code></li>
 			<li><ul>
 				<li><code>public Color (Device device, int red, int green, int blue, int alpha)</code></li>
 				<li><code>public Color (Device device, RGB rgb, int alpha)</code></li>
 				<li><code>public Color (Device device, RGBA rgba)</code></li>
 				<li><code>public RGBA getRGBA </code>()</li>
 				<li><code>public int getAlpha ()</code></li>
 			</ul></li>
 		</ul>
 		<p><b>Note:</b></p>
     	<ul>
     		<li>Currently, SWT honors only extreme values for alpha i.e, '0'(transparent) or '255'(opaque).</li>
     		<li>Setting transparent background color fails for some controls on all platforms, they show the default background color instead. For e.g. Text, Combo.</li>
     		<li>Setting transparent background color for some controls works on GTK3 only, it fails on other platforms. For e.g. Table, Tree.</li>
     	</ul>
 		For an example on using the new APIs, see <a href="http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet365.java">Snippet365</a>.
 		<p>
 			<b>Snippet365 in action</b> (Controls with <code>SWT.COLOR_TRANSPARENT</code> background and Shell with gradient background image)
 		</p>
 		<p>
         	<img src="images/transparent_control_background.png" alt="Transparent Background on Control widgets" />
       	</p>
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr id="swt-tools">
     <td class="title">SWT Tools</td>
     <td class="content">
 		<a href="https://www.eclipse.org/swt/tools.php">SWT Tools</a> are now available in the Eclipse Platform p2 repository.
 		SWT Tools provides tools for developing SWT itself (JNIGen) but also general purpose tools like  <b>Sleak</b>
 		(monitors the creation and disposal of SWT graphics resources) and <b>SWT Spy</b> (prints out information like style, layout and parent
 		about the widget under the cursor).
     </td>
   </tr>

   <tr>
     <td colspan="2" class="section" id="PDE">PDE</td>
   </tr>

   	<tr id="pde-target-editor-reload">
     <td class="title">Reload button added in target editor </td>
     <td class="content">
        In the <b>Target Editor</b>, on the <b>Locations</b> section, there is a reload button that clears the cached
        p2 profile and then resolves the target. This button is helpful in scenarios where the target editor is left in inconsistent
        state due to issues like unstable network connection.
       <p>
         <img src="images/pde-target-editor-reload-button.png" alt="Target Editor Reload Button"/>
       </p>
     </td>
   	</tr>


   	 <tr id="pde-perspective-open-view">
     <td class="title"> Show view in plug-in perspective has changed </td>
     <td class="content">
        In the <b>Plug-in Development Perspective</b>, the default <b>Show View menu</b> now has
       <p>
         <img src="images/pde-45M5-showViewInPDEPerspective.png" alt="Show View in PDE Perspective 45M5"/>
       </p>

        In contrast, the default Show View menu earlier had
       <p>
         <img src="images/pde-45M4orbefore-showViewInPDEPerspective.png" alt="Show View in PDE Perspective 45M4 or before"/>
       </p>


     </td>
   	</tr>


   <tr>
     <td colspan="2"/>
   </tr>
 </table>
 <p>The above features are just the ones that are new since the previous milestone
 build. Summaries for earlier Mars milestone builds:</p>
 <ul>
   <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M4/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M4</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M3/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M3</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M2/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M2</a></li>
   <li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M1/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M1</a></li>
 </ul>
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	<body>
	<h1>Eclipse Project 4.5 M5 - New and Noteworthy</h1>
	<p>Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in the Mars milestone build M5 (2015-01-30)
	which is now available for <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/#4.5_Stable_Build" target="_top">download</a>.
	<br/>
	We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks, either via <b>Help > Tips and Tricks...</b> or online for
	<a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tips/platform_tips.html">Platform</a>,
	<a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/tips/jdt_tips.html">JDT</a>, and
	<a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tips/pde_tips.htm">PDE</a>.
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="#Platform">Platform</a></li>
	<li><a href="#PDE">PDE</a></li>
	</ul>

	<table class="news" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="80%">

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2" class="section" id="Platform">Platform</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>
	<p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=420956">bug 420956</a>.</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 align="middle" 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 align="middle" src="images/nested-projects.png" alt=""/></p>
	<p>This implementation relies on the Common Navigator Framework.</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="css-section-prop">
	<td class="title">New CSS properties for the Section title bar</td>
	<td class="content">
	The Forms Section title bar can now be styled with special CSS properties for a Section:
	<p>
	<img src="images/section_css.png" alt="CSS for Section"/>
	</p>
	<p>
	By using the same color for the background-color-titlebar and
	background-color-gradient-titlebar CSS property,
	like in the sample above, you get a solid background color.
	</p>
	<p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=431635">bug 431635</a>.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>
	<tr id="css-section-multiple">
	<td class="title">Support for multiple style sheet rules for the same selector</td>
	<td class="content">
	The CSS engines now scans all style sheets and combines all matching rules into a common style. This allows plug-ins to override previously defined styles:
	<p>
	<img src="images/css_override.png" alt="CSS override"/>
	</p>
	<p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458342">bug 458342</a>.</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 M5 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>
	<p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=430205">bug 430205</a>.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="help-service">
	<td class="title">Provisional EHelpService service</td>
	<td class="content">
	M5 provides the provisional help service <code>EHelpService</code> in the <code>IEclipseContext</code>.
	<code>EHelpService</code> is a thin wrapper to the <code>WorkbenchHelpSystem</code> in the Eclipse IDE and allows customers to
	provide their custom implementation in Eclipse RCP applications.
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="uimonitoring_deadlock">
	<td class="title">Improved reporting of UI freezes and potential deadlocks</td>
	<td class="content">
	The interactive UI monitoring reporting has been improved to provide better error messages in case of
	potential deadlocks.
	<p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458311">bug 458311</a>.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="message_registry">
	<td class="title">Message registry</td>
	<td class="content">
	Added support for binding control attributes for localization to a value of a messages class.
	By using such a binding, the dynamic update of widgets due to locale changes at runtime (<i>Eclipse Translation Pattern</i>)
	gets easier to implement, since the localized widgets (e.g. <code>Labels</code>, <code>Buttons</code>, etc.)
	are managed by the message registry.
	<p>
	To use the message binding for a messages class named <code>MyMessages</code>, you need to create a specialized
	<code>BaseMessageRegistry</code> class like shown below:
	</p>
	<pre>@Creatable
	public class MyMessageRegistry extends BaseMessageRegistry<MyMessages> {

	@Override
	@Inject
	public void updateMessages(@Translation MyMessages messages) {
	super.updateMessages(messages);
	}
	}</pre>
	<p>
	It can then be used like this:
	</p>
	<pre>@Inject
	MyMessageRegistry registry;

	@PostConstruct
	public void init(Composite parent) {
	Label myFirstLabel = new Label(parent, SWT.WRAP);
	Label mySecondLabel = new Label(parent, SWT.NONE);
	Label myThirdLabel = new Label(parent, SWT.NONE);

	// bind myFirstLabel via method reference
	registry.register(myFirstLabel::setText, (m) -> m.firstLabelMessage);
	// bind mySecondLabel via method name
	registry.register(mySecondLabel, "setText", "secondLabelMe
	ssage");
	// bind myThirdLabel via property name
	registry.registerProperty(myThirdLabel, "text", "thirdLabelMessage");
	}</pre>
	<p>
	The <code>BaseMessageRegistry</code> supports bindings for Java version before Java 8.
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<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>
	<p>For more information see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=441016">bug 441016</a>.</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="transparent-bg">
	<td class="title">Transparent background for Control</td>
	<td class="content">
	SWT has added support to set a <code>Control</code>'s background as transparent. The <code>Color</code> class now supports specifying an alpha value (integer: 0 to 255) for transparency.
	Calling <code>Control#setBackground(Color color)</code> with a transparent color (color with alpha value '0'), sets the control's background as transparent.
	<p><b>List of new classes and APIs:</b></p>
	<ul>
	<li>Class: <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics.RGBA</code></li>
	<li>Constant: <code>SWT.COLOR_TRANSPARENT</code> - This is a default transparent color</li>
	<li>Methods added in <code>org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color</code></li>
	<li><ul>
	<li><code>public Color (Device device, int red, int green, int blue, int alpha)</code></li>
	<li><code>public Color (Device device, RGB rgb, int alpha)</code></li>
	<li><code>public Color (Device device, RGBA rgba)</code></li>
	<li><code>public RGBA getRGBA </code>()</li>
	<li><code>public int getAlpha ()</code></li>
	</ul></li>
	</ul>
	<p><b>Note:</b></p>
	<ul>
	<li>Currently, SWT honors only extreme values for alpha i.e, '0'(transparent) or '255'(opaque).</li>
	<li>Setting transparent background color fails for some controls on all platforms, they show the default background color instead. For e.g. Text, Combo.</li>
	<li>Setting transparent background color for some controls works on GTK3 only, it fails on other platforms. For e.g. Table, Tree.</li>
	</ul>
	For an example on using the new APIs, see <a href="http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet365.java">Snippet365</a>.
	<p>
	<b>Snippet365 in action</b> (Controls with <code>SWT.COLOR_TRANSPARENT</code> background and Shell with gradient background image)
	</p>
	<p>
	<img src="images/transparent_control_background.png" alt="Transparent Background on Control widgets" />
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="swt-tools">
	<td class="title">SWT Tools</td>
	<td class="content">
	<a href="https://www.eclipse.org/swt/tools.php">SWT Tools</a> are now available in the Eclipse Platform p2 repository.
	SWT Tools provides tools for developing SWT itself (JNIGen) but also general purpose tools like <b>Sleak</b>
	(monitors the creation and disposal of SWT graphics resources) and <b>SWT Spy</b> (prints out information like style, layout and parent
	about the widget under the cursor).
	</td>
	</tr>

	<tr>
	<td colspan="2" class="section" id="PDE">PDE</td>
	</tr>

	<tr id="pde-target-editor-reload">
	<td class="title">Reload button added in target editor </td>
	<td class="content">
	In the <b>Target Editor</b>, on the <b>Locations</b> section, there is a reload button that clears the cached
	p2 profile and then resolves the target. This button is helpful in scenarios where the target editor is left in inconsistent
	state due to issues like unstable network connection.
	<p>
	<img src="images/pde-target-editor-reload-button.png" alt="Target Editor Reload Button"/>
	</p>
	</td>
	</tr>


	<tr id="pde-perspective-open-view">
	<td class="title"> Show view in plug-in perspective has changed </td>
	<td class="content">
	In the <b>Plug-in Development Perspective</b>, the default <b>Show View menu</b> now has
	<p>
	<img src="images/pde-45M5-showViewInPDEPerspective.png" alt="Show View in PDE Perspective 45M5"/>
	</p>

	In contrast, the default Show View menu earlier had
	<p>
	<img src="images/pde-45M4orbefore-showViewInPDEPerspective.png" alt="Show View in PDE Perspective 45M4 or before"/>
	</p>


	</td>
	</tr>


	<tr>
	<td colspan="2"/>
	</tr>
	</table>
	<p>The above features are just the ones that are new since the previous milestone
	build. Summaries for earlier Mars milestone builds:</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M4/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M4</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M3/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M3</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M2/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M2</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M1/">News for Eclipse Mars milestone build M1</a></li>
	</ul>
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