This release focuses on:
- Increased stability and performance, such as
- Enhanced authoring capabilities, such as
-
Synchronizing preferences with Eclipse.org (bug 489353).
-
Enhancements to installations with shared bundle pools, such as
Release Date
Release Type
Minor release
This release is part of Neon
| Name | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| M5b | 2016/03/14 | |
| M6 | 2016/03/23 | |
| M6a | 2016/03/24 | |
| M6b | 2016/04/27 | |
| M7 | 2016/05/04 | |
| RC1 | 2016/05/18 | |
| RC1a | 2016/05/22 |
Themes
Enhancements
- APIBaselineTask: Specify a baseline with p2 repos.
IUs [431327] (target milestone: ---) - Allow more control over when a task is needed [444681]
(target milestone: ---) - Installation Process is about 4 times slower than manual download and unzip [469497]
(target milestone: ---) - Support for shared (read-only) installations produced using bundle pools [469837]
(target milestone: ---) - Eclipse OOpmh Installed Eclipse.
App fails when moved [485476] (target milestone: ---) - Please include setup for Github project TLA+ [489276]
(target milestone: ---) - Normalize user.
home when -Doomph. setup. user. home. redirect is used [489480] (target milestone: ---) - Targlet wildcard requirements should handle filters better [489497]
(target milestone: ---) - Improved support for an API Baseline based on a targlets [491874]
(target milestone: ---) - Support proper getAttributes in ECFURIHandlerImpl [492716]
(target milestone: ---) - Strange relative paths in eclipse.
ini file [482221] (target milestone: ---) - Need more than one "Modular target" [431316]
(target milestone: ---) - ProjectsPage should use a CheckboxTreeViewer [442353]
(target milestone: ---) - Support folder-based "locators" [447327]
(target milestone: ---) - Make garbage collection for bundle pools easier to use [488619]
(target milestone: ---) - Turn on preference synchronizer by default [489353]
(target milestone: ---) - Log Java version during perform [489625]
(target milestone: ---) - Provide target_platform_feature_location and target_platform_plugin_location variables [490159]
(target milestone: ---) - Provide TARGET_PLATFORM_BUNDLE_POOL classpath variable [490274]
(target milestone: ---) - Add ListPreferenceHandler for org.
eclipse. ui. workbench. ENABLED_DECORATORS [490354] (target milestone: ---) - Add tooltip text to status bar control [493045]
(target milestone: ---) - Remove 'beta' from login dialog [493381]
(target milestone: ---) - Addition of Papyrus-RT setup model to the catalogue [491815]
(target milestone: ---) - Startup trigger tasks should always be performed if there are restarting file isn't empty [492349]
(target milestone: ---)
Bug Fixes
- Custom product installation failed only in simple mode [486000]
(target milestone: ---) - Filter does not work for SetupTask when using osgi.
os [487872] (target milestone: ---) - Using proxy bypass to access setup file behind a proxy [488308]
(target milestone: ---) - ConcurrentModificationException in ProxyResolver [488391]
(target milestone: ---) - Multiple working set tasks in the same scope don't work [489498]
(target milestone: ---) - Allow the oomph progress dialog to be closed using the shell trim [490499]
(target milestone: ---) - Oomph reopens closed projects on startup [490501]
(target milestone: ---) - Target platform problem with the Equinox Bundles setup file [490503]
(target milestone: ---) - Oomph can't handle touchpoint actions defined in installed software [490985]
(target milestone: ---) - Eclipse preference recorder should have a tooltip for the lightbulb icon [491182]
(target milestone: ---) - Targlet with Feature Patch does not work correctly [491199]
(target milestone: ---) - Requested changes for the platform setup files [491353]
(target milestone: ---) - Please include setup for project VIATRA [491978]
(target milestone: ---) - Working sets task in parent gets duplicated for subprojects [491980]
(target milestone: ---) - Neon products definitions are incomplete.
[492398] (target milestone: ---) - Selected Java code style formatter profile is not used by default [492417]
(target milestone: ---) - opendaylight.
org projects as new catalog in Eclipse Installer [492545] (target milestone: ---) - Options menu opens very far away from the simple menu dialog with multiple displays [493152]
(target milestone: ---) - Eclipse platform oomph installs are failing [493265]
(target milestone: ---) - Can't select Java 9 b118 JVM [493759]
(target milestone: ---) - Oomph installer load progess deadlocks on project selection page if a project in the (redirected) catalog requires credentials [493920]
(target milestone: ---) - Exception while open Oomph > SetupTasks > PreferenceRecord [494031]
(target milestone: ---) - After installing new plugins, Equinox launcher is truncated to 0 bytes when using bundle pools [494201]
(target milestone: ---) - Bad feedback on EGit.
setup interpretation [494336] (target milestone: ---) - p2 cache does not reload update site content [495040]
(target milestone: ---) - IllegalStateException when starting an Eclipse instance created via Oomph [495362]
(target milestone: ---) - CDT-> Formatter-> 'Custom profiler' recorded preference is not applied by oomph start-up jobs.
[497520] (target milestone: ---) - re-provisioning Mylyn builds sets an invalid password on previously provisioned build servers [491625]
(target milestone: ---) - Preference Initialization dialog's Help pane too narrow by default [487266]
(target milestone: ---) - NullPointerException when no console is available for External Tools Launch setup task [490514]
(target milestone: ---) - Oomph p2 caching incorrectly specifies start position of download resulting in corrupted artifact download [493208]
(target milestone: ---) - An error occurred during store preferences [494684]
(target milestone: ---) - org.
apache. httpcomponents. httpclient version not from Orbit R-build for Neon [495163] (target milestone: ---) - "Oomph P2 management" feature has no about information [476549]
(target milestone: ---) - TargetDefinitonGenerator with generateImplicitUnits=false removes root units [485224]
(target milestone: ---) - Branch in About dialog listed as (redundant) commit ID [486246]
(target milestone: ---) - The extractor can load DLLs and CMD.
exe from unwanted locations [488644] (target milestone: ---) - NullPointerException in SetupUIPlugin.
performStartup() [489772] (target milestone: ---) - TargetDefinitionGenerator does not recognize the "*" wildcard requirement [490113]
(target milestone: ---) - New > WorkingSets Model lacks space between "working" and "sets" [495858]
(target milestone: ---)