Eclipse Tycho 1.1.0 Release Review

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Project
Eclipse Tycho
Release

1.1.0

Description

Improvements:

  • Support for Java 9
    • Tycho's dependencies have been updated where necessary to enable running the build with Java 9
    • Added support for compilation against JDK 9 
    • the JDT compiler shipped with Tycho has been updated to Photon M4
  • Tycho's embedded OSGi runtime has been updated to use Equinox and p2 from Oxygen.2 
  • Support for using maven-release-plugin with Tycho has been contributed (bug 342893), see release workflow docs
  • Added new goal mvn org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:update-eclipse-metadata (bug 342893) which will update MANIFEST/feature.xml/product versions based on their respective pom versions. This is useful e.g. if you changed pom versions using maven-release-plugin. For more details about using the maven release plugin with Tycho see Tycho/Release_Workflow.

Bugfixes:

 

Also see Tycho 1.1.0 release notes

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