Eclipse PHP Development Tools 6.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
End Date of the Review Period

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Release

6.0

Description
  • Xdebug profiling support
  • Async code completion
  • PHP Explorer completely replaced by common Project Explorer
  • New validators:
    • Unused / Undefined variable
    • Static operation
    • break/continue scalars
  • Enhanced PHP formatter
Architectural Issues

We removed usage of Java Refllection introduced in 5.3.

Security Issues

There are no security issues.

Non-Code Aspects

None

Conforms To UI/UX Guidelines
Not verified
Usability Details

PHP Open Type dialog shortcut always work in PHP Perspective, even if focus is on Project Explorer or Outline

End of Life
  • PHP Explorer has been completely removed
Standards

None

Communities

We lost commercial support in last releases, but still have 7 active commiters with vary amounts of activity as all of them are only part time working on PDT directly.

This release is part of Eclipse Photon