Version 2.8.0 of Xtext will come with over 180 bugfixes, significant perfromance improvements and many new features.
The most important features for Xtext are:
- Semantic-Whitespace Support (Example Language)
- New formatter API
- First steps towards Eclipse independent IDE services (content assist)
- Interruptable Builder
- Optional persistence of computed resource state, for quicker reload
- Optional Java 8 target (Lambdas, Default methods) (Xbase & Xtend)
- Autoconversion of Java code to Xtend (Xtend)
- Navigation beweeen generated code and Xtend source
- various performance improvements
- many bugfixes (see bugzilla: http://goo.gl/9YmCSP )
Release Date
Release Type
Minor release
This release is part of Mars