Eclipse Oomph 1.2.0

This release focuses on:

  • Increased stability and performance
  • Enhanced authoring capabilities, such as
    • Better text editing support in the Properties view
    • Find/Replace support in the Setup editor
    • Support for importing .epf preference files
    • Support for capturing existing preferences from the IDE
    • Support for recording new preferences into any setup model
    • More drag and drop support, e.g., to create targlet tasks directly from Git clones
  • More and more flexible setup tasks, such as
    • Tasks for refreshing and/or building the workspace
    • Add a relativeProductFolder attribute to InstallationTask
    • Add IUGenerators for Sites, Categories and Products
    • Add a predicate that matches only projects that are already imported into the workspace
    • Support for custom bootstrap tasks
  • Enhancements to the preference recording facilities
    • Entirely new PreferencePoliciesDialog with grouping, shorter labels and more choices
    • Open the PreferencePoliciesDialog's help tray for first time users
    • Detection and better handling of XML blob preferences
    • Recording into different target files
Release Date
Release Type
Minor release
Name Date Description
M0 2015/07/03
M0a 2015/07/24
M1 2015/08/19
M1a 2015/09/02
M1b 2015/09/03
M1c 2015/09/10
M1d 2015/09/18