Skip to main content
  • Log in
  • Manage Cookies
projects.eclipse.org
Download
  • Projects
  • Working Groups
  • Members
  • Community
    • Marketplace
    • Events
    • Planet Eclipse
    • Newsletter
    • Videos
    • Blogs
  • Participate
    • Report a Bug
    • Forums
    • Mailing Lists
    • Wiki
    • IRC
    • Research
  • Eclipse IDE
    • Download
    • Learn More
    • Documentation
    • Getting Started / Support
    • How to Contribute
    • IDE and Tools
    • Newcomer Forum
  • More
      • Community

      • Marketplace
      • Events
      • Planet Eclipse
      • Newsletter
      • Videos
      • Blogs
      • Participate

      • Report a Bug
      • Forums
      • Mailing Lists
      • Wiki
      • IRC
      • Research
      • Eclipse IDE

      • Download
      • Learn More
      • Documentation
      • Getting Started / Support
      • How to Contribute
      • IDE and Tools
      • Newcomer Forum
  1. Home
  2. Projects
  3. Eclipse Modeling Project
  4. Textual Modeling Framework
  5. Eclipse Xtext™
  6. 2.8.0
  7. 2.8.0 Release Review

Eclipse Xtext™ 2.8.0 Release Review

Type: 
Release
State: 
Successful
End Date of the Review Period: 

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Project: 
Eclipse Xtext™
Release: 

2.8.0

Description: 

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 )

 

API Certification: 

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Architectural Issues: 

no issues

Security Issues: 

no issues

Non-Code Aspects: 

everything is updated

Usability Details: 

no deviations

End of Life: 

Some APIs have been deprecated but documented with pointers to equivalent replacements.

A JDiff report will be included in the final release.

Standards: 

no standards are implemented.

Communities: 

User discussions are active on at [1] and [2] as well as on platforms like StackOverFlow.

The bugzilla is actively used by the community to provide bug reports, feature requests and patches.

Also on gerrit there are contributions from users in form of pull requests. An oomph setup that is also used by the committers makes it very easy to contribute.

[1] - https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=27&

[2] - https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/xtend-lang

 

This release is part of Mars.
  • Sign in to post comments.
Eclipse Xtext™

Project Links

  • Xtend Website
  • Website

Related Projects

Project Hierarchy:

  • Eclipse Modeling Project
  • Textual Modeling Framework
  • Eclipse Xtext™

Tags

Technology Types
  • Language
  • Modeling
  • Tools
Build Technologies
  • Gradle
  • Jenkins
  • Maven
  • Tycho
Other Tags
  • xtext

Eclipse Foundation

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
  • Members
  • Governance
  • Code of Conduct
  • Logo and Artwork
  • Board of Directors

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Copyright Agent
  • Eclipse Public License
  • Legal Resources

Useful Links

  • Report a Bug
  • Documentation
  • How to Contribute
  • Mailing Lists
  • Forums
  • Marketplace

Other

  • IDE and Tools
  • Projects
  • Working Groups
  • Research@Eclipse
  • Report a Vulnerability
  • Service Status

Copyright © Eclipse Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Back to the top