Simultaneous Releases

The Eclipse Simultaneous Release is the end result of a process that sees the coordination of scheduling and communication across Eclipse Open Source Project teams. This year's Eclipse Oxygen is the 12th official simultaneous release; it includes the hard work from of 83 open source projects, comprising approximately two million net new lines of code.The output of this process is a composite repository of open source software, and a new release of the Eclipse IDE.

Eclipse Luna includes official support for Java™ 8 in the Java development tools, Plug-in Development Tools, Object Teams, Eclipse Communication Framework, Maven integration, Xtext, Xtend, Web Tools Platform, and Memory Analyzer. The Eclipse compiler includes language enhancements, search and refactoring, Quick Assist and Clean Up to migrate anonymous classes to lambda expressions and back, and new formatter options for lambdas.

Luna highlights include:

Some Kepler highlights:

• Stardust 1.0 provides a complete Business Process Management (BPM) suite of tools and runtimes.
• Orion 3.0 includes significant usability features and easier deployment to Java applications servers.
• Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) support for big data reporting now includes support for MongoDB and Cassandra.
• Mylyn now includes better support for code reviews through a navigator view and integration with Gerrit.

The Juno release is the first coordinated released based on the Eclipse 4 platform.