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Chapter 2. Changes Since Developer Tools 1.0

Note

The version number of Red Hat Developer Tools is raised from 1.0 to 2.1 to synchronize its version numbers with Red Hat Development Suite 2.1. Note that there will be no release of Red Hat Developer Tools 2.0.

Red Hat Developer Tools is distributed with Eclipse 4.7.1 and other plugins from the Oxygen release train, which provide a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements over the Red Hat Developer Tools 1.0 version. Following is a comprehensive list of new features and compatibility changes in this release. For details on how to use these new features, see the built-in Eclipse documentation.

The following features have been added since the release of Eclipse platform and plugins included in Red Hat Developer Tools 1.0:

  • Eclipse Platform has been updated to version 4.7.1 from 4.7.0. This is a maintenance release and it contains many bug fixes and optimizations.

  • Eclipse CDT has been updated to version 9.3 from 9.2.1. This release includes a number of enhancements like:

    • Quick fixes have been added for a variety of build errors generated by the gcc compiler.
    • Support for two new C++14 language features has been added: return type deduction and generic lambdas.
    • Improved autocomplete and content assist.
    • Improved navigation for 'auto' types to open the deduced type.
    • For detailed notes, see https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn93
  • Eclipse Linux Tools has been updated to version 6.1.1 from 6.1.0.
  • Eclipse Mylyn has been updated to version 3.23.1 from 3.23.0.
  • Eclipse DLTK have been updated to version 5.8.1 from 5.8.0.

  • Eclipse Pydev have been updated to version 5.9.2 from 5.8.0 including changes like:

    • Optimization in editor highlighting when dealing with huge files.
    • Added support for having isort as the engine for import sorting.
    • For detailed notes, see http://www.pydev.org/history_pydev.html.
  • Eclipse Webtools have been updated to version 3.9.1 from 3.9.0.
  • The new Eclipse Data Tools Platform component provides frameworks and tools to access relational databases and various other data sources. For details, see https://www.eclipse.org/datatools/.
  • The new Code Recommenders component provides IDE improvements like intelligent code completions. For details, see https://www.eclipse.org/recommenders/.
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