Chapter 2. Changes Since Developer Tools 2018.1


Red Hat Developer Tools is distributed with Eclipse 4.7.3a and other plugins from the Oxygen release train, which provide a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements over the Red Hat Developer Tools 2018.1 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.

Dependencies

This version of the rh-eclipse47 collection no longer depends on the rh-java-common and rh-maven33 collections. It now depends only on the new rh-maven35 collection.

Significant Package Updates

  • eclipse 4.7.2 4.7.3a: Eclipse Platform was updated from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3a. This mainly consisted of bug fixes and continued improvement of support for Java 9 and Java 10.

  • eclipse-cdt 9.4.1 9.4.3: CDT was updated from 9.4.1 to 9.4.3 and includes bug fixes.
  • eclipse-egit/jgit 4.10 4.11: Git support in Eclipse was updated from 4.10 to 4.11 and has focused on performance and usability improvements.

  • eclipse-linuxtools 6.2.0 6.2.1: Linxtools was updated to bug fix release 6.2.1.
  • eclipse-m2e-core-1.8.2 1.8.3: Eclipse Maven integration to update to bug fix release 1.8.3 for initial support for Java 10.
  • eclipse-webtools 3.9.2 3.9.4: The Webtools plugins were updated to bug fix release 3.9.4 for initial support for Java 10.
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