The Java IDE has been upgraded in this release with a number of new features, such as: Improvements have also been made to the GTK3 support for menus and auto-scaled icons for high-DPI resolutions. Full screen support has been added to Windows and Linux, following from OSX's full screen support. Other general platform features include the IDE now supports high-DPI monitors and has a number of icons created at a higher resolution. It is now also possible to increase the size of a text editor's font with Ctrl++ and Ctrl+-, along with pinch-to-zoom on supported trackpads. By default this is switched off but can be enabled in the preferences or with the Alt+Shift+Y keypress. This allows a custom IDE to be created with a combination of the standard developer tools.Ī long-awaited feature (over thirteen years), word wrapping in editors, is now finally available. The standard packages – such as the Java developers package and the CDT C/C++ developers package – are now available as optional installations from the installer. This reduces the load on the Eclipse servers, which instead of having to host a single large zip can provide a subset of plug-ins that can be downloaded only if needed. This release is the first to encourage users to use the Eclipse Installer, a new technology powered by Eclipse Oomph, which allows a small installer to be provided that can download and provision additional tools.

This release marks the eleventh release of the combined release train, with contributions from 779 developers (of which 331 are committers) and totalling 69 million lines of code. Today, the Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Neon, the eponymous IDE which provides support for Java, JavaScript, C/C++, PHP and Fortran, amongst others.

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