Tycho/Release Notes/2.1

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SNAPSHOT builds

Tycho 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT is currently in development. To try out the most recent snapshot build, simply add the following snippet to your (parent) pom.xml or settings.xml, and set the property for the Tycho version (e.g. tycho-version) to 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT.

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>tycho-snapshots</id>
      <url>https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/tycho-snapshots/</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

SNAPSHOT site docs

Refer to the latest SNAPSHOT site docs for Tycho and Tycho Extras.

New and Noteworthy

Complete list of bug fixes and enhancements in 2.1.0-SNAPSHOT

Automatic determination of --release compiler argument based on BREE

bug 561363 tycho-compiler-plugin now determines the maven.compiler.release property (--release compiler argument) automatically based on the BREE.

This ensures ABI compatibility when targeting older Java versions by setting a correct bootclasspath (JEP 247).

Note: This automatism might not be desired in some situations. For example when referencing internal JDK packages (e.g. using an OSGI framework extension bundle) --release can not be used, because the bootclasspath set by it does not include those internal packages. For these scenarios, an new configuration option <deriveReleaseCompilerArgumentFromTargetLevel>false</deriveReleaseCompilerArgumentFromTargetLevel> was introduced to disable this automatic determination.