Tycho/Release Notes/0.13

Tycho 0.13.0 is currently under development. The current development version 0.13.0-SNAPSHOT (except the Tycho extras [1]) is available from [2].

New and Noteworthy

• Tycho:
  • Tycho projects are now required to match the artifactId defined in the pom.xml with the ID specified in the MANIFEST.MF or feature.xml.
    • This restriction is in place for projects with packaging type "eclipse-plugin", "eclipse-test-plugin" or "eclipse-feature". Validation takes place during the validate phase in the default lifecycle.
  • Configuring a target definition file in Tycho specifies the target platform in the same way as in Eclipse:
    • Only the content from the target definition can be referenced. This allows to exclude optional depencencies from product builds [3].
    • The "Include required software" option (aka planner/slicer mode) is now supported.
    • Limitation: the location types "Directory", "Installation" and "Features" are still not supported.
  • Relative paths in .product files now work correctly. Workarounds previously needed in pom.xml can be removed.
  • tycho-surefire-plugin can use Maven Toolchains to run tests with a specific version of JDK independent from the one Maven is running with (see Tycho/Reference_Card#Selecting JDK).

• Tycho extras:
  • The new goal mirror has been added to the tycho-p2-extras-plugin. It aims to offer the same functionality as the p2.mirror Ant task – (see Tycho/Additional Tools for the full documentation).

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