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Platform/Plan/4.11
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Planning page for Platform work for 4.11
This page discusses target fixes and improvements to the Eclipse Platform for the 2018-12 release. The new and noteworthy of all Eclipse top-level projects can be found under Eclipse 4.11 New and Noteworthy.
Common
Review patches from the community [DONE]
Platform UI
Provide notification API in Eclipse platform
Bug Platform should deliver a notification API. [DEFERRED TO 4.12]
Helper to write rendering tests with OCR
Using an OCR library like Tesseract, we can write powerful rendering tests. We'll try to provide some API to easily write tests relying on OCR for Eclipse plugins, and will build a few tests based on it.
Platform Text
Inline/horizontal code mining improvements
Improve how inline code minings are rendered
SWT
Evaluate and test Chromium browser implementation on Windows and Mac. bug 405031
Mac
Support macOS 10.14 (Mojave) bug 541801
HiDpi drawing with GC bug 489451 - [DEFERRED]
GTK
Ant
Routine Maintenance and Enhancements
- Ant build file behaves differently in eclipse than in an external ant run bug 511279 [DEFERRED to 4.12]
- SecurityManager#getInCheck removal in JDK 10 bug 541119 [DELIVERED]
Other Bugs and enhancements.
Debug
Debugging user experience
Improve Debugging Usability bug 498469 [DELIVERD PARTIALLY]
Routine Maintenance and Enhancements
Other Bugs and enhancements.
Equinox
Download Performance
Composite metadata repository download parallelization bug 542735 [DEFERRED TO 4.12]
Releng
Migration to CloudBees
Deferred to 4.12