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JDT Core/Plan/4.8
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Planning page for JDT Core work for Photon (4.8)
The sub-lists in the order of decreasing urgency is shown in the table below - Last few rows are for convenience and may not have mapping of row number to urgency.
Overview
| Number | All Bugs | Open Bugs |
| 4.8 M5 | Next Milestone | Next Milestone |
| 4.7.3 | Maintenance | Maintenance |
| 4.8 | Photon | Photon |
Java 9 Technical Debt and Additional Features Support
| Sl No | Category | Remarks |
| 1 | Open Java 9 bugs for next milestone | 4.8 M5 |
| 2 | Open Java 9 bugs for next maintenance | 4.7.3 |
| 3 | Open Java 9 bugs slated for 4.8 | |
| 4 | Open Java 9 Orphan bugs waiting for adoption | Please sync up with the respective QA contacts. |
| 5 | All Java 9 open bugs | targeted plus non-targeted |
Java 8 Technical Debt Support
Other open bugs and enhancements related to Java 8 that is slated to 4.8 - here
JDK 10 Investigation
Query used is this; Generic JEP query is this. (Yes, we may get a JDK 10, 11, etc., after all: Proposal from jdk-dev list)
Investigate Java 10 features and the possible support from JDT Core Top Level Bug.
| Sl No | JEP /JDK Bug | Eclipse Bug/Wiki Link | Target Milestone/Date | Remarks |
| 1 | JEP 314: Additional Unicode Language-Tag Extensions | Not Applicable - Placeholder | ||
| 2 | JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference | JEP286: Local Variable Type Inference | 3rd March | refer JDK-8187694 as well |
| 3 | JEP 322: Time-Based Release Versioning | Placeholder | Feb 23 | This may have impact on launcher as well JDT Core model tests (if not covered yet) |
| 4 | JSR 269: Pluggable Annotation-Processing API | Bug 530444 - JSR 269 API changes | 15 Feb | Maintenance Release 4 ongoing - keep open. |
| 5 | Add -source 10 and -target 10 to javac | to add bug number | 23rd Feb | |
| 6 | Add module support for javadoc -link and -linkoffline options | to add bug number | ||
| 7 | Support for multiple stylesheets in javadoc | to add bug number |
JDK 11
| Sl No | JEP /JDK Bug | Eclipse Bug/Wiki Link | Target Milestone/Date | Remarks |
| 1 | JEP 309: Dynamic Class-File Constants | targeted | ||
| 2 | JEP 318: Epsilon: An Arbitrarily Low-Overhead Garbage Collector | targeted | ||
| 3 | JEP 320: Remove the Java EE and CORBA Modules | targeted | ||
| 4 | jep 323: Local-Variable Syntax for Lambda Parameters | targeted | ||
| 5 | Add -source 11 and -target 11 to javac | targeted (bug) | ||
| 6 | Add module support for @see, @link and @linkplain javadoc tags. | targeted (bug) |
JDK XX - [11, 12, ...]
| Sl No | JEP /JDK Bug | Eclipse Bug/Wiki Link | Target Milestone/Date | Remarks |
| 1 | JEP 325: Switch Expressions | candidate - highly possible for JDK 11 | ||
| 2 | JEP 305: Pattern Matching | candidate - highly possible for JDK 11 as an incubating feature | ||
| 3 | Raw String Literals | draft - highly possible for JDK 11 | ||
| 4 | JEP 302: Lambda Leftovers | candidate | ||
| 5 | JEP 301: Enhanced Enums | candidate | ||
| 6 | JEP 293: Guidelines for JDK Command-Line Tool Options | candidate (Launcher may be affected) | ||
| 7 | JEP 218: Generics over Primitive Types | candidate | ||
| 8 | JEP 300: Augment Use-Site Variance with Declaration-Site Defaults | candidate | ||
| 9 | JEP 303: Intrinsics for the LDC and INVOKEDYNAMIC Instructions | candidate |