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Tycho/Release Notes/2.0
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SNAPSHOT builds
Tycho 2.0.0-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 2.0.0-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 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
Java 11
- Tycho now requires Java 11 as a minimum runtime requirement
- The default execution environment (EE) for the tycho-eclipserun-plugin was also bumped to Java 11
- The default source and target settings for the tycho-compiler-plugin were also bumped to Java 11
Requires Maven 3.6.3 or more recent
Resolve system.packages against toolchain when not defined in profiles (Java 9+)
bug 563930 Since Java 9 and module JVM, JREs can now have different sets of system packages from the same version. As a result, the list of system packages cannot be built statically. So Tycho will now query the defined toolchains when to get the actual system packages when requested (mainly for the tycho-compiler-plugin when requireJREPackageImports=true). If no matching toolchain is found, a warnign is emitted and the current Java runtime is used.