Tycho/Release Notes/2.3

< Previous Version | Next Version >

SNAPSHOT builds

Tycho 2.3.0-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 2.3.0-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.

New and Noteworthy

Complete list of bug fixes and enhancements in 2.3.0-SNAPSHOT

Enable reuse of workspace by tycho-eclipserun-plugin

bug 570477, The tycho-eclipserun-plugin now has a configuration-parameter named clearWorkspaceBeforeLaunch to specify if the workspace should be cleared before running eclipse or not (default is true, matching the behavior until now). If the value is false, the workspace of the previous run is reused (if present), if the value is true the workspace-directory (i.e. the 'data' directory within the work-directory) and its content is deleted.

A mojo to "fix" modified metadata in artifact repository (artifacts modified after after aggregation)

The org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-p2-repository-plugin:fix-artifacts-metadata was added. It updates the artifact repository metadata checksums and size of modified artifacts in the given folder. This can be used if some other mojo (e.g. jar-signer) modifies the repository artifacts after the assemble-repository step. An example could be found in the jar-signing-extra integration test

A mojo to remap Maven artifacts to Maven URLs in artifact repository

The org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-p2-repository-plugin:remap-artifacts-to-m2-repo was added. It modifies the artifact metadata of the provided p2 repository by adding extra mapping rules for artifacts the can be resolved to Maven repositories so the URL under Maven repository is used for fetching and artifact is not duplicated inside this repo. See this example.

Target files can be specified directly now

bug 571520 allow to specify a target file as an alternative to a target artifact

 <plugin>
   <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
   <artifactId>target-platform-configuration</artifactId>
   <version>${tycho-version}</version>
   <configuration>
     <target>
       <file>jetty.target</file>
     </target>
   </configuration>
 </plugin>

Multi-platform product packaging

bug 572082, allow applications to use bundle pools in order to have a "cross platform" installation structure without duplicating the bundles. To activate the multi-platform package, simply add <multiPlatformPackage>true</multiPlatformPackage> to the product definition in the pom.xml file.