Prepare 4.40 development

[eclipse-releng-bot]

Prepare development of Eclipse 4.40.
This complements:

• Prepare 4.40 development eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator#3683

[eclipse-jdt-bot]

This pull request changes some projects for the first time in this development cycle.
Therefore the following files need a version increment:

org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/pom.xml

An additional commit containing all the necessary changes was pushed to the top of this PR's branch. To obtain these changes (for example if you want to push more changes) either fetch from your fork or apply the git patch.

Git patch

From a471f5a7067c98ec0a0776f87502f7b938d848db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eclipse JDT Bot <jdt-bot@eclipse.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:34:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Version bump(s) for 4.40 stream


diff --git a/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index 3c1606365a..ba5ab3c85d 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Automatic-Module-Name: org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Name: %Plugin.name
 Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests; singleton:=true
-Bundle-Version: 3.16.400.qualifier
+Bundle-Version: 3.16.500.qualifier
 Bundle-Activator: org.eclipse.jdt.testplugin.JavaTestPlugin
 Bundle-Vendor: %Plugin.providerName
 Bundle-Localization: plugin
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/pom.xml b/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/pom.xml
index fe1afba7a9..e02c67fd0a 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/pom.xml
+++ b/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   </parent>
   <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests</artifactId>
-  <version>3.16.400-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.16.500-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>eclipse-test-plugin</packaging>
   <properties>
     <defaultSigning-excludeInnerJars>true</defaultSigning-excludeInnerJars>
-- 
2.53.0

Further information are available in Common Build Issues - Missing version increments.

[HannesWell]

Looks good to me.

@iloveeclipse could you please submit this, too?