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New and Noteworthy for 4.37 (PDE changes)
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‎org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/toc.xml‎

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<!-- Tips and Tricks -->
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‎org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/topics_WhatsNew.xml‎

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?>
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<!--
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Copyright (c) 2011, 2013 IBM Corporation and others.
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Copyright (c) 2011, 2025 IBM Corporation and others.
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All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
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are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
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which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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<!-- Define topics for the What's New -->
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<toc label="What's new">
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<topic href="whatsNew/pde_whatsnew.html#editors" label="Editors"/>
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‎org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/whatsNew/pde_whatsnew.html‎

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) Eclipse contributors and others 2020. This page is made available under license. For full details see the LEGAL in the documentation book that contains this page."/>
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<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) Eclipse contributors and others 2025. This page is made available under license. For full details see the LEGAL in the documentation book that contains this page."/>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"/>
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<title>What's New in 4.30 (PDE)</title>
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<title>Eclipse PDE What's New</title>
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<h2>What's New in 4.30 (PDE)</h2>
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<p>Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
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for the 4.30 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:</p>
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<!--li><a href="#dialogs-wizards-views">Dialogs, Wizards and Views</a></li-->
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<li><a href="#editors">Editors</a></li>
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<!--li><a href="#pde-launching">PDE Launching</a></li-->
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<!--li><a href="#pde-compiler">PDE Compiler</a></li-->
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<td class="title">Support for names of product update repositories</td>
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The PDE Product Editor now supports in its <code>Updates</code> section to specify the <code>Name</code> of each update repository.
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<p><img src="images/product_updates_names.png" alt="Product Updates with Name"/></p>
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<td class="title">Removed support for unnecessary attributes in Features and Products</td>
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The <code>Feature</code> editor has its support for the following attributes of <code>plugin</code> elements removed:
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<li><code>download-size</code></li>
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These attributes are unused and without effect for a long time and unnecessarily increase the complexity of the editor and the size of a <code>feature.xml</code> file.
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They are ignored when present in an existing Feature and removed by the editor upon the next modification through the editor.
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The <code>Product Configuration</code> editor has its support for the following attribute of <code>plugin</code> elements removed:
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This attribute is unused and without effect for a long time and unnecessarily increase the size of a <code>.product</code> file.
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<h2>Plug-in Development Environment</h2>
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<p>
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The new and noteworthy updates for Eclipse 4.37 can be found
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<a href="https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.37/pde.html" target="_blank">here</a>.
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