Finish 2025-12 and Start 2026-03

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The 2025-12 release is final:

• https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2025-12
• https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest

Downloads are available:

• https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages

Cool video about 2025-12 improvements:

• https://youtu.be/3GIT1n12nVA

Reports:

• https://eclipse.dev/simrel/?file=wiki/SimRel/2025-12_participants.json
• https://eclipse.dev/simrel/?file=report/report.md
• https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2025-12/202512101000/buildInfo/archive/download.eclipse.org/releases/2025-12/202512101000/
• https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2025-12/202512101000/buildInfo/reporeports/

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The 2026-03 release is started:

• https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2026-03
• https://download.eclipse.org/releases/milestone

The 2026-03 staging repository exists:

• https://download.eclipse.org/staging/2026-03

The 2026-03 EPP staging products and repository are newly built against SimRel 2026-03 staging:

• https://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/staging/
• https://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/staging/repository/

The 2026-03 schedule is as follows:

https://eclipse.dev/simrel/?file=wiki/SimRel/2026-03.md

Staging reports:

• https://download.eclipse.org/staging/2026-03/buildInfo/archive/download.eclipse.org/staging/2026-03/index.html
• https://download.eclipse.org/staging/2026-03/buildInfo/reporeports/

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Orbit M0 milestone repositories for 2026-03 / 4.39 have been created.

Consult the following table for a summary overview of the updated available versions:

• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-aggregation/table.html

Aggregation - All of below

• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-aggregation/2026-03
• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-aggregation/milestone/latest

BND - Wrapped

• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-bnd/2026-03
• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-bnd/nightly/latest

OSGi - Direct from Maven

• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-osgi/2026-03
• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-osgi/milestone/latest

Native Signed

• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-sign/2026-03
• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-sign/milestone/latest

Legacy - Built from Source

• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-legacy/2026-03
• https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-legacy/milestone/latest

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Jetty's latest release is 12.1.5:

https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-jetty/release/latest

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Tycho's latest release is 5.0.1.
The 4.x stream is EOL for 4.0.13.

It's still a good time to eliminate source features.
Have a look at this for some migration details that are relevant:

eclipse-gef/gef-classic#773 (comment)