M2Eclipse released version 1.9.0 as part of the Eclipse Photon release train. This 1.9.0 release brings a whole set of big and small improvements to the Maven Integration experience. 27 bugs and improvements were addressed during that development cycle. Highlights of this release include:

• Proper test classpath isolation, main classes no longer see test scoped classes/dependencies
• Improved Java 9/10 support
• Contribution to the advanced source lookup mechanism
• New binary project type, to improve the debugging experience
• Embedded Maven 3.5.3
• POM XML editor opened by default
• Custom source encoding support
• Custom access rules support
• Fallback to downloading Javadoc when sources are missing
• Automatically enables the “Store information about method parameters” compiler option according to the maven-compiler-plugin configuration
• New possibility to disable archetype catalogs