Xtend 2.27.0 is a maintenance release.
As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext & Xtend on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext & especially Xtend is at risk, at least in the current form and as part of the Eclipse Simrel. If you care, please join the discussion in https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1721.
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.26.0 is a maintenance release.
As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext & Xtend on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext & especially Xtend is at risk, at least in the current form and as part of the Eclipse Simrel. If you care, please join the discussion in https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1721.
Xtend now supports running on Java 17 with Java 8 and 11 targets. Source and Target 17 are not supported yet and are planned for Xtext/Xtend 2.27.0. This will also require dropping Java 8 in the next release.
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
Christian Dietrich (itemis)
Karsten Thoms (Karakun)
Arne Deutsch (itemis)
Sebastian Zarnekow (independent)
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.25.0 is a maintenance release.
As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext & Xtend on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext & especially Xtend is at risk, at least in the current form and as part of the Eclipse Simrel. If you care, please join the discussion in https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1721.
serialVersionUID
is no longer flagged as unused.The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.24.0 is a maintenance release.
As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext & Xtend on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext & especially Xtend is at risk. If you care, please join the discussion in https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1721.
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.23.0 is a maintenance release.
As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext & Xtend on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext & especially Xtend is at risk. If you care, please join the discussion in https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1721.
The Eclipse Platform and Java Development Tools have decided to migrate to Java 11 with the new 2020-09 (4.17) release. Xtext and Xtend depend on these projects both for the integration into Eclipse as well as in the LSP and standalone mode. Xtext 2.23 still works with Java 8, but if you want to work with Xtext in Eclipse 2020-09 (4.17) you have to start your Tycho builds with Java 11 as well as launch your Runtime Eclipse Applications with Java 11.
We decided to follow suit to close a window of opportunity for hard to find bugs. Therefore, the version 2.24 of Xtext and Xtend which is due along with Eclipse 2020-12 will be the first release that depends on Java 11. Please feel encouraged to join the discussion in https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1804 if you have any concerns, general comments or other suggestions.
A quick fix was added to create a local variable or value in addition to the option to create class members.
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.22.0 is mainly a maintenance release with a small number of usability improvements.
As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext & Xtend on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext & especially Xtend is at risk. If you care, please join the discussion in https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1721.
The Xtend community website has been updated to list the recently published videos, presentations and blog posts around Xtend. The list is not yet complete, so feel free to contact us if you are also interested in listing your articles there.
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.21.0 is a maintenance release with some usability improvements.
In compliance with general requirements by the Eclipse Foundation the license for Xtext & Xtend has been changed to EPL 2.0.
The Xtend compiler has been improved to avoid generating unnecessary modifiers. No modifier is produced in these contexts:
static
modifier for nested types within interfacespublic
modifier for interface membersabstract
modifier for operations within interfacesExample:
interface FooItf {
def void bar ()
static class FooItfImpl implements FooItf {
override void bar () {}
}
}
Old compilation result:
public interface FooItf {
public static class FooItfImpl implements FooItf {
@Override
public void bar () {
}
}
public abstract void bar();
}
New compilation result:
public interface FooItf {
class FooItfImpl implements FooItf {
@Override
void bar () {
}
}
void bar();
}
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.20.0 is mainly a maintenance release with a small number of usability improvements
Two refactoring commands have been added which can add as static or static extension import the selected static method call and update all the occurrences in the document. The refactoring commands can be triggered from the Refactoring > Import Static | Import Static Extension
context menu in the Xtend editor or using M1+Shift+M
and M1+Shift+Alt+M
key shortcuts. (#751)
The Xtend IDE has been improved to recognize and execute all JUnit test cases (implemented in Xtend) event if the cursor is currently located before/after the test class definition.
A quick fix was added which adds the necessary libraries for JUnit 4 or 5 to the classpath. The quick fix will show on import errors starting with org.junit.jupiter
(for JUnit 5) or org.junit
(for JUnit 4). It works both for plug-in projects and regular Java projects. (#919
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.19.0 is mainly a maintenance release.
Delegate
Active Annotation now uses a stable order.@Override
annotations in generated code.Xtend now uses Guava 27.1.0. The new version will be picked up automatically if you make use of the Xtext BOM or consume Xtend from its P2 repository.
Xtend is built now on the new Kubernetes based CBI infrastructure JIRO.
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. 5 issues and 62 pull requests have made it into this release. For further details please refer to the following lists:
Xtend 2.18.0 provides new language features (Ternary Expressions and Try-With-Resources) and some smaller improvements.
Xtend now allows to use the ternary operator. This enables to assign conditional values to variables in the shortest possible way, as already well known from Java.
val v = condition ? “thenValue” : “elseValue”
If it is disapproved to use ternary expressions, it is possible to flag them with an error and convert them via quickfix into a traditional if-expression.
val v = if(condition) “thenValue” else “elseValue”
Try statements are often used with resources, that have to be closed in the finally block. Xtend now supports the convenient try-with-resources expression. This closes the opened resources automatically at the end of the try block - without having to code that explicitly.
def m() {
val resource = new StringReader("This \n is a text!");
try
return resource.read
finally
resource?.close
}
Becomes:
def m() {
try (val resource = new StringReader("This \n is a text!"))
return resource.read
}
When an Xtend class name does not match the file name it is defined in then Xtend raises a warning. A new quickfix has been provided to rename the class according to the file name. (#744)
The quickfix “Remove member” for unused members was improved. Additionally to the member itself the quickfix will now also remove obsolete import statements and write accesses. (xtext-xtend)
Context menu entries to trigger New Wizards for Xtend elements were only offered in the Package Explorer. These entries are now additionally offered in the context menu in the Project Explorer and Navigator views. (xtext-xtend#699)
When the goal xtend-install-debug-info
is executed on empty source directories, a warning is raised by default:
[WARNING] Directory <SOURCE_DIR> is empty. Can't process.
This warning can now be suppressed by configure the new parameter showEmptyDirWarning
to false
. (xtext#787)
The Xtend batch compiler lookup order preferred classes in jars on the classpath before local classes that are on the source path. The order has been changed so that local classes are now first on the search path. (#750)
The Xtend Language project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release):
As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. More than 20 issues and almost 60 pull requests have made it into this release. For further details please refer to the following lists: