[wtp-dev] WTP 1.5.4 announced ... and 1.5.5?!

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, it's true .... both, that we've
formally announced WTP 1.5.4 (newsgroup text below) 
and that there will be a WTP 1.5.5!

John Lanuti will be soon be proposing
for review a detailed schedule for WTP 1.5.5, 
but it will follow the familar pattern.
For most teams, we recommended 
you do not even start thinking about
WTP 1.5.5 until we are completely done with WTP 2.0. I know 
that sounds odd, but you who are familar
with software development will know that some 
of our adopters of WTP 1.5.x will not
be ready to move off that stream immediately, not to mention 
they often have customers that can hypothetically
find a serious bug long after it's been "in the field"
(well ... 'hypothetically' may not be
the right word :). 

We really do want to keep fixes in 1.5.5
to a minimum, both to conserve
our energy for WTP 2.0 and WTP 3.0!!
but also to ensure stability! The recent trend of 1.5.3, and 1.5.4 is 
122 bugs fixed, to 69 bugs fixed, so
if that trend continues linearly, we'll fix about only 20 bugs in WTP 1.5.5!


One known exception to the "no
1.5.5 work yet" rule will be the RDB team. They will be opening 
some bugzillas soon (or ... maybe they
have already?) for some changes they'd like to make soon
in the RDB 1.5.x stream, and since they
do not really have an RDB 2.0 stream it will not be 
too much of a distraction for them ...
they have some important work to help provide some small 
new features as well as maintain compatibility
and easier-evolution to DTP that they'd like to get into RDB. 

Please be aware that WTP 1.5.5 will
be the last maintenance on the 1.5.x stream. 

Much thanks to everyone for making this
possible! So .. uh, take off the rest of the day :) 
... or, find some other way to congratulate
yourself on producing some great software that's 
getting better! 


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WTP 1.5.4 has been released. Approximately
70 bugs were fixed from our 1.5.3 release.
 
Those with a previous 1.5 releases already
installed need only use Update Manager to "find 
updates for currently installed features".
New users of Eclipse 3.2 can also obtain it by choosing 
to "Search for new features to
install" within the Update Manager and selecting the Callisto Discovery

Site. Or, if you prefer, you can still
get the zip files from
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/
Be sure to get the exact version of
the prerequisite Eclipse software listed on the build page.
Those pre-reqs haven't changed since
WTP 1.5.3, but JEM is no longer listed as a pre-req
on the downloads page, as we include
it directly in the downloadable zip files.
 
Rumor has it that "all-in-one"
zip files will be available soon.
 
Much thanks to the committers, contributors,
and the community for providing this release.