[eclipse-dev] Eclipse + Java 8 : Release candidate I available.

[Srikanth S Adayapalam <srikanth_sankaran@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Greetings,

With well over 150 defect fixes and
enhancements since the last milestone 
(> 50 reported by beta testers -
Thanks!) the Eclipse team is pleased to 
announce the availability of "Release
Candidate I" of Eclipse with Java 8 
support.

Tickets closed since the last milestone
can be seen here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=resolution&chfieldfrom=2014-02-01&chfieldto=Now&classification=Eclipse&component=APT&component=Core&component=Debug&component=Doc&component=Text&component=UI&list_id=8327686&product=JDT&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=BETA%20J8

Tasks in flight for RC2 & GA  can
be seen here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&classification=Eclipse&component=APT&component=Core&component=Debug&component=Doc&component=Text&component=UI&list_id=8327746&product=JDT&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=BETA%20J8

Apart from defect fixes and enhancements,
your favorite IDE and Compiler team has also
been busy with various QA activities
during this cycle.

ECJ8 - RC1 (with its new Java 8 type
inference engine)
        
        -
successfully builds the generics and lambda heavy JRE8 from source attachments.
        -
successfully builds the generics heavy OpenJFX projects.
        -
successfully builds the entire Eclipse SDK (~250 projects) artificially
boosted to be 1.8
           
  projects. No 335 or 308 stuff here, but a fair amount of generics.

While that shows we are on terra firma,
it doesn't obviously translate to defect free - 
We need you to test - NOW !

Post RC2 (March 7th) only ship stopper
category issues will be considered for inclusion in GA (March 18th).
So thanks in advance for getting started
early and for reporting problems promptly. 

Update site details and installation
instructions available here: https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT/Eclipse_Java_8_Support_(BETA)
For those in a hurry, here is the link
to the new update site: http://build.eclipse.org/eclipse/builds/4P/siteDir/updates/4.3-P-builds

Happy testing.
Thanks!
Srikanth - for the Eclipse Team.