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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<title>What's New in 4.28 (PDE)</title>
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<h2>What's New in 4.28 (PDE)</h2>
<p>Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)
for the 4.27 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:</p>
<ul> <!-- NOTE: Sync ../topics_WhatsNew.xml with this! -->
<li><a href="#dialogs-wizards-views">Dialogs, Wizards and Views</a></li>
<li><a href="#editors">Editors</a></li>
<!--li><a href="#APITools">API Tools</a></li-->
<!--li><a href="#pde-launching">PDE Launching</a></li-->
<li><a href="#pde-compiler">PDE Compiler</a></li>
<li><a href="#security">Security</a></li>
<!--li><a href="#GeneralUpdates">General Updates</a></li-->
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<td id="dialogs-wizards-views" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Dialogs, Wizards and Views</h2></td>
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<tr id="automatic-manifest">
<td class="title"><a href="#automatic-manifest">Support for automatic Manifest generation</a></td>
<td>
<h3>PDE now support generating the manifest automatically</h3>
<p>Create a new Plugin project and select the standard OSGi framework type and select "Generate OSGi metadata automatically"</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/229280107-ebf3524b-0edf-4c15-bb7f-dc9e8468ad26.png"><img src="images/229280107-ebf3524b-0edf-4c15-bb7f-dc9e8468ad26.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
<p>Review and maybe adjust the usual settings like name and version</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/229279957-2f6f5eea-68d6-4b98-a189-a7b887025680.png"><img src="images/229279957-2f6f5eea-68d6-4b98-a189-a7b887025680.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
<p>Finish the wizard to get the project created</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/229280051-f78cec21-b7c0-40fc-bdfb-71af79f8d15b.png"><img src="images/229280051-f78cec21-b7c0-40fc-bdfb-71af79f8d15b.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
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<td id="editors" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Editors</h2></td>
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<tr id="cleanup-packages">
<td class="title"><a href="#cleanup-packages">New Manifest Cleanup action</a></td>
<td class="content">
<h3>Select the Organize Manifest Action</h3>
<p>(Alternatively select some projects and choose <code class="notranslate">Plugin Tools</code> > <code class="notranslate">Organize Manifests...</code>)
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/221243168-2ed5e872-f51e-499e-9dc2-ec96d5358da7.png"><img src="images/221243168-2ed5e872-f51e-499e-9dc2-ec96d5358da7.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
<h3>Choose the "Recompute Import-Package ..." cleanup</h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/221243400-152b02ef-582b-418e-b8fb-d7ad4d3a3789.png"><img src="images/221243400-152b02ef-582b-418e-b8fb-d7ad4d3a3789.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
<h3>The Manifest will be transformed and the result can be reviewed</h3>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/221243678-997c40a6-475c-4c9c-ae54-e6b38627fd6f.png"><img src="images/221243678-997c40a6-475c-4c9c-ae54-e6b38627fd6f.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr id="auto-complete-build-properties">
<!-- https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/pull/508 -->
<td class="title"><a href="#auto-complete-build-properties">Support for auto-completion for build.properties file</a></td>
<td>
<h3>PDE now support auto-completion of keys in the build.properties file.</h3>
<p>User does not need to remember the complete words in the build.properties header specification. They can start typing as much as they know, and invoke the auto-completion key bindings (usually ctrl+space) to obtain the list of potential valid headers that match the user's intent. </p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/auto-complete-build-properties.png"><img src="images/auto-complete-build-properties.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td id="pde-compiler" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>PDE Compiler</h2></td>
</tr>
<tr id="all-compilers-for-project-settings">
<!-- https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/pull/527 -->
<td class="title"><a href="#all-compilers-for-project-settings">Support for schema and feature compilers for project-specific preferences</a></td>
<td>
<h3>PDE now support all available compilers for project preferences</h3>
<p>the project specific preferences property page contained only plugin compiler (manifest compiler), while the schema and feature compiler settings are available in the workspace-wide settings. remove this restriction and open up all the compiler settings for project-specific settings too.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1331477/226815054-43d7e084-c4b4-4360-b174-b8f04ea998ab.png"><img src="images/226815054-43d7e084-c4b4-4360-b174-b8f04ea998ab.png" alt="grafik" style="max-width: 100%;" /></a></p>
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<td id="security" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Security</h2></td>
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<tr id="force-https">
<!-- https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/p2/issues/230 -->
<td class="title">CVE-2021-41033: Enforce https protocol</td>
<td class="content">
PDE's access to update sites when populating target platforms is affected by the enforcement of https access.
See the Platform's <a href="Platform.php#force-https">CVE-2021-41033: Enforce https protocol</a> section for details.
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