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<h1>Eclipse Project 4.4 M4 - New and Noteworthy</h1>
<p>Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in milestone build M4 
  (December 13, 2013) which is now available for <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/" target="_top">download</a>.
  <br/>
  We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks, either via <b>Help &gt; Tips and Tricks...</b> or online for
  <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tips/platform_tips.html">Platform</a>,
  <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/tips/jdt_tips.html">JDT</a>, and
  <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tips/pde_tips.htm">PDE</a>.
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  <li><a href="#Platform">Platform</a></li>
  <li><a href="#JDT">JDT</a></li>
  <li><a href="#Equinox">Equinox</a></li>
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    <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Platform">Platform</td>
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   <tr id="split-editors"> 
    <td class="title">Split Editors</td>
    <td class="content">
     Finally, <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8009">Bug 8009</a> has been addressed! You can now split / unsplit
     the currently active editor. Just use one of the new key bindings
     supplied in Luna M4:
     <ul>
     <li><b>Ctrl+_</b> splits the editor one above the other</li>
     <li><b>Ctrl+{</b> splits the editor side by side</li>
     <li>Re-applying the command to an already split editor reverts it to only have one pane.</li>
     </ul>
    <p><img src="images/split_editors.png" alt=""/></p>
    <p>Try it out on <i>your</i> favorite editor!</p>
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  <tr id="swt-needs-1.5"> 
    <td class="title">SWT requires JRE 1.5</td>
    <td class="content">
      The SWT project has moved to Java 1.5 compliance level. SWT applications will now require JRE 1.5 or higher to run.
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    <td colspan="2" class="section" id="JDT">JDT</td>
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  <tr id="beta-java8"> 
    <td class="title">Java&trade; 8 feature patch</td>
    <td class="content">
        The Eclipse support for Java&trade; 8 is making very good progress. Interested parties can take a sneak preview using the following
        <a href="https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT/Eclipse_Java_8_Support_%28BETA%29"> install instructions</a>.
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  <tr id="ecj-needs-1.5"> 
    <td class="title">ECJ requires 1.6 JRE</td>
    <td class="content">
     The JDT Core project has moved to Java 1.6 compliance level. This means the command line compiler now requires JRE 1.6 or above to run.
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  <tr id="quickfix-create-for-loop">
    <td class="title">Quick Fixes to create 'for' loops</td>
    <td class="content">
      A set of new quick fixes can create <code>for</code> loops that iterate over a given expression.
      <p>
      For arrays:
      </p>
      <ul>
      <li>Create an enhanced <code>for</code> loop</li>
      <li>Create a <code>for</code> loop using an index</li>
      </ul>
      <p><a href="images/quickfix-create-for-loop-array.txt"><img src="images/quickfix-create-for-loop-array.png" alt=""/></a></p>
      For <code>Collection</code>s:
      <ul>
      <li>Create an enhanced <code>for</code> loop</li>
      <li>Create a <code>for</code> loop using an <code>Iterator</code></li>
      </ul>
      For <code>List</code>s:
      <ul>
      <li>Create a <code>for</code> loop using an index and <code>get(i)</code></li>
      </ul>
      <p><a href="images/quickfix-create-for-loop-collection.txt"><img src="images/quickfix-create-for-loop-collection.png" alt=""/></a></p>
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  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Equinox">Equinox</td>
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    <td class="title">Framework Trace Options</td>
    <td class="content">
      The new OSGi framework implementation now supports many of the 
      previously supported trace options and adds a few more trace options
      to help debug issues with the framework.  The following trace options 
      are now implemented:
      <dl>
         <dt>debug/bundleTime</dt>
           <dd>Prints out timing information for bundle activation</dd>
         <dt>debug/cachedmanifest</dt>
           <dd>Debug the caching of bundle headers</dd>
         <dt>debug/location</dt>
           <dd>Prints out location service debug information</dd>
         <dt>debug/startlevel</dt>
           <dd>Prints out start level service debug information</dd>
         <dt>monitor/activation</dt>
           <dd>Monitor persistent bundle activation</dd>
         <dt>resolver/providers</dt>
           <dd>Prints out information about matching capabilities returned to the resolver and why any were filtered out</dd>
         <dt>resolver/hooks</dt>
           <dd>Prints out information about capabilities or resources that were filtered by resolver hooks</dd>
         <dt>resolver/uses</dt>
           <dd>Prints out information about uses constraint violations</dd>
         <dt>resolver/wiring</dt>
           <dd>Prints out wiring information after the resolve process completes</dd>
         <dt>resolver/report</dt>
           <dd>Prints out the resolution report information</dd>
         <dt>resolver</dt>
           <dd>enables all resolver trace options</dd>
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<p>The above features are just the ones that are new since the previous milestone
build. Summaries for earlier Luna milestone builds:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M3-201310302000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M3 (November 1, 2013)</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M2-201309182000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M2 (September 20, 2013)</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M1-201308072000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M1 (August 9, 2013)</a></li>
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