Eclipse IDE, Platform and SDK 2026-09 are now available!
Thank you to all the committers, contributors and project teams who made this community release possible.
Download: eclipseide.org/
What’s new, by Holger Voormann: piped.video/watch?v=slu7xCKa…#EclipseIDE#OpenSource
🚨It's here! The Eclipse IDE and Platform 2026-09 release is now live.
Download today for:
✨Java 26 support
🛠Improved Java development tooling
⚙️Platform enhancements
🔌Proven extensibility
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We’re looking for sessions featuring working implementations, approaches that succeeded, challenges encountered, and lessons learned.
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The Eclipse IDE and Platform (#RCP) needs to secure an additional €75k by the end of the year to maintain the essential release engineering capacity required to deliver reliable and timely releases.
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🙌The new Eclipse IDE and Platform release is available now.
Highlights include:
✅ Support for Java 26
✅ New compact source file wizard and forEach quick assist
✅ Eclipse CDT 12 with clangd and CMake improvements
Download now: hubs.la/Q04w5TM30#EclipseIDE#RCP
⏰Only 7 days to go until the Eclipse IDE and Platform 2026-09 release on 9 September.
Expect updated Java tooling, platform improvements, and ecosystem updates driven by the community.
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I have 5 free passes to offer for the AI Coding Workshop in Berlin 🇩🇪 on 15 September.
🎟️ First 5 people to contact me get a free pass! aieclipse.org/ai-workshop
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🖥️ Join developers, contributors, and companies working with the Eclipse Platform at SAP's office in St. Leon-Rot on 15 September 2026.
🤝 Developers, users, and newcomers are all welcome.
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Celestial release notes 🌘
Sun ✓ Moon ✓ Earth ✓
0 errors, 0 warnings, 1 total Eclipse.
Looks stable enough to ship.
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Happy to share the @EclipseFdn July committer profile featuring Neha Burnwal, an Eclipse committer contributing to Eclipse PDE and Eclipse Platform Debug. Proud to see contributors grow in the Eclipse IDE community. Read: newsroom.eclipse.org/eclipse…#EclipseIDE#OpenSource
👏 Congratulations to Hannes Wellmann @HannesWell on this well deserved recognition! Beyond m2eclipse, Hannes is also an Eclipse Platform & IDE Release Engineer, helping deliver our quarterly releases and sustain the Eclipse Platform & RCP ecosystem. #EclipseIDE#RCP#OpenSource
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🎉 Open VSX 1.0.0 is here, with 1.0.1 already out! A true community milestone. Thanks to all contributors, publishers, adopters and users. 🚀
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Hands-on workshop in Brussels, 23 June, #Cursor#Copilot#ClaudeCode or Eclipse #TheiaAI : workflows, context management, generated code review and modern open source environments.
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The Eclipse IDE 2026-03 release delivers support for the latest Java, improved Java development tooling, and more.
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🚀 @tfroment explores how our community is modernising the Eclipse Platform. Discover how Initiative 31 has proven a viable path toward an OS-agnostic SWT, validated a Skia-based prototype, and laid out a realistic roadmap for long-term evolution.
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