What's New in 4.20 (PDE)

Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) for the 4.20 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:

Dialogs, Wizards and Views

Preference option enabling non-disposed SWT Resources error handling

The preference option Enable SWT reporting of non-disposed resources when creating a new launch configuration has been added to Plug-in Development preference page to enable adding -Dorg.eclipse.swt.graphics.Resource.reportNonDisposed=true to VM arguments when creating a new launch configuration.

API Tools

Preference option for "Missing EE descriptions" removed The preference option Missing execution environment descriptions option in Plug-in Development > API Errors/Warning preference page is now removed. The functionality to report such errors/warning and their quick-fixes are also removed.

Report multiple increase of the service segment or minor version API tools now reports if the service or the minor version is increased multiple times in a single release.

PDE Compiler

The "not a perfect match" problem has a quick fix to change the BREE The "not a perfect match" problem has a quick fix to change the BREE.