Build Notes for TM 3.1
Jun 17, 2009

New and Noteworthy
Getting Started

The RSE User Documentation has a Tutorial that guides you through installation, first steps, connection setup and important tasks.

If you want to know more about future directions of the Target Management Project, developer documents, architecture or how to get involved, the online Getting Started page as well as the TM and RSE FAQ are the best places for you to get started.

API Status

For the upcoming TM 3.1 release, only backward compatible API changes are planned, especially in order to support improved componentization and UI/Non-UI splitting. In the interest of improving the code base, though, please take care of API marked as @deprecated in the Javadoc. Such API is prime candidate to be removed in the future. Also, observe the API Tooling tags such as @noextend and @noimplement.

API Specification Updates since TM 3.0
The following lists amendments to API specifications that are worth noticing, and may require changes in client code even though they are binary compatible. More information can be found in the associated bugzilla items.
  • TM 3.1M7 API Specification Updates
  • TM 3.1M6 API Specification Updates
    • None.
  • TM 3.1M5 API Specification Updates
    • The TerminalState.OPENED state has been removed. This was provisional "internal" API, so this change does not constitute an official API change. Still, in order to properly support all update scenarios for consumers of the previous provisional API, the bundle version of org.eclipse.tm.terminal has been moved up to 3.0.0 [262996].
    • The SshShellService, SshHostShell, TelnetShellService, TelnetHostShell and related classes have been removed and replaced by a generic Terminal-to-HostShell adapter which can re-use the functionality across the Telnet and SSH plugins. In order to ensure proper version computing on update, the following plugin versinos were changed:
      • org.eclipse.rse.services.ssh changed from 2.1.0 to 3.0.0
      • org.eclipse.rse.services.telnet changed from 1.1.0 to 2.0.0
      These changes do not indicate breaking public API since the removed classes were actually never API, but consumers should be aware of the probably unexpected major version bump, which was required due to the internal version dependency structure [261478].
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Known Problems and Workarounds
The following critical or major bugs are currently known. We'll strive to fix these as soon as possible.
  • bug 268463 - maj - [ssh] [sftp] SftpFileService.getFile(...) fails with cryptic jsch exception (4)
  • bug 260796 - maj - [ftp] Fetching folder job sometimes runs forever with Outpost firewall
  • bug 248913 - maj - [ssh] SSH subsystem loses connection
  • bug 238156 - maj - Export/Import Connection doesn't create default filters for the specified connection
  • bug 226564 - maj - [efs] Deadlock while starting dirty workspace
  • bug 222380 - maj - [persistence][migration][team] Subsystem association is lost when creating connection with an installation that does not have subsystem impl
  • bug 218387 - maj - [efs] Eclipse hangs on startup of a Workspace with a large efs-shared file system on a slow connection
  • bug 208185 - maj - [terminal][serial] terminal can hang the UI when text is entered while the backend side is not reading characters
  • bug 198395 - maj - [dstore] Can connect to DStore with expired password
  • bug 175300 - maj - [performance] processes.shell.linux subsystem is slow over ssh
Use this query for an up-to-date list of major or critical bugs.

The TM 3.1 Known Issues and Workarounds Wiki page gives an up-to-date list of the most frequent and obvious problems, and describes workarounds for them.
If you have other questions regarding TM or RSE, please check the TM and RSE FAQ

Click here for a complete up-to-date bugzilla status report, or here for a report on bugs fixed so far.