Releases
Since 2006, the Foundation has coordinated an annual Simultaneous Release. Each release includes the Eclipse Platform as well as a number of other Eclipse projects.
So far, each Simultaneous Release has occurred on the fourth Wednesday of June.
There is also a 3.8 release of Eclipse, but it is not promoted anywhere on their web site, directing interested users to 4.2. Version 3.8 exists purely to clean up the bugs in 3.7 "Indigo", and will not be maintained after 4.3 "Kepler" is released.
| Codename | Date | Platform version | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | 21 June 2004 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.0 | |
| N/A | 28 June 2005 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.1 | |
| Callisto | 30 June 2006 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.2 | Callisto projects |
| Europa | 29 June 2007 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.3 | Europa projects |
| Ganymede | 25 June 2008 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.4 | Ganymede projects |
| Galileo | 24 June 2009 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.5 | Galileo projects |
| Helios | 23 June 2010 | Older version, yet still supported: 3.6 | Helios projects |
| Indigo | 22 June 2011 | Older version, yet still supported: 3.7 | Indigo projects |
| Juno | 27 June 2012 | Current stable version: 4.2 | Juno projects |
| Kepler | 26 June 2013 (planned) | Future release: 4.3 | Kepler projects |
Some users may have an interest in Indigo or Eclipse 3.8 while performance problems remain in Juno. 3.8 provides bugfixes for Indigo & adds Java 7 support, but is not a 'packaged distribution' release. Features and plugins equivalent to a packaged distribution may be added from within the IDE (Help | Install New Software menu).
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