RHEA-2015:0882 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated devtoolset-3-eclipse packages that fix numerous bugs and add various
enhancements are now available for Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.1.

Description

The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development
environments (IDEs), server-side applications, desktop applications, and
everything in between. The devtoolset-3-eclipse packages provide the Red Hat
Developer Toolset version of Eclipse.

The devtoolset-3-eclipse packages have been upgraded to upstream version 4.4.2,
which provides numerous bug fixes and optimizations over the previous version,
including:

• The stability of the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) on GTK3 (on Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 7) has been improved.

• Support for Java 8 has been improved both in the compiler and editing

capabilities.
(BZ#1175105)

The devtoolset-3-eclipse-cdt packages, which contain Eclipse CDT (C/C++
Development Tooling), have been upgraded to version 8.6.0. This release includes
a number of enhancements, including the following:

• New filtering options have been added to the Search view.
• A new preference option has been added for defining the style of the Include

Guard code.

• The "autocomplete" and "content assist" functions have been improved.
• Refactoring has been improved to properly update include statements.
• Support has been added for "Save" actions similarly to JDT.
• The GDB information provided during debugging has been enhanced.
• The "remote launch" function has been enhanced to allow in-place editing of

connections.
(BZ#1175107)

The devtoolset-3-eclipse-mylyn packages, which provide the Mylyn task-management
subsystem, have been upgraded to version 3.14.2. This new release includes the
following change:

• Wikitext now supports the Markdown language and can output the XHTML format.

(BZ#1175108)

The devtoolset-3-eclipse-linuxtools packages, which provide the Eclipse Linux
Tools plug-in collection have been upgraded to version 3.2.0. Changes in this
release include:

• The GCov and GProf plug-ins have been improved to automate the setting of

compiler options and provide a better vizualization of data.

• The LibHover plug-in has been improved to parse Devhelp data significantly

faster.
(BZ#1175106)

The devtoolset-3-eclipse-egit package, which contains EGit - a Git integration
plug-in for Eclipse, and devtoolset-3-eclipse-jgit packages, whic provide JGit -
a Java library implementing Git, have been upgraded to version 3.6.1. This
update includes:

• Additional options have been added to multiple JGit commands.
• Support for Git submodules has been added to JGit.
• The interactive rebase view has been improved.
• Stash actions are now exposed in the user interface.

(BZ#1175110)

Users of devtoolset-3-eclipse are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1173633 - Trac repository cannot be validated
• BZ - 1173639 - Sometimes I cannot file a bug to this Bugzilla via Mylyn
• BZ - 1175106 - Update Eclipse Linux Tools
• BZ - 1175107 - Update CDT
• BZ - 1175108 - Update Mylyn
• BZ - 1175110 - Update Egit/Jgit
• BZ - 1183921 - devtoolset-3-ide does not install on RHEL 6.[45]

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)