Tycho/Release Notes/0.25

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New and Noteworthy

Complete list of bug fixes and enhancements in 0.25.0

p2

• p2 repository index files are now xz-compressed by default for better compression ratios (with jar/xml index files kept by default as a fallback for compatibility with pre-Mars p2 clients (bug 471693)

Test Execution

• Support for JUnit categories has been added. (bug 386964). You can now include and/or exclude tests annotated with @Category.

Other

• The eclipse bundles used by Tycho internally (mostly p2) have been updated to Neon M6 (bug 485427)
• As a consequence, Tycho now requires Java 8 to run
  • Note that you can still build against and run tests with other JDKs with maven toolchains
• tycho-versions-plugin will now extend version ranges if the new version would be outside the range (bug 477328 and (bug 478996)

Feature Version Qualifiers

When computing aggregated qualifiers for features, Tycho will now recognize timestamps in the following form anywhere within the qualifier of direct included features or bundles (bug 482086):

• yyyyMMddHHmm
• yyyyMMdd-HHmm
• yyyyMMdd

List of JVM arguments for the EclipseRun Plugin

The one-line-parameter <argLine> has been deprecated. JVM parameters can be configured now as a list of arguments (bug 486799):

 <jvmArgs> 
   <args>-Xdebug</args>
   <args>-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=1044</args>
 </jvmArgs>