I’m happy to report that the Eclipse SDK integration builds starts in less than 5 seconds (~4900 ms) on my machine into an empty workspace. IIRC this used to be around 9 seconds 2 years ago. 4.13 (which was already quite a bit improved used around 5800ms (6887ms with EGit and Marketplace). For recent improvements in this release see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=550136 Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Finally we use a decent icon for Quick Access / Find Actions. This is now a button in the toolbar which allows you to trigger arbitrary commands in the Eclipse IDE.

So while you are still enjoying the 2019-09 release, the Eclipse team works hard to improve your UI experience. For example, the perspective switcher will look in the next release similar to the other toolbar entries, which removes several little UI bugs on various platforms. Here is a screenshot how it looks like in 2019-09. Here is a preview how it will look like in 2019-12. Other nice small enhancements are that the filter icons will actually look like filter icons and not like… moving something to the side.

Downloads have increased by more than 2,5 millions compared to last years release. The Eclipse Photon release was downloaded 1,8 million times. The Eclipse 2019-06 release was downloaded 4.3 millions times. Great news for the Eclipse IDE! That is more than 100% increase from June 2018 to the June 2019 release. While it is hard to speculate why this is happening we think that the increased stability and performance as well as modern solutions based on the language server for JavaScript and Rust have changed the perception of Eclipse.

As vogella company we prefer to use text for documentation, hence we are moving away from your current Wordpress based blog. This blog is based on the static site generator Hugo Using Hugo will allow us to publish more frequently news. Opening up Wordpress and logging in just does not feel like 2019. Stays tuned for news about Open Source and the vogella business.