Eclipse Neon, the simultaneous release around the new Eclipse 4.6 platform, saw the light of day last week. 84 Eclipse projects have aligned their development cycles successfully — so there‘s much to tell! In this article Holger Voormann reveals his nine personal highlights from the Eclipse Neon release train.

The first update for Eclipse Mars is now available, featuring support for the build system Gradle. ‘Mars.1’ also marks an important change in the Eclipse update cycle – instead of two yearly service releases, we can expect more frequent updates in future.

Holger Voormann continues his discussion of Luna’s updates, taking us through the project highlights, the new IoT vogue and what Eclipse could and should be focussing on in future.

This lunar year we saw some major changes to the Eclipse IDE. Holger Voormann walks us through the good, the bad and the ugly modifications to Eclipse and Luna.

Holger Voorman gives an overview of 2011’s Simultaneous Release.