Eclipse 3.1 M5 Ships!

The Eclipse Foundation had planned on releasing Eclipse 3.1 M5 today. The development team has had an impeccable reputation of releasing on time and on schedule. Unfortunately, this streak of successful may have ended. The most recent build appears to have failed. The culprit seems to be the 32bit version of the linux port for GTK2. The day hasn't ended yet, so let's just hope that they can salvage this situation and change this entry to "Eclipse 3.1 M5 Ships!"

Despite this, the windows build appears to be functional. So if you simply can't wait, make sure you get a copy before the planned outage this weekend! Here's a screenshot of the latest build:

The new Help View and Welcome launch bar. See proposal for more info.

[Update] Finally, Eclipse 3.5 M5 ships and almost like clockwork (of course not in our timezone) the release team has delivered! It appears to be the same 20050218-1600 build reported earlier. I guess a little hiccup on the GTK2 version and it has now been certified. Here now is the "New and Noteworthy" section. The most significant upgrades are:

• Many refactorings now support J2SE 5.0 constructs.
• Breakpoint grouping by working set and nested.
• Importing specific sets of preferences
• Controls in Form Text

Here is how "Essential Eclipse - The Visual Tutorial" looks like in the new M5 release:
Notice the new "F1" infopop behavior that opens up the Help View.


The tutorial live in action!