The Filters and Customization…​ menu in Project Explorer now shows an additional User filters tab which can be used to exclude some resources from Project Explorer based on their name.

Full name and regular expressions are supported.

The Error Log view has been moved from the PDE project to the Platform project. See bug 50517 for details.

A copy to clipboard action has been added to all tabs of the Installation Details dialog.

The Environment tab in a Launch configuration dialog supports copy & paste actions now. The environment variables are transferred as text data, so it is not only possible to copy & paste between two different launch configurations, but also between the launch configuration and e.g. some text editor or the command line.

This feature is available in all launch configurations which use the common Environment tab.

When Eclipse IDE is started for the first time or with a new workspace, it may not be intuitive for new users on how to proceed. To help the users in getting started, the following useful links have been provided to add a project to the workspace:

New mnemonics have been added for Export Entry…​ and Event Detail entries in the context menu of Error Log view.

The Dark theme for Mac has been improved to use the colors from the macOS system dark appearance. Some of the notable changes in Eclipse IDE are the dark window title bar, menus, file dialogs, combos and buttons.

Note: This change is available on macOS Mojave and later.

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The drawing operations have been improved in Windows so the custom drawn icons look better now. For example, check the close icon below.

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The startup and interactive performance of multiple operations has been improved again in this release.

Java 12 is out and Eclipse JDT supports Java 12 for 4.11 via Marketplace. The release notably includes the following Java 12 feature: JEP 325: Switch Expressions (Preview). Please note that this is a preview language feature and hence enable preview option should be on. For an informal introduction of the support, please refer to Java 12 Examples wiki.

JUnit 5.4 is here and Eclipse JDT has been updated to use this version.

JUnit Jupiter now allows test factory methods to return a single DynamicNode. The test_factory template has been updated to include DynamicNode in the return type.

The additional information pop-up of a content assist proposal now shows the default value of an annotation type element:

and the value of a constant:

If a service defined in a module-info.java file has an invalid service provider implementation, a Quick Fix (Ctrl + 1) is now available to create the new provider method:

Instead of a single line wrapping setting for binary expressions, there’s now a whole section of settings for various kinds of binary operators (multiplicative, additive, logical, etc.). There are settings for relational (including equality) and shift operators, which were not covered by the old setting. Also, string concatenation can now be treated differently from arithmetic sum.

The settings can be found in the Profile Editor (Preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter > Edit…​) under the Line Wrapping > Wrapping settings > Binary expressions subsection.

The white space around operators in binary expressions can now be controlled separately for different groups of operators, consistent with the line wrapping settings.

The new Binary operators sub-section has been added under White Space > Expressions in the Formatter profile editor.

A chain of nested conditional expressions (using ternary operator) can be now wrapped as a single group, with all of them indented at the same level. It’s only possible for right-sided nesting.

Find the Chained conditionals setting in the Profile Editor under the Line Wrapping > Wrapping settings > Other expressions subsection.

The Formatter Profile has a new setting that indents wrapped Javadoc tag descriptions. It’s called Indent other tag descriptions when wrapped, in contrast to the preexisting Indent wrapped @param/@throws descriptions setting. It affects tags like @return or @deprecated.

The settings can be found in the Profile Editor (Preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter > Edit…​) under the Comments > Javadocs section.

The Variables view now stores a history of the expressions used in the Detail pane. You can choose a previously entered expression for a variable from the new drop-down menu. The expression will be copied to the Detail pane where you can select it to perform various actions present in the context menu.