Start of 7.2.0. This page is Work in Progress.

Bnd/Bndtools 7.2.0

See the Release section of the README and the Installation page for where to find Bnd/Bndtools.

Code base requieres Java 17 (breaking if you are coming from bnd <=6.4.x)

• See Pull Requests
  • TBD update the URL date range

Bndtools

• TBD
• TODO Describe new Warning when using -include. See -include: Show warning on counter-intuitive overwriting of properties
• TODO mention new pedantic warning on duplicate properties in same .bnd file

Bugfixes

• TBD

Bndtools m2e

Bnd

• TBD

Bnd Command Line

• TBD

Documentation

• TBD

Bnd Maven Plugins

• TBD

Bnd Gradle Plugins

Backward compatibility

• All Bnd artifacts are built to run on Java 17 or later.
• Bndtools is built to run on Eclipse 4.25 (2022-09) or later. So Bndtools may not run on older versions of Eclipse.
• Bndtools m2e is built to run on Eclipse m2e 2.0.5 or later. So Bndtools m2e may not run on older versions of Eclipse m2e.
• The Bnd Maven plugins require a minimum of Maven 3.3.9. The bnd-generate-maven-plugin's poorly named goal bnd-generate has been renamed generate
• The Bnd Gradle plugins require a minimum of Gradle 7.3.
• The Bnd Gradle plugins and tasks underwent an update for 7.0. A number of previously deprecated conventions have been removed.

Known Issues

• Windows 10 users: Windows 10 Defender significantly slows down Eclipse, reason being Windows 10 Defender scanning the JAR files. The problem has been reported to Microsoft here. Until then, a workaround to this problem is to add Eclipse root directory to Windows 10 Defender’s exclusion list, detailed steps are shared here.

  Note: This is not just an Eclipse issue on Windows 10.

  See also Bnd Tips for Windows users.

Git log

* TBD