The release of the integrated development environment Apache NetBeans 25 has been presented, providing support for programming languages Java SE, Java EE, PHP, C/C++, JavaScript, Rust, and Groovy. Ready-made builds are available for Linux (snap, flatpak), Windows, and macOS.
Among the proposed changes:
- In the code editor, navigation in the refactoring tool has been improved, tab order preservation for projects has been ensured, and change tracking has been enhanced.
- A lighter library JSVG is now used for SVG loading instead of Batik.
- New icons in SVG format have been proposed.
- The dialog for selecting directories in the file system has been improved.
- The colors of active tabs and highlighted areas have been changed.
- The implementation of the option to show parent directories in tab headers has been improved.
- The SQL editor now supports input autocompletion for individual matching snippets without being tied to the start of a word (for example, entering 'ne' will suggest 'one').
- Support for build systems Ant, Gradle, and Maven has been enhanced. For Gradle, the ability to run tests in parallel mode (nbls.run.test.parallel) has been added. For Maven, dependency resolution has been improved. Ant has been made compatible with Payara Server running in a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) environment.
- Expanded capabilities related to the use of servers LSP (Language Server Protocol) and the application of the VSCode plugin.
- For Java code, the autocompletion of elements in switch blocks has been improved. The built-in version of Apache Tomcat has been updated to version 9.0.96. Support for TextMate grammars has been updated. The built-in Java compiler nb-javac (modified javac) has been updated to version JDK 24b29. Support for the Nashorn 15.x JavaScript engine has been added for JDK >= 15. The handling of bracket closures during code formatting has been improved.
- Groovy libraries have been updated to version 3.0.23.
- In the PHP environment, support for level 10 checks provided by the static analyzer PHPStan has been added. New features introduced in the PHP 8.4 release have been supported.
- Support added server Applications GlassFish 7 (up to version 7.0.21) and GlassFish 8 (up to the beta release 8.0.0-M9).
- Support for the Jakarta EE 11 platform has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru
