What's New in Eclipse 4.25 (Platform)

Here are descriptions of some of the more interesting or significant changes made to the Eclipse Platform for the 4.25 release of Eclipse. They are grouped into:

Plug-in developers will also be interested in the corresponding What's new document in the plug-in developer's guide.

We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks.


Views, Dialogs and Toolbar

Open Resource dialog now defaults to "substring" search By default, the search pattern input to the Open Resource dialog is now searched anywhere in the file name. That means you no longer need to input a leading asterisk ("*") when searching from the middle of a file name.

If you want to enforce the old behavior, where "prefix-matching" search is expected, simply add a leading angle bracket (">") to the search pattern.

Text Editors

Preferences

Themes and Styling

General Updates