The first release candidate for Apache NetBeans 22 IDE has been released for testing.

Apache Netbeans 22-rc1

What's Changed

Gradle

• Skip unreadable multiproperties. by  @sdedic in  #7037
• Fixed concurrency issues in GradleDaemonExecutor by  @mbien in  #7030
• Gradle Project shall use the Java from the tooling not runtime. by  @lkishalmi in  #7024
• Upgrade Gradle Tooling API to 8.7 by  @lkishalmi in  #7215
• Better Gradle Project Creation Wizard by  @lkishalmi in  #7257

Maven

• Override conflicting dependencies with the finally used ones. by  @sdedic in  #7028
• Replace usage of package org.codehaus.plexus.util.IOUtil with Java native methods. by  @pepness in  #7076
• Fix empty Test Results with maven surefire plugin. by  @robfitz273k in  #7113
• Refactoring pom.xml as well when renaming class inside editor by  @Achal1607 in  #7104
• maven indexing: update lucene from 9.9.1 to 9.10.0. by  @mbien in  #7087
• Fixed false error thrown if parent pom version uses variable by  @Achal1607 in  #7158
• Remove experimental maven download feature. by  @mbien in  #7182
• Very simple support for native-image build for Helidon projects. by  @sdedic in  #7178
• Improve priming from LSP client by  @sdedic in  #7063

Ant

• Fix how to define fallback values for a jdk installation in some xml files by  @pepness in  #7031
• Add null check on originalEncoding parameter of EncodingModel by  @pedro-w in  #7060
• NB Build: Basic support for javac.release property. by  @mbien in  #7188

Java

• Computing hints based on custom preferences by  @Achal1607 in  #6760
• Minor bug fixes. by  @dbalek in  #7014
• Retire EOL Spring 3, 4 and update Spring 5 lib wrapper to 5.3.31. by  @mbien in  #6994
• Upgrade to JDK 22 javac (build 33). by  @lahodaj in  #6968
• Micronaut PUT/POST Data Endpoint Method generation added. by  @dbalek in  #7068
• Allow invocation of annotation Processor's getCompletions even if process fails. by  @lahodaj in  #6956
• Java Code Templates for List.of(), Map.of(), and Set.of() by  @lkishalmi in  #7102
• Fix: Settings persistence does not work for inner-class hints by  @mbien in  #7077
• LSP: Code completion for Java static members. by  @dbalek in  #7149
• Java Code Templates for records and sealed types by  @lkishalmi in  #7088
• Escape java hint fix String for html and fill in multi variables. by  @mbien in  #7075
• gracefully handle case, when encSimpleName is equal to simpleName by  @thurka in  #7176
• Entities from databases: Bugfix entity generation in plain java (non webapp) projects by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7163
• Deconflict some layer registration positions by  @mbien in  #7235
• [NETBEANS-3725] Preventing a crash in Flow due to unattributed ASTs (cleared nerrors prevents post attr to run in some cases). by  @lahodaj in  #7153
• Include api.dashboard in Javadoc. by  @neilcsmith-net in  #7272
• Added go to test ability for test/tested class in lsp server by  @Achal1607 in  #6834
• LSP: Generate Tests converted to Source Action. by  @dbalek in  #7276

PHP

• Fix incorrect formatting after use statements  #6980 by  @junichi11 in  #6981
• PHP: Implemented display of exception message when exception breakpoints are hit by  @troizet in  #6992
• Add the Auto Import feature for Code Completion by  @junichi11 in  #7027
• Fix incorrect code completion for use function  #7041 by  @junichi11 in  #7054
• PHP features for NB22 by  @junichi11 in  #7056
• Regenerate PHP signature files by  @junichi11 in  #7094
• PHP: Fixing a few bugs with phpDoc by  @troizet in  #7264
• PHP: Improved validation of rename refactoring by  @troizet in  #7273

Enterprise

• Allow for removing Micronaut symbols from index. by  @dbalek in  #6996
• Remove struts 1 support. by  @mbien in  #6987
• Micronaut: separate templates for creating plain controllers and controllers from repositories by  @dbalek in  #7071
• Micronaut: Detect and report duplicated endpoint URI paths. by  @dbalek in  #7090
• Add support for GlassFish 7.0.12 by  @pepness in  #7032
• Enable Servlet/Filter/Listener generation for Jakarta based projects by  @matthiasblaesing in  #6984
• Adding support for Wildfly 31 by  @febilus in  #7055
• Enable code completion in JSF and JSP pages in Jakarta based projects by  @matthiasblaesing in  #6985
• Final changes for JakartaEE adjustments by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7020
• Fix detection of support for generation session beans from entity classes and support jakarta package names by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7080
• Add support for Jakarta EE 11 by  @pepness in  #6988
• Micronaut: Code completion for repository finder methods enhanced. by  @dbalek in  #7115
• JDK 21 support to Payara Platform tools v6.x in Apache NetBeans IDE by  @jGauravGupta in  #6999
• Micronaut: Code completion for repository finder methods improved. by  @dbalek in  #7121
• Jakarta 11 license fixes by  @ebarboni in  #7138
• Remove JSF 1.2 from Libraries by  @lkishalmi in  #7184
• Set up locator services to fix NPE during Maven priming by  @sdedic in  #7227
• Micronaut: Making code completion tests more stable. by  @dbalek in  #7234
• Add support for GlassFish 7.0.13 and GlassFish 8.0.0-M3 by  @pepness in  #7204
• JsfVersion might not be known, so null case must be handled by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7216
• Import Payara Server configurations after a NetBeans upgrade by  @brunogptavares in  #7242
• Fix DB selection in JPA entity generation and improve derby integration by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7246
• XML Catalog GF/Payara: Ensure only existing schemas are resolved by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7218
• JSF: Support composite components in resource folder defined by jakarta.faces.WEBAPP_RESOURCES_DIRECTORY by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7236
• Add support for GlassFish 7.0.14 and GlassFish 8.0.0-M4 by  @pepness in  #7252
• JSF Facelets template wizard: Support JSF 4+ namespace by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7222
• Micronaut: code completion for update methods fixed. by  @dbalek in  #7262

Web

• Handle JAR-URL as codesource for javascript editor module by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7160
• JS: Handle meta-properties new.target and import.meta and improve code completion with newlines and comments by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7211
• Add support for Chrome DevTools Protocol for NodeJS Debugging by  @matthiasblaesing in  #4220
• #7245: better recovery from script engine failures by  @sdedic in  #7250
• Update libs.graaljs, libs.graalsdk and libs.truffleapi to 24.0.0 by  @sdedic in  #7268

Versioning

• New file created by copy/paste in git repo ignores commit exclusion flag by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7070
• move all git and versioning tests to the versioning CI job by  @mbien in  #7092
• Fixes all deprecated API usage in libs.jgit and update gitignore IO code by  @mbien in  #7093
• Add default Git Hyperlink Provider. by  @mbien in  #7147
• Git history and diff view improvements by  @mbien in  #7128
• Remove kenai code from versioning and bugtracking modules by  @mbien in  #7198
• Update versions after incompatible changes in versioning.util and mercurial by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7230

Editor

• Made Parsing API a bit more Functional by  @lkishalmi in  #7112
• Made HCL AST on records by  @lkishalmi in  #7097
• Generate Java Sources from ANTLR grammars pre-compile by  @lkishalmi in  #7186
• Upgrade Antlr3 and 4. New toml parsing library. by  @vieiro in  #7180
• Register comment/uncomment action in editor toolbar for properties and XML files by  @matthiasblaesing in  #7223

UI Changes

• Fix welcome page after config import. by  @mbien in  #7141
• Fix filtering of delete action on Favorites root nodes. by  @neilcsmith-net in  #7183
• Add common actions with shortcuts to editor background by  @neilcsmith-net in  #7171
• Update NetBeans icns icon to match macOS style guidlines by  @oyarzun in  #7132
• Tweak JOptionPane minimum size. by  @mbien in  #6577
• Integrate NB Favorites with the FileChooser shortcuts panel by  @mbien in  #7164
• Add Dashboard API and use to provide replacement for Welcome page by  @neilcsmith-net in  #7239
• Fix editor background shortcut colour for some non-default LAFs by  @mhalachev in  #7255

Platform

• Cleanup NetBeans Upgrader module. by  @mbien in  #7155

Language Server Protocol

• Including org.netbeans.modules.editor.tools.storage, as it is a required dependency as of recently. by  @lahodaj in  #6966
• LSP: Do not compute text edits in source actions on resolve call. by  @dbalek in  #6990
• NbLaunchDelegate fix and test multi line texts in suite.py by  @jtulach in  #7011
• ActionProvider & its Lookup consolidation in VSCode extension by  @jtulach in  #7105
• Update guava from 32.1.2-jre to 33.0.0-jre by  @mbien in  #7004
• LSP: Simplified server startup. by  @dbalek in  #7154
• LSP: TestClassGenerator should create the target folder if it is missing by  @dbalek in  #7177
• Fix LSP test using the New Gradle Wizard by  @lkishalmi in  #7267
• Integrate hints preferences option in the vscode extension by  @Achal1607 in  #7082

VSCode Extension

• README and CHANGELOG update by  @MartinBalin in  #7089

Maintenance

• Prepare CI for NB 22 and bump minimum JDK requirement to 17 by  @mbien in  #7019
• Remove pre-apache NetBeans 8.2 plugin portal from settings. by  @mbien in  #6991
• Code Cleanup/Deprecation fixes: Class#newInstance, underscore identifier, better temp files, avoid toUpper/LowerCase and more by  @mbien in  #7053
• Java 17 Support with Sigtest 2.2 from JakartaEE TCK Tools by  @lkishalmi in  #7117
• Update delete-artifact action and JDK 22 version to ga. by  @mbien in  #7181
• Upgrade commons libs, asm, jgit, jna, jackson, felix, jacoco and junit by  @mbien in  #7237
• Complete update to asm 9.7 by  @pepness in  #7251
• CI pipeline improvements (more label control) by  @mbien in  #7206

Other Changes

• Revert "NbLaunchDelegate fix and test multi line texts in suite.py" by  @neilcsmith-net in  #7061
• Adjusting some license texts. by  @lahodaj in  #7034
• Exclude JDK 17+ HCL module from graalvm tests by  @mbien in  #7169
• link visual api to effective site by  @ebarboni in  #7162
• Generate Java Sources from GoLang grammars pre-compile by  @lkishalmi in  #7189
• Changelog updates for upcoming VSNetBeans 21.9.9 release. by  @MartinBalin in  #7238
• Allow user to manipulate Truffle breakpoints by  @jtulach in  #6866
• Revert "Allow user to manipulate Truffle breakpoints" by  @mbien in  #7261
• HCL added Scoped Function name support (Terraform 1.8) by  @lkishalmi in  #7270

New Contributors

• @febilus made their first contribution in  #7055
• @robfitz273k made their first contribution in  #7113

Full Changelog:  21...22-rc1

Release 22-rc1 · apache/netbeans