Eclipse 3.3 M6 has been released, with an impressive list in New and Noteworthy. With this release Eclipse now runs on Vista (Windows Presentation Foundation or the WPF). SWT is now exploiting more of the native features of the Vista platform. For example, using native double buffering on Vista win32 makes painting in double-buffered canvases twice as fast. As Chris Aniszczyk further points out, SWT has "gone wild" with support for WPF, JavaXPCOM, and OLE improvements. The Platform also has a new look. Previous milestones have included a presentation titled "3.3 Presentation (Experimental)". Its features are now part of the default presentation.
Other new features include:
Improved min/max workflow
Help will now display a series of links called breadcrumbs at the top of each document that appears in the table of contents, allowing for easier navigation and more contextual information
Categorised help search
Jetty-based implementation of the OSGi HTTP service added to the Platform SDK along with the bundles that provide JSP and extension registry support
PDE now supports plug-in refactoring by providing the ability to rename a plug-in ID and update all references to it in downstream plug-ins
PDE also provides three templates (Interactive, Browser, Extensible) for creating custom splash screens, complete with code, images and XML mark-up
The released has also added new features to the JDT, including improved null check detection, workspace relative paths for Javadoc location and more.
New & Noteworthy http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.3M6-200703231616/eclipse-news-M6.html