[cross-project-issues-dev] Staging for SimRel 2024-12 M1 is Complete

[Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you don't read the details about org.junit and hamcrest below, bad things could happen (but probably not).

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The staging repository content of

      https://download.eclipse.org/staging/2024-12/
    
    
    has been promoted to the following repository for 2024-12 M1:
    
    
      https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2024-12/202410041000/
    
    
    This is ready for consumption by EPP.
    
    
    It will become visible in the composite as scheduled Friday, October
    4, 2024:

  https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2024-12

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Jetty 12.0.14 was released to Maven Central just the other day and is also available here:

  https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/maven-jetty/release/latest

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I produced a new milestone of Orbit early

  https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-aggregation/milestone/latest
  https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-aggregation/2024-12

There are lots of updates including a new version of Guava:

  https://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/simrel/orbit-aggregation/table.html

Also notable is the subtle change to org.junit.  Here's some background:

 https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/pull/2343
 https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/pull/2405

The bottom line, if you are using the bundles org.hamcrest.core and/or org.hamcrest.library directly, you should use org.hamcrest instead.  It's a drop-in replacement and is re-exported by the latest version of org.junit so you will likely end up using org.hamcrest without knowing it:

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FYI, the Platform now supports riscv64 architecture for Linux, JustJ provides JREs for it (though currently only has nightly builds) and the Eclipse Installer supports it too (though only the Platform SDK product can be installed):

  https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/issues/2310

I plan to contribute an early pre-m2 Platform 4.34 I-Build  to SimRel to investigate producing EPP packages as soon as EPP's M1 is completed.

  https://github.com/eclipse-packaging/packages/issues/213

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The duplicates are doing poorly primarily because RAP did not contribute updates for M1.