Noteworthy changes in NetBeans 8.1:
Updated GlassFish server to the version 4.1.1.
Updated Apache Tomcat server to the version 8.0.27.
JUnit is now included in the NetBeans bundles.
Java: improved editing, improved support for Maven,
support for Maven 3.3, improved refactoring, improved profiler,
improved debugger, support for Gluon Scene Builder,
support for WildFly 9 and 10.
JavaScript/HTML5: support for Knockout 3.2.0, support
for Angular 1.2 and 1.3, new support of Jade Template Engine.
Node.js support: editor, debugger, Grunt support, Gulp support.
JavaScript: editor improvements, JSDoc improvements, debugger.
JSON editor improvements.
PHP: Phing support, Codeception support, Nette Tester support.
Remove support for JDK older than JDK 1.5, accept OpenJDK 8.
There is a lot of changes since NetBeans 3.5.1.
NetBeans IDE 8.0.2 Information
* Bug fixes in the installer for OS X 10.9.5 and 10.10
* Bug fixes included in Patches 1, 1.1, 2 for NetBeans IDE 8.0
and Patches 1.1, 2 for NetBeans IDE 8.0.1
* GlassFish 4.1 and Tomcat 8.0.15 bundled with the IDE
* Support for WildFly Server and WebLogic Server 12.1.3
* Added support for RequireJS
* Grunt tasks available in the popup menu for web projects
* Support for debugging JavaScript files with Karma
* Node.JS and Bower modules can be installed directly within the IDE
* Improved Git support
NetBeans IDE 8.0 New Feature Highlights
Java
* JDK 8 support: tools and editor enhancements for working with
Profiles, Lambdas, and Streams.
* Java SE Embedded support to deploy, run, debug or profile Java
SE applications on an embedded device, such as Raspberry PI,
directly from the NetBeans IDE.
* Java ME Embedded 8 support.
* Several Java Editor enhancements, such as many new Java hints,
Javadoc shown as tooltip, instant rename enhancements, and code
completion exclusions.
* Improved integration with JavaFX Scene Builder.
Java EE
* New PrimeFaces code generators, to generate complete PrimeFaces
skeleton CRUD applications with connection to databases.
* Support for WildFly Server and WebLogic 12.1.3
* Bundled GlassFish updated to 4.1
* Tomcat 8.0.15 and TomEE support, including out-of-box JPA, JSF
and JAXRS configuration and data sources.
* Facelets Template Client wizard asks for sections to generate.
* Code completion for template sections, and within JSF composite
components.
* Enhanced CDI integration in beans.xml file, with code completion
for alternative classes and stereotypes.
* More flexibility for JPA hints, which can be disabled, enabled,
and warning level changed.
Maven
* New Maven graph layout switcher.
* Navigator shows POM goals.
* Additional web resources shown in Projects window.
* Improved Maven performance when re-running Web applications.
* Improved Maven performance of "Apply Code Changes" while
debugging.
JavaScript
* RequireJS Support
* AngularJS navigation via hyperlinking from view to controllers.
* Many enhancements for AngularJS in code completion between
artifacts, such as code completion in the view to properties
defined in controllers.
* Code completion support in Knockout templates.
* New editor support for creating JQuery widgets and plugins.
* Debugging of JavaScript code executed in Nashorn (JDK 8+) script
engine is supported.
HTML5
* Android 4.4 WebKit debugging supported for Cordova 3.3+.
* New Karma test runner support.
* New Grunt build support.
* Avatar.js is available in the Plugin Manager, via Tools | Plugins.
After installation, you're able to create Avatar.js projects.
PHP
* Support for PHP 5.6.
* New support for Nette tester.
* New support for PHP CS Fixer.
* Enhancements for Twig, Latte, and Neon.
* Composer supported by New Project Wizard.
C/C++
* New Breadcrumbs feature for navigation in editor.
* New GDB Console to enable usage of command line GDB mode.
* New hints and code completions.
* Improved remote performance.
Platform
* Enhanced flexibility in the Window System, such as split of
editor via drag and drop, and a new API to customize editor tabs.
* New design of user interface for managing Project Groups.
* Files in folders can be sorted by extension.
Miscellaneous
* Profiler enhancements: Profile on embedded platforms, show
thread owning monitor for lock contention, and improved Threads view.
* Versioning enhancements: Support for Subversion 1.8 working
copies, various enhancements to Git and Mercurial support.
* Task Schedule and other new features in Tasks window for bug tracking.
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting bsd.builtin.mk as well as all of
the builtin.mk files to follow the new example in bsd.builtin.mk.
The loop to include all of the builtin.mk files needed by the package
is moved from bsd.builtin.mk and into bsd.buildlink3.mk. bsd.builtin.mk
is now included by each of the individual builtin.mk files and provides
some common logic for all of the builtin.mk files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one builtin.mk file includes another.
The second major change is teach the builtin.mk files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the builtin.mk files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing builtin.mk and version.mk files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The builtin.mk
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the version.mk file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the buildlink3.mk files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various builtin-imake.mk
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include
x11.buildlink3.mk instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for buildlink3.mk
and builtin.mk files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on buildlink3.mk files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package buildlink3.mk should also include x11.buildlink3.mk
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of x11.buildlink3.mk have been removed.
from pkgsrc-wip, packaged by drue at users dot sf.net.
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