3.6 KiB
Release Notes and New & Noteworthy page
This is the New & Noteworthy page for CDT 12.0 which is part of Eclipse 2025-03 Simultaneous Release
Release Notes
Minimum version of GLIBC required
The minimum version of GLIBC required is now 2.31. This version can be found in Ubuntu 20.04 and later, RHEL 9.0 and later and other distros as well. CDT's native components will likely work with older versions of glibc too, assuming they provide the required APIs for Eclipse CDT.
Managed Build
New C Project and new C++ Project available via New C/C++ Project wizard
The separate new C and C++ project wizards are now exclusively available via the New C/C++ Project wizard. From the second page of New C/C++ Project wizard select C Managed Build to access the New C Project wizard and select C++ Managed Build to access the New C++ Project wizard.
See Issue #965 for additional details, including how to restore these menu entries if your Eclipse CDT product depends on it.
New Makefile Project with Existing Code available via Existing Code as Makefile Project import wizard
The Makefile Project with Existing Code wizard is no longer available in the new project wizard. For users who need it, it remains available in the Existing Code as Makefile Project import wizard. Most users should be using the Makefile project type in the New C/C++ Project wizard.
See Issue #965 for additional details, including how to restore these menu entries if your Eclipse CDT product depends on it.
Other objects for GNU archive files
The managed build system now provides an option to specify other object files to be included when building GNU archive files:
The new option applies to static library projects using a Cross GCC, Cygwin GCC, Linux GCC or MinGW GCC toolchain.
Debug
DSF Preference Pages always visible
The DSF Preference pages (Preferences -> C/C++ -> Debug -> GDB and children) are not always shown to users. Prior to CDT 12 these were not visible until after the first debug session was started.
At the first debug session CDT enables the activity for DSF (org.eclipse.cdt.debug.dsfgdbActivity), with this change nothing in CDT is bound to this activity key anymore.
Preferences -> Run/Debug -> View Performance relocated
The View Performance preference page, which is CDT specific, has been relocated to the Preferences -> C/C++ -> Debug section of preferences. This only affects where in the Preferences tree the page is located, the preferences and key names have not changed. In addition, this page is always visible.
API Changes, current and planned
Breaking API changes
Please see CHANGELOG-API for details on the breaking API changes in this release as well as future planned API changes.
Noteworthy Issues and Pull Requests
See Noteworthy issues and PRs for this release in the issue/PR tracker.
Improved launch configuration for CMake and other Core Build System projects
The CMake and CBS Makefile project launch configurations for local applications have an improved Main tab and new Arguments, Environment, Debugger, Source, and Common tabs.