Description
This is release 2.4 of the jazz development environment. This increment introduces productivity features that make plugin development more straight forward. Also, some work went into maintenance such as upgrading dependencies, improving logging and error messages and doing some refactoring work.
Summary
- Upgrading is safe, all previous stable features have only received bug fixes where necessary
- To be extra safe, consider creating a backup before upgrading
Upgrading
Refer to the Version 2.1 release for upgrade instructions, as they are practically identical in this release. Especially, make sure to run the ./gradlew upgrade task after pulling in the newest changes.
Features
- 7.0 Support. Download Page
- A download task for downloading sdk and server files directly from IBM. Wiki link
- A task for deploying plugins to a local JTS server for integration testing. Documentation coming soon.
- Automatic configuration of a local JTS server. Documentation coming soon.
- Support for the new Windows Terminal. Updated wiki on windows command line
- Improvements to the creation of new sdk configurations, including automated download of required dropins. Upgraded wiki to newest changes
- Made version for sdk initialization configurable Upgraded wiki to newest changes
Bug Fixes
- Fix unexpected empty directories causing a Null Pointer Exception in the Info Task
- Added a work-around for feature based launches causing launch errors after a fresh initialization
Known Bugs
- The bootstrap task doesn't copy the
jts_locations.cfgfile. After bootstrap, upgrade must be run to avoid an error when attempting to use the local deploying capabilities of the jazz-debug-environment.