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Platform/Plan/4.9
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Planning page for Photon (4.9)
This page discusses target fixes and improvements to the Eclipse Platform for the 2018-09 release. The note and newsworthy of all Eclipse top-level projects can be found under Eclipse 4.9 New and Noteworthy.
Performance and stability
The Eclipse Platform team need to continue to improve stability and performance of the user interface. This includes improving the initial startup time of the Eclipse IDE as well as improving the interactive performance.
Simplify and improve the user experience
The Eclipse Platform team need to continue to simplify and improve the user workflow in the Eclipse IDE.
Improve code quality
To make the code basis maintainable and active for new contributors and committers, the Eclipse Platform team will continue to reduce compiler warnings, Sonar warnings and the like. We will also continue to remove dead code and to deprecated outdated API.
Provide Minimap
The Eclipse Platform plans to provide a Minimap view. See Bug 321410 and connected for details.
Link Handling for custom URI schemes
The Eclipse Platform plans to provide a possibility to add link handlers for custom URI schemes. See Bug 530833 and connected for details.