Eclipse IDE and Platform

Support for Latest Java

Supports Java 26 and provides the necessary tooling for development.

Improved Java Development Tooling

Better debugging through statement-level step filtering and byte code instruction highlighting, improved watch expression creation with correct evaluation context from variables view, and a new formatter option for new lines around java text blocks.

Proven Extensibility

Features a huge variety of platform plugins that will ease the addition of new functionality: check the marketplace.

Improved Platform

Enhancements to themes and Styling, including bullet style dirty indicator for unsaved changes and the removal of the classic theme. Improved multi-expression pasting in the expressions view and modernized compare editor defaults for smoother navigation and visualization.

Free and Open Source

Free and open source released under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0.

Improved Plug-in Development Tooling

Improvements in the Target Platform Editor including display of Installable Unit ID's and copy action in content tab. A new quick fix for adding compatible version ranges to required bundles and packages.

Community-powered

More and more, the Eclipse Platform and the IDE are sustained by individual contributors, here is how to contribute.

New and Noteworthy Get Started Documentation

Code Meets Community

63
Projects

71
Committers this quarter

85.2
Million lines of code

83
Contributors this quarter

Eclipse 2026-06 IDE Improvements

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The next Eclipse IDE release is coming in 2026-09

How to Contribute

A vast ecosystem of plugins from an active community

Testimonials

Renesas have been using the Eclipse IDE platform and C/C++ Development Toolkit for many years as the basis of our own IDE product. We joined the Eclipse IDE Working Group because it is a great way to get proactively involved in the IDE and make contributions to keep the platform active and thriving.

The Eclipse IDE Working Group enables Renesas to more easily make a contribution when we have limited committers working on the projects that we use. Sponsoring the working group also gives us an avenue to further contribute and invest in these projects. The Eclipse IDE Working Group gives us insight into the future direction of the IDE and gives us the opportunity to influence the future plans which will affect our own commercial product and business interest.

- Mark Goodchild, at Renesas

Sigasi has been a proud user, contributor, and consumer of Eclipse IDE for over 15 years. We’ve built our legacy with the IDE through JDT’s great Java support, and have been building our flagship Sigasi Studio IDE on the Eclipse platform. The IDE - in combination with many other great Eclipse technologies such as EMF and Xtext - has propelled us forward and gave us a tried and tested framework to build upon. The IDE is well known, supported, loved, and used in our sector and is the baseline of our product suite.

- Titouan Vervack, at Sigasi

Our goal is to make Spring developers around the world as productive as possible when working with Spring in the IDE of their choice. Hundreds of thousands of them use Eclipse and the Spring Tools extensions for Eclipse for their daily work. It is their backbone while working on (oftentimes business critical) Spring applications world-wide. We joined the Eclipse IDE WG in order to contribute back to the ecosystem, to support ongoing development of the Eclipse IDE, and to foster collaboration among others with similar interest in this IDE.

- Martin Lippert, at VMware