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NetBeans 6.0 M8 Report

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StabilizationMar 19th-Mar 25th
ReleasedMar 29

What's New and Noteworthy

M8 contains new features you might find interesting. Following features and improvements were added and tested in M8:
  • UML has been added to NetBeans 6.
  • Profiler improvements
  • New, editable Diff
  • More CVS and SVN RFEs
  • Added support for JUnit 4 tests
  • Visual Web capability integrated with the standard NetBeans web project type
  • Faster Go To Type
  • and many others

There is a list of new M8 features for the complete picture of news in M8.
M9 will be stabilized during a week of Apr 18th.

Quality status

Stoppers fixed were:

  • 97970 - entity from db wizard generates plain classes
  • 97998 - Changes not saved to project.xml
  • 98547 - PaintApp Sample Application doesn't work
  • 98618 - Renaming of whole project causes build.xml cannot be loaded
  • 98778 - Missing SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY in generated stub
  • 98547 - PaintApp Sample Application doesn't work
  • 98570 - property event not sent when doc is well-formed
  • 98618 - Renaming of whole project causes build.xml cannot be loaded
  • 98861 - AssertionError from TokenListUpdater.update
  • 98969 - (Java)DataObject + editor leak
  • 99000 - Wrong name of Class when you create Visual MIdlet
  • 99033 - [New SPT] Filter value is not updated when project is change
  • 99120 - Profiler slows down typing into the editor
  • 99125 - [New SPT] Profiling is always run in sampled mode
  • 99140 - Stack integrity violation

Bug counts

Some bug numbers for stabilization week
  • 715 bugs RESOLVED
  • 460 of them were FIXED
  • 520 filled

The report for Visual Web can be found here.