The Eclipse Foundation and its community of projects and contributors produce releases on a coordinated schedule that are often referred to as simultaneous release, coordinated release or release train of Eclipse. This page provides an index of existing simultaneous releases from the current and previous years.
Release name |
Platform version |
Release |
Links |
|---|---|---|---|
2026-06 (Future release) |
4.40 |
June 10, 2026 |
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2026-03 (Current release) |
4.39 |
March 11, 2026 |
|
2025-12 (Last release) |
4.38 |
December 10, 2025 |
|
2025-09 |
4.37 |
September 10, 2025 |
|
2025-06 |
4.36 |
June 11, 2025 |
|
2025-03 |
4.35 |
March 12, 2025 |
|
2024-12 |
4.34 |
December 04, 2024 |
|
2024-09 |
4.33 |
September 11, 2024 |
|
2024-06 |
4.32 |
June 12, 2024 |
|
2024-03 |
4.31 |
March 13, 2024 |
|
2023-12 |
4.30 |
December 06, 2023 |
|
2023-09 |
4.29 |
September 13, 2023 |
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2023-06 |
4.28 |
June 14, 2023 |
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2023-03 |
4.27 |
March 15, 2023 |
When adding a new simultaneous release schedule,
first add the *json file containing the dates for M1, M2, M3, RC1, RC2 and GA as follows:
wiki/SimRel/<SimRel-Name>_dates.json
Here <SimRel-Name> is, for example, 2025-12.
To generate the wiki details page for that release, the following command can be run from the root of this repository, which requires Java-25 or later:
java scripts/generateReleaseDetails.java <SimRel-Name>
You may be wondering why this format for the wiki pages?
The information in this folder was previously hosted at https://wiki.eclipse.org/,
but in early 2024 that wiki was made read-only.
The GitHub built-in wiki was determined to be insufficiently flexible for managing and authoring content.
- Non-committers can't easily contribute due to lack of support for pull requests.
- Folder nesting is not fully supported.
- Overall navigation is somewhat limited.
Therefore simply storing the files as markdown directly in this repository was deemed to be the best solution.
The Eclipse Simultaneous Release has been producing regular releases since 2006. This section contains the historical release details for all these older releases.
Older releases details
Since the 2018-09 release, the cadence changed from one annual main release plus 3 update/service releases to a 13-week cycle with rolling releases.
Release name |
Platform version |
Release |
Links |
|---|---|---|---|
2022-12 |
4.26 |
December 07, 2022 |
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2022-09 |
4.25 |
September 14, 2022 |
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2022-06 |
4.24 |
June 15, 2022 |
|
2022-03 |
4.23 |
March 16, 2022 |
|
2021-12 |
4.22 |
December 08, 2021 |
|
2021-09 |
4.21 |
September 15, 2021 |
|
2021-06 |
4.20 |
June 16, 2021 |
|
2021-03 |
4.19 |
March 17, 2021 |
|
2020-12 |
4.18 |
December 16, 2020 |
|
2020-09 |
4.17 |
September 16, 2020 |
|
2020-06 |
4.16 |
June 17, 2020 |
|
2020-03 |
4.15 |
March 18, 2020 |
|
2019-12 |
4.14 |
December 18, 2019 |
|
2019-09 |
4.13 |
September 18, 2019 |
|
2019-06 |
4.12 |
June 19, 2019 |
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2019-03 |
4.11 |
March 20, 2019 |
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2018-12 |
4.10 |
December 19, 2018 |
|
2018-09 |
4.9 |
September 19, 2018 |
Before the 2018-09 release, each main release typically occurred in June, with follow-up update releases in September (*.1), December (*.2), and March (*.3).
Release name |
Platform version |
Main release |
.1 |
.2 |
.3 |
Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Photon |
4.8 |
June 27, 2018 |
None |
None |
None |
|
Oxygen |
4.7 |
June 28, 2017 |
September 27, 2017 |
December 20, 2017 |
March 21, 2018 |
|
Neon |
4.6 |
June 22, 2016 |
September 28, 2016 |
December 21, 2016 |
March 23, 2017 |
Before Neon, each release train had two service releases in September (SR1) and February (SR2):
Release name |
Platform version |
Main release |
SR1 |
SR2 |
Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mars |
4.5 |
June 24, 2015 |
September 22, 2015 |
February 24, 2016 |
|
Luna |
4.4 |
June 25, 2014 |
September 23, 2014 |
February 25, 2015 |
|
Kepler |
4.3 |
June 26, 2013 |
September 27, 2013 |
February 28, 2014 |
|
Juno |
4.2 (3.8) |
June 27, 2012 |
September 28, 2012 |
March 1, 2013 |
|
Indigo |
3.7 |
June 22, 2011 |
September 23, 2011 |
February 24, 2012 |
|
Helios |
3.6 |
June 23, 2010 |
September 24, 2010 |
February 25, 2011 |
|
Galileo |
3.5 |
June 24, 2009 |
September 25, 2009 |
February 26, 2010 |
|
Ganymede |
3.4 |
June 25, 2008 |
September 24, 2008 |
February 25, 2009 |
|
Europa |
3.3 |
June 27, 2007 |
September 28, 2007 |
February 29, 2008 |
|
Callisto |
3.2 |
June 26, 2006 |
N/A |
N/A |