What is the difference between Eclipse 3.7 and Eclipse 4.1?

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Manish picture Manish · Aug 26, 2011 · Viewed 30k times · Source

I see there are two main distributions of Eclipse going on - One is on 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 path and the other is 4.0, 4.1 path(http://www.eclipse.org/e4/).

I don't have clarity on what is the difference between these two distributions?

Answer

CoolBeans picture CoolBeans · Aug 26, 2011

3.7 (code name Indigo) and 3.8 are bug fixes and stability releases whereas 4.0,4.1,4.2 (code name Juno) are new feature set mature platform releases. Release 3.8 and 4.2 are going on simultaneously. You can find more on the eclipse project plans here. Juno specific plans can be found here.

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