NetBeans Weekly News - Issue #119

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Issue #119 - Jun 09, 2003
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** Tegal (NB 3.5) release **

NetBeans IDE 3.5 is now available! This new version of the IDE includes significant performance improvements over past versions and adds additional support modules for the development of web applications.

You can read more in a press release:
http://www.netbeans.org/about/press/97.html

So enjoy it ! Here is the download link:
http://www.netbeans.org/downloads/ide/index.html

** nbannounce **

The NetBeans Board is complete. The last member representing Sun Microsystems Inc. is Danese Cooper.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=528129&listName=nbannounce

** nbdiscuss **

Riyad Kalla proposed to change current release guidelines of NetBeans. The objective is to fix as much defects as possible and release IDE when it is really stable. Its basic idea is to make bug criteria more strict and not to bind to some fixed dates. So far it seems to be perfect starting task for the new NetBeans Board.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=526377&listName=nbdiscuss

David Strupl pointed out that there is a lot of malicious e-mails being sent through @netbeans.org mailing lists. If you are interested in this topic, follow this link:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=525840&listName=nbdiscuss

** nbusers **

The list continued to help users resolve problems and answer questions. Some intermittent deadlocks were found in RC3 that are being investigated more. Charlie Kelly desired to know how to incorporate own GIF images into Java documentation. Jesse Glick advised to put the files into "doc-files" subdirectory.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=526590&listName=nbusers

Michael Saunders asked community for Perforce support in NetBeans. Unfortunately, there is no Perforce profile for Generic VCS module yet. If you have your own and want to share it, you can contribute the profile to [email protected] mailing list.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=527924&listName=nbusers

** nbdev **

Chris LeDantec informed about progress with results from NetBeans 4.0 usability study, which Svata Dedic requested.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=526558&listName=nbdev

There is a discussion about stability of tests in release35 branch started by David Strupl. He faced several problems like incorrect ANT version, big dependencies and failing stable tests. For details read here:
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=527718&listName=nbdev

** nbui **

Radim Kubacki proposed to remove "Open in new window" action on URL data objects. So far two people confirmed that it's a good idea.
http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=527805&listName=nbui
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