Eclipse News

The survey results give us insight into Jakarta EE’s role as the leading framework for building modern, cloud native Java applications.

The Eclipse Foundation, alongside other open source stewards, issued a statement that highlights the fragility of critical public open source infrastructure (from package registries like Maven Central and PyPI to CDNs and build systems) and calls for sustainable funding models to align usage with responsibility. Read the full statement here.

Sonnet 4.5 is supported in Theia AI and the Theia IDE, out-of-the-box, unlocking powerful, long-running coding agents with zero setup hassle. If you're building tools or writing code, this update brings smarter automation, better reasoning, and seamless performance—ready to use in just a few clicks.

Our September community newsletter is out. Catch up on the latest from the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem, from Eclipse S-CORE, to community news, project updates, and more.

BRUSSELS – 30 September 2025 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, today announced the availability of The State of Enterprise Java: 2025 Jakarta EE Developer Survey Report,

By adopting Eclipse Temurin and joining the Adoptium Working Group, Bloomberg is strengthening their infrastructure, reducing costs, and leading open source innovation.

The global software ecosystem runs on open source infrastructure. As demand grows, we invite the businesses who rely on it most to play a larger role in sustaining it.

An open letter from the stewards of public open source infrastructure, signed by Alpha-Omega, Eclipse Foundation (Open VSX), OpenJS Foundation, Open Source Security Foundation, Packagist (Composer), Python Software Foundation (PyPI), Rust Foundation (crates.io), Sonatype (Maven Central).

Your answers will help assess the current state of software development in the automotive industry. The results will be compiled in a report that helps automotive software development teams keep pace with the latest trends.
 

The OpenHarmony Technical Conference in Florence on September 3, 2025, served as a pivotal gathering, showcasing a vibrant and rapidly expanding ecosystem for smart devices. Far more than just a series of technical talks, the event highlighted the strategic collaboration between OpenAtom OpenHarmony and Eclipse Oniro, positioning Oniro as a bridge connecting the robust OpenHarmony foundation with a global developer community. The conference covered several key areas that enable cooperation and increase the number of opportunities for the whole ecosystem.

Java changed software development and reshaped open source innovation forever, but its future was uncertain for a while. Would it remain an innovative force, or would closed governance and slow progress relegate it to history? Enter the Eclipse Foundation, where the future of open source Java was reimagined.

The Eclipse Theia 2025-08 Community Release brings powerful AI features, introduces autonomous coding agents, and enhances developer workflows with visual context, model aliases, and more. If you're building modern, AI-powered IDEs or tools, this release is packed with innovations you don't want to miss.

Download the latest version of the Eclipse IDE, featuring the latest Java support and improved plug-in development tooling.

Discover how Task Engineering—a core part of the Dibe Coding method—transforms AI from a novelty into a dependable coding partner. This deep-dive article shows how tools like the AI-native Theia IDE make it practical to break problems into AI-ready tasks for scalable, real-world software development.

A report published by ONEKEY, a Germany-based cybersecurity company, has revealed that the German economy is not prioritising the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). 

As the 2025 Eclipse SDV Hackathon approaches, we spoke with this year’s Hack MCs, Andre Bott of Bosch Digital and Christian Heissenberger of the Eclipse Foundation, about what drives their passion for hackathons, what excites them most about this year’s unique two-location format, and why these events play such a vital role in fostering innovation and collaboration within the SDV community.

Aurélie Caron reflects on representing the Eclipse Foundation at OSCAFest 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria, and speaking at the Women in Open Source Brunch. 

The ORC Working Group’s release of its CRA compliance resource inventory provides a much-needed starting point for developers, maintainers, and manufacturers working with open source. 

As summer winds down, ORC is gearing up for a busy event season. From global security summits to community-driven gatherings, this fall will be packed with opportunities to connect, share knowledge, and advance the conversation around the Cyber Resilience Act and upcoming regulations.

Over the summer, students from the Computing Talent Initiative partnered with CodeDay to contribute to the Eclipse IDE. For many, this was their very first experience working on a large-scale open source project.