Eclipse News

May 2025 Community Newsletter

Monday, June 2, 2025 - 06:19 by Natalia Loungou

Check out our May community newsletter to learn about Jakarta EE 12, Eclipse LMOS, Lukas Mittag’s challenges, goals and advice as a committer

Announcing iceoryx2 v0.6.0

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - 08:27 by Christian Eltzschig

The Eclipse iceoryx2 project announces the release of version 0.6.0 — a major step forward in high-performance inter-process communication (IPC). Designed for decentralised systems, iceoryx2 now supports true zero-copy communication across C, C++, and Rust, with Python support on the horizon.

Custom GitHub Copilot with Theia AI – New Video Tutorial

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - 04:40 by Jonas Helming

Ever wanted to build your own GitHub Copilot tailored exactly to your domain? This new video tutorial from EclipseSource shows you how to create a fully customised, AI-powered assistant right inside a Theia-based tool.

Learn how to integrate LLMs, trigger domain-specific operations, and empower your users with intelligent, context-aware support—perfect for engineers, analysts, and developers working on specialised systems. Watch it now!

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Why Open Source is Critical in the AI Era

Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 15:17 by Jacob Harris

How can organisations harness the power of AI without compromising on security, adaptability, or sovereignty? Our executive director Mike Milinkovich looks at how open source AI tooling offers a sustainable path forward, and a path that puts control back in the hands of developers.


 

Eclipse Theia 1.61 Release: News & Noteworthy

Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 07:21 by Jonas Helming

Eclipse Theia 1.61 is here, packed with AI enhancements and powerful dev tools! Discover how Task Contexts, chat suggestions, editable prompts, and new agent capabilities bring AI-assisted development to the next level.

Whether you're building your own IDE or exploring the AI-powered Theia IDE, this update is a must-read for cutting-edge productivity

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When “Open” Isn’t Open Enough: Rethinking Trust in Dev Tools

Saturday, May 10, 2025 - 12:46 by Thomas Froment

As AI becomes integral to our development environments, questions arise about control and transparency. Recent events, like the restriction of the C/C++ extension in VS Code forks, highlight the challenges of relying on tools that, while open source at their core, may have proprietary constraints.

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SDV Newsletter #2

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - 07:38 by Diana Kupfer

Latest news from the SDVerse: Read our second Eclipse SDV Newsletter to learn more about our new Eclipse SDV members & projects, reports, upcoming events, and more.

Enhancing AI Coding Agents with Project-Specific Information

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 - 04:42 by Jonas Helming

Struggling to get AI coding agents to follow your project’s unique conventions? This article introduces a simple yet powerful solution — a "project-info" file — that gives AI the essential context it needs to work seamlessly within your codebase, all demonstrated through a hands-on video with the AI-powered Theia IDE.

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