Eclipse Theia 1.76 introduces GitHub Copilot subscription support in Theia AI, automatic model discovery, AI-generated commit messages, and new APIs for AI sessions. Explore these and many other improvements to the open platform for building cloud and desktop IDEs.
Modernizing an Eclipse RCP application is still a significant re-architecture, but AI-assisted development is changing the economics. This article explores how AI can accelerate codebase analysis, testing, business logic extraction, UI reimplementation, and repetitive migration work and why now may be the right time to revisit an RCP migration strategy.
New vendor-neutral initiative brings together an initial community of 17 organisations to connect industry needs with open source AI projects and turn shared expertise into practical guidance for greater choice and control
AI is changing custom tool and IDE development far beyond simply adding an assistant, from designing for AI agents to rethinking UX, architecture, prototyping, and team skills. This updated guide summarizes the key decisions to consider when building modern tools and IDEs in 2026 and is worth a read if you are planning a new tool or evolving an existing one.
Eclipse Theia 1.75 adds major new AI capabilities including Agent Plugins, agent Memory, and MCP Apps with interactive UI directly in chat. The release also brings a unified AI configuration experience, SCM improvements, faster startup, updated platform technologies, and dozens of additional enhancements - well worth a look at the full release notes.
Eclipse Theia 1.74 introduces 60 improvements, including a new AI First perspective, enhanced AI session management, per-session model selection, a telemerty framework and server-side compaction for long-running AI interactions. Check out the release overview to discover what’s new for users, adopters, and developers.
Eclipse Theia 1.73 is now available and introduces a strong set of new features, including AI Registry integration for easily discovering and installing MCP servers and skills. The release also adds provider-native server-side tools, Mermaid diagrams in AI chat, OAuth 2.1 support for remote MCP servers, and many additional platform improvements.
A coordinated effort to secure open source is overdue. But routing the world’s most sensitive security data through a single jurisdiction recreates the very weakness it sets out to fix. In an immediate response, a new initiative has been announced to coordinate the full vulnerability remediation lifecycle.
Eclipse Theia’s OCX26 project update highlights a year of strong momentum across the platform, Theia AI, and the Theia IDE, including around 1,200 merged PRs, close to 80 contributors, and a Codie 2025 Award. Watch the recap to learn how Theia is evolving for custom tools, AI-native IDEs, and Eclipse RCP modernization.
Building production-ready domain-specific AI takes more than a great demo. This talk from OCX 2026 shares 10 practical lessons from real-world projects, covering design, evaluation, context management, agentic workflows, and operational readiness.
