eclipse-xtext · LorenzoBettini · Feb 26, 2025 · Aug 2, 2024 · Nov 30, 2024 · Dec 4, 2024
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Eclipse Xtext Website
 
-This repository contains the websites [xtext.org](https://eclipse.dev/Xtext) and [xtend-lang.org](https://eclipse.dev/Xtext/xtend). For general information about Xtext, see the [main repository](https://github.com/eclipse/xtext).
+This repository contains the websites [https://eclipse.dev/Xtext/](https://eclipse.dev/Xtext) and [https://eclipse.dev/Xtext/xtend](https://eclipse.dev/Xtext/xtend). For general information about Xtext, see the [main repository](https://github.com/eclipse/xtext).
 
 The [published](https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-website/tree/published) branch corresponds to what is published on the actual websites. Fixes that should be made visible immediately must be committed there. The [main](https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-website/tree/main) branch is used to write documentation and release notes for the next major or minor release of Xtext.
diff --git a/xtend-website/_posts/releasenotes/2025-02-26-version-2-38-0.md b/xtend-website/_posts/releasenotes/2025-02-26-version-2-38-0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title:  Xtend 2.38.0 Release Notes
+date:   2025-02-26
+categories: releasenotes
+published: true
+---
+
+## Call to Action: Secure the future maintenance of Xtext & Xtend
+
+As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext & Xtend on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext & especially Xtend is at risk, at least in the current form and as part of the Eclipse Simrel. If you care, please join the discussion in [https://github.com/eclipse-xtext/xtext/issues/1721](https://github.com/eclipse-xtext/xtext/issues/1721).
+
+## Relevant changes
+
+Xtend now requires Java 17 as the minimal Java version and 2024-03 as the minimal target platform.
+
+## Credits
+
+See Xtext release notes.
+
+## Fixed Issues
+
+As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
+
+* [Fixed GitHub issues](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3ARelease_2.38+is%3Aclosed+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-core+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-lib+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-extras+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-eclipse+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-idea+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-web+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-maven+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-xtend&type=Issues&ref=searchresults)
+
+* [Closed Pull Requests](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3ARelease_2.38+is%3Aclosed+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-core+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-lib+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-extras+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-eclipse+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-idea+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-web+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-maven+repo%3Aeclipse%2Fxtext-xtend&type=Issues&ref=searchresults)
+
+* [Fixed Eclipse Bugzilla tickets](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&classification=Modeling&classification=Tools&columnlist=product%2Ccomponent%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Cchangeddate%2Ckeywords&f0=OP&f1=OP&f3=CP&f4=CP&known_name=Xtext%202.30&list_id=16618269&product=TMF&product=Xtend&query_based_on=Xtext%202.30&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=v2.38&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr)
diff --git a/xtend-website/documentation/204_activeannotations.md b/xtend-website/documentation/204_activeannotations.md
@@ -240,13 +240,13 @@ Therefore, careful testing and debugging of the processor is essential. It is be
 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.eclipse.xtend</groupId>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.xtend.core</artifactId>
-  <version>2.37.0</version>
+  <version>2.38.0</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.eclipse.xtext</groupId>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.testing</artifactId>
-  <version>2.37.0</version>
+  <version>2.38.0</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
 </dependency>
 ```

diff --git a/xtend-website/download.md b/xtend-website/download.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ If you already have a project, you need to add the Xtend library:
 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.eclipse.xtend</groupId>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.xtend.lib</artifactId>
-  <version>2.37.0</version>
+  <version>2.38.0</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ and the Xtend compiler plugin:
 <plugin>
   <groupId>org.eclipse.xtend</groupId>
   <artifactId>xtend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-  <version>2.37.0</version>
+  <version>2.38.0</version>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <goals>
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ plugins {
 repositories.mavenCentral()
 
 dependencies {
-  compile 'org.eclipse.xtend:org.eclipse.xtend.lib:2.37.0'
+  compile 'org.eclipse.xtend:org.eclipse.xtend.lib:2.38.0'
 }
 ```
 

diff --git a/xtext-website/_posts/releasenotes/2025-02-26-version-2-38-0.md b/xtext-website/_posts/releasenotes/2025-02-26-version-2-38-0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title:  Xtext 2.38.0 Release Notes
+date:   2025-02-26
+categories: releasenotes
+published: true
+---
+
+## Call to Action: Secure the future maintenance of Xtext
+
+As you might have recognized, the number of people contributing to Xtext on a regular basis has declined over the past years and so has the number of contributions. At the same time the amount of work for basic maintenance has stayed the same or even increased with the new release cadence of Java and the Eclipse simultaneous release. Briefly: The future maintenance of Xtext is at risk, at least in the current form and as part of the Eclipse Simrel. If you care, please join the discussion in [https://github.com/eclipse-xtext/xtext/issues/1721](https://github.com/eclipse-xtext/xtext/issues/1721).
+
+## Relevant changes
+
+* A new class, `TemporaryFolder,` has been added to the bundle `org.eclipse.xtext.testing`, meant to replace the class `TemporaryFolder`, now deprecated, in `org.eclipse.xtext.xbase.testing`. Clients should update to the new class: the deprecated one will be removed in the future.
+* Our project wizard for Maven/Tycho projects now generates this dependency for the `exec-maven-plugin` configuration for running the MWE2 workflow:
+
+  ```xml
+  <dependency>
+	  <groupId>org.eclipse.xtext</groupId>
+	  <artifactId>org.eclipse.xtext.xtext.generator.dependencies</artifactId>
+	  <version>${xtextVersion}</version>
+  </dependency>
+  ```
+
+  to avoid possible problems with EMF/Platform dependencies (e.g., `NoSuchMethodError`) due to misaligned transitive dependencies.
+  This replaces the previously generated dependency `xtext-antlr-generator`, which is included in the new dependency.
+  For existing projects, we suggest to perform such a change manually.
+  The `org.eclipse.xtext.xtext.generator.dependencies` bundle was introduced in the previous release.
+* A new method was introduced, `IResourcesSetupUtil.waitForJdtIndex`, that blocks until the JDT index finishes its indexing. This is now automatically called from `waitForBuild`, `cleanBuild` and `fullBuild`. This new mechanism removed flaky UI tests from our builds. 
+
+## Breaking changes
+
+Xtext now requires Java 17 as the minimal Java version and 2024-03 as the minimal target platform.
+
+## Upgrades
+
+## Deprecations
+
+- The method `IResourcesSetupUtil.isAutobuild(boolean)` has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release; its parameter was never used. The new method `IResourcesSetupUtil.isAutobuild()` should be used instead.
+- The class `TargetPlatformUtil` and its method `setTargetPlatform` have been deprecated: with recent versions of Tycho and PDE, they are not needed anymore.
+
+## Removals
+
+## Credits
+
+The Xtext project is thankful for the dedication of each committer and contributor. This release has been made possible by the following persons (in order of the number of contributed commits to this release).
+
+- Lorenzo Bettini
+- Christian Dietrich
+- Sebastian Zarnekow
+- Mehmet Emin Karaman
+- Rubén Porras Campo
+- Martin Jobst
+- Tommaso Fonda
+- Ed Merks
+
+## Fixed Issues
+
+As in every release cycle we were eagerly hunting down bugs, and reviewed and integrated plenty of contributions. For further details please refer to the following lists:
+
+* [Fixed GitHub issues](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3ARelease_2.38+is%3Aclosed+repo%3Aeclipse-xtext%2Fxtext&type=issues&ref=searchresults)
+
+* [Closed Pull Requests](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+milestone%3ARelease_2.38+is%3Aclosed+repo%3Aeclipse-xtext%2Fxtext&type=pullrequests&ref=searchresults)
+
+* [Fixed Eclipse Bugzilla tickets](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&classification=Modeling&classification=Tools&columnlist=product%2Ccomponent%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Cchangeddate%2Ckeywords&f0=OP&f1=OP&f3=CP&f4=CP&known_name=Xtext%202.38&list_id=16618269&product=TMF&product=Xtend&query_based_on=Xtext%202.38&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=v2.38&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr)
diff --git a/xtext-website/community.html b/xtext-website/community.html
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ <h2>Resources</h2>
 			<div class="row">
 				<div class="span1">&nbsp;</div>
 				<div class="span9 team">
-					<a href="https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=27" class="anchor-in-div"></a>
+					<a href="https://github.com/eclipse-xtext/xtext/discussions" class="anchor-in-div"></a>
 					<div class="row">
 						<div class="span1 ">
 							<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/discussion-circ-darkgray.png" alt="image" class="image_left">
 						</div>
 						<div class="span2 ">
-							<h3>Forum</h3>
+							<h3>GitHub Discussions</h3>
 						</div>
 					<div class="span6 ">
-						<p>The <strong>Xtext&#x2122; forum</strong> is the first source for getting answers in case you got stuck.
+						<p><strong>Xtext&#x2122; GitHub Discussions</strong> is the first source for getting answers in case you got stuck.
 						The community is very friendly.</p>
 					</div>
 					</div>
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ <h3>Forum</h3>
 							<h3>Found a Bug?</h3>
 						</div>
 					<div class="span6 ">
-						<p>Bug reports and enhancement request are tracked at <strong>GitHub.org</strong>. Please 
+						<p>Bug reports and enhancement request are tracked at <strong>GitHub.com</strong>. Please
 						explain the problem and provide a reduced but reproducible example.</p>
 					</div>
 					</div>
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ <h3>Found a Bug?</h3>
 							<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/github-mark-darkgray.png" alt="image" class="image_left">
 						</div>
 						<div class="span2 ">
-							<h3>Github</h3>
+							<h3>GitHub</h3>
 						</div>
 						<div class="span6 ">
 							<p>The Xtext&#x2122; source code is available on <strong>GitHub</strong>. You'll find more information on how to contribute to the project in the README.md contained there.</p>
@@ -80,6 +80,24 @@ <h3>Twitter</h3>
 				</div>
 				<div class="span1">&nbsp;</div>
 			</div>
+			<div class="row">
+				<div class="span1">&nbsp;</div>
+				<div class="span9 team">
+					<a href="https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=27" class="anchor-in-div"></a>
+					<div class="row">
+						<div class="span1 ">
+							<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/images/discussion-circ-darkgray.png" alt="image" class="image_left">
+						</div>
+						<div class="span2 ">
+							<h3>Forum (archived)</h3>
+						</div>
+					<div class="span6 ">
+						<p>The <strong>Xtext&#x2122; forum</strong>, now read-only, is still a useful resource, as it contains several years' worth of discussion about Xtext.</p>
+					</div>
+					</div>
+				</div>
+				<div class="span1">&nbsp;</div>
+			</div>
 		</div>
 		<br/><br/>
 		<div id="zoo" class="container">

diff --git a/xtext-website/documentation/301_grammarlanguage.md b/xtext-website/documentation/301_grammarlanguage.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The second aspect that can be deduced from the first line of the grammar is its
 
 ### EPackage Declarations {#package-declarations}
 
-Xtext parsers create in-memory object graphs while consuming text. Such object-graphs are instances of [EMF](https://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/) Ecore models. An Ecore model basically consists of an EPackage containing EClasses, EDataTypes and EEnums (see the [section on EMF](308_emf_integration.html#model-metamodel) for more details) and describes the structure of the instantiated objects. Xtext can infer Ecore models from a grammar (see [Ecore model inference](301_grammarlanguage.html#metamodel-inference)) but it is also possible to import existing Ecore models. You can even mix both approaches and use multiple existing Ecore models and infer some others from a single grammar. This allows for easy reuse of existing abstractions while still having the advantage of short turnarounds with derived Ecore models.
+Xtext parsers create in-memory object graphs while consuming text. Such object-graphs are instances of [EMF](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.emf.emf) Ecore models. An Ecore model basically consists of an EPackage containing EClasses, EDataTypes and EEnums (see the [section on EMF](308_emf_integration.html#model-metamodel) for more details) and describes the structure of the instantiated objects. Xtext can infer Ecore models from a grammar (see [Ecore model inference](301_grammarlanguage.html#metamodel-inference)) but it is also possible to import existing Ecore models. You can even mix both approaches and use multiple existing Ecore models and infer some others from a single grammar. This allows for easy reuse of existing abstractions while still having the advantage of short turnarounds with derived Ecore models.
 
 #### EPackage Generation
 
@@ -766,4 +766,4 @@ terminal ANY_OTHER:
 
 ---
 
-**[Next Chapter: Configuration](302_configuration.html)**
+**[Next Chapter: Configuration](302_configuration.html)**