Meeting notes for Planning Council 2026-03-04

Author: HeikoKlare

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 ### Meeting Minutes
 
+ - [2026-03-04](Planning_Council/2026-03-04.md)
  - [2026-02-04](Planning_Council/2026-02-04.md)
  - [2026-01-07](Planning_Council/2026-01-07.md)
  - [2025-12-03](Planning_Council/2025-12-03.md)

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+# 2026-03-04 Meeting Notes
+
+## Agenda
+
+- Status 2026-03
+- Java 25 in SimRel for 2026-06
+- Top Priorities Board
+
+
+## Minutes
+
+### Status 2026-03
+- Ed fixed issues when running with Java 26
+- Except for that, the release looks good
+
+### Java 25 for 2026-06
+- Still no Java 25 Temurin build for Windows AArch64 available (https://github.com/adoptium/adoptium-support/issues/1402)
+- We have a high number of downloads of EPP products for Windows AArch64 (https://github.com/merks/test/issues/1)
+- In the past, there were different EPP releases for different Java versions, but it was high effort to maintain
+- Conclusion:
+  - We don't allow BREE bump to Java 25 for 2026-06 by SimRel participants
+  - For the 2026-09 release, we will probably need to allow a bump to Java 25 no matter if currently missing Temurin builds are still unavailable
+
+### Top Priorities Board
+- [Dev Efforts Top Priorities Board](https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse-wg/ide-wg/ide-wg-dev-funded-efforts/ide-wg-dev-funded-program-planning-council-top-issues/-/boards/1208)
+- Currently no funding for those tasks available, but valuable to have a representation of topics that we agree to consider most relevant to address (not matter how/who)
+- Proposal: have 2-3 topics of high(est) priority to reflect the most pressing issues
+  - Issue for Linux support already existing due to necessity for GTK4 adoption
+  - Issue for Win32 platform support already existing, particularly for keeping SWT compatible with new Windows versions
+  - Specific Risks in MacOS platform support: SWT uses old APIs for embedding browser, which might be removed at any point in time (unclear if there would be a heads-up in advance)
+  - Idea to have support for every platform represented in a dedicated issue (keeping platform compatibility is an ongoing issue); don't put multiple platforms into a single issue as people focussed on one platform may think it is not important for them
+  - Security vulnerabilities are an ongoing high priority issue
+- Existing issues
+  - HiDPI: currently not of higher relevance/severity than any other area of issues
+  - JDT reviews
+    - No additional capacities available but also less contributions, so not worth to have an issue for it
+    - Task for reviewing JDT compiler issues is hardly staffable, as the person would need to be deep into the project
+- Proposals for new issues
+  - Icon packs
+    - Make aware of ongoing efforts towards icon packs and the improved look & feel coming from the ability to exchange icons
+    - Mixture of "old" and "new" icons may not be as bad as one would expect without having seen it
+    - Technical tricks may allow to adapt "old" icons to a new icon pack
+  - Babel project
+    - Not maintained for years and will affect all consumers of localized products
+
+
+## Action Items
+
+- Check and Update [Dev Efforts Top Priorities](https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse-wg/ide-wg/ide-wg-dev-funded-efforts/ide-wg-dev-funded-program-planning-council-top-issues/-/boards/1208)
+- Ask SimRel participants to stay at Java 21 or below for 2026-06 (Heiko)
+
+
+## Next Meeting
+
+Next meeting will be on April 1th, 2026.