Apache NetBeans 16.0

What's new in this version:

Gradle:
- Initial implementation of (experimental) Dependency API in Gradle
- Refactor Grade Editor Related Functionality into a gradle.editor Module
- Gradle hide empty generated folders
- Support projects without build.gradle
- Fix npe from gradle build actions dialog
- NETBEANS-4720 Support custom gradle test sourcesets
- Override gradle's compiler version from compiler args.
- Various fixes and improvements [1/3]

API: access to build properties of gradle script [2/3]
- Fix for Gradle project sources popup menu invocation error #4755
- Support for jar & native image artifact for gradle projects [3/3]

#4847: do not use newer classes in older distributions.
- Switched gradle.dist and gradle.editor module to regular. Fixes #4866

#4923: access to gradle internal APIs is protected from failing the project load, just logs a notification.
- Prevent CCE NbGradleProjectImpl to DataObject
- Fix GradleCliEditorKit Registration

Maven:
- Support for project output artifacts
- Improve Jakarta EE 9/9.1 support
- Build action must be included in the cache key
- Allow to disable warning for specific lifecycle participants.
- Artifact tags, support for shaded output and source attachments.
- Fix possible NPE in NexusRepositoryIndexerImpl exception handler.
- Update Maven archetype version for Jakarta EE 9.1
- Implement maven pom javac release option hint (JEP 247).
- Maven UseReleaseOptionHint fixes
- hide template link as last resort if it appears to be broken.
- Fix maven classpath listening
- Maven HintsPanel UI layout fixes and minor cleanup.

Java:
- Modernize ActionsManager in Debugger API
- OrganizeImports fixed for clashing star imports.
- Update nb-javac to 19+33.
- Multi-release jar support
- Fix extra space added in try with resources
- Avoid using an invalid JavaPlatform
- JavadocImports fixed for illegal string trim.
- Fixing error recovery for (current) record patterns.
- Code completion for jdk-19 case patterns implemented.
- Fixing error recovery when j.l.MatchException is missing, and patterns are present.
- revert rushed unbalanced-hint fix (#4421).

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- Code completion after yield in switch expressions fixed.
- Improve java platform selection logic for hints.
- Fix error in wizard when creating module-info file (GH4628)
- Provide hints for conversion to Virtual thread executor when thread pools are used
- add semantic highlight for when keyword
- Implementation of auto completion, formatting adjustment and providing hints for JEP 405 record patterns
- Update JDK 19 Javadoc link from EA to GA.
- put nb-javac modules on the plugin import block list.
- Never mark overriding methods as unused, fixes GH4276.
- Fix MoveMemberPanel and MoveClassPanel (GH4708)

Groovy:
- #4556 - NetBeans should not auto-insert n in Groovy triple quoted strings

PHP:
- Fix the syntax error for the constant array access #4684
- Fix the formatting for the textual operators(AND, OR, XOR) #4635

C/C++:
- The CPPLight debugger works on aarch64.

Enterprise:
- Support for vulnerability audit in Oracle cloud
- Fixed JBoss EAP regex patterns to match two digit minor/patch versions
- Better messages during project audit. Code cleanup.
- Unable to register Payara 6.x in Apache NetBeans 15
- More options for LSP audit command
- Import local schema to avoid DNS lookup in build

Web:

CSS: Implemented position:sticky
- Fix for not calling auto completion after end tag was already added

Editor:
- Cleanup debug Exception after an old issue

FIX-3732: Prevent possible IAE in DocumentViewOp.
- Fixed a NPE from issue #4629
- YAML Support
- Change YAML indent to 2 spaces by default
- YAML Support Layer Code Cleanup
- Minor cleanup in YAML Language Support
- Dockerfile Support
- Added multiview [Source|History] for Dockerfile-s

new: TOML Support
- Some support for TOML files
- TOML Cleanup and Improvements

new: ANTLR v4 and v3 Support
- ANTLR v4 and v3 Grammar Editing Support
- Fix possible NPE while editing ANTLR Grammar
- Improve support for ANTLRv4 Grammars
- ANTLRv4 indent and code snippet support.
- More precise code-completion for ANTLRv4 Grammars
- Fixed end of file indenting and code completion for ANTLR v4

UI Changes:
- Add ability to load custom FlatLaf properties from user config.
- Keyboard focus can activate top component
- Add update centre notifications to Check for Updates dialog
- Update FlatLaf from 2.4 to 2.5
- Dialog parent should not be null
- Update FlatLaf from 2.5 to 2.6
- about panel needs a vertical scrollbar if the async plugin update notification appears

Platform:
- Better messages from Janitor on abandoned cache dirs.
- Do not eager load non-eager module fragments.
- Limit ValidateClassFilesTest to scan only JARs referenced from modules
- Another attempt to fix intermittent clipboard bug on Windows
- After file external change fire reloaded event

Language Server Protocol:

- LSP: Cloud explorer should be hidden with Java support switched off.
- LSP: Html4J UI modified work over LSP.
- Accept file paths passed as a plain string, toURL throws IAE.
- Automatically disable NBLS Java for GCN users.
- Project info exported through LSP
- Allow empty jdbc password

VSCode Extension:
- Vulnerability audit fixes
- Changed wording of the vulnerability scan message.
- Reveal things in project explorer by default.
- Updates for 15.0.301 release of VSNetBeans
- Add debugger listening connector to LSP.

Maintanance:
- fix CI concurrency settings
- Cleanup a bunch of raw type error messages related to TreeSet.
- remove usages of deprecated junit.framework.Assert.
- Cleanup warnings related to raw type List
- conditional CI pipeline + migrate some jobs from travis to gh
- bump versions of setup-java, setup-php and cache actions.
- Cleanup more raw type List warnings..
- Tomcat module cleanup
- wrap unreliable micronaut tests in retry script for now
- ci - run cache action after checkout

Other Changes:
- Increment spec versions for Apache NetBeans 16 development.
- Update issue forms for 15 release candidates.
- Snapshot of APIs as of NetBeans 15
- Set "--add-modules ALL-MODULE-PATH" when compiling MX project.
- Make Apache NetBeans 15 the latest version for issue reports.
- Recognize generatedDependencies tag
- Limit bootstrap libraries to java.se
- jna.nosys is required so that JNA tries to load native library via System#loadLibraryin #4736
- use java.net.URLEncoder/Decoder instead of buggy custom impl.
- Recognize Scala class constructor