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Currently Beta 2 of Apache NetBeans 12.1 is available for feedback.

• Announcement and download details of: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f8c224be710655a9f7508fb298c180405bb2532f1f1a1c579257d2%40%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
• Pull requests integrated in the 12.1 timeframe: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/milestone/6?closed=1

Please join the Apache NetBeans dev mailing list, see netbeans.apache.org for details, to provide feedback.

Highlights

Jakarta EE 8

• Ability to create a Jakarta EE 8 project
• Change an existing Maven web application to Jakarta EE 8.

C/C++

Rudimentary C/C++ feature integration, which does not have as many features as the 8.2 C/C++ support, in other words, this is not fully featured, but it could help some of our users until the full support is complete. When 8.2 C/C++ plugins are installed, they should take precedence in 12.1. 

• Rudimentary C/C++ project that allows the user to provide commands for the build/run actions and some additional settings.

• Syntax highlighting using TextMate grammars.

• Code completion and other editing support is through the Language Server Protocol, using the ccls language server, which the users need to provide themselves;

• A *very* rudimentary debugger using gdb (based on the Ant debugger, and gdb interface from CND).

More details: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2234

Gradle

• Gradle is enabled with Java SE
• Added support for Generated Directories and proper handling of  annotation processors

PHP

• Add new actions for Composer (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2173)
• Show `false` and `true` instead of `0` and `1` as boolean values in the Variables window of the debugger (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2178)
• Improve/Fix code analysis features(e.g.https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2246, https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2249)

HTML

• Update the validator.jar (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2217)
• Enable the code template completion (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2253)
• Code completion and syntax highlighting for <script type="module"></script> (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2184)

CSS

• Add formatting options (https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2257) only "Tabs And Indents"

Miscellaneous

• Launcher detects JDK installed by SDKMAN on Linux and Mac.

Reference: Complete Listing of Closed PRs for 12.1