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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.