2020 - What a year for Eclipse Dirigible!

It has been a challenging, but in the same time an incredible year for Eclipse Dirigible in terms of progress, contribution and adoption.

2020 in numbers:

• 12 releases from 4.2 to 5.6 with 1 major 5.0
• 138 issues fixed
• 11 blog posts
• 10 new API - Content, Template Engine, Execute, Lifecycle, SOAP, Websocket, Kafka Consumer, Kafka Producer, MongoDB Client, MongoDB DAO
• 11K+ users from 143 countries for 2020
• 412 repositories in DirigibleLabs till date

Notable new features

• Packages for SAP Cloud Platfom Neo, Cloud Foundry and Kyma
• OData v2 support based on Apache Olingo
• Entity Modeler improvements - calculated properties, security roles, pattern based validation, projection entity type, extension entity type
• Form Builder based on AngularJS and Bootstrap introduced
• OpenUI5 starter pack
• JWT token and OAuth2 flow

Renovation

• Terminal replaced with xterm.js
• Monaco (VSCode Editor) set as default editor
• GraalVM engine introduced and set as default
• Debug View replaced with Chrome Dev Tools
• Git functionality re-architecture

License

• License updated to EPL 2.0
• REUSE compliant

Conferences & Social Media

• What is Eclipse Dirigible?
• What is Low Code Development? at EclipseCon
• Pan-European Matchathon
• New videos in the channel
• Slack channel with 49 participants

Derivative work

• Project "XSK" - compatible environment for SAP HANA Extended Application Services (XS) based applications

Stay safe and healthy!

See you all in 2021! 🥳