The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of Eclipse SDK 4.0, the next generation Eclipse platform. Eclipse has a very large and successful ecosystem of plugin providers and RCP application developers. Eclipse 4.0 introduces new features that make it easier for the members of the ecosystem to build and assemble Eclipse plugins and RCP applications.

Bredex, MicroDoc and the Eclipse Foundation are pleased to announce Eclipse Testing Day in Darmstadt, which takes place September 8, 2010. Eclipse Testing Day is a day-long event for technical developers, testers, architects and managers to learn more about testing with Eclipse and OSGi technology.

The ESE Program Committee will select five early-bird talks from those submitted by August 2, 2010. Winners will be announced August 9, and receive a free ESE T-shirt.

Today the Eclipse community delivers its annual release train, a coordinated release of the major Eclipse projects. For the seventh year in a row, the 2010 release train, code named Helios, arrives on time and is now available for download.

We are pleased to announce the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex, being held on August 26 at the Googleplex in Mountain View CA. Each year we put together an agenda the includes Eclipse and Google related topics. This year we are featuring talks about Android, Helios, GWT, EGit, Linux Tools, Eclipse 4.0, EMF, XText and much more. It is shaping up to be another great agenda.

We want to hear what you think of the Eclipse projects that are being released as part of Helios. We will give you a an Eclipse shirt for writing a review. One lucky winner will also win a pass to EclipseCon 2011 or Eclipse Summit Europe 2010!

To enter the blogathon, all you need to do is write a review or record a video about one or more of the projects that are a part of the Eclipse Helios release. Publish the review on your blog, a newsgroup or portal and then send us a link to helios.reviews@eclipse.org. See full details on the blogathon page.

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The Eclipse Foundation has released the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2010. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey. The Open Source Developer Report is a report and analysis of the survey results.

On June 24, the Eclipse Foundation is presenting Helios In Action - a virtual conference where you can interact with project leads involved in the release and see demos of the new features. The annual simultaneous release has now grown to 39 projects with over 33 million lines of code, contributed by committers around the world. With such a large global community, Eclipse wants to bring Helios to you! See the Helios in Action page for more details and to register.