Each year the Eclipse community coordinates an annual release of projects during the last week of June. The coordinated release makes it easier for Eclipse users and adopters to take advantage of the innovations and new features created by the different Eclipse projects.

The new features in the Galileo release reflect three important trends in the Eclipse community:
1) Expanding adoption of Eclipse in the enterprise,
2) innovation of Eclipse modeling technology and
3) advancement of EclipseRT runtime technology. Each project has published "new and noteworthy" documentation for their specific release.

Overall, highlights from the Galileo release include:

Expanded Enterprise Adoption

Adoption of Eclipse in the enterprise continues to grow. New features in Galileo help expand the use of Eclipse by enterprise developers, including:

* New support for Mac Cocoa 32 and 64 bit.
* New Memory Analyzer tool to help analyze memory consumption of Java applications.
* PHP Development Tools (PDT) 2.1 is the first PHP toolkit to support the new PHP 5.3 language release, including namespaces and closures.
* New Mylyn WikiText support for editing and parsing wiki markup.
* New XSL tooling for XSL editing and debugging.
* Developer productivity improvements to Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) report designer and performance.

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