jEdit 4.0pre7 is now available for download. 4.0pre8 will be a "release candidate", and 4.0final will follow soon after.

I'm pretty confident this release is very stable, in fact it should be more stable than 3.2 was. So I encourage as many people as possible to download and test it; if you're still using 3.2, give this release a shot, I think you'll like it very much.

• BufferSelector 1.0.5: updated for the jEdit 4.0 Toolbar API; requires jEdit 4.0pre7 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• ErrorList 1.2.2: fixed possible NullPointerException under Java 2 version 1.4; error highlight didn't work properly when soft wrap was enabled; if the "show on error" feature is enabled, the error list will now open in the currently focused view, not the most recently opened view as before; requires jEdit 4.0pre4 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• LookAndFeel 0.8: option pane to switch between Skin, Oyoaha, and Kunststoff look and feel implementations; attempts to install look and feel without restart; updated documentation to use DocBook; added help for new look and feels implementations; requires jEdit 3.1 and JDK 1.2

Ok everybody, this is the 4.0final "release candidate". You know the drill: download it, test it, and report the bugs. 4.0final will follow very soon after this.

• AntFarm 1.1: jEdit 4.0 compatible (John Gellene); Sun JDK 1.4 compatible (Rob Wilson); ability to add to the class path when running Ant inside the jEdit VM (this provides for easier access to custom tasks or third party libraries required by Ant); ability to specify global properties; ability to specify runtime properties; various bug fixes and enhancements; option to save all buffers before running targets; updated help; requires jEdit 4.0pre4, CommonControls 0.2, Console 3.1, ErrorList 1.2, XML 0.7, and JDK 1.3
  
  
• Archive 0.3.3: switched to Ant and Docbook; moved classes to the archive package; the external libraries (tar and bzip2) are no longer necessary; requires jEdit 4.0pre1 and JDK 1.3

Plugins available for download outside PluginCentral:

• SpeedJava

Plugins with conversions completed in CVS:

• CodeAid

Plugins that have not yet been converted:

• HartMathPlugin
• JavaRefactor
• JStandard
• JSwat
• NetRexxJe

If plugin authors have any corrections or updates to this list, please post a comment to this article or send your information to John Gellene and this online list will be updated accordingly.

If you want to stay on the bleeding edge, check out some of the plugins that have been recently added to the 'Beta Plugins' section: namely, Velocity Plugin, IRC 1.8, and LaTeX Outline Plugin.

jEdit 4.0pre9 is now available. This will be the last release before 4.0final, so download it and test it as much as possible!!! Also, plugin developers: if your plugin is still incompatible with 4.0, please update it within the next week.

Now that the jEdit 4.0 stable release is just around the corner, time to submit ideas for jEdit 4.1! Write them up below!

jEdit 4.0 is now available for download from the jEdit web site.
Come join #jedit on irc.openprojects.net to chat about this release!

If you have this error try to rename XML.jar to aXML.jar. It solve it on my machine.

Slava says: indeed. The reason is that XML sets a couple of system properties in its plugin start() method, and if it happends to be loaded after SQL, then the SQL startup might fail. The author of this story says he is working on a patch and will send it to the SQL plugin maintainer over the weekend; so this is just a fix you can use in the meantime.

• LineGuides 0.5.3: fixed problems with split views (bugs #529823 and #539117); requires jEdit 4.0pre4 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• TextTools 1.8: added "Columnar Insert" command (Nathan Tenney); requires jEdit 4.0pre1 and JDK 1.3
  
  
• TomcatSwitch 0.5.2: fixed a bug introduced with version 0.5.1 that prevented execution under systems different from Windows; requires jEdit 4.0pre2, Console 3.1, and JDK 1.3; works with Jakarta Tomcat 3.2.x, 3.3.x or 4.x
  
  
• VSSPlugin 0.1.1: fixed class name bug in actions.xml; requires jEdit 4.0final and JDK 1.3

(PS: John, maybe the icon for the 'Installation' topic should be made a little better? )