Eclipse 3.4 Milestone 2 was released a day late on Saturday, with all of the piratey fan-fare you would expect from the Eclipse team:

Ahoy, me hearties! Eclipse 3.4 milestone 2 (M2) is a’ailable for download from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php. This drop is bein’ propagated t’ the ‘arious Eclipse mirror sites, which usually takes a day or so.

For people who already downloaded the integration build with timestamp 200709210919, thar’s no need t’ download M2 - tis’ the same. Aye, me parrot concurs.

For a summary o’ new and noteworthy features in the Eclipse 3.4 milestone M2 build, sail to: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.4M2-200709210919/eclipse-news-M2.html

Gar, Where can I find a bottle o’rum?

The new and noteworthy contains some gems as usual, and will appeal to a wide variety of developers. In short, there’s a lot of good feature additions for plug-in developer work, as well as RCP/Platform users. It does provide some outlying benefits for Java developers (such as the addition of more quick assists for refactorings like ‘create getter and setter’), but for the most part it is once-again an anemic IDE release, and a strong platform release.

I, like Ed Burnette, am finding myself missing the days of the major IDE push of Eclipse.