GA BLOG - Liberty Tools 23.0.12 for Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, and Visual Studio Code

[yeekangc]

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Please provide the following information:

1. If this was previously published in a beta blog post, then provide the link to that OpenLiberty/open-liberty beta blog post issue on the next line between the <GHA-BLOG-BETA-LINK> tags. If nothing has changed since the beta, you're done and can omit the remaining steps. If you need to make updates/alterations to the beta content, then do all the steps.

   https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/issues/0

2. Which Liberty feature(s) does your update relate to?

   Human-readable name (eg WebSockets feature): Liberty Tools

   Short feature name (eg websockets-1.0): N/A

3. Who is the target persona? Who do you expect to use the update? eg application developer, operations.

   Developers

4. Provide a summary of the update, including the following points:

   • A sentence or two that introduces the update to someone new to the general technology/concept. Liberty Tools now support the latest available releases of Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, and Visual Studio Code. Various issues and improvements are included too. For more information, see the release notes that are linked at the end of this section.

   • What was the problem before and how does your update make their life better? (Why should they care?)

   • Briefly explain how to make your update work. Include screenshots, diagrams, and/or code snippets, and provide a server.xml snippet. Update to the latest release of the Liberty Tools from the IDE you are working with or download the latest version from the marketplace of your IDE.

   Liberty Tools for Eclipse IDE - Eclipse Marketplace Liberty Tools for IntelliJ IDEA - JetBrains Marketplace Liberty Tools for Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Marketplace

   • Where can they find out more about this specific update (eg Open Liberty docs, Javadoc) and/or the wider technology? Release notes for Liberty Tools for Eclipse IDE Release notes for Liberty Tools for IntelliJ IDEA Release notes for Liberty Tools for Visual Studio Code

What happens next?

• Add the label for the GA you're targeting: target:YY00X.
• Make sure this blog post is linked back to the Epic for this feature/function.
• Your paragraph will be included in the GA release blog post. It might be edited for style and consistency.
• You will be asked to review a draft before publication.
  • Once you've approved the code review, close this issue.
• If you would also like to write a standalone blog post about your update (highly recommended), raise an issue on the Open Liberty blogs repo. State in the issue that the blog post relates to a specific release so that we can ensure it is published on an appropriate date (it won't be the same day as the GA blog post).

[yeekangc]

@scottkurz @TrevCraw are the SMEs for what's in the release. Scott for Eclipse IDE and Trevor for IntelliJ IDEA and VS Code.