Markus Knauer

Markus Knauer is a software developer and project lead at EclipseSource with a long history in the Eclipse open source community. He is co-lead of the Eclipse Remote Application Platform (RAP) project and has served as Project Lead of the Eclipse Packaging Project (EPP), responsible for the Eclipse download packages that have been downloaded over 100 million times. He has also been a member of the Eclipse Planning Council and the Architecture Council.

Markus received the Eclipse Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 and the Eclipse Top Committer Award in 2013, both recognizing his sustained and wide-ranging contributions to the Eclipse ecosystem.

Celebrating Two Decades of Eclipse RAP: A Journey of Java, Innovation, and Community

June 21, 2026

June 21, 2026 marks exactly 20 years since the Eclipse Remote Application Platform (RAP) passed its creation review at the Eclipse Foundation. Two decades later, RAP is still here — still shipping, …

Kepler M2 EPP Packages

October 5, 2012

The Eclipse Platform team released the Kepler M2 build two weeks ago (see Eclipse Kepler Milestone 2 available), today all other Eclipse projects participating in next years Eclipse Simultaneous …

Organizing Hudson and Jenkins Build Jobs

August 29, 2012

At Eclipse we are running many, many build jobs on our Hudson servers. Most projects are managing multiple jobs, one for each version that they are supporting, sometimes multiplied by the number of …

Eclipse Juno - Release Now Available for Download

June 27, 2012

Many thanks to the maintainers of the 12 EPP packages, many thanks to the projects participating in the Juno release, many thanks to David who did an excellent job this year again: The Eclipse Juno …

Tycho, Maven and p2.inf

June 4, 2012

Today I spent some time on the RAP Tools build which is based on Tycho. The problem that I tried to solve had to do with our recent ID renaming of the RAP Tools feature to a more appropriate …

Eclipse Indigo SR2: Released in time

February 24, 2012

Sure, you’ve been reloading the eclipse.org/downloads web page once every minute over the past hours, you’ve been clicking on ‘Help’ > ‘Check for Updates’ in your Indigo Eclipse package, you’ve been …

Eclipse Juno M5 and Indigo SR2 RC2

February 3, 2012

Two releases of the Eclipse EPP packages today: The packages for Indigo SR2 RC2 (the second release candidate for the second service release of the Indigo release, based on Eclipse Platform 3.7.2) and …

Running a distributed search application in the Amazon cloud

March 24, 2010

Doing live presentations is always challenging, isn’t it? Especially here, at EclipseCon, I like to integrate some demo elements in my talks, but in case you are relying on external resources, such as …

Helios M6 RCP package

March 19, 2010

The new EPP packages for Helios M6 are uploaded to the download area and just need some more hours to be distributed to the Eclipse download mirrors until we can make them available for the public …

Upgrade to Eclipse Galileo SR2

February 26, 2010

If you haven’t seen it in the Eclipse announcements: Galileo SR2 is available for download from eclipse.org. From this page you can download the new EPP packages that are based on Galileo SR2 (Service …

Eclipse Helios M4 is out

December 18, 2009

Christmas is in the very near future and I have the pleasure to announce the availability of the forth milestone for next year’s Eclipse Simultaneous Release Helios: M4 is out! This time it was less …

Eclipse Helios M2 is out (EPP)

October 2, 2009

The second milestone (M2) of next years’ Eclipse Simultaneous Release called Helios is now available! I am proud that I am able to announce the availability of the corresponding Helios EPP M2 …

Galileo SR1 EPP Packages - Preview

September 21, 2009

Only 4 days until the final Galileo SR1 bits are going to be released on Friday, time to write about some good news: First of all, there is bug 281501 “64 bit Cocoa EPP packages should be available” …

100000 Galileo package downloads in 24 hours

June 25, 2009

Twenty-four hours after opening the flood gates and releasing Galileo I thought I could provide some statistics. Over a year ago I started one of my talks at EclipseCon announcing that every 3 seconds …

Galileo RC3 Packages Released

June 8, 2009

As of a few minutes ago, Galileo RC3 EPP packages are available from the Eclipse website. You can download them via a direct link to the Galileo RC3 packages website or by opening the main Eclipse …

Equinox above the Cloud - some call it Heaven!

March 19, 2009

We are all busy preparing our talks and demonstrations for EclipseCon, aren’t we? This year I am trying to use in all of my talks a common set of examples. The plan is to showcase technology from …

Ganymede SR2 and '23'

February 27, 2009

I have to admit: 23 is the number that I like most. Some computer scientists and mathematicians prefer 42, but this is not a prime number. Why am I starting this blog entry with this odd number? …