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Release 3.3.x

This page is dedicated to the 3.3.x releases of NetBeans.

What is new

July/8	NetBeans 3.3.2 Released.
May/28	NetBeans 3.3.2 RC2
May/10	NetBeans 3.3.2 RC1
Apr/24	A list of issues to be fixed in the 3.3.2 release has been published.
Apr/17	Sun's Forte for Java team announces a plan on contributing fixes to 3.3.1 and packaging them into a 3.3.2 release.
Feb/1	The NetBeans IDE Version 3.3.1 is released. Read more.
Jan/25	The status update of NetBeans 3.3.1: Release Candidate 3 will be next week; Final Release postponed for a week.
Jan/22	The NetBeans 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2 is available.
Jan/18	The NetBeans 3.3.1 - The last week before final release - read the current status.
Jan/15	The NetBeans 3.3.1 Release Candidate 1 is available.
Jan/11	The High Resistance mode of NetBeans 3.3.1 has started. The report is available.
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The schedule is based on NetBeans's roadmap.

NetBeans Release 3.3 Schedule

Date(s) Milestone

May/1 - Aug/29 Planning/Implementation new features for NetBeans 3.3

Aug/29 Feature Freeze for most of NetBeans 3.3 features

Sep/7 Complete Feature Freeze NetBeans 3.3 - only for four missing features (Read more.)

Sep/21 User Interface Freeze for NetBeans 3.3. Only small UI bugfixes are allowed later.

Weekly
from Oct/19 Beta weekly builds 1-6. Beta candidate builds are created on Fridays and then stabilized in special branches every week.

Nov/23 Branches for NB 3.3.x (release33) and for NB 3.3 (release330) are created.
High Resistance mode starts for 'release330' branch. Read more.

Nov/30 NetBeans 3.3 Release Candidate 1

Dec/7 NetBeans 3.3 Release Candidate 2 (if needed)

Dec/12 NetBeans 3.3 Final Release

Jan/4 The first NetBeans 3.3.1 Q-build

Jan/11 NetBeans 3.3.1 Enter High Resistance mode
NetBeans 3.3.1 Release Candidate 1

Jan/18 NetBeans 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2

Jan/28 - Jan/29 NetBeans 3.3.1 Release Candidate 3

Feb/1 NetBeans 3.3.1 Final Release

Apr/17 NB 3.3.2 plan announced

Apr/24 A preliminary list of fixes in 3.3.2 published.

May/10 NetBeans 3.3.2 Release Candidate 1 announced.

May/28 NetBeans 3.3.2 Release Candidate 2 announced.

Key Features and Goals - The main goals of NetBeans release 3.3 are:

Performance improvement (most frequent negative feedback). Read more.
Stability - The amount of open bugs should be lower than in 3.2, when it was released. The final criteria were discussed on nbdev and they are:
- Beta quality -
  - All known P1 bug resolved.
  - The backward compatibility of settings/project bugs resolved
- Final Release Quality -
MDR (Metadata repository) - as an experimental module
Projects implementation (see http://projects.netbeans.org/ps/index.html) and major project will be based on new Projects (Java module, JSP, ...) - this feature was postponed - it will be implemented in NetBeans 4.0

Detailed list of new features - is available here. Features are collected using new infrastructure.
A beta of the documentation for the 3.3 Open APIs has been posted. See the Open APIs home page

Releases 3.3.x Downloads -

Main NB download page

Release 3.3.x current status - NetBeans IDE 3.3 was released in December and the bug fixing release NetBeans IDE 3.3.1 was released on Feb/1. The releases 3.3 and 3.3.1 were developed in special CVS branch.

You can check the current status against the release criteria by looking at a