RCE 10.6.0 (Green Monkey) has been released. In this release, the underlying Eclipse platform has been upgraded and the build and QA infrastructure has been revised. Furthermore, this release includes usability improvements, technical changes, several third-party library upgrades and a number of bug fixes.

This page provides a compact summary of the changes. The full technical changelog can be found on the GitHub release page.

Please note two important aspects regarding this release:

• Updating from older RCE versions is not possible using the “Check for updates” function in RCE. To update, please download and install RCE again. Upgrading .dep or .rpm packages is not affected and should work as usual.
• RCE 10.6.0 fixes an important security issue in a network library. This makes upgrading mandatory for all users.

The downloadable artifacts can be found on our download page.

GUI

This release contains various stability and usability improvements.

Components

The VampZero Initializer component was fully removed from RCE and is no longer available in workflows.

Scripting

Fixed a bug that caused errors with Python 3.12 and above by upgrading a referenced external library

Documentation

A "Components Guide" PDF document has been added which describes all components shipped with RCE.

Technical Changes

Beside a major rework of the build and automated QA infrastructure and some internal improvements, the underlying Eclipse platform has been updated to version 2023-03. This version was selected to still maintain Java 11 compatibility.

Security

We upgraded several third-party libraries as listed in the full changelog.

QA

The entire "rce-main" software repository is now compliant with the REUSE 3.0 specification, which defines the exact copyright and licensing status of each file.

Please also refer to the Update/Security Information for RCE Releases.