<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In preparation for GA, I am beginning the arduous task of verifying the text and graphics in the JBDS/JBT guides. This will take approximately 40 hours. It involves checking that the installer and IDE looks and behaves as I have documented and updating any inconsistencies that didn't get flagged in JIRAs or N&N (e.g., icon changes, menu item name changes, extra wizard fields).</span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>So DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING. F<span style="font-size: 12pt;">rom this point forwards, please refrain from making unnecessary changes to the IDE look/behavior for 7.1.0/4.1.1. If you absolutely have to make a look/behavior change, please contact me directly to alert me to the fact that you are changing something so I can identify any documentation impacts.</span></div><div><br></div><div>I believe there will be very few, if any, IDE look/behavior changes between now and GA since we are at CR1 and in the final bug fixing phase.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm aware that the following is an IDE look/behavior change not in the current CR1 build: </div><div>* <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2821" target="_blank">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-2821</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your cooperation,</div><div>Michelle</div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>