NetBeans Platform 7.4 has been released, and this means that yet again a major version of the underlying infrastructure of all our main graphical applications (Synapse, Trace, Vantage, Ticker3D, Neuron, …) is underway. Thus, a major set of updates should become available in the next few hours, that makes some significant underlying changes.
Usually, this is mostly improvements, with potentially a few small surprises. Notable improvements in the 7.4 platform is improved proxy support, as well as a new connection tester, as is available under Tools->Options->General:
One known temporary side effect of the 7.4 upgrade is that the link to the Properties window at Window->Properties is now at Window->IDE Tools->Properties – this will be corrected in a future update.
Properties window now moved to correct position, and IDE Tools menu removed.