Prepare 4.40 development

[eclipse-releng-bot]

Prepare development of Eclipse 4.40.
This complements:

• Prepare 4.40 development eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator#3683

[eclipse-pde-bot]

This pull request changes some projects for the first time in this development cycle.
Therefore the following files need a version increment:

features/org.eclipse.pde-feature/feature.xml
org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/pom.xml
ui/org.eclipse.pde/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
ui/org.eclipse.pde/pom.xml

An additional commit containing all the necessary changes was pushed to the top of this PR's branch. To obtain these changes (for example if you want to push more changes) either fetch from your fork or apply the git patch.

Git patch

From 4557460195f00322af6ad6a73e7b7d936477ad66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eclipse PDE Bot <pde-bot@eclipse.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:35:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Version bump(s) for 4.40 stream


diff --git a/features/org.eclipse.pde-feature/feature.xml b/features/org.eclipse.pde-feature/feature.xml
index 0f91c42eba..a0eba85ecc 100644
--- a/features/org.eclipse.pde-feature/feature.xml
+++ b/features/org.eclipse.pde-feature/feature.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <feature
       id="org.eclipse.pde"
       label="%featureName"
-      version="3.16.600.qualifier"
+      version="3.16.700.qualifier"
       provider-name="%providerName"
       license-feature="org.eclipse.license"
       license-feature-version="0.0.0">
diff --git a/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index 02be78658a..2ba592ae5c 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Name: %pluginName
 Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.pde.doc.user; singleton:=true
-Bundle-Version: 3.17.400.qualifier
+Bundle-Version: 3.17.500.qualifier
 Bundle-Vendor: %providerName
 Bundle-Localization: plugin
 Require-Bundle: org.eclipse.help;bundle-version="[3.2.0,4.0.0)"
diff --git a/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/pom.xml b/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/pom.xml
index 5be7892fa1..f1cb0d1c38 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/pom.xml
+++ b/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     <version>4.40.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.pde.doc.user</artifactId>
-  <version>3.17.400-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.17.500-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>eclipse-plugin</packaging>
   
   <properties>
diff --git a/ui/org.eclipse.pde/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/ui/org.eclipse.pde/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index 157ca3230b..33e3382e00 100644
--- a/ui/org.eclipse.pde/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/ui/org.eclipse.pde/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
 Bundle-Name: %pluginName
 Bundle-SymbolicName: org.eclipse.pde;singleton:=true
-Bundle-Version: 3.13.3400.qualifier
+Bundle-Version: 3.13.3500.qualifier
 Bundle-Vendor: %providerName
 Bundle-Localization: plugin
diff --git a/ui/org.eclipse.pde/pom.xml b/ui/org.eclipse.pde/pom.xml
index 431b919a72..1a59daf7d0 100644
--- a/ui/org.eclipse.pde/pom.xml
+++ b/ui/org.eclipse.pde/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <relativePath>../../</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>org.eclipse.pde</artifactId>
-  <version>3.13.3400-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>3.13.3500-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>eclipse-plugin</packaging>
   
   <properties>
-- 
2.53.0

Further information are available in Common Build Issues - Missing version increments.

[HannesWell]

Looks good and can be submitted as soon as the build has succeeded.

[github-actions]

Test Results

   798 files  +  157     798 suites  +157   59m 9s ⏱️ + 9m 53s
 3 787 tests ±    0   3 733 ✅ +    1   54 💤 ± 0  0 ❌  - 1 
11 127 runs  +2 831  10 964 ✅ +2 802  163 💤 +30  0 ❌  - 1 

Results for commit 3a7d199. ± Comparison against base commit 66bb037.