After upgrading to STM32CubeIDE 1.6.1 the .cproject file gets messed up with spaces instead of tabs and extra blank lines (spaces + tabs) between each normal line. This messes up any source control system.

[Martin_S]

prior 1.6.1:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<?fileVersion 4.0.0?><cproject storage_type_id="org.eclipse.cdt.core.XmlProjectDescriptionStorage">
\t	<storageModule moduleId="org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings">
\t	\t	<cconfiguration id="com.st.stm32cube.ide.mcu.gnu.managedb...

with 1.6.1: (spaces are printed as dots for visualisation)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<?fileVersion 4.0.0?><cproject storage_type_id="org.eclipse.cdt.core.XmlProjectDescriptionStorage">
....\t
....<storageModule moduleId="org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings">
........\t	\t
........<cconfiguration id="com.st.stm32cube.ide.mcu.gnu.managedb...
............\t	\t	\t	

[Markus GIRDLAND]

Hello!

This behavior is due to the update to Java11 and is a known issue upstream on their end as well.

We will be fixing this in a later release.