OSGI and Eclipse Version
2004 Eclipse 3.0 -> OSGi 4.0 early draft 2005 Eclipse 3.1 -> OSGi 4.0 draft 2006 Eclipse 3.2 Callisto -> OSGi 4.0 2007 Eclipse 3.3 Europa -> OSGi 4.1 2008 Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede -> OSGi 4.1 2009 Eclipse 3.5 Galileo -> OSGi 4.2 2010 Eclipse 3.6 Helios -> OSGi 4.2 2011 Eclipse 4.1/3.7 Indigo -> OSGi 4.3 2012 Eclipse 4.2/3.8 Juno -> OSGi 5 2013 Eclipse 4.3/3.9 Kepler -> OSGi 5 The Bundle-ManifestVersion is not mandatory. If it is missing then defaults version 1. OSGi R4 introduced Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2 , and so in practice, almost all bundles have this entry.