Today SpringSource has released an update to SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The latest version (2.2.1) is now available for download and includes: Download | ChangeLog | New & Noteworthy | JIRA We hope you enjoy using STS and please use the community forum to give your feedback and ask questions.

SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0 is now GA and ready for download. Christian Dupuis' blog post covers all the new features included in the best development tool for building Spring powered applications:

The latest release candidate for SpringSource Tool Suite has been updated to run on the brand new Eclipse Galileo release. STS 2.1.0.RC1 includes support for Spring Roo, SpringSource dm Server and tc Server, enterprise OSGi tools, as well as all the usual great Spring development tools. This newest version also provides support for a Mac OS X 64 bit Cocoa client. Of course the download for SpringSource Tool Suite is free so get started with the best IDE for enterprise Java development today. Download | New Feature List | Forum | JIRA

If you aren't following the SpringSource blog you may have missed it, but last week Juergen Hoeller announced the availability of the second milestone for Spring 3.0. Juergen's blog post covers all of the details about the milestone including the new RestTemplate, early JPA 2.0 support, more Java 5 style API updates and other improvements. You can always get the latest milestones, release candidates and full releases for Spring from the download center.

Juergen Hoeller's latest blog announces the release of the first milestone for Spring 3.0. The main highlights are the addition of REST support, the Spring Expression Language (EL) and the move to Java 5 and above. The blog post contains the details. Downloads | Subversion | JIRA | Forums

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.5.6 has been released. Download | Support | Documentation | Changelog This release primarily fixes some bugs and also adds some new features: Please refer to the changelog for additional details. Enjoy!