Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.29.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Early access: inject bean completion proposals available in Spring components
• (Spring Boot) Experimental Spring structural view in the outline (work in progress, available in VSCode only)

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2025-03 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.29.0.RELEASE

downloads

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution builds for Windows now signed with correct certificate

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.28.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Theia, please go visit:

• Spring Tools: https://spring.io/tools/

Spring Tools 4.29.…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

highlights

• (Spring Boot) Spring index cache optimizations leading to performance and memory improvements
• (Spring Boot) additional performance improvements while running Spring specific validations
• (Spring Boot) Boot LS JAR size decreased to 207Mb from 271Mb

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.27.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Support for @ConditionalOnProperty annotations: completions, navigate to definition and find references
• (Spring Boot) Find references support for property keys in @Value annotation
• (Spring Boot) Support concatenated Strings for data queries inside @Query annotations

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-12 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: …

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.26.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) CRON expressions have auto completion and a nice description as inlay hints now
• (Spring Boot) @ConditionalOnBean and @ConditinalOnMissingBean have auto completion support now for bean names, including support for go to definition
• (Spring Boot) support for go to definition for beans and methods in SPEL expressions
• (Spring Boot) Improvements to completion proposals ordering for application.properties files
• (Spring Boot) Fixes to PostgreSql validation
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.25.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Code lenses added to explain SPEL expressions and AOP annotations with Copilot (VSCode only)
• (Spring Boot) Symbols, content-assist, and navigation support added for @Named, @Resource, @Inject, and @ConditionalOnResource
• (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting and validation for CRON expressions inside @Scheduled annotation (VSCode only)
• (Spring Boot) Navigating to definition for some elements of Data Queries embedded into @Query annotations
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.24.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) SPEL syntax highlighting and validation inside Java and embedded Spring Data queries.
• (Spring Boot) MySQL and PostgreSQL queries syntax highlighting and validation.
• (Spring Boot) Improvements around Content Assist, Navigation and/or Find References for @Profile, @Resource, @Qualifier, @Value annotations.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.24.0.RELEASE

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.23.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important fixes

• (Spring Boot) Ability to switch on/off Query syntax validation and problem severities for query syntax problems #1275
• (Spring Boot) Unable to view beans for multiple modules in version v1.55 #1271
• (Spring Boot) navigation to bean class of live bean in dashboard is broken #1269
• (Spring Boot) navigation to class of wired bean is broken #1268
• (Spring Boot) Opening Spring Boot project in VSCode leads to StackOverflowError #1166

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.23.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Syntax validation for JPQL, SQL, HQL embedded in Java code
• (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting for SQL embedded into Spring Data query annotations
• (Spring Boot) Navigation to beans from @DependsOn
• (Spring Boot) Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 is available via OpenRewrite recipes.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-06 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.23.…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Support JPQL syntax in Java sources and Named Query properties files (Java sources not supported yet in Eclipse)
• (Spring Boot) Spring Symbol indexing has order of magnitude smaller memory footprint allowing for indexing very large Spring Boot projects
• (Spring Boot) New UI in VSCode to show/hide/refresh Live Data for running Spring Boot apps
• (Spring Boot) .properties <-> .yml conversions available in Eclipse and VSCode
• (Spring Boot) Show active profiles for running spring boot applications in Eclipse and VSCode with Boot Dashboard extension
• (Eclipse)…