Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we just released the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Highlights from this milestone towards 2.9.0:

• General - update to tc Server 2.6.3
• Spring - update to Spring Roo 1.2.0
• Spring - support for new Spring Roo packaging options
• Grails - Grails 2.0.0 is now the default version installed from the extensions page
• Groovy - Groovy 1.8 is now the default version installed from the extensions page
• Gradle - initial Gradle editing support (more to follow)

More details can be found in the New and Noteworthy for 2.9.0.M2 document. Detailed installation instructions are also available, please look at the installation from the milestone update sites.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page, check "Other Downloads".

The release of 2.9.0 is planned for early March 2012 and will be based on Eclipse Indigo 3.7 SR2.