Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the availability of the third milestone build of the upcoming Spring Tool Suite 3.0.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.0.0.

Among the highlights of this milestone release:

• ships on top of Eclipse Juno 4.2 release
• includes Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.0 release, which includes Groovy 2.0 compiler support
• includes AJDT 2.2.0 release and AspectJ 1.7.0 release (including Java7 support)
• new support for Spring Data (content-asisst, validation)
• simplified template project authoring and hosting

For more details about new and changed features, please refer to the New and Noteworthy for 3.0.0.M3 document.

If you come across incompatibilities, migration problems, bugs, or any other suggestions, please provide feedback in the forum and file issues via JIRA.

Downloads are available from the official STS download page, take a look at the section for „Other Downloads“.

The final 3.0 releases are scheduled for early August 2012.

Enjoy!