Dear Spring Community,

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.5.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.5.0.

Highlights from this release include:

• ready-to-use full Java8 support (STS as well as GGTS)
• updated to Eclipse Kepler SR2 (4.3.2)
• new advanced content-assist for Spring Boot projects
• Usability enhancements to live Beans Graph for Spring Boot
• Cloud Foundry integration now supports Spring Boot
• Major improvements in the Gradle Integration for Eclipse (including major performance improvements)
• initial support for Spring Boot CLI apps
• Grails updated to 2.3.7
• tc Server updated to 2.9.5.SR1
• Dashboard improvements (including feeds, shortcuts, and notifications)

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR2 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.5.0 New & Noteworthy.

The next version 3.6.0 is scheduled to arrive in July 2014, shortly after the Eclipse Luna (4.4) release. The first milestone build is scheduled to arrive in mid May 2014.

Enjoy!