Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) enhancement: Syntax check for Annotations with Spring Expression Language (#475)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: hard to reproduce BadLocationException inside of language server fixed now, occurred e.g. in (#451)
• (Eclipse) new: early access update sites and distribution builds for Eclipse 2020-09 available now (and requires JDK11 to run)
• (Eclipse) improvement: old Spring Boot launch configs are now "fixed" automatically to exclude test classes again
• (Eclipse) improvement: new Spring Symbols view now works a lot better when selecting the file scope (also takes selections from package explorer into account)
• (Eclipse) fixed: STS4 Does Not Start After Installing Papyrus Plugin (#499)
• (Eclipse) fixed: language server now being shutdown correctly when used by new Spring Symbols view
• (Eclipse) fixed: it is possible now to install the Spring Tools 4 into an existing Eclipse via the Spring Tools 4 p2 repo only - the main Eclipse update site doesn't have to be enabled anymore (#497)

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

• Spring Tools 4: https://spring.io/tools/

Detailed changes can be found here: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Changelog#2020-07-30-471-release-incl-language-servers-version-1200

Spring Tools 4.7.2 is scheduled to be released in late August 2020.

Enjoy!