Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.10.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2021-03 release

reminder

• the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on
• ships with an embedded JDK15 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore

additional changes

• (Spring Boot) enhancement: .sts4 dir location now configurable (#601)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: sometimes live hovers do not disappear (#609)
• (Eclipse) fixed: debugger didn't connect automatically to apps deployed to docker from the boot dashboard
• (Eclipse) fixed: STS 4.8.0 template proposals invalid (#579)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Fresh sts-4.9.0 starts with errors - no way to add Task repository (#606)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Error on installing Mylyn JIRA Connector in STS 4.9.0 (#599)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Duplicate com.sun.xml.bind installed screw other plugins (#588)
• (Eclipse) update: remove WTP-based HTML tooling from Spring Tools 4 distribution (#572)
• (CF Manifest) fixed: Error writing config: rename ~\.cf\temp-config025076595 ~\.cf\config.json: Access is denied. (#577)
• (OpenVSX) fixed: the Spring extensions are back on the OpenVSX marketplace (#583)
• (Concourse) improvement: Add display property to pipeline schema (#607) - contributed by @jghiloni

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#2021-03-17-4100-release-incl-language-servers-version-1250

Spring Tools 4.10.1 is scheduled to be released in late April 2021.

Enjoy!