On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 5.2.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Eclipse, Theia - and Claude Code.

Hightlights

• Claude Code Plugin (Experimental): introduced a new experimental plugin for Claude Code, providing:
  • An Embedded MCP Server: exposes Spring-specific static project analytics to the LLM (including Spring specific problems + fixes as well as indexing information)
  • Skills: a set of Claude Code skills (such as validation and quickfixes) to guide the LLM when and how to use the embedded MCP server when working with Spring projects
  • Installation: please see the Claude Code Plugin README
  • Feedback: since this is an early access experimental implementation, your feedback would be more than welcome (via GitHub issues)
• Enhanced Embedded MCP Server: added more capabilities and automatic configuration (Eclipse Copilot) for the embedded MCP server
  • when using GitHub Copilot together with the Spring Tools in an Eclipse-based environment, the Spring Tools embedded MCP server gets automatically configured for Copilot
• Support for Spring AI: added overall support for indexing and validating Spring AI projects
  • indexes and validates the commonly used Spring AI annotations to give you overviews and feedback of your Spring AI projects
• Maven Repository Validation: added and polished maven repository-based version validation and latest patch quick fix based on build file configured repos
  • this allows you to take versions from your configured (company-internal or commercial) Maven repositories into account instead of purely validating against GA versions from spring.io
• Support for Type-Safe Property References: support for automatically refactoring string-based properties to type-safe references
  • when using the latest versions of Spring Data, validations show up for string-based property access and allows you to refactor to the corresponding type-safe variant

Updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2026-06 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.2.0.RELEASE

Downloads

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

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

Next up is the 5.3.0 release, currently scheduled for mid September 2026.