On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 5.4.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Eclipse, Theia - and Claude Code.

Hightlights

• New Validations & Quick Fixes: Added validations and quick fixes to convert to @ApplicationModuleListener, @SpringJUnitConfig, @RestController, and specific @Scope annotations
• Claude Code / MCP Enhancements: Enabled the Claude Code plugin to render a project's logical structure
• Stability & Performance: Significant speedups around various quick fixes and repository-based version validation + improved reliability while indexing source code

Updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to the latest Eclipse 2026-09 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.4.0.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 5.5.0 release, currently scheduled for mid December 2026.