On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

This is a maintenance release that includes bugfixes and the update to the Eclipse 2025-09 release for the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution. At the moment, there are no further maintenance releases planned for the Spring Tools 4.x line.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/4.32.0.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.31.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) early access preview: support for Spring Data AOT repositories
• (Spring Boot) support for upgrades to Spring Boot 3.5 (build files and properties only)
• (Spring Boot) support for hierarchical document symbols in both VSCode and Eclipse

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2025-06 release (new and noteworthy)
• support for Java 24 included by default

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.30.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot - Eclipse) Embedded into Java source code JPQL/SQL queries syntax highlighting in Java editor
• (Spring Boot) Support for new functional bean registrations via BeanRegistrar, coming in Spring Framework 7
• (Spring Boot) Improvements to Bean Injection completion proposals

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-06 milestone builds
• branding updates, moving from Spring Tool Suite 4 towards just Spring Tools and Spring Tools for Eclipse
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.29.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Early access: inject bean completion proposals available in Spring components
• (Spring Boot) Experimental Spring structural view in the outline (work in progress, available in VSCode only)

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2025-03 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.29.0.RELEASE

downloads

To…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution builds for Windows now signed with correct certificate

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.28.1.RELEASE

downloads

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

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

Spring Tools 4.29.…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

highlights

• (Spring Boot) Spring index cache optimizations leading to performance and memory improvements
• (Spring Boot) additional performance improvements while running Spring specific validations
• (Spring Boot) Boot LS JAR size decreased to 207Mb from 271Mb

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.27.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Support for @ConditionalOnProperty annotations: completions, navigate to definition and find references
• (Spring Boot) Find references support for property keys in @Value annotation
• (Spring Boot) Support concatenated Strings for data queries inside @Query annotations

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-12 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: …

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.26.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) CRON expressions have auto completion and a nice description as inlay hints now
• (Spring Boot) @ConditionalOnBean and @ConditinalOnMissingBean have auto completion support now for bean names, including support for go to definition
• (Spring Boot) support for go to definition for beans and methods in SPEL expressions
• (Spring Boot) Improvements to completion proposals ordering for application.properties files
• (Spring Boot) Fixes to PostgreSql validation
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.25.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Code lenses added to explain SPEL expressions and AOP annotations with Copilot (VSCode only)
• (Spring Boot) Symbols, content-assist, and navigation support added for @Named, @Resource, @Inject, and @ConditionalOnResource
• (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting and validation for CRON expressions inside @Scheduled annotation (VSCode only)
• (Spring Boot) Navigating to definition for some elements of Data Queries embedded into @Query annotations
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.24.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) SPEL syntax highlighting and validation inside Java and embedded Spring Data queries.
• (Spring Boot) MySQL and PostgreSQL queries syntax highlighting and validation.
• (Spring Boot) Improvements around Content Assist, Navigation and/or Find References for @Profile, @Resource, @Qualifier, @Value annotations.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.24.0.RELEASE

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