On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 5.1.0 release of the Spring Tools
for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Eclipse and Theia. important highlights (Spring Boot) SQL Intelligence for JDBC: adds syntax highlighting, validation, and multiline formatting for @Query annotations (Spring Boot) Modern Query Conversion: supports automatic conversion of JDBC queries to Java 15+ text blocks for improved readability (Spring Boot) AOT Repository Support: fixes and improvements for turning AOT queries into annotations and handling repository symbols (Spring Boot…
On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0.1. This release includes fixes for: log messages from language server appear in Error Log view in Eclipse #1747 ai-related code lenses around Copilot do not show up in VSCode #1746 TM Terminal superseded by Terminal Feature in Eclipse 2025-12 #1748 Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.0.1.RELEASE To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Theia, please go…
On behalf of the tools team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0. This new major release comes with several new features and updates: Spring Tools 5 supports Spring Framework 7, Spring Boot 4, Spring Data 2025.1, and more: including extensive support for the new API versioning, functional bean registration, JSpecify checks, and AOT generated data repositories Spring Tools is ready for the AI era of coding: it supports and integrates with Cursor, Copilot for Visual Studio Code as well as Copilot for Eclipse A completely new logical project structure view around…
There is no doubt that AI-based coding assistants are already or will be widely used by developers and within organizations. While the overall outlook is pretty certain, the exact way when and how to use those tools might vary, ranging from extensions for existing IDEs (e.g. Copilot for Visual Studio Code) to entirely AI-focused environments (e.g. Cursor) or pure command-line interfaces (e.g. Claude Code). The upcoming new major version 5 of the Spring Tools is ready for this new era in two different dimensions: we make sure that you can install and use the Spring Tools in as many AI-extended…
When working on Spring projects, developers do not only think in terms of low-level concepts like classes and interfaces. When using Spring, you think about higher-level abstractions and concepts like services, repositories, configuration classes, entities, aggregate roots, and so on. To bring these concepts front and center for developers in their coding environments, the Spring Tools analyzes your source code from a Spring perspective and provides overviews and quick navigation based on those concepts - and we have done that for a long time already. In the past, we did this using the “Go To…
In the light of the new major releases of the Spring Framework and Spring Boot, the next major release of the Spring Tools is also around the corner. The GA is scheduled for December 10th and RCs will start to show up from now onwards. Support for what is new in Spring Spring Tools 5 contains support for various new features of Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4, ranging from extensive support for the new API versioning feature, support for functional bean definitions via the new bean registrar API, semi-automatic configuration for JSpecify annotation based null analysis and support for AOT…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.2 release of the Spring Tools
for Eclipse. This is a maintenance release that addresses an issue with the Eclipse based distribution not showing multiline selection highlights
anymore when users have upgraded to macOS 26.1. Upgrading to Spring Tools 4.32.2 fixes this issue for the Eclipse based distributions
of the Spring Tools. Special thanks go to Sebastian Ratz from SAP for sharing the workaround code snippet with us. For users who have installed the Spring Tools as an add-on into their existing…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.1 release of the Spring Tools
for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia. This is a maintenance release that includes 4 bugfixes. 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/4.32.1.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…
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…
