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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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.23.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important fixes

• (Spring Boot) Ability to switch on/off Query syntax validation and problem severities for query syntax problems #1275
• (Spring Boot) Unable to view beans for multiple modules in version v1.55 #1271
• (Spring Boot) navigation to bean class of live bean in dashboard is broken #1269
• (Spring Boot) navigation to class of wired bean is broken #1268
• (Spring Boot) Opening Spring Boot project in VSCode leads to StackOverflowError #1166

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

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.23.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Syntax validation for JPQL, SQL, HQL embedded in Java code
• (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting for SQL embedded into Spring Data query annotations
• (Spring Boot) Navigation to beans from @DependsOn
• (Spring Boot) Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 is available via OpenRewrite recipes.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-06 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.23.…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Support JPQL syntax in Java sources and Named Query properties files (Java sources not supported yet in Eclipse)
• (Spring Boot) Spring Symbol indexing has order of magnitude smaller memory footprint allowing for indexing very large Spring Boot projects
• (Spring Boot) New UI in VSCode to show/hide/refresh Live Data for running Spring Boot apps
• (Spring Boot) .properties <-> .yml conversions available in Eclipse and VSCode
• (Spring Boot) Show active profiles for running spring boot applications in Eclipse and VSCode with Boot Dashboard extension
• (Eclipse)…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Add Spring Boot Starters... InlayHint in Spring Boot projects pom.xml next to <dependencies> tag (VSCode only at the moment)
• (Spring Boot) early TestJars support #1197
• (Eclipse) fixed: Spring Tool Suite 17 with maven no longer copies application.properties file to the target folder #929

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-03 release (new and noteworthy)

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

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.21.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot, VSCode) Log Levels viewing and editing is available in VSCode for live running Boot apps if enabled on the the app via Spring Boot Actuators
• (Spring Boot, VSCode) Ability to show "Refactor Preview" in VSCode before applying the changes from OpenRewrite recipes

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2024-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.21.…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.21.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Completions experience for request mappings on class method level has been improved
• (Spring Boot) Spring Boot 3.2 upgrade available via OpenRewrite integration

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-12 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.21.0.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.20.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Completions for Spring Properties show up 10 times faster initially (as fast as on the consecutive invocations)
• (Spring Boot) Various performance optimizations around symbols scanning and Java reconciling
• (Eclipse) Early access builds available for upcoming Eclipse 2023-12 release

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.20.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.20.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-09 release (new and noteworthy)

important highlights

• (Spring Boot): 5x-10x faster Java Reconciling support to show Spring specific validations re-built from the ground up tuned for high performance to work seamlessly in large code bases
• (Eclipse): No more rogue "Boot Language Server" jobs, forever calculating completion proposals and other stuck Java/Spring tooling features

more…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.19.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early-access builds available for early Eclipse 2023-09 milestones (via the Eclipse Marketplace or the corresponding update site)

selected fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Experimental validation support for Spring Modulith (#953)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: duplicates of symbols showing up (#10056)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Let show optional: prefix for spring.sql.init.schema-locations and spring.sql.init.data-locations (#1067)
• (Eclipse) fixed: class loading exception: SpringModelLanguageServer cannot be found (#1060)
• (Documentation) fixed: Use Theia Blueprint in the documentation? (#1073)
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