Martin Lippert

Martin Lippert

Martin leads the Spring Tools projects at VMware to provide the best developer tools out there for Spring. In addition to that he works on next generation developer tooling and innovative new architectures for cloud-based developer tooling. Before joining the Spring family, Martin co-founded it-agile, a leading consulting and development company focused on agile software development.

Recent Blog posts by Martin Lippert

Spring Tool Suite 3.7.1 released

Releases | October 06, 2015 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 3.7.1 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling. Highlights from this release include: To download the distributions, please go visit: STS 3.7.2 is scheduled to ship in December 2015. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite 3.7.0 released

Releases | June 30, 2015 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 3.7.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling. Highlights from this release include: To download the distributions, please go visit: STS 3.7.1 is scheduled to ship in early October 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Mars SR1 release. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.4 released

Releases | March 11, 2015 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.4 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.4. Highlights from this release include: To download the distributions, please go visit: This is the final release of the GGTS bundle. Please take a look at the New and Noteworthy for further details. STS 3.7.0 is scheduled to ship in late June 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Mars release. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.3.SR1 released

Releases | January 19, 2015 | ...
Dear Spring Community, We have released a minor service release for STS/GGTS 3.6.3 on Eclipse 4.4.1 to address a security vulnerability that was found in the JGit client. More details on this can be found here: JGit client (CVE-2014-9390) To download the updated distributions, please go visit: STS/GGTS 3.6.4 is scheduled to ship in March 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Luna SR2 release. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.3 released

Releases | December 02, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.3 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.3. Highlights from this release include: To download the distributions, please go visit: STS/GGTS 3.6.4 is scheduled to ship in March 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Luna SR2 release. Enjoy!

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.2 released

Releases | October 13, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.2 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.2. This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse. To download the distributions, please go visit: NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 SR1 release as 64bit and 32bit based…

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.1 released

Releases | August 28, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.1 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.1. Highlights from this release include: To download the distributions, please go visit: NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 release as 64bit and 32bit based zip files only. There will be no native installers for STS/GGTS anymore. With the 3.6.0 release we shifted towards a slightly changed release schedule, shipping minor releases more frequently. Therefore 3.6.2 is scheduled to ship…

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.0 released

Releases | July 11, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.0. Highlights from this release include: To download the distributions, please go visit: NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 release as 64bit and 32bit based zip files only. There will be no native installers for STS/GGTS anymore. From now on, we shift towards a slightly changed release schedule, shipping minor releases more frequently. Therefore 3.6.1 is scheduled to ship on…

Spring Tool Suite and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite 3.6.0.M1 released

Releases | May 30, 2014 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.6.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). Highlights from this milestone build include: To download the distributions, please go visit: NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 release candidates as 64bit based zip files ONLY. We plan to no longer ship installers and 32bit distributions anymore. Update sites will be available for use with older Eclipse versions and 32bit installations. We are very keen to hear any feedback on this change. The 3.6.…

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