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 Tools 4.17.2 released

Releases | February 01, 2023 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.17.2 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 for upcoming Eclipse 2023-03 release available via update site fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: [symbols] do not auto-limit the result of the workspace symbol request (#915) (Spring Boot) fixed: Unit test MavenProjectParser (#918) (Spring Boot) fixed: Give user more information about what is "java sources reconciling" (#920) (Spring Boot) fixed: [Java-17] Enable jdt.ls.commons…

The new Spring Boot version validation and upgrade support in Spring Tools

Engineering | January 17, 2023 | ...
New releases of Spring Boot are being released on a quite frequent schedule and updating your projects to newer versions of Spring Boot is something that many teams and organizations around the globe do as part of their daily work. Sometimes those upgrades are simple and easy, for example for new patch releases that mostly include changes to fix bugs and address CVEs. In contrast to that, upgrading to a new minor or even a new major version requires more work, including code changes to adapt to new or changed APIs, updating configurations to not use deprecated keys anymore, and more. Each new…

Spring Tools 4.17.1 released

Releases | January 03, 2023 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.17.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: Eclipse STS 4.17 takes 96 % processor time on Intel i9 (#934) (Spring Boot) fixed: BootLanguageServerBootApp class is taking all available cpu continuously (#932) (Spring Boot) fixed: OpenRewrite unchecked, but always Language Server Background Job(Loading Rewrite Recipes) (#925) (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] spring.factories EnableAutoConfiguration key for boot 3.0 ignores 'on' setting (#917) (VSCode) fixed: [vscode…

Spring Tools 4.17.0 released

Releases | December 07, 2022 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.17.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2022-12 release (new and noteworthy) early access to new experimental features Among a number of bug fixes and minor improvements, this release introduces experimental support for: Spring Boot version validations: The IDE will tell you when there is a newer major, minor, or patch version available for your Spring Boot project Spring Boot upgrade support: The tooling will help you…

Spring Tools 4.16.1 released

Releases | October 26, 2022 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.16.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution early access builds available for Spring Tools 4 on Eclipse 2022-12 milestones important note for upgrading from a release prior to 4.16.0 on Eclipse If you are upgrading an existing Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution 4.15.3 or older to 4.16.1, please take a look at the necessary manual steps described for the upgrade to 4.16.0. fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring XML Config support…

Spring Tools 4.16.0 released

Releases | September 16, 2022 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.16.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2022-09 release (new and noteworthy) new distribution build for Linux on ARM included now (experimental) - downloads are here m2e 2.0.5 release included in distribution builds for Eclipse important note for upgrading from a previous installation on Eclipse Due to the major update to m2e 2.0 that comes with the Eclipse 2022-09 release, several additional third-party m2e connector…

Spring Tools 4.15.3 released

Releases | August 12, 2022 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.15.3 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Boot Tools slow down code complete (#808) (Language Server) fixed: Copied files should retain copyright ownership (#807) To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Theia, please go visit: Spring Tools 4: https://spring.io/tools/ Detailed changes can be found here: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Changelog#2022-08-11-4153-release-incl…

Spring Tools 4.15.2 released

Releases | August 04, 2022 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.15.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: Validation errors on @@ placeholders in YAML editor (#711) (VSCode) fixed: Live process is not auto connected when app is launched in internalConsole (#794) (Eclipse) fixed: Cleanup / reduce verbosity of diagnostic output in Eclipse logs (#798) (Eclipse) fixed: Not properly disposed SWT resource was caused Spring Starter Project (#797) (Eclipse) fixed: avoid live hover connection attempt when deploying app to docker…

Spring Tools 4.15.1 released

Engineering | June 18, 2022 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.15.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: VScode incorrectly suggests removing @Autowired annotation from methods (#787) (Spring Boot) fixed: VScode quick fix should not suggest removing @Autowired annotation from JUnit tests (#786) (Eclipse) fixed: Not able to extract the new version of spring-tool-suite-4-4.15.0.RELEASE-e4.24.0-win32.win32.x86_64.self-extracting.jar on windows 11 (#788) (Eclipse) fixed: Cannot open Spring Boot Language Server Java Editor…

Spring Tools 4.15.0 released

Releases | June 15, 2022 | ...
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.15.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2022-06 release (new and noteworthy) fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: vscode-sts: an edge case of workspace symbol for @PutMapping (#781) (VSCode) fixed: Failed to refresh live data from process 12704 - com.xxxx.xx.xxx.BillingServiceApp after retries: 10 (#748) (Eclipse) fixed: The Spring Boot Language Server is not immediately shutdown after closing the last open editor to…

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