On August 31 of 2004, only a few months after version 1.0 of the Spring Framework itself got released, Torsten Jürgeleit created a repository and made the initial commits to a project that became the tooling support for Spring in Eclipse, the Spring IDE project (while the roots of that work are probably going back further in time, as the comment of the first commit to the repository reads like there was a CVS repository even before that time.). Shortly after, Christian Dupuis joined, led the project for many years and initiated the Spring Tool Suite on top of Spring IDE. It’s been a long time…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.14.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) fixed: use startupSnapshot instead of startup timer call to avoid wiping out the underlying data (Spring Boot) fixed: When vscode opens a Java project for about 2 hours, the suggestion function will fail (#750) (VSCode) enhancement: live hovers are now automatically show up when you launch a Spring Boot application in VSCode. Additional JVM args for the Spring Boot app to enable JMX are added to the launch automatically. More…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.14.0 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 2022-03 release (new and noteworthy) fixes and improvements (VSCode) fixed: VSCode Spring boot tools 1.30.0 error trying to find JVM (#726) (VSCode) fixed: vscode "Problems" diagnostic entries lack "source" field (#725) (VSCode) fixed: orphan vscode extension processes left running (#704) (VSCode) fixed: deadlock in language server process avoids process to be shutdown (#741) (VSCode…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.13.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. fixes and improvements (Spring Boot) improvement: Consider if content assist can be offered for spring.config.import property keys (#536) (Spring Boot) fixed: YAML editor generates wrong EOL characters in Windows (#709) (VSCode) fixed: Always pop up a prompt box: indexing spring boot properties (#697) (VSCode) fixed: Spring Boot Tools for VS Code incorrectly misidentifies internal JDK for Language Support for Java as a JRE (#715) (Eclipse) fixed: Create or modify…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.13.0 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 2021-12 release (including support for Java 17) (new and noteworthy) builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) are available now from the regular download page additional changes (Spring Boot) fixed: STS 4.12.0 (for eclipse) *.yml can't automatic prompt (#690) (Spring Boot) fixed: A StackOverFlow error for serializable Kotlin data class for autocompletion in the Eclipse IDE (#69…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.12.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. important updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution embedded runtime upgraded to JDK17 (across all distributions, including Apple Silicon) Java 17 support available (via separate add-on) early-access builds for upcoming Eclipse 2021-12 release available early-access builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) available additional changes (Eclipse) fixed: Alway Download sources and javadoc when I open sts (distribution includes latest m2e 1.18.2 release…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.12.0 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 2021-09 release (including support for Java 16) (new and noteworthy) Java 17 support available (via separate add-on) early-access builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) available additional changes (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: [codespaces] vscode extension crashes if specified log output location doesn't work (#676) (Eclipse, Spring Boot) improvement: Little UX improvement for Tags…
ear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.11.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Fixes in this release (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: [codespaces] spring boot extension starting up multiple times in Codespaces setting (#669) (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: [codespaces] spring boot extension doesn't find the right JDK when connecting to a codespace (#670) (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: JAVA_Home should be right but still shows "Note Java 8 can still be used in your own projects" (#664) (Eclipse) improvement: progress view shows many…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.11.0 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 2021-06 release (including support for Java 16) (new and noteworthy) early-access builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) available reminder the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on the Eclipse-based distribution ships with an embedded JDK16 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore additional…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.10.0 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 2021-03 release reminder the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on ships with an embedded JDK15 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore additional changes (Spring Boot) enhancement: .sts4 dir location now configurable (#601) (Spring Boot) fixed: sometimes live hovers do not disappear (#60…
