Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.9.0 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 2020-12 release (including support for Java 15) 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) new: show bean startup performance metrics in live hovers and code lenses (details in the user…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.8.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. quick 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 JDK15 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore additional changes and fixes (Spring Boot) new: Added support for Spring Boot multi-document properties files (#533) (Spring Boot) fixed: Support escaping of map keys with '[]' in Spring Boot property yaml files (Spring…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.8.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. This release includes major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2020-09 release requires a JDK11 to run on ships with an embedded JDK14 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore includes Eclipse Docker tooling by default now (in addition to the nice docker integration for the Spring Boot Dashboard) includes Wild Web Developer tooling now (#354), including advanced support for JavaScript…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.7.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Highlights from this release include: (Eclipse) new: this releases introduces a completely new wizard in Eclipse to add Spring Boot starter modules to existing projects. Take a look at the user guide section about it to learn all about this new and way more flexible way to add modules to your Spring Boot projects. (Eclipse) new: this releases introduces an experimental early version of support for the Spring Boot OCI image building support in combination with Docker…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Highlights from this release include: (Spring Boot) enhancement: Syntax check for Annotations with Spring Expression Language (#475) (Spring Boot) fixed: hard to reproduce BadLocationException inside of language server fixed now, occurred e.g. in (#451) (Eclipse) new: early access update sites and distribution builds for Eclipse 2020-09 available now (and requires JDK11 to run) (Eclipse) improvement: old Spring Boot launch configs are now "fixed" automatically to…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.7.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Highlights from this release include: (Spring Boot) bugfix: automatic live hover detection works again reliably (Eclipse) update: Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2020-06 release (Eclipse) improvement: added support for multiple instances of symbols view (Eclipse) improvement: added favorites dropdown to symbols view (Eclipse) improvement: boot dashboard shows request mappings, beans, and the environment of running apps now if SSH tunnel is…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.6.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Highlights from this release include: (Spring Boot) improvement: additional check to auto-connect live hovers only when actuators are on the project classpath (#450) (Spring Boot) improvement: added content assist for keys that exist in YAML and properties files (#427) (Spring Boot) improvement: Yaml editor gives error when using @..@ placeholders (#190) (Spring Boot) bugfix: super type hierarchy lookup might fail (Spring Boot) bugfix: quickly restarting app caused…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.6.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Highlights from this release include: (Spring Boot) improvement: Spring yaml validation doesn't understand the "<<:" syntax (#440) (Spring Boot) improvement: YAML Property completion: Superclass properties not detected in case of List or Map (#449) (Spring Boot) improvement: improved performance for content-assist for Spring XML config files (Spring Boot) bugfix: Quick Fix for unknown properties broken (#442) (Eclipse) improvement: early access builds on Eclipse…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.6.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Highlights from this release include: (Spring Boot) performance: improved performance while scanning projects for symbols (Spring Boot) performance: improved performance when multiple files change at once (e.g. after a switch to a different branch or a git pull + refresh) (Eclipse) bugfix: source lookup for Spring Boot launch configs works again (Eclipse) documentation: There is a new section in the user documentation that focuses on migrating an existing workspace…
Dear Spring Community, I am happy to announce the 4.5.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia. Highlights from this release include: (Spring Boot) improvement: live hover mechanism now reports connection failures (Eclipse) improvement: Add support for async completions in 4.15 (#402) - PR from @gayanper (Eclipse) improvement: Early access builds for Eclipse 4.15 available (Eclipse) fixed: auto-completion inserted extra newline for params in @Value annotations (Eclipse) fixed: Boot Dashboard cannot start app when Eclipse project name contains spaces (#40…
