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 Boot) fixed: Tolerate '.[' for map navigation in .properties file
• (Eclipse) improvement: support container image creation and container deployment of Spring Boot apps without maven wrapper
• (Eclipse) improvement: better process label for live hovers from boot apps running in docker
• (Eclipse) improvement: allow docker-deployed boot apps to find each other (via simple network setup inside of docker)
• (Eclipse)…

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, TypeScript, HTML, and more
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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…

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 exclude test classes again
• (Eclipse) improvement: new Spring Symbols view now works a lot better when selecting the file scope (also takes selections…

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 enabled for the app on CF
• (Eclipse) update: Support SemVer format in Spring Initializr wizard (#473)
• (Eclipse) bugfix: STS 4.6.2 and Eclipse 2020-06 RC1: FrameworkEvent ERROR (#477…

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 error popup from live hover mechanism to show up
• (Eclipse) improvement: early access version of new Spring symbols view
• (Eclipse) performance: fixed several issues that could have caused slowing down source code editing in the Java editor (#435) (#405…

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 2020-06 milestone builds available
• (Eclipse) improvement: reduced timeout for ls-based content-assist for the Java Editor, so broken or slow language server behavior should not…

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 from Spring Tool Suite 3 to Spring Tools 4: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/STS3-Migration
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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 (#403)
• (Eclipse) fixed: NPE in PropertiesJavaDefinitionHandler.adjustedHighlightRangeForKey (#401)
• (Eclipse) fixed…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.5.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse): Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2019-12 release
• (Eclipse) improvement: progress updates from new live hover mechanism now appears in Eclipse as well
• (Eclipse) bugfix: fixed NPE when deleting apps from CF via the boot dashboard
• (Eclipse) bugfix: finish button was disabled after selecting an org/space when creating a CF target in the boot dashboard
• (Spring Boot) improvement: better and more consistent labels for running processes in live hover actions across the board
• various improvements to the Spring Tools 4 user guide
• bugfixes
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