On behalf of the tools team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0. This new major release comes with several new features and updates:

• Spring Tools 5 supports Spring Framework 7, Spring Boot 4, Spring Data 2025.1, and more: including extensive support for the new API versioning, functional bean registration, JSpecify checks, and AOT generated data repositories

• Spring Tools is ready for the AI era of coding: it supports and integrates with Cursor, Copilot for Visual Studio Code as well as Copilot for Eclipse

• A completely new logical project structure view around stereotypes: support for pre-defined and custom stereotypes as well as grouping, giving you a unique Spring specific perspective of your project - available in Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Eclipse

• Spring Tools for Eclipse got updated to Eclipse 2025-12, including full support for JDK 25.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.0.0.RELEASE

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Theia, please go visit:

• Spring Tools: https://spring.io/tools/

For further questions, please take a look at the FAQ (https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/wiki/FAQ).

Next up is the 5.1 release, currently scheduled for mid of March 2026.