On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 5.1.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) SQL Intelligence for JDBC: adds syntax highlighting, validation, and multiline formatting for @Query annotations
• (Spring Boot) Modern Query Conversion: supports automatic conversion of JDBC queries to Java 15+ text blocks for improved readability
• (Spring Boot) AOT Repository Support: fixes and improvements for turning AOT queries into annotations and handling repository symbols
• (Spring Boot) Framework 7 API Versioning: adds validation for property-based web configs and media types
• (Spring Boot) Functional Endpoint Indexing: full support for indexing WebMvc functional endpoints and WebFlux builder patterns
• (Spring Boot) API Tooling Quick-Fixes: new automated actions to add version configurations and resolve missing client classes
• (Spring Boot) Infrastructure: leverages JDK 25 AOT Cache (CDS) to drastically reduce language server startup time—configurable via settings

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2026-03 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.1.0.RELEASE

downloads

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/

Next up is the 5.2.0 release, currently scheduled for mid June 2026.