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

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There is no doubt that AI-based coding assistants are already or will be widely used by developers and within organizations. While the overall outlook is pretty certain, the exact way when and how to use those tools might vary, ranging from extensions for existing IDEs (e.g. Copilot for Visual Studio Code) to entirely AI-focused environments (e.g. Cursor) or pure command-line interfaces (e.g. Claude Code).

The upcoming new major version 5 of the Spring Tools is ready for this new era in two different dimensions:

• we make sure that you can install and use the Spring Tools in as many AI-extended or AI-focused environments as possible, enhancing your AI-powered developer experience with the traditional Spring support that the Spring Tools bring to the table (ranging from specific validations, quick fixes, quick navigation and understanding, and more).
• we integrate the Spring Tools with the surrounding AI-powered environment to improve the AI coding experience itself.
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When working on Spring projects, developers do not only think in terms of low-level concepts like classes and interfaces. When using Spring, you think about higher-level abstractions and concepts like services, repositories, configuration classes, entities, aggregate roots, and so on. To bring these concepts front and center for developers in their coding environments, the Spring Tools analyzes your source code from a Spring perspective and provides overviews and quick navigation based on those concepts - and we have done that for a long time already.

In the past, we did this using the “Go To Symbol” functionality. The Spring Tools created specialized symbols for those Spring concepts by analyzing the source code and extracting the necessary information. That resulted, for example, in symbols being created for request mappings that all looked like /greeting – GET…

In the light of the new major releases of the Spring Framework and Spring Boot, the next major release of the Spring Tools is also around the corner. The GA is scheduled for December 10th and RCs will start to show up from now onwards.

Support for what is new in Spring

Spring Tools 5 contains support for various new features of Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4, ranging from extensive support for the new API versioning feature, support for functional bean definitions via the new bean registrar API, semi-automatic configuration for JSpecify annotation based null analysis and support for AOT…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.2 release of the Spring Tools for Eclipse.

This is a maintenance release that addresses an issue with the Eclipse based distribution not showing multiline selection highlights anymore when users have upgraded to macOS 26.1. Upgrading to Spring Tools 4.32.2 fixes this issue for the Eclipse based distributions of the Spring Tools. Special thanks go to Sebastian Ratz from SAP for sharing the workaround code snippet with us.

For users who have installed the Spring Tools as an add-on into their existing…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

This is a maintenance release that includes 4 bugfixes. At the moment, there are no further maintenance releases planned for the Spring Tools 4.x line.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/4.32.1.RELEASE

downloads

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

• Spring Tools: https://spring.io/tools/
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

This is a maintenance release that includes bugfixes and the update to the Eclipse 2025-09 release for the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution. At the moment, there are no further maintenance releases planned for the Spring Tools 4.x line.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/4.32.0.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.31.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) early access preview: support for Spring Data AOT repositories
• (Spring Boot) support for upgrades to Spring Boot 3.5 (build files and properties only)
• (Spring Boot) support for hierarchical document symbols in both VSCode and Eclipse

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2025-06 release (new and noteworthy)
• support for Java 24 included by default

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.30.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot - Eclipse) Embedded into Java source code JPQL/SQL queries syntax highlighting in Java editor
• (Spring Boot) Support for new functional bean registrations via BeanRegistrar, coming in Spring Framework 7
• (Spring Boot) Improvements to Bean Injection completion proposals

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-06 milestone builds
• branding updates, moving from Spring Tool Suite 4 towards just Spring Tools and Spring Tools for Eclipse
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.29.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Early access: inject bean completion proposals available in Spring components
• (Spring Boot) Experimental Spring structural view in the outline (work in progress, available in VSCode only)

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2025-03 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.29.0.RELEASE

downloads

To…