Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.6.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).

Highlights from this milestone build include:

• based on Eclipse Luna 4.4
• support for Groovy 2.3
• updated to Grails 2.4
• updated to tc Server 2.9.6
• minor improvements to the Gradle tooling
• bugfixes, including fixes for endless build loops and memory leaks

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.6.0.M1 New & Noteworthy.

NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 release candidates as 64bit based zip files ONLY. We plan to no longer ship installers and 32bit distributions anymore. Update sites will be available for use with older Eclipse versions and 32bit installations.

We are very keen to hear any feedback on this change.

The 3.6.0 release is scheduled early July 2014 - shortly after the Eclipse Luna release.

Enjoy!