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) improvement: automatically disable code hotswap when running a Spring Boot app with devtools in debug mode (to avoid conflicts between devtools and hot swap both try to update code in the running process)
• (Eclipse) update: updated embedded JRE to JDK15, including the src.zip now
• (Eclipse) update: re-organized Spring-related preference pages
• (Eclipse) update: removed -Xverify:none and -noverify from the default fast startup settings for boot app launch configs
• (Eclipse) update: default PWS endpoint URL removed from the dialog to create Cloud Foundry targets in the boot dashboard (since PWS is going away)
• (Eclipse) fixed: errors appear in log when pausing docker containers
• (Eclipse) fixed: do not show breakpoint warning when starting up a Spring Boot app
• (Eclipse) fixed: added missing high-res and dark-mode-compatible icons for docker support in Spring Boot dashboard
• (Eclipse) fixed: sometimes live hovers do not show up automatically after launching a boot app in docker
• (Eclipse) fixed: improved stability when deploying multiple apps simultaneously to docker via the boot dashboard
• (Eclipse) fixed: problem showing live request mappings for eureka-based apps
• (Eclipse) fixed: dropdown in Spring Symbols view shows up with transparent background on Linux
• (Concourse) fixed: support pipeline directory as well see (#525)

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

• Spring Tools 4: https://spring.io/tools/

Detailed changes can be found here: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Changelog#2020-10-23-481-release-incl-language-servers-version-1230

Spring Tools 4.8.2 is scheduled to be released in late November 2020.

Enjoy!