Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

highlights

• (Spring Boot) Spring index cache optimizations leading to performance and memory improvements
• (Spring Boot) additional performance improvements while running Spring specific validations
• (Spring Boot) Boot LS JAR size decreased to 207Mb from 271Mb

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.28.0.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/

Spring Tools 4.29.0 is scheduled to be released in mid March 2025.

Enjoy!