Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.25.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Code lenses added to explain SPEL expressions and AOP annotations with Copilot (VSCode only)
• (Spring Boot) Symbols, content-assist, and navigation support added for @Named, @Resource, @Inject, and @ConditionalOnResource
• (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting and validation for CRON expressions inside @Scheduled annotation (VSCode only)
• (Spring Boot) Navigating to definition for some elements of Data Queries embedded into @Query annotations

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-09 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.25.0.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 4: https://spring.io/tools/

Spring Tools 4.26.0 is scheduled to be released in late October 2024.

Enjoy!