4.9.0.RELEASE

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2020-12 release (including support for Java 15)

reminder

• the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on
• ships with an embedded JDK15 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore

additional changes

• (Spring Boot) new: show bean startup performance metrics in live hovers and code lenses (details in the user guide)
• (Spring Boot) new: show basic request mapping performance metrics in live hovers and code lensses (details in the user guide)
• (Spring Boot) new: provide content-assist for constructor-arg name in Spring XML config files (#562)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: language-server-internal exception happening when saving a file that has a space or other special characters in its name or path
• (Eclipse) improvement: added support for custom scripts to create docker images when deploying a boot app to docker in the boot dashboard (details in the user guide)
• (Eclipse) fixed: enable live hover action for more docker-related nodes in the boot dashboard
• (Concourse) fixed: navigation in pipeline files with VSCode Concourse CI extension doesn't work everytime (#483)

We skipped the 4.8.2 release due to no major updates or bug fixes around at that time, and focused our work on the 4.9.0 release instead.

4.8.1.RELEASE

4.8.1.RELEASE

4.8.0.RELEASE

4.8.0.RELEASE

4.7.2.RELEASE

download the latest Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distributions from https://spring.io/tools

4.7.1.RELEASE

4.7.1.RELEASE

4.7.0.RELEASE

4.7.0.RELEASE

4.6.2.RELEASE

4.6.2.RELEASE