Spring Tools 4 is a Spring development tool created by the Spring team. It is built from scratch and integrates modern technology and developer tool architecture. It runs in a separate process, was built with performance in mind, and supports the latest Spring technology, providing world-class support for developing Spring-based enterprise applications. At the same time, the new version of Spring Tools has nothing to do with IDE and can be used in various coding environments, supporting Eclipse, Visual Studio Code and Theia.
The latest released version is 4.18.1. This version fixes some bugs and improves functions:
- Support for navigating to Spring properties files when checking @Value annotations
- Support @ConditionalOnProperty in property navigation functions
- Automatically add imports for types when applying content assist suggestions for query methods
- [spring-data-support] Consider type hierarchies for domain types
- [spring-data-support] Remove pure findBy method completion from proposal list
- Fix missing live hover when running Spring Boot 3 applications
- Fix regression in application.properties/yaml autocompletion of nested enums