sts4

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)
• Windows package now ships as a regular ZIP file instead of a self-extracting JAR file

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) Refactor ConditionalOnResource attribute to be based on AnnotationAttributeCompletionProcessor #1344
• (Spring Boot) GH-1310: Add support for ConditionalOnResource annotation #1343
• (Spring Boot) GH-1330: Explain AOP annotations with copilot #1338
• (Spring Boot) [Spring Data Query] Navigate to parameter definitions in Java source #1336
• (Spring Boot) [Spring Data Queries] Show inline hint for query parameter #1333
• (Spring Boot) [Spring Data Queries] Show document highlights when the cursor is at query parameter AST node #1332
• (Spring Boot) add code lens to explain expressions using Copilot to AOP related annotations #1330
• (Spring Boot) Fix missing proposal if the prefix starts with "/" for @ContextConfiguration #1327
• (Spring Boot) Syntax Highlighting and Validation for embedded CRON expressions #1322
• (Spring Boot) add support for @Named annotation #1313
• (Spring Boot) create generic symbols for @Resource and @Inject #1312
• (Spring Boot) add support for @ConditionalOnResource annotation attributes #1310
• (Spring Boot) Pull in TM Terminal 10.6.1 from CDT to fix shell OSC customizations #1303
• (Spring Boot) change name of "Remove Unnecessary @Autowired" validation marker description #1302
• (Spring Boot) change name of problem description for "unnecessary web annotation names" validation #1301
• (Spring Boot) content-assist for annotation attributes doesn't work when spaces are involved #1299
• (Spring Boot) [performance] explore options to deploy and run the language server from JAR files #1293
• (Spring Boot) Recognise !--- as a document separator in properties files #1129
• (Spring Boot) Add file completion from classpath for @ContextConfiguration #650
• (Spring Boot) SpEL parsing issue in Query annotation #1320
• (Spring Boot) When editing a Spring XML configuration file, the package names and class names do not appear accurately #1317
• (Spring Boot) No syntax highlighting and validation for data qieries inside @NamedQuery #1314
• (Spring Boot) False positive SQL error #1304
• (Spring Boot) Replace OkHttp3ClientHttpRequestFactory with JdkClientHttpRequestFactory #1296

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) SPEL syntax highlighting and validation inside Java and embedded Spring Data queries.
• (Spring Boot) MySQL and PostgreSQL queries syntax highlighting and validation.
• (Spring Boot) Improvements around Content Assist, Navigation and/or Find References for @Profile, @Resource, @Qualifier, @Value annotations.

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) add code completion and to go definition support for @Resource annotation (name attribute) #1298
• (Spring Boot) support jakarta version of Inject annotation (in addition to javax variant) #1297
• (Spring Boot) add content-assist and find references for @Profile annotation #1294
• (Spring Boot) allow navigation to classpath resources from @Value annotation #1287
• (Spring Boot) do not show hidden files as proposals for classpath resources (in @Value annotation) #1286
• (Spring Boot) support classpath resources in code completion for @Value annotation #1285
• (Spring Boot) add content-assist for @Qualifier annotation #1261
• (Spring Boot) improve parser-based validation for SpEL snippets #1237
• (Spring Boot) SpEL Syntax Highlighting #1234
• (Spring Boot) Error when edit spring xml bean config file #1295
• (Spring Boot) avoid mapping content-assist proposals to show up at class level #1280
• (Spring Boot) weird vscode JPQL/HQL syntax error for @Query text block in Spring Boot #1279
• (Spring Boot) Support SPEL expressions inside SQL queries #1270

known issues

• syntax highlighting for queries and SpEL expressions works inside of Visual Studio Code only. Support for Eclipse is tracked via #1235

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) SQL query syntax validation is off by default. Settings to toggle JPQL, HQL, SQL query validation enablement
• (Spring Boot) Fixed StackOverflowException coming from AnnotationHierarchies

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) Ability to switch on/off Query syntax validation and problem severities for query syntax problems #1275
• (Spring Boot) Unable to view beans for multiple modules in version v1.55 #1271
• (Spring Boot) navigation to bean class of live bean in dashboard is broken #1269
• (Spring Boot) navigation to class of wired bean is broken #1268
• (Spring Boot) Opening Spring Boot project in VSCode leads to StackOverflowError #1166

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Syntax validation for JPQL, SQL, HQL embedded in Java code
• (Spring Boot) Syntax highlighting for SQL embedded into Spring Data query annotations
• (Spring Boot) Navigation to beans from @DependsOn
• (Spring Boot) Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 is available via OpenRewrite recipes.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-06 release (new and noteworthy)

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) verify upgrade support to Spring Boot 3.3.0 #1255
• (Spring Boot) vscode @DependsOn navigation not linked #1254
• (Spring Boot) add parser-based validation for JPQL, SQL, HQL snippets #1236
• (Spring Boot) inlay hint in pom.xml file to upgrade to latest Spring Boot version #1211
• (Spring Boot) Occasional NPE when opening / importing / creating Maven projects #1257
• (Spring Boot) Map<K,V> with escaped key not works properly in application.yml #1243
• (Spring Boot - VSCode) VSCode Spring Boot extension causes semantic token loss upon loading #1260
• (Spring Boot - VSCode) Variable assignment/reference syntax highlighting lost between v1.53.0 and v1.54.0 #1249
• (Spring Boot - Eclipse) upgrade with preview in Eclipse throws exception #1258
• (Spring Boot - Eclipse) Eclipse Run Configuration - Use Temporary Jar becomes secretly unchecked #1248
• (Eclipse) Eclipse crashes after upgrade of libwebkit2gtk to 2.44.x #1230
• (Eclipse) The latest release of Eclipse fixed the increased spacing in e.g. the package explorer. No workaround for this needed anymore.

known issues

• (Eclipse) This release of the Spring Tools for Eclipse ships and requires a JDK 21 to run the IDE on and we added the necessary updates sites to make the upgrade experience as seamless as possible. In case you configured the JDK to run the IDE on manually in the SpringToolSuite4.ini file, make sure to update this configuration to point to a JDK 21. Side note: This change doesn't affect your projects or workspace settings at all. You can continue to configure and use whatever JDK you need inside of your workspaces to compile and run your projects on.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Support JPQL syntax in Java sources and Named Query properties files (Java sources not supported yet in Eclipse)
• (Spring Boot) Spring Symbol indexing has order of magnitude smaller memory footprint allowing for indexing very large Spring Boot projects
• (Spring Boot) New UI in VSCode to show/hide/refresh Live Data for running Spring Boot apps
• (Spring Boot) .properties <-> .yml conversions available in Eclipse and VSCode
• (Spring Boot) Show active profiles for running spring boot applications in Eclipse and VSCode with Boot Dashboard extension
• (Eclipse) "Add Starters..." Inlay in POM file available in Eclipse too now

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2024-06 milestone builds

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) Support JPQL syntax #1114
• (Spring Boot) Indexing runs out of memory for large projects #1219
• (Spring Boot) .properties <-> .yml converter #739
• (Spring Boot) change the actions to refresh live information to show application right away #1204
• (Spring Boot) Running Boot processes from IDE client #1190
• (Spring Boot) Show active profiles in Boot Dash #1225
• (Eclipse) "Add Starters..." Inlay in POM file in Eclipse Client #1200
• (Spring Boot) show a nice message when trying to change log levels without a connected running app #1232
• (Spring Boot) request mapping symbol doesn't take superclass mapping path into account [#1224](https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues/1224)
• (Spring Boot) Remove org.springframework.ide.vscode.boot.java.livehover.v2.SpringProcessTracker and its references #1221
• (Spring Boot) Set the vmArg HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError to be optional #1212
• (Spring Boot) provide preference to open code lens URLs in simple browser #1207
• (Spring Boot) Refactor Gradle plugin for StsToolingModel #1201
• (Spring Boot) remove logic to handle "magic" client-side indentation #1154
• (Spring Boot) NPE while updating Spring Boot version #1241
• (Eclipse) upgrade of Eclipse based installs broken #1240
• (Spring Boot) NPE exception while scanning for symbols #1239
• (Spring Boot) Activating 'vscode-spring-boot' extension #1238
• (Spring Boot) CompilationUnitCache: gracefully cleanup the name environment #1233
• (Spring Boot) renaming of files and packages causes symbols to get out of sync #1231
• (Spring Boot) java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jdt.ls.core.internal.javadoc.JavaElementLinks cannot be found by ... #1229
• (Eclipse) SpringToolSuite (x_86_64 option) IDE keeps crashing frequently. #1228
• (Spring Boot) latest snapshot builds have wrong port in live hover request mapping URLs [#1226](https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues/1226)
• (Spring Boot) JPA Repo Entity ID composite key reports problem #1220
• (Eclipse) upgrade dialog to select recipe appears twice #1245

known issues

• (Eclipse) In case you use Spring Tools 4.22.1 for Eclipse 4.22.1 on macOS, you might have noticed the increased spacing in e.g. the package explorer. If you prefer the old behavior, here is a way to bring that back: https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/issues/1674#issuecomment-2001986963

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Add Spring Boot Starters... InlayHint in Spring Boot projects pom.xml next to <dependencies> tag (VSCode only at the moment)

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2024-03 release (new and noteworthy)

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) Add Starters CodeLens/InlayHint in the Spring Boot's project pom #1194
• (Spring Boot) adjustments to version validations #1199
• (Spring Boot) TestJars support #1197
• (Spring Boot) Bind update of Spring Modulith metadata to a full project build #1172
• (Spring Boot) exception thrown under the hood when file URL protocol is unknown #1192
• (Spring Boot) Fix JavaModelException with non-Java projects #1188
• (Spring Boot) throws exception when closing editors #1179
• (Eclipse) Spring Tool Suite 17 with maven no longer copies application.properties file to the target folder #929
• (Eclipse) 4.21.1 release doesn't embed JDK anymore #1187
• (Eclipse) builds on early Eclipse 2024-03 builds don't compile anymore #1189
• (Eclipse) add starters wizard throws IllegalArgumentException on Eclipse 2024-03 M2 #1185

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Log Levels viewing and editing is available in VSCode for live running Boot apps if enabled on the the app via Spring Boot Actuators
• (Spring Boot) Ability to show "Refactor Preview" in VSCode before applying the changes from OpenRewrite recipes

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2024-03 milestone builds

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) Log Levels View #1138
• (Spring Boot) Evaluate AnnotatedTextEdit and ChangeAnnotation#needsConfirmation #1155
• (Spring Boot) support for creating Spring XML config files #1163
• (Spring Boot) [refactoring] reduce size of execute rewrite recipes messages #897
• (Spring Boot) Opening Spring Boot project in VSCode leads to StackOverflowError #1166
• (Spring Boot) upgrade command shows different recipes than quick fixes #1165
• (Spring Boot) process shows up twice when changing log levels of running app #1164
• (Spring Boot) The IDE compiler have a lot of wrong problem report, maven build is okay #1159
• (Spring Boot) VS Code extension fails Spring Boot update #1142
• (Spring Boot) Add Trusted Authoritites for STS #1092
• (Eclipse) Duplicate "Source" menu on Eclipse #1111
• (Spring Boot - Eclipse) quick fix to remove public modifier from @Bean method causes exception #1184
• (Spring Boot - Eclipse) quick fix to convert @Autowired field into constructor param doesn't work #1183
• (Concourse) [Concourse] set\_pipeline step considers team attribute invalid #1174
• (All) update copyright and branding #1157

known issues

• (Eclipse): It still seems to happen sometimes that resource files like the application.properties do not get copied correctly into the target folders after changing those files, sometimes those resource files disappear from the target folder entirely. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates and workaround on issue #929 or M2E issue #1511.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Completions experience for request mappings on class method level has been improved
• (Spring Boot) Spring Boot 3.2 upgrade available via OpenRewrite integration

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-12 release (new and noteworthy)

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) [optimization] avoid writing spring index cache twice on didSave event #1143
• (Spring Boot) Adopt latest OpenRewrite version #1135
• (Spring Boot) [vscode-spring-boot] Provide better Spring component code completion experience on class and method level #758
• (Spring Boot) [validation] exception thrown while validating spring boot versions #1144
• (Spring Boot) HttpSecurityLambdaDslReconciler marks more than required #1141
• (Spring Boot) Cant use compsite keys for domain id when extending JpaRepository #1139
• (Spring Boot) Strange error port out of range:-1 for language server #1137
• (VSCode) VS Code extension does not use proxy settings #1147
• (Concourse) [Concourse] Support AWS role ARN for S3 resources #1145

known issues

• (Eclipse): It still seems to happen sometimes that resource files like the application.properties do not get copied correctly into the target folders after changing those files, sometimes those resource files disappear from the target folder entirely. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates and workaround on issue #929 or M2E issue #1511.
• (Eclipse): Duplicate top-level "Source" menu while Java editor is active #1111

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Completions for Spring Properties show up 10 times faster initially (as fast as on the consecutive invocations)
• (Spring Boot) Various performance optimizations around symbols scanning and Java reconciling
• (Eclipse) Early access builds available for upcoming Eclipse 2023-12 release

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) fixed: [optimization] avoid running symbol indexing and cache write for empty affected files array #1124
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [optimization] Boot properties completions slow to show up #1120
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [optimization] reuse compilation unit cache to compute symbols for document #1119
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [optimization] avoid writing caches multiple times on file delete events #1118
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [optimization] Dependency versions re-calculated often #1116
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [boot version validation] add progress support and error messages #1115
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Completion Proposal for query methods doesn't work with record entities #1113
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Entity Id type from domain type reconciler should account for JPA @Id annotations #1112
• (Spring Boot) fixed: further refinements for quick fixes around mapping annotations #1109
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Multiple quick fixes offered for @RequestMapping into GetMapping etc #1107
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Modulith verifications broken #1127
• (Spring Boot) fixed: various OpenRewrite based quick fixes are broken #1126
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Plugin does not use eclipse proxy settings #1101
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] reconciler throws NPE #1117
• (VSCode) fixed: VS Code - Document dependency on the Red Hat Language Support for Java #1131
• (Eclipse) fixed: remove legacy STS project checker #1122

known issues

• (Eclipse): It still seems to happen sometimes that resource files like the application.properties do not get copied correctly into the target folders after changing those files, sometimes those resource files disappear from the target folder entirely. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates and workaround on issue #929 or M2E issue #1511.
• (Eclipse): Duplicate top-level "Source" menu while Java editor is active #1111

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-09 release (new and noteworthy)

important highlights

• (Spring Boot): 5x-10x faster Java Reconciling support to show Spring specific validations re-built from the ground up tuned for high performance to work seamlessly in large code bases
• (Eclipse): No more rogue "Boot Language Server" jobs, forever calculating completion proposals and other stuck Java/Spring tooling features

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Performance of Reconciling Spring Java (#1068)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Language Server hangs forever (#1075)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Boot Validations Builder hung seemingly forever (#1103)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [new validation engine] remove old open-rewrite based validation code (#1084)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [new validation engine] convert reconcilers to new validation engine (#1085)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [new validation engine] take preference changes into account beyond open files (#1083)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Incorrect MISSING_CONFIGURATION_ANNOTATION warning in vscode (#1100)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: quick fix to remove unnecessary @Autowired appears twice (#1106)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: quick fix to convert '@RequestMapping' to '@GetMapping' fails in VSCode (#1105)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Menu Item for "Run Configurations" should be "Spring Boot DevTools Client" (#1096)
• (VSCode) fixed: Change the scope of spring-boot.ls.java.home to machine-overridable (#1094)

known issues

• (Eclipse): It still seems to happen sometimes that resource files like the application.properties do not get copied correctly into the target folders after changing those files, sometimes those resource files disappear from the target folder entirely. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates and workaround on issue #929 or M2E issue #1511.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early-access builds available for early Eclipse 2023-09 milestones (via the Eclipse Marketplace or the corresponding update site)

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Evaluate Spring Modulith actuators (#953)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: No classpath update after source is saved (#987)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: duplicates of symbols showing up (#10056)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter quick fix not showing (#1062)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Let show optional: prefix for spring.sql.init.schema-locations and spring.sql.init.data-locations (#1067)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: index cache not working after project update (#1079)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Boot language server interfering with Eclipse Gradle Buildship automatic project synchronization (#1087)
• (VSCode) fixed: Spring Boot Tools vscode extension error popup: Request textDocument/definition failed (#1076)
• (Eclipse) fixed: class loading exception: SpringModelLanguageServer cannot be found (#1060)
• (Eclipse) fixed: add public PGP key to installation as trusted key (#1088)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Contribute pgp trusted key for spring (#1089)
• (Documentation) fixed: Use Theia Blueprint in the documentation? (#1073)
• (build infrastructure) fixed: [GHA Build] Factor out osx distro sign, dmg, notarize upload and linux distro upload out of maven build (#1074)

known issues

• (Spring Boot): the newly introduced additional reconciling for Java source files which is used to show up additional validations and quick fixes can still cause increased memory and CPU consumption. In case you stumble upon issues in this area, please disable the reconciling via Preferences -> Extensions -> Spring Boot Tools -> Open Rewrite (in VSCode) or Preferences -> Spring -> Open Rewrite (in Eclipse). A fix for this that significantly reduces CPU and memory consumption here is being worked on and is scheduled for the upcoming 4.20.0 release.

• (Eclipse): It still seems to happen sometimes that resource files like the application.properties do not get copied correctly into the target folders after changing those files, sometimes those resource files disappear from the target folder entirely. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates and workaround on issue #929.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-06 release (new and noteworthy)

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Data Repositories: Validate ID type (#457)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Add support for spring potential injection points discovery while indexing (#994)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: replace internals of symbols machinery with more comprehensive model of spring components (#1006)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [spring index] optimize empty array objects in internal index storage structure (#1040)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [spring index] add request method to lsp extension to identify matching beans (#1049)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: upgrading from Spring Boot 3.0.x to 3.1.0 doesn't work (#1051)
• (Eclipse) fixed: OpenRewrite unchecked, but always Language Server Background Job(Loading Rewrite Recipes) (#925)

known issues

• (Spring Boot): Even vastly improved over the previous releases, the newly introduced additional reconciling for Java source files which is used to show up additional validations and quick fixes can still cause increased memory and CPU consumption. In case you stumble upon issues in this area, feel free to disable the reconciling via Preferences -> Extensions -> Spring Boot Tools -> Open Rewrite (in VSCode) or Preferences -> Language Servers -> Spring Language Servers -> Spring Boot Language Server -> Open Rewrite (in Eclipse).

• (Eclipse): It still seems to happen sometimes that resource files like the application.properties do not get copied correctly into the target folders after changing those files, sometimes those resource files disappear from the target folder entirely. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates and workaround on issue #929

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early-access builds available for early Eclipse 2023-06 milestones (via the Eclipse Marketplace or the corresponding update site)

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: [vscode-spring-boot] Support navigating to a Spring property file when inspecting on @Value annotations (#761)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: automatically add import for types when applying content-assist proposals for query methods (#991)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: do not fetch metrics data right after connecting live data to an app (#1003)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: No hyperlink on a hover to a type from JAR (#1004)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [spring-data-support] take type hierarchy of domain types into account (#1013)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [spring-data-support] remove pure findBy method completion from proposal list (#1014)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: several live hovers are missing when running Spring Boot 3 applications (#1019)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: application.properties/yaml autocomplete for nested enums regression (#1021)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [boot-upgrade] Upgrade petclinic to boot 3 results in compiler errors (#1022)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Bump json from 20160810 to 20230227 in /headless-services/spring-boot-language-server (#1027)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: spring-configuration-metadata : must have primitive type property before F3 navigation works (#1030)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: spring-configuration-metadata : when two properties have the same Object type F3 fails on the later ones (#1031)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: support @ConditionalOnProperty in property navigation feature (#1033)
• (VSCode) fixed: In Codespaces, workspace symbols sometimes are empty. (#1012)
• (Eclipse) fixed: OpenRewrite unchecked, but always Language Server Background Job(Loading Rewrite Recipes) (#925)
• (Eclipse) fixed: format keybinding not working for pom.xml files anymore (#1010)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Creating a Spring Starter project in non-default file system location (#1025)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Remove default log files for LSs in Eclipse (#1026)
• (Eclipse) fixed: shorten the location of the resource in new property navigation feature (#1032)
• (Concourse) fixed: VSCode Extension Concourse CI Pipeline Editor - Incorrect type definition for put step (#1005)
• (Concourse) fixed: Add no_get param to Concourse schema (#1017)

known issues

• (Spring Boot): Even vastly improved over the previous releases, the newly introduced additional reconciling for Java source files which is used to show up additional validations and quick fixes can still cause increased memory and CPU consumption. In case you stumble upon issues in this area, feel free to disable the reconciling via Preferences -> Extensions -> Spring Boot Tools -> Open Rewrite (in VSCode) or Preferences -> Language Servers -> Spring Language Servers -> Spring Boot Language Server -> Open Rewrite (in Eclipse).

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-03 release (new and noteworthy)

important highlights

• (Spring Boot): new and vastly improved content-assist for Spring Data repository query methods (thanks to contributions from @danthe1st)
• (Spring Boot): the additional reconciling of Spring Boot projects to show Spring specific validations, outdated versions and more, now reports progress, runs faster, and uses less memory - please consider using this and tell us about your experiences and if you hit issues while having this feature enabled
• (VSCode): fixed an extremely annoying issue that caused regular Java content-assist in VSCode to stop working after a short while
• (Eclipse): a bug in m2e got fixed and is included in this release, which caused resource files (e.g. application.properties) to not be copied into the target folder anymore. This works again and automatically copies your changed application.properties file to the target folder, so that those changes are taken into account when running the project automatically again

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) fixed: language server seems to have issues refreshing live data (#1002)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: update default settings for generations validation (#999)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Switch to rewrite release versions for 4.18 (#995)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: completions for predicate keywords in Spring Data repositories (#988) - contributed by @danthe1st
• (Spring Boot) fixed: False positive "Unnecessary @Autowired" warning when using abstract classes (#985)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] report progress when reconciling projects (#984)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Factor out static methods for Spring Data repository completions (#983) - contributed by @danthe1st
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Data JPA Content Assist (#981) - contributed by @danthe1st
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [boot-upgrade] [Spring-Security] Removed WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter (#979)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] [Spring-Security] Authorize HttpServletRequests with AuthorizationFilter (#978)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] [Spring Security] Lambda DSL (#977)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] Parse sources with Rewrite slower than JDT (#971)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] Version validation based on spring.io generations REST API (#969)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] running Spring Boot 3 open-rewrite migration recipes takes very long (#863)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] add navigation to release notes from version validation messages (#923)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] investigate highly increased memory consumption with new Java source reconciling (#922)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: VSCode cross project additional-spring-configuration-metadata.json (#894)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] investigate memory usage when converting projects (#877)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: add Spring Data JPA Content Assist to STS 4 (#107)
• (VSCode) fixed: Some error on WSL and Spring Extension (#982)
• (VSCode) fixed: vscode ext causes "Header must provide a Content-Length property" continuously (#968)
• (VSCode) fixed: Unable to install extension 'pivotal.vscode-spring-boot' as it is not compatible with VS Code '1.68.1' (#967)
• (VSCode) fixed: Expose command to establish live connection to remote apps in vscode (#947)
• (Eclipse) fixed: clean up list of language server extensions installed by default (#1000)
• (Eclipse) fixed: invalid thread access when invoking content-assist for spring data query methods (#990)
• (Eclipse) fixed: support range markers show Computing... when looking for quick fixes (#989)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Remove Boot Dashboard CF integration (#976)
• (Eclipse) fixed: further refinements to preference structure (#973)
• (Eclipse) fixed: move preferences from language server category to spring category (#970)
• (Eclipse) fixed: rare NPE in classpath listener (#966)
• (Eclipse) fixed: initialize boot dashboard model lazy to avoid slow startup (#957)
• (Eclipse) fixed: remove support and integration for ngrok tunnels (#954)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Spring Tool Suite 17 with maven no longer copies application.properties file to the target folder (#929)

known issues

• (Spring Boot): Even vastly improved over the previous releases, the newly introduced additional reconciling for Java source files which is used to show up additional validations and quick fixes can still cause increased memory and CPU consumption. In case you stumble upon issues in this area, feel free to disable the reconciling via Preferences -> Extensions -> Spring Boot Tools -> Open Rewrite (in VSCode) or Preferences -> Language Servers -> Spring Language Servers -> Spring Boot Language Server -> Open Rewrite (in Eclipse).

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early-access builds for upcoming Eclipse 2023-03 release available via update site

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: [symbols] do not auto-limit the result of the workspace symbol request (#915)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Unit test MavenProjectParser (#918)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Give user more information about what is "java sources reconciling" (#920)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [Java-17] Enable jdt.ls.commons.test tests to execute in the maven build (#928)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: update generated parser for Java properties with latest ANTLR runtime version (#946)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Bad Escape exception showing up in log (#950)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: various exceptions while reconciling (#951)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: NPE from OpenRewrite Java Parser - Cannot read field "info" because "env" is null (#952)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Unknown property error shown in application.yml when using java records (#955)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [upgrading] running upgrade recipe for Spring Boot 3 causes exception (#958)
• (VSCode) fixed: Is it feasible to drop the activation event onLanguage:xml? (#926)
• (VSCode) fixed: Error: command 'sts.vscode-spring-boot.enableClasspathListening' not found (#939)
• (Eclipse) fixed: "Not properly disposed SWT resource" was caused Spring Starter Project (#797)
• (Eclipse) fixed: BadLocationException shows up in error log view (#937)
• (Eclipse) fixed: set focus on name field in starters wizard (#943)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Could not resolve module: org.springframework.tooling.ls.eclipse.gotosymbol (#962)
• (Concourse) fixed: Add instance_vars to Concourse schema (#942)
• (Concourse) fixed: Add var_sources to Concourse schema (#944)

known issues

• (Spring Boot): The newly introduced additional reconciling for Java source files which is used to show up additional validations and quick fixes can cause increased memory and CPU consumption. In case you stumble upon issues in this area, feel free to disable the reconciling via Preferences -> Extensions -> Spring Boot Tools -> Open Rewrite (in VSCode) or Preferences -> Language Servers -> Spring Language Servers -> Spring Boot Language Server -> Open Rewrite (in Eclipse).

• (Eclipse): Due to a bug in the Maven Integration for Eclipse, you might some across the problem that resource files are no longer copied into the target directories (#929). Unfortunately there is no release of the Maven Integration for Eclipse available yet that contains a fix for the issue. You can workaround this my manually triggering a Maven -> package build from within Eclipse or by installing the latest snapshot of the Maven Integration for Eclipse (as described in the issue).

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Eclipse STS 4.17 takes 96 % processor time on Intel i9 (#934)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: BootLanguageServerBootApp class is taking all available cpu continuously (#932)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: OpenRewrite unchecked, but always Language Server Background Job(Loading Rewrite Recipes) (#925)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] spring.factories EnableAutoConfiguration key for boot 3.0 ignores 'on' setting (#917)
• (VSCode) fixed: [vscode] Boot LS is broken if Java LS launch mode is 'Hybrid' (#919)

known issues

• (Spring Boot): The newly introduced additional reconciling for Java source files which is used to show up additional validations and quick fixes can cause increased memory and CPU consumption. In case you stumble upon issues in this area, feel free to disable the reconciling via Preferences -> Extensions -> Spring Boot Tools -> Open Rewrite (in VSCode) or Preferences -> Language Servers -> Spring Language Servers -> Spring Boot Language Server -> Open Rewrite (in Eclipse).

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2022-12 release (new and noteworthy)

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Refreshing Live Data over HTTP is not working on VS Code (#872)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: gcPauses -> jvm.gc.pause, memory -> jvm.memory.used (#875)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: live information hovers are broken when running Spring Boot 3 application (#862)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: fetch heap & nonHeap memory metrics together (#874)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: 404 when getting live metrics over HTTP (#879)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] Spring Boot support range validation messages appear and disappear again (#887)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] check for superfluous @Repository annotations on standard Spring Data repositories (#898)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] prepare version validation for 4.17.0 release (#904)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] changing the preferences while language server is not around doesn't have any effect (#836)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] convert autowired field to constructor should not run on test classes (#902)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] add preferences to boot version and generation validations (#884)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [validation] add validations for new Spring Boot versions in general (#885)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] convert autowired field to constructor should make field final (#896)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] [validation] final polishing work (#911)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] convert project to Spring Boot 3 doesn't update Java to 17 anymore (#909)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] when converting a project to Spring Boot 3, always use the latest 3.0.x version (#869)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap Space (#899)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] Exception when trying to convert project (#900)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] converting a simple rest service guide to Spring Boot 3 fails (#867)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] open rewrite refactoring menu item is broken when no language server is running (#865)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] enhance Spring Boot version validation with quick fix to update (#886)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] converting petclinic to Spring Boot 3 results in broken project (#864)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] Migrate Boot 2 auto-config to Boot (#908)
• (Eclipse) fixed: update signing certificate for pre-built third-party bubdles (#852)
• (Eclipse) fixed: remove dependencies on yedit (#870)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Upgrade commons-text-1.9.jar (#892)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Add checksums at download page (#906)
• (Eclipse) fixed: NPE in Eclipse TextMate Grammar preference page (#912)
• (VSCode) fixed: make sure VSCode shows an error message when running on a JDK <17 (#903)
• (VSCode) enhancement: Add shortcut to dashboard (#876) - contributed by Eskibear)
• (VSCode) enhancement: refine walkthrough steps (#907) - contributed by Eskibear)
• (VSCode) enhancement: update walkthrough about creating projects (#916) - contributed by Eskibear)
• (Concourse) fixed: vscode-concourse: add dark background to light mode icon (#845) - contributed by bmalehorn
• (Concourse) fixed: Concourse extension doesn't know about "pre_without_version" and "build_without_version" for a semver resource (#849)

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Spring Tools 4 on Eclipse 2022-12 milestones

important note for upgrading from a release prior to 4.16.0 on Eclipse

• If you are upgrading an existing Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution 4.15.3 or older to 4.16.1, please take a look at the necessary manual steps described for the upgrade to 4.16.0.

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring XML Config support does not show symbols with scope "File" (#860)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [open-rewrite] exception when executing quick fix for project (#853)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] quick fix to convert autowired field to constructor param shows up even if the constructor param already exists (#815)
• (VSCode) fixed: Vscode Spring Boot Tools 1.39.0 prevents Java project from Running/Debugging (#847)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Web Tools Platform (WTP) validation is activated by default (#859)
• (Eclipse) fixed: ask user to save dirty editors before deploying on docker (#803)

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2022-09 release (new and noteworthy)
• new distribution build for Linux on ARM included now (experimental) - downloads are here
• m2e 2.0.5 release included in distribution builds for Eclipse

important note for upgrading from a previous installation on Eclipse

• Due to the major update to m2e 2.0 that comes with the Eclipse 2022-09 release, several additional third-party m2e connector extensions that the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution had installed in the past are no longer compatible. This prevents the automatic update of installations of Spring Tools prior to 4.16.0 to the new release. There are two options how to mitigate this:
  • start with a fresh install of Spring Tools 4.16.0 for Eclipse
  • go to the Preferences -> Installation Details and uninstall the following features via the Uninstall button, then restart the IDE, do a Check for Updates, and do the upgrade.
    • Maven Integration for Eclipse JDT Annotation Processor Toolkit
    • m2e connector for mavenarchiver pom properties
    • m2e connector for build-helper-maven-plugin
• Eclipse 2022-09 comes with ANSI coloring for the console view built-in, so we don't need to third-party extension Ansi Console anymore. If you upgrade an existing installation, please uninstall this extension prior or after upgrading Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse.

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Workspace symbol null on custom annotations (#818)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: organize imports causes communication issues with the language server (#806)
• (Spring Boot) enhancement: Quick fix action to refactor field injection to constructor injection (#522)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Workspace symbol null on custom annotations (#818)
• (Eclipse) enhancement: adapt boot launch support to new platform-enabled ansi console coloring support (#823)
• (Eclipse) fixed: cleanup/remove more entries from Error Log (#802)
• (Eclipse) fixed: switch live hovers in Eclipse to direct-connect after launch (#832)
• (Eclipse) fixed: add switch in boot launch config to enable/disable automatic live hover connect (#843)
• (Eclipse) fixed: live hover auto-connect on launch should check for actuators (#842)
• (Eclipse) enhancement: spring tool suite linux arm distribution (#841)
• (VSCode) fixed: Extension never activates, throwing error "Header must provide a Content-Length property" (#811)
• (Concourse) fixed: Concourse extension doesn't know about "check_every: never" for a resource (#816)
• (Concourse) fixed: Concourse extension doesn't know about "depth" for a semver resource (#830)
• (Concourse) fixed: Concourse extension doesn't recognize URL for "registry_mirror" with a docker-image resource (#831)
• (Concourse) fixed: vscode-concourse: support both .yml and .yaml files (#838) - contributed by bmalehorn
• (Concourse) fixed: vscode-concourse: add language icon for pipelines & tasks (#839) - contributed by bmalehorn

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Boot Tools slow down code complete (#808)
• (Language Server) fixed: Copied files should retain copyright ownership (#807)

known issues

• (Eclipse): Due to additional third-party add-ons being installed by default into the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution, the Maven POM file editor still uses the old XML editor when selecting the source page of that editor (instead of the new, XML language server based one). You can workaround that by manually opening the pom.xml file with Open With and select the Generic Editor.