Spring Tools 5.0 released

On behalf of the tools team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0. This new major release comes with several new features and updates:

• Spring Tools 5 supports Spring Framework 7, Spring Boot 4, Spring Data 2025.1, and more: including extensive support for the new API versioning, functional bean registration, JSpecify checks, and AOT generated data repositories

• Spring Tools is ready for the AI era of coding: it supports and integrates with Cursor, Copilot for Visual Studio Code as well as Copilot for Eclipse

• A completely new logical project structure view around stereotypes: support for pre-defined and custom stereotypes as well as grouping, giving you a unique Spring specific perspective of your project - available in Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Eclipse

• Spring Tools for Eclipse got updated to Eclipse 2025-12, including full support for JDK 25.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.0.0.RELEASE

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Theia, please go visit:

• Spring Tools: https://spring.io/tools/

For further questions, please take a look at the FAQ (https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/wiki/FAQ).

Next up is the 5.1 release, currently scheduled for mid of March 2026.

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