Spring Tool Suite 3.9.15: New and Noteworthy

Important Note

This is a minor bugfix and maintenance release that we ship to our existing STS3 users beyond the announced maintenance lifespan for your convenience. We strongly recommend to update to the new Spring Tools 4. Here is a migration guide from Spring Tool Suite 3 to Spring Tools 4 that helps with migrating an existing workspace.

In case you are missing something extremely important or something is blocking you from upgrading, please raise an issue at: Spring Tools 4 GitHub issues.

Updates and New/Enhanced Features

Eclipse 2020-12 (4.18)

The default STS distribution is now based on the recently released Eclipse 2020-12 (4.18) release. Details about the Eclipse release can be found here: Eclipse 2020-12.

JDK11 required to run the IDE

The IDE now requires a JDK11 to run on as a minimum requirement. This does not affect projects in your workspace. They can still use and compile against any JDK that you configure in the preferences.

Please remember: the Quick Text Search now part of the Eclipse platform

The Quick Text Search feature got contributed to the Eclipse platform and ships now to all the millions of users of the Eclipse IDE. Therefore this will no longer be a separate feature installed into the Spring Tool Suite 3 distribution, but a default feature of the platform itself. We are pround of this contribution to the platform and welcoming all the new users to this amazing feature.

Important Changes and Fixes

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)
fixed: enable live hover action for more docker-related nodes in the boot dashboard

Miscellaneous