major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution
- updated to Eclipse 2021-03 release
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) enhancement:
.sts4dir location now configurable (#601) - (Spring Boot) fixed: sometimes live hovers do not disappear (#609)
- (Eclipse) fixed: debugger didn't connect automatically to apps deployed to docker from the boot dashboard
- (Eclipse) fixed: STS 4.8.0 template proposals invalid (#579)
- (Eclipse) fixed: Fresh sts-4.9.0 starts with errors - no way to add Task repository (#606)
- (Eclipse) fixed: Error on installing Mylyn JIRA Connector in STS 4.9.0 (#599)
- (Eclipse) fixed: Duplicate com.sun.xml.bind installed screw other plugins (#588)
- (Eclipse) update: remove WTP-based HTML tooling from Spring Tools 4 distribution (#572)
- (CF Manifest) fixed: Error writing config:
rename ~\.cf\temp-config025076595 ~\.cf\config.json: Access is denied.(#577) - (OpenVSX) fixed: the Spring extensions are back on the OpenVSX marketplace (#583)
- (Concourse) improvement: Add display property to pipeline schema (#607) - contributed by @jghiloni
We skipped further 4.9.x release due to no major updates or bug fixes around at that time, and focused our work on the 4.10.0 release instead.