STS 2.7.0.M2 released

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Jun 13th, 2011, 04:45 PM
Martin Lippert

STS 2.7.0.M2 released
Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we just released the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

This milestone brings mostly new features for the Cloud Foundry support and Groovy&Grails developers, including:
- Improved Cloud Foundry support
- Support for Grails 1.4
- Grails aware Rename Type Refactoring
- Improved content assist for GSPs
- Improved Gradle support
More details can be found in the New and Noteworthy for 2.7.0.M2 document. Detailed installation instructions are also available, please look at the installation from the milestone update sites.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page, check "Other Downloads".

The release is planned for the beginning of July.

Regards,
Martin
Jun 13th, 2011, 07:11 PM
Brad Murray

I realize you guys are working quite hard on this, is there any ETA on the 3.1 support?
Jun 14th, 2011, 07:19 AM
Martin Lippert

Did you try Spring 3.1.0.M2 with STS 2.7.0.M2? It should work a lot better and not produce those tedious errors that we had before using 3.1.0.M1 of Spring.
With regards to the full support: 2.7.0 will ship at the beginning of July and that version should work with 3.1.0 versions of the Spring framework. We won't have special dedicated IDE support for some of the new features, but that will ship with STS 2.8.0 (that is at least the plan right now).

HTH,
Martin
Jun 15th, 2011, 08:57 AM
rherrick

Upgrade issues?

Is this going to be compatible with my existing workspaces created with 2.6.1? I really don't relish the idea of having to recreate my workspaces yet again, but I'd really like to work with the updated Grails and Gradle support.

Is it ever going to be possible to actually, you know, UPGRADE STS as opposed to a complete new installation? I realize this is an Eclipse issue, not an STS issue, but it is quite frustrating...
Jun 15th, 2011, 10:06 AM
Martin Lippert

Hi!

Quote:

Originally Posted by rherrick

Is this going to be compatible with my existing workspaces created with 2.6.1? I really don't relish the idea of having to recreate my workspaces yet again, but I'd really like to work with the updated Grails and Gradle support.

You can always open existing workspaces with newer versions of STS. There is no need to setup a new workspace.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rherrick

Is it ever going to be possible to actually, you know, UPGRADE STS as opposed to a complete new installation? I realize this is an Eclipse issue, not an STS issue, but it is quite frustrating...

Eclipse/STS allows you to upgrade existing installations to never versions. Once a new release version is out, you can "check for updates" and install the new version right into your existing installation. If you wanna upgrade from a release version to a newer milestone version, you would need to deactivate the default STS update site and add the milestone update site. Then select "check for updates" again and you will see the milestone version showing up and you can install it again directly into your existing STS installation.

HTH,
Martin
Jun 15th, 2011, 11:58 AM
rherrick

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Lippert

You can always open existing workspaces with newer versions of STS. There is no need to setup a new workspace.

I actually had a lot of issues back in the 2.3.x and 2.5.x versions going from, e.g., 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 because of changes in server configuration, etc. I'll take your word for it that my 2.6.x workspaces will work properly though!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Lippert

Eclipse/STS allows you to upgrade existing installations to never versions. Once a new release version is out, you can "check for updates" and install the new version right into your existing installation. If you wanna upgrade from a release version to a newer milestone version, you would need to deactivate the default STS update site and add the milestone update site. Then select "check for updates" again and you will see the milestone version showing up and you can install it again directly into your existing STS installation.

I hadn't found this capability before. I'll try to run with this and see how it works. Thanks a lot for the info! If anyone else needs a pointer to the appropriate update site URLs, the process is described in this document.

Thanks!
Jun 16th, 2011, 04:02 AM
d_cavestro

After 2.7.0.M2 upgrade STS always starts with an empty workspace

Hi guys,
after I upgraded to 2.7.0.M2 the IDE always starts with an empty workspace (it forgets the last opened one).
Is there any known reason?
Jun 16th, 2011, 08:05 PM
bauna

Always starts an empty workspace

Hey I have the same issue. Changing the workspaces prefs does not work.
Is there any workaround?

Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by d_cavestro

Hi guys,
after I upgraded to 2.7.0.M2 the IDE always starts with an empty workspace (it forgets the last opened one).
Is there any known reason?
Jun 17th, 2011, 02:40 AM
Martin Lippert

Hey!

Hm, sounds strange, never saw this. Does STS starts with a different, empty workspace and you can switch back to your old, still existing workspace? Or is your old workspace wiped out somehow?

-Martin
Jun 17th, 2011, 03:14 AM
d_cavestro

Hi Martin,
always the former: STS starts with a different, empty workspace and I can switch back to my old, still existing workspace.

Cheers
Davide

Quote:

Originally Posted by Martin Lippert

Hey!
Does STS starts with a different, empty workspace and you can switch back to your old, still existing workspace? Or is your old workspace wiped out somehow?

-Martin

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