--- title: "Towards Spring Tools 5 - Ready for Boot 4 and Framework 7" url: https://daily.dev/posts/towards-spring-tools-5---ready-for-boot-4-and-framework-7-zyowldx5o source_url: https://spring.io/blog/2025/11/24/towards-spring-tools-5-part1 type: article source: "Spring" published: 2025-11-24T13:12:47.507Z updated: 2025-11-24T13:13:07.589Z tags: ["java", "spring", "spring-boot"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 23 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Towards Spring Tools 5 - Ready for Boot 4 and Framework 7 **[Spring](https://daily.dev/sources/spring)** · 6 min read · 23 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Spring Tools 5 is scheduled for GA release on December 10th with support for Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4. Key features include API versioning support with code lenses and validation, recognition of functional bean definitions via the new bean registrar API, visualization of AOT-compiled Spring Data repository queries with SQL preview, and automatic configuration for JSpecify null analysis annotations. The tooling enhancements work across Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Theia environments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@theacademe** · 0 upvotes > JSpecify annotations may introduce some conflicts with Lombok out of the box in legacy code? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Spring Tools 5.0 released](https://daily.dev/posts/spring-tools-5-0-released-fzd0sxnam) · Spring · 37 upvotes · 1 comments - [Spring Tools 5.0.1 released](https://daily.dev/posts/spring-tools-5-0-1-released-5oshhoewg) · Spring · 13 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#spring](https://daily.dev/tags/spring), [#spring-boot](https://daily.dev/tags/spring-boot) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/towards-spring-tools-5---ready-for-boot-4-and-framework-7-zyowldx5o)