Version Validation

Version Validation (new in 4.17.0 / 1.41.0)

Spring Tools 4.17.0 (and the corresponding extensions for VSCode in version 1.41.0) is able to validate the version of Spring Boot that you use in your project and compare that to the latest versions of Spring Boot that are available. That way, you get direct information about newer versions of Spring Boot directly in your coding environment. The tooling provides three different validations and corresponding markers that appear in your build file (pom.xml or build.gradle):

• new patch version available
• new minor version available
• new major version available

The validation will appear in case there is a newer patch, minor, or major version of Spring Boot available, compared to the version that you use in your project.

Preferences

The tools allow you to set the severity of each of these validations individually in the preferences. The default preferences for the validations are:

• newer patch version: WARNING
• newer minor version: INFO
• newer major version: IGNORE

You can change those preferences to choose the right level for your case - or turn every validation to IGNORE if you don't want to see any information about newer versions at all.