important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Completions experience for request mappings on class method level has been improved
• (Spring Boot) Spring Boot 3.2 upgrade available via OpenRewrite integration

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-12 release (new and noteworthy)

all fixes and improvements in detail

• (Spring Boot) [optimization] avoid writing spring index cache twice on didSave event #1143
• (Spring Boot) Adopt latest OpenRewrite version #1135
• (Spring Boot) [vscode-spring-boot] Provide better Spring component code completion experience on class and method level #758
• (Spring Boot) [validation] exception thrown while validating spring boot versions #1144
• (Spring Boot) HttpSecurityLambdaDslReconciler marks more than required #1141
• (Spring Boot) Cant use compsite keys for domain id when extending JpaRepository #1139
• (Spring Boot) Strange error port out of range:-1 for language server #1137
• (VSCode) VS Code extension does not use proxy settings #1147
• (Concourse) [Concourse] Support AWS role ARN for S3 resources #1145

known issues

• (Eclipse): It still seems to happen sometimes that resource files like the application.properties do not get copied correctly into the target folders after changing those files, sometimes those resource files disappear from the target folder entirely. We are investigating the problem and will provide updates and workaround on issue #929 or M2E issue #1511.
• (Eclipse): Duplicate top-level "Source" menu while Java editor is active #1111