Dear Spring Community,

We're pleased to announce that we just released a service refresh for 2.5.2 as well as the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

The service refresh for STS 2.5.2 includes:

• Update to Spring Roo 1.1.2 (including UAA update)
• Update to Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2)
• Some backported Spring IDE bugfixes
• Update to Groovy 1.7.8
• Update to Grails 1.3.7

Some highlights from the new 2.6.0.M2 milestone:

• Update to Spring Roo 1.1.2 (including UAA update)
• Update to Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2)
• Update to Groovy 1.7.8
• Update to Grails 1.3.7
• A Roo Plugin Manager
• Improved support for @RequestMapping (including refactoring, content-assist and quickfix)
• Tons of improvements for Groovy-Eclipse and Grails tooling

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the 2.6.0.M2 New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page.