JSR-330 Like much in the Java world, what began as an in-the-wild innovation, Spring, has been in part absorbed by standard specification. In this case, JSR-330 is the Java standard.

Java 8 added support for repeating annotations and Spring 4 supports these. In particular Spring 4 supports repeating @Scheduled and @PropertySource annotations.

Spring profiles let developers configure their applications to behave differently in various environments. Most Spring profile configurations occur in the application.properties (or YAML) file.

Enhanced Spring Annotations: Improved support for various Spring annotations like @ContextConfiguration, @ConditionalOnResource, @Named, @Inject, and @Resource with features like auto-completion, ...

The team also created a help center for Java developers, particularly VS Code newcomers, to offer helpful resources in one location. Numerous Spring feature updates include SpEL syntax highlighting ...