I was working on STS 4.8.1(spring tool suite) which was supporting java version 8 & 11 and spring version 2.7.x I worked on few projects. I mistakenly updated the version, since then neither i am getting the option of java version 8 or 11 nor spring version 2.X i.e. version 2. The spring starter project gives only Java 17 & 21 option and spring 3.X option only. I have set compiler to 1.8 of java and also set Installed jre to jdk 8.Still the only option i get is of java 17 and 21 and spring version of 3.x only. Not getting older version option in STS 4. I have deleted it again installed but issue remain same. I have deleted and installed many version of STS 4. I am still facing the issue. I am stuck with this issue for last 3-4 days. Please help me to resolve the issue.
I have deleted the STS $ and reinstalled it but issue is not resolved yet. I have tried other version of STS 4 but no help. Either my system has som issue of i am doing some silly mistake
The Spring Starter Wizard in the Spring Tooling for Eclipse uses https://start.spring.io behind the scenes and therefore offers exactly what https://start.spring.io offers. This is not related to the version of the Spring Tools, as this information (Spring Boot versions of choice, JDK versions, etc.) is queried dynamically from https://start.spring.io.
The things that you observed are correct. https://start.spring.io does not offer Spring 2.7.x versions of Spring anymore. Since Spring Boot 3.x requires JDK 17 as a minimum, there are no JDK versions prior to JDK 17 up there.
Please also note that Spring 2.x has reached the end of open-source support (see https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot#support).