diff --git a/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringFactoriesIndexer.java b/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringFactoriesIndexer.java
index db31ee43e..be949db14 100644
--- a/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringFactoriesIndexer.java
+++ b/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringFactoriesIndexer.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class SpringFactoriesIndexer implements SpringIndexer {
 	
 	// whenever the implementation of the indexer changes in a way that the stored data in the cache is no longer valid,
 	// we need to change the generation - this will result in a re-indexing due to no up-to-date cache data being found
-	private static final String GENERATION = "GEN-7";
+	private static final String GENERATION = "GEN-8";
 	
 	private static final String FILE_PATTERN = "**/META-INF/spring/*.factories";
 	
diff --git a/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerJava.java b/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerJava.java
index 3692c8488..3c1f4d095 100644
--- a/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerJava.java
+++ b/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerJava.java
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public class SpringIndexerJava implements SpringIndexer {
 
 	// whenever the implementation of the indexer changes in a way that the stored data in the cache is no longer valid,
 	// we need to change the generation - this will result in a re-indexing due to no up-to-date cache data being found
-	private static final String GENERATION = "GEN-11";
+	private static final String GENERATION = "GEN-12";
 	private static final String INDEX_FILES_TASK_ID = "index-java-source-files-task-";
 
 	private static final String SYMBOL_KEY = "symbols";
diff --git a/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerXML.java b/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerXML.java
index 798dc11c7..de228b13b 100644
--- a/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerXML.java
+++ b/headless-services/spring-boot-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/boot/java/utils/SpringIndexerXML.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2019, 2024 Pivotal, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019, 2025 Pivotal, Inc.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ public class SpringIndexerXML implements SpringIndexer {
 	
 	// whenever the implementation of the indexer changes in a way that the stored data in the cache is no longer valid,
 	// we need to change the generation - this will result in a re-indexing due to no up-to-date cache data being found
-	private static final String GENERATION = "GEN-6";
+	private static final String GENERATION = "GEN-7";
 
 	private static final String SYMBOL_KEY = "symbols";
 	private static final String BEANS_KEY = "beans";