Get ready, Spring community! Spring I/O 2026 is just around the corner, and the energy is already electric. Next week, the global developer community descends on beautiful Barcelona for two days of deep dives, networking, and a first-hand look at the future of the Spring ecosystem. The Spring team is arriving in force, ready to showcase the latest and greatest innovations. Whether you’re interested in the new features of Spring Boot 4, want to discover the power of Spring AI, or master observability, we have you covered. Beyond the sessions, our team will be roaming the halls and hanging out…

Reactor Kafka Project Will Be Discontinued TL;DR: We’ve decided to discontinue future maintenance of the Reactor Kafka project and deprecate its associated components within the Spring portfolio. Our team regularly evaluates our project portfolio with long-term sustainability in mind. When adoption declines, we thoughtfully retire projects to focus our efforts where the community needs them most. Based on an assessment of adoption metrics, download trends, project activity, and how Reactor Kafka fits into our overall strategy, we’ve decided to end maintenance and integrations for the project…

On behalf of the Spring team, we are excited to showcase all of the Spring projects that have been released this February. Spring OSS Releases The table below contains a list of all the open source projects and their versions that have been released. Each project listed will link to their version details. Project Version(s) Spring AI 0.8.0 Spring for Apache Kafka 3.2.0-M1, 3.1.2, 3.0.14 Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.0-M1, 1.0.3 Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-M2, 1.2.2, 1.1.5 Spring Batch 5.1.1, 5.0.5 Spring Boot 3.3.0-M2, 3.2.3, 3.1.9 Spring Data 2024.0.0-M1, 2023.1.3, 2023.0.9 Spring…