On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0.1.

This release includes fixes for:

• log messages from language server appear in Error Log view in Eclipse #1747
• ai-related code lenses around Copilot do not show up in VSCode #1746
• TM Terminal superseded by Terminal Feature in Eclipse 2025-12 #1748

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.0.1.RELEASE

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Theia, please…

Spring Modulith Christmas came early this year and I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 2.0.1, 1.4.6, and 1.3.12. The releases contain the usual platform upgrades around Spring Boot and Framework. On top of that, we ship the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Allow resetting the shift in TimeMachine (2.0.1 – #1491)
• @ApplicationModuleTest does not bootstrap beans from test configuration (2.0.1 – #1495, 1.4.6 – #1494),
• CGLib proxy created for JdbcEventPublicationRepositoryV2causing issues in native image (2.0.1 – #1493)
• ClassNotFoundException for package-info from JavaPackage during runtime bootstrap (2.0.1 – #1487)
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On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-RC1 is now available from Maven Central!

What's new?

This first release candidate comes with feature alignment with the previous generation as well as several improvements and bug fixes.

Major changes include:

• Support for debug mode
• Support for command completion and custom completion providers
• Support for hidden commands
• Support for command option validation with the Bean Validation API
• Support for exception mapping

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

What's next?

Our plan for now is to make this release candidate as stable as possible in preparation for Spring Shell 4.0…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release.

Happy holidays, one and all!

Following the announcement of the strategic partnership between JetBrains and Spring in May, I would like to share a global update on various Kotlin-related features and documentation enhancements we have made recently, with the goal of making Spring Boot 4 the best framework to develop backend applications with Kotlin.

Kotlin 2 baseline

Kotlin 2.0 introduced a new stable K2 compiler that compiles projects faster, performs smarter code analysis and allows the Kotlin team to evolve the language faster than with the K1 compiler. We recommend IntelliJ IDEA users to upgrade to 2025.3 to benefit…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 37 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of open source support for Spring Boot 3.4.x

Spring Boot 3.4.13 marks the end of open source support for Spring Boot 3.4.x. Please upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5.x or 4.0.x as soon as possible. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Boot 3.4.x is available…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 88 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 43 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…