Hi, Spring fans! Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays, or simply a convivial Tuesday in December to you!

We've got a ton of cool stuff to dive into so let's get goin'!

• Spring AI 1.0.0 M5 Released
• Spring AI MCP 0.2.0 (Milestone) Released
• Spring Modulith 1.3.1, 1.2.7, and 1.1.12 Released
• Spring Boot 3.4.1 Available Now
• Spring Boot 3.3.7 Available Now
• Spring Batch 5.1.3 and 5.2.1 Available Now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.7 and 1.2.1 Are Now Available
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.1 and 3.2.6 Are Available Now
• Another delightful installment of the Spring News Roundup over on InfoQ!
• A Cool Sample Application Using Vaadin and Hilla
• Dr. Fabio Niephaus just announced the current status of the upcoming JDWP support for GraalVM Native Images.
• Spring Cloud AWS 3.3.0 RC1 Released
• There's a new Spring AI course on freeCodeCamp!
• I love this blog from our friend Siva over on the JetBrains blog about testing Spring Boot Applications Using Testcontainers.