Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, which I'm writing from magnificent Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I'm recording an amazing Frontend Masters course introducing Spring Boot.

• I love this article introducing Spring AI in JavaPro magazine
• Want to run an LLM entirely in Java, supercharged with GraalVM native images? Check out this tweet from GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko — it's dope.
• I loved it so much I made a quick YouTube Short on the same topic.
• By the way, want to learn Java? This is a great resource.
• The amazing Spring AI co-lead Christian Tsolov has a great talk introducing MCP.
• Spring team alumnus Arjen Poutsma has helped shape the APIs in Spring for a long time with his famous Poutsma Principles — in this blog, he discusses them.
• Spring Data 2025.0.0-RC1 is out with tons of updates, refined HQL/EQL/JPQL parsing, and more.
• Spring Data 2025.1.0-M2 released
• Spring Data 2025.1.5 and 2025.0.11 released
• Spring Tools 4.30.0 released
• Spring Web Services 4.0.13 available now
• Spring Web Services 4.1.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Security 5.7.17, 5.8.19, 6.0.17, 6.1.15, 6.2.11, 6.3.9, and 6.4.5 released — including a fix for CVE-2025-22234.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow end of open source announcement
• Spring Security 6.3.9 released
• Spring Security 6.4.5
• Spring Security 6.5.0 RC1 is out! — the new release includes refinements to DPoP, SAML 2.0, and deprecates components like ConfigAttribute, SecurityConfig, and other access API elements.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to "Mr. Apache," Jeff Genender!
• Spring for GraphQL 1.4 RC1 is out!
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3.5 released
• Spring Framework 7.0.0 M4
• Spring Framework 6.1.19 and 6.2.6 available now