Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's 29 April 2025 and things are starting to kick into overdrive! Starting next week, I'll be doing:

• Devoxx UK
• CodeRemix Miami
• JForum #123 in Stockholm, Sweden
• Spring IO in Barcelona, Spain
• JNation in Coimbra, Portugal
• The Japan Java User Group Spring (time) conference in Tokyo, Japan

If you're going to be there or near there, don't hesitate to say "hi"!

As always, we've got a ton of stuff cooking this week, too! Let's dive right into it!

• Spring Boot 3.5.0-RC1 is available now
• Spring gRPC 0.8.0 is available now
• Spring Modulith 1.4 RC1, 1.3.5, and 1.2.11 released
• Spring Vault 3.1.3 and 3.2.0 M1 available now
• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to fellow Java Champion and VJUG cofounder Simon Maple
• Spring Boot 3.3.11 available now
• Likewise, Spring Boot 3.4.5 is available now
• Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, 3.2.14, 3.3.11, and 3.4.5 released, includes fix for CVE-2025-22235
• Spring Authorization Server 1.5.0-RC1, 1.4.3, and 1.3.6 available now
• Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-M2 and 3.3.5 are available now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.11 and 1.2.5 are now available
• Spring Data 2025.0.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Data 2025.1.0-M2 released
• Spring Data 2024.1.5 and 2024.0.11 released
• Spring Tools 4.30.0 released
• Spring Web Services 4.0.13 available now
• Spring Web Services 4.1.0-RC1 available now
• Why does Spring use bubble sort?
• Would you trust code without tests? No? Then why would you trust AI code without evaluations?
• I liked this video: Java in 2025: busting the biggest myths
• Likewise, I liked this video from Paul Bakker looking at how Netflix uses Java
• Did you see InfoQ's Java Roundup? It's awesome!
• I love this French-language article looking at Spring core committer Sébastien Deleuze's talk on optimizing Spring Boot applications with CDS and Project Leyden
• Why every other backend framework is trash (except Spring Boot) - LOL!