Spring Web Services 4.1.0 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | May 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release adds a number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 4.1

The highlights of the 4.1 release include:

  • Apache Axiom Support has been restored
  • Support for WSS4J v4
  • Support for Configuring Arbitrary WSS4J Options
  • More Flexible HTTP Message Sender

Dependency upgrades

Spring Web Services 4.1 moves to new versions of several Spring projects and we’ve also upgraded to the latest stable releases of other third-party libraries wherever possible. Please see the release notes for details.

Thank you

We want to take this opportunity to again thank all our users and contributors.

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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow

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