Spring Boot 4.0.0-M1 available now

Releases | Phil Webb | July 24, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central!!

This release includes is the first milestone of the 4.x generation and is the first release including our efforts to modularize the codebase. It is also the first milestone that we are publishing to Maven central.

Please see the release notes and the draft migration guide for more details and upgrade instructions.

We are particularly interested in getting early feedback on the new modular design and hearing about any upgrade problems that you encounter. Issues can be raised on the GitHub project page.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to this release.

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 Overflow

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