It's the end of July! JULY! The seventh month of the year, done and dusted! AHHHHH! I've got memories of being on a tropical beach over the winter holidays, sipping rum and dodging mosquitoes like I was doing a rhythmic gymnastics routine just recently. It turns out that was seven months ago, not recently. Who did this to us? Why is it happening so quickly? And why am I wearing a jacket, and why do I have the windows closed here in San Francisco, right now, as I write this? NOBODY KNOWS. One thing's for sure, though: it's almost August, and August is springtime, as far as I'm concerned, because we'll all converge on Las Vegas for our annual tentpole show, SpringOne. Have I prepared a full day of basically new content? I did. I did my part. Have you registered (https://springone.io)? Now it's time for you to do your part. Plus, whatever the season here in the northern hemisphere (tho, somehow, it's definitely summer here in San Francisco), don't you deserve a little fun in the adult playground that is Las Vegas, Nevada, with the best tech community in the world?

• good news, everybody! Spring Modulith 2.0.M1 is available
• oh and by the way, Spring Modulith 1.4.2 and 1.3.8 were also released!
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to José Paumard, Java developer advocate and professor.
• It's happening! Spring Boot 4.0 is nigh upon us! 4.0.0.M1 is available now!
• and with any new generation comes a bunch of new major upgrades, including the amazing looking Spring Batch 6.0.0.M1
• and also Spring Integration 7.0 M1 is available now, too!
• and also Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0.M1 is available now
• Spring Data JDBC and R2DBC 4.0 will support composite IDs - at long last!
• and Spring Boot 3.5.4 is available now
• and Spring Boot 3.4.8 is available now
• before we get into the rest of This Week in Spring, have you checked out InfoQ's Michael Redlich's awesome roundup of Spring News?
• speaking of InfoQ, I wrote an article on Spring AI. Check it out!
• have you noticed there's more Kotlin in the air? Check out the updated Getting Started with REST guide, which now has Kotlin examples, too!
• I still love this: the Maven Music Plugin, inspired by my GraalVM GitHub issue and the hilarious responses, recently got an upgrade from our friend Mahmoud, from Spotify: it can now stream music from your favorite Spotify playlist!