Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra special installment of This Week in Spring - special because the next installment will be delivered from the floors of the Ventian where the extraordinairily awesome SpringOne 2025 event will take place!

So, some poetry:

T’was the Week Before SpringOne

T’was the week before SpringOne, when all through the code, Not a bean was left hanging, not even in load. The sessions were queued in the schedule with care, In hopes that the keynote soon would be there.

Developers nestled all snug at their keys, Dreaming of boot apps and APIs with ease. With visions of cloud-native dreams in their head, They packed for Las Vegas, excitement widespread.

For SpringOne was coming — bright lights and pure bliss — At the grand Venetian, none dared to miss. The premier of Spring, of Java, of cloud, A gathering epic, electric, and proud!

I am so excited! And behind. There's oh-so-much to do and so little time in which to do it! Will you be there? Be sure to say "hi"!

In the meantime, as we wait, there's a lot to dig into this week so let's get going!

• Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0 M2, 1.5.2, and 1.4.5 are all available now
• Spring Security 6.4.9 and 6.5.3 are available now
• Spring Security 7.0.0 M2 available now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.9 and 2.0.0 M2 are available now, too
• Spring Data 2025.0.3 and 2024.1.9 released
• Spring Data 2025.1.0-M5 released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Modulith lead and architure guru extraordinairre Oliver Drotbohm
• Spring Framework 7.0.0 M8 is available now
• Spring Framwork 6.2.10 (fixing CVE 2025-41242!) available now
• Embabel, an agentic framework built by Spring creator Rod Johnson on top of Spring AI, is a very interesting technology and this blog - looking at why Embabel and the JVM are better suited to agentic workflows than their would-be equivalents in Python - is well worth reading!
• Speaking of agentic AI, check out htis workshop being held by AWS online that uses Spring AI with AWS
• I love this video by David Baker on the JSpecify effort which underpins the nullability efforts in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4
• friend of the community Siva Prasad Reddy has an awesome new tutorial on Spring AI
• Want to follow the Spring team on Blue in addition to X/Twitter? We're there!
• Awesome! Finally an easy tool to use to understand which generation of which project goes with which version of Spring Boot!
• check out this awesome explainer on API versioning in Spring Framework 7 by Spring Framework contributor Rossen Stoyanchev