Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the floor of SpringOne, live from lovely Las Vegas! As you can imagine, I've got to get back into it, so we'll make this one a quick one. And if you're here, be sure to say "hi"!

• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Andrey Belyaev, product manager for IntelliJ IDEA
• Good news everybody! Spring Boot 4.0.0.M2 is available
• Spring Batch 6.0.0.M2 is available now
• Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0 M2, 1.5.2, and 1.4.5 available now
• Spring Modulith 2.0 M2, 1.4.3, and 1.3.9 released
• Loiane Groner has a nice writeup on what's coming in Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7
• Docker, yes THE Docker, has a nice look at simplifying your Spring AI builds with Docker
• I love me some Flyway! And here's a nice tutorial on using it with Spring Boot
• It was nice to be on Spring Office Hourse recently
• I love this! Finally a complex topic distilled into its simple components! CQRS with Spring Modulith
• I love this blog series from Embabel (and Spring) founder Rod Johnson comparing his new Spring AI-powered agentic AI framework Embabel with popular agentic AI frameworks in the Python ecosystem. This latest post looks at CrewAI
• Speaking of building with Spring AI: AWS had a nice workshop on just this very topic. Anybody know if it will be recorded and can be streamed?. Either way: register now!
• A great talk, JSpecify: Java Nullness Annotations and Kotlin, by David Baker