Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm preparing my talks for several amazing shows including: Commit Your Code conference in Plano, Texas (starting tomorrow); Dev2Next in Colorado; Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp, Belgium; and CloudFoundry Days in Germany. So much good stuff comin' up! And so much good stuff in the community this week, as well, so let's dive right into it!

• I love this! One of my favorite new features in Spring Framework 7 is the new HTTP Service Clients
• there's so much good stuff coming in Spring AI 1.0.2 and improved MCP support
• Spring Modulith 2.0 M3 released. This new release includes updated event publication repository implementations for JPA, Jackson 3 support, and so much more.
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the amazing Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb
• Spring Boot 3.4.10 is available now
• Spring Boot 3.5.6 available now
• Spring Boot 4.0.0 M3 available now
• Spring AI 1.0.2 is available now
• Spring Batch 6.0.0 M3 and 5.2.3 are out
• Spring Integration 7.0 M3 is available now!
• Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-M5 is Available Now
• this is a nice introduction to streaming multipart data in a Spring web application
• did you catch the latest Spring roundup over at InfoQ?
• yet another interesting approach on implementing a simple rules engine using Java (and Spring)
• I also loved that they have this nice article on optimizing integration tests with Spring
• it took a huge amount of work, but we managed to reunite Spring cofounders Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller for this session at Spring I/O 2025. Amazing discussion. Don't miss it!
• this is super interesting! Charles Nutter, the lead of JRuby - a blazing fast implementation of Ruby on top of the JVM - previews what it looks like to get a Spring Boot application running on top of JRuby! Awesome