Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring. As usual, we've got a ton to look into, so let's dive right in!
and of course, next week, 1 April 2026, marks 12 years since Spring Boot 1.0 came out!
Spring Boot 4.1.0-M3 is available now, with new support for Spring gRPC, file rotation with Log4j, OpenTelemetry improvements, Spring Batch MongoDB support, SSL support for RabbitMQ streams, and AMQP 1.0 support in Spring AMQP!
The latest versions of Spring AI and the MCP spec unlock awesome new potential: MCP applications!
In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to legendary Java author, teacher, and professor extraordinaire Cay Horstmann!. I've read some of his books, and I'd bet money you have too!
Heard of OpenClaw? Want something better, built on the bones of a proper scheduling engine like JobRunr? Check out their implementation: JavaClaw!