On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.1.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes a number of improvements, new features and dependency upgrades. It also includes all of the bug fixes, documentation improvements and security fixes from Spring Boot 4.0.7.

Highlights from this release include:

• Spring gRPC support.
• Updated Jackson configuration properties and customization support.
• HTTP Client SSRF Mitigation with InetAddressFilter.
• Multiple updates related to observability, include updated OpenTelemetry support.
• File Rotation Support for Log4j.

For a complete list of "New and Noteworthy" features, as well as important upgrade instructions and deprecation details, please see our wiki.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag.

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