Hi Spring fans! In this installment, we look at the wide and wonderful world of Spring, as usual, and there's a good amount to get to, fresh off the recent Spring Boot 4.1 generation release train, so let's dive right into it!

• I wrote a blog post looking at Spring Batch, MongoDB, and Spring Boot 4.1.
• Spring AI lead Christian Tsolov wrote a nice post detailing the new tool calling API in Spring AI 2.0.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to my friend DaShaun Carter about the latest in the new Spring Boot 4.1 releases.
• Another great Spring AI recipe from Craig Walls, this one looking at voice control using ElevenLabs.
• Now reading! Building an AI-powered trading assistant with Spring AI and Binance API (No idea if this is a good idea!).
• The latest and greatest in the Spring community, written up masterfully by InfoQ.
• Speaking of, InfoQ also wrote up the new Spring Boot 4.1 release](https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/spring-boot-4-1/).
• I love this Spring Cloud Stream externalization module that integrates with Spring Modulith.
• InfoQ's awesome coverage of the latest and greatest in Spring continues to be awesome, as usual.
• Check out the new ever-concise release notes on Spring Boot 4.1!
• I love Craig Walls' recent recipes, this one looking at agentic AI with Embabel (which builds on Spring AI).