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It is my pleasure today to share with you the start for Spring AMQP minor version and its 4.1.0-M1 is available with some new fature to try.

The new spring-amqp-client module has been added to provide Spring-friendly components for AMQP 1.0 protocol intraction. It is based on the ProtonJ 2 Client library and exposes an API based on well-known spring-amqp core module foundation. It does not have any RabbitMQ-related dependencies, but can work well with RabbitMQ broker with some destination address adjustments. The infrastructure of spring-amqp-client is represented by the AmqpConnectionFactory abstraction with a SingleAmqpConnectionFactory as implementation to share the same ProtonJ connection between consumers and producers. The low-level API…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.14 and 2.0.2 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The 1.2.14 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.5.10 releases. The 2.0.2 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 4.0.2 release.

Please see the release notes (1.2.14 and 2.0.2) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the milestone release of Spring Security 7.1.0-M1.

Please see the Spring Security 7.1.0-M1 release notes for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the 2025.1.2 and 2025.0.8 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, minor AOT and performance refinements as well as bug fixes.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

2025.1.2

• Spring Data Commons 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 8.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 5.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 5.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 5.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 6.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Traditional AI interactions follow a common pattern: you provide a prompt, the AI makes assumptions, and produces a response. When those assumptions don't match your needs, you're left iterating through corrections. Each assumption creates rework—wasting time and context.

What if your AI agent could ask you clarifying questions before providing answers?

The AskUserQuestionTool addresses this. It allows the AI agent to ask clarifying questions before answering, gathers requirements interactively, and creates a specification aligned with your actual needs from the start.

Spring AI's…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 7.0.3 is available now.

Spring Framework 7.0.3 ships with 65 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 4.0.2.

This release brings a noteworthy change - Spring Framework will now lazily pause an unused test ApplicationContext the 1st time a different context is used. You can override this behavior by setting the spring.test.context.cache.pause property to ALWAYS, or disable pausing altogether by setting that to NEVER. Check out the release notes and reference documentation to learn…

Hi, Spring fans! This week we catch up with the observably awesome Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 13th of January, 2026, and it's been quite the week indeed! Let's dive right into it!

• Nobody, and I mean nobody, asked. So I put together a video on how to use Spring WS to build SOAP-based services in 2026. Hey, SOAP may be legacy but the legacy endures in a lot of places and there's no reason you can't modernize those systems and services to use Spring Boot 4, GraalVM, and OAuth, as I show in this video.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7
• Spring gRPC 1.0.1 is available now
• I love this blog from Embabel creator Rod Johnson: RAG pipelines are the past, agentic is the future
• I know this doesn't have anything to do with Spring, per se, but I find it …