On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.0-M2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 97 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Gradle 9 Support
• @HttpServiceClient annotation support
• API Versioning support
• JSpecify nullability annotations to help protect your code against null pointer exceptions
• Improved OpenTelemetry starter (for out-of-the-box support)

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 53 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. 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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 44 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. 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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I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 6.0.0-M2 is available now from Maven Central!

In this milestone release, we shipped the following features and improvements:

• Dependencies upgrade
• New implementation of the chunk-oriented processing model
• Ability to recover abruptly failed job executions

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Dependencies upgrade

In this milestone release, the Spring dependencies are upgraded to the following versions:

• Spring Framework: 7.0.0-M8
• Spring Integration: 7.0.0-M2
• Spring AMQP: 4.0.0-M4
• Spring Kafka: 4.0.0-M4
• Spring Data: 4.0.0-M5
• Spring Ldap: 4.0.0-M2
• Micrometer: 1.16.0-M2
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the releases of Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0-M2, 1.5.2 and 1.4.5.

See the 2.0.0-M2, 1.5.2 and 1.4.5 release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra special installment of This Week in Spring - special because the next installment will be delivered from the floors of the Ventian where the extraordinairily awesome SpringOne 2025 event will take place!

So, some poetry:

T’was the Week Before SpringOne

T’was the week before SpringOne, when all through the code, Not a bean was left hanging, not even in load. The sessions were queued in the schedule with care, In hopes that the keynote soon would be there.

Developers nestled all snug at their keys, Dreaming of boot apps and APIs with ease. With visions of cloud-native dreams in their head, They packed…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 6.4.9 and 6.5.3.

Spring Security 6.4.9 ships with 5 fixes and several dependency upgrades. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.9.

Spring Security 6.5.3 ships with 8 fixes and several dependency upgrades. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.5.5.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a new milestone for the next Spring Security generation. We encourage you to review the Spring Security 6 to 7 migration guide to gauge your preparedness for the release. Please also check out the main feature set in our What's New in Spring Security 7 page. Finally, for a detailed view of all changes, please see the Spring Security 7.0.0-M2 release notes.

7.0.0-M2 is now available from Maven Central.

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