This Week in Spring - April 29th, 2025

Releases | Josh Long | April 29, 2025 | ...

Spring Boot 3.5.0-RC1 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | April 25, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 133 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • Support for Docker's credential stores and helpers when using Cloud Native Buildpacks
  • Configuration property binding performance improvements
  • Annotation-based filter and servlet registration
  • Auto-configuration for background initialization of beans
  • Properties for global WebClient configuration

Spring gRPC 0.8.0 available now

Releases | Dave Syer | April 25, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring gRPC 0.8.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This is the first "non-experimental" release, signified by the project moving to its new repository location in the https://github.com/spring-projects organization. Support will be provided for the only current 0.x release, and the normal cycle of extended support will start with the 1.0.0 release (expected around the same time as Spring Boot 4.0.0).

The main change in this release was to upgrade Spring Boot and also the gRPC Java and…

Spring Modulith 1.4 RC1, 1.3.5, and 1.2.11 released

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | April 25, 2025 | ...

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.4 RC1, 1.3.5, and 1.2.11. While the latter contain a few bug fixes and the usual dependency upgrades to the latest Spring Boot releases, the milestone also includes a few new features:

  • Performance improvements both in the core event publication registry and the observability instrumentation. (GH-1146, GH-1149)
  • The Scenario API only considers non-empty collections as successful state transitions by default (GH-1131)
  • Refinements in the core ApplicationModule(s) abstractions and documentation generation (GH-1150, GH-1152)
  • Minor (internal) cleanups (GH-1153, GH-1122)

Spring Vault 3.1.3 and 3.2.0-M1 available

Releases | Mark Paluch | April 25, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Vault 3.1.3 release is available now.

Spring Vault 3.1.3 ships with several bugfixes.

Spring Vault 3.2.0-M1 is the first milestone of the 3.2.x series. Notable enhancements are:

  • Add support for IMDSv2 on EC2
  • Support for Github Token Authentication

You can find the full changelog at https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-vault/releases/tag/3.2.0-M1. Going forward, we are going to ship Spring Vault 3.2 GA in May. This is going to be the last release of the 3.x development line. We're working…

Spring Boot 3.3.11 available now

Releases | Moritz Halbritter | April 24, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 49 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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Spring Boot 3.4.5 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | April 24, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 62 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, 3.2.14, 3.3.11, and 3.4.5 Released, includes fix for CVE-2025-22235

Releases | Moritz Halbritter | April 24, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, 3.2.14, 3.3.11, and 3.4.5 are available now, which fix CVE-2025-22235.

Please refer to the releases page for more details.

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.1, or 3.2 will be able to update to Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, or 3.2.14 respectively. These Spring Boot versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription.

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