Hi, Spring and HTML fans! Today I talk to hypermedia enjoyer Carson Gross, creator of the ever popular HTMX library which eschews a ton of the complexity associated with building client side applications.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2025.0 (aka Northfields) Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2025.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.0.0-M1 Release

Spring Cloud 2025.0.0-M1 depends on Spring Boot 3.5.0-M1. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Adds support for spring-cloud-function and spring-cloud-stream handlers #3646
• Adds support for a Bucket4jRateLimiter in server webflux #2955
• Deprecate WebClientRouting infrastructure. This will be removed in 5.0 later this year. #3680
• New Module and Starter names have been created and the old names are deprectated. The new and deprecated artifacts are listed in the table below #3645…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' and exciting installment of This Week in Spring, wherein we look at the amazing week that was in the Spring community. And what a week it's been! In addition to tons of cool tooling and AI related stuff, this week saw the release of the first steps towards Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 3.5. Spring Framework 7.0, of course, is also the foundation upon which Spring Boot 4.0 will be based. So, that's exciting! Let's dive right in!

• Exciting news from Michael Minella: we're now publishing milestones to Maven Central.
• Spring Data 2025.1.M1 is out!. This is the first milestone in the 2025.1.0 line and has tons of nice new changes. It raises the baseline to Jakarta EE 11 (which includes Hibernate ORM 7 and Hibernate Validator 9) and Kotlin 2.x. This release also finally does away with long-deprecated features like ListenableFuture. Spring Data JPA has seen major changes! Derived queries now use JPQL (not the Criteria API, as before), resulting in much faster performance thanks to Hibernate Query Structure Caching.
• One of my favorite projects, Spring Modulith, has several new releases…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the first milestone of the next Spring Data generation.

As announced previously, we shipped 2025.1.0-M1 to Maven Central. We're looking forward to collecting more feedback from the community by easing access to our milestone. The GA release is targeted for November 2025.

This first milestone comes with several baseline changes, raising its minimum requirements to Jakarta EE 11 (Hibernate ORM 7, Hibernate Validator 9) and Kotlin 2.x. It is also an opportunity for us to ship API removals (such as ListenableFuture…

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.4 M1, 1.3.2, and 1.2.8. While the latter contain a few bug fixes and the usual dependency upgrades to the latest Spring Boot releases, the milestone release ships a couple of important new features.

• GH-928 – Move to Micrometer Observations API – Marcin Grzejszczak was kind enough to port our existing instrumentation based on the tracing APIs to the more modern observations API that allows more fine-grained integration and capturing of metrics. Stay tuned for a more detailed blog post coming soon!

• GH-933 – Consider global proxy settings for proxies created.

• GH-1009 - SPI to detect NamedInterfaces programatically.

• GH-1037 - Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5 M1.

• GH-961 – Upgrade to Structurizr 3.1.

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Hi, Spring fans! in this installment I talk to Java developer advocate Billy Korando about the latest and greatest in the amazing Java ecosystem! #java #JavaOne #Oracle

We're pleased to announce Spring AI MCP 0.6.0 milestone release.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

• McpClient.using() - Use McpClient.sync() or McpClient.async() instead
• McpServer.using() - Use McpServer.sync() or McpServer.async() instead
• McpServer.ToolRegistration - Use McpServerFeatures.SyncToolRegistration or McpServerFeatures.AsyncToolRegistration instead
• McpServer.ResourceRegistration - Use McpServerFeatures.SyncResourceRegistration or McpServerFeatures.AsyncResourceRegistration instead
• McpServer.PromptRegistration - Use McpServerFeatures.SyncPromptRegistration or McpServerFeatures.AsyncPromptRegistration instead
• ToolHelper.toToolRegistration() - Use ToolHelper.toSyncToolRegistration()…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 100 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Task decoration for scheduled tasks
• Vibur connection pool DataSourceBuilder support
• SSL bundle metrics

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

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…