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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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.8 and 1.2.2 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.8 and 3.4.2 releases, respectively.

This release includes numerous dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes (1.1.8 and 1.2.2) for more details.

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

As announced previously, we shipped "7.0.0-M1" to the usual repo.spring.io artifact repository, but also to Maven Central. We hope to collect more feedback from the community this year along the way; we are targeting November 2025 for the official release date.

This first milestone partially delivers the baseline changes that we shared last October. Spring Framework still expects a JDK 17-27 compatibility range and raises its minimum requirements to…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.2 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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 28 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 contributed, I am pleased to announce the firs Milestone of Spring Integration 6.5.0 generation.

In addition to dependency upgrades for their latest major/minor versions, this Milestone includes removals for previous deprecations.

Some notable changes so far are:

• The Java DSL controlBus() operator is restored from the deprecated state, but now it does exactly the same what previously introduced controlBusOnRegistry(), which is deprecated now;
• Previously, if a MessageGroupProcessor returns a collection of payloads, the AbstractCorrelatingMessageHandler has failed with the IllegalArgumentException stating that only collection of messages is possible.
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