As you all should be aware by now, the Spring portfolio is in the process of driving towards the next major versions to be released in November of this year. This will be only the fourth major generation for Spring Boot and the seventh major generation for Spring Framework in its over 20 year history. We are excited to bring you a great set of new features that builds on the current foundations.

While we are keeping the JDK baseline at JDK 17 because that is the industry consensus, we will upgrade to Jakarta EE 11 (Tomcat 11, Hibernate ORM 7, Hibernate Validator 9) and embrace other upgrades…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Frankfurt, awaiting my flight to the Java-tastic Javazone 2025 event where I'll be joined by the legendary James Ward to deliver an AI-focused look at the latest-and-greatest in Spring! And I'm still recovering from the delirious deluge that was SpringOne 2025! So much to do, and so little time in which to do it. Oh well let's dive right into it!

• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser
• As always, I'm loving Rod Johnson's videos looking at comparing how to build AI agents with Spring AI-powered Embabel against other frameworks, and you should too
• I love this look at the MCP protocol by our friend Siva
• what is the best embedded web server for Spring Boot
• this is really cool - a a mechanism to load configuration into Spring Boot using Dotenvx
• I like this look at some of the amazing essential utility classes
• a great thread looking at some of the latest-and-greatest …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, fresh after an exciting and exhausting SpringOne 2025, I am thrilled to have talked with JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser on what's new in version 8.0.0.

Learn more about JobRunr v8 here!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the floor of SpringOne, live from lovely Las Vegas! As you can imagine, I've got to get back into it, so we'll make this one a quick one. And if you're here, be sure to say "hi"!

• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Andrey Belyaev, product manager for IntelliJ IDEA
• Good news everybody! Spring Boot 4.0.0.M2 is available
• Spring Batch 6.0.0.M2 is available now
• Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0 M2, 1.5.2, and 1.4.5 available now
• Spring Modulith 2.0 M2, 1.4.3, and 1.3.9 released
• Loiane Groner has a nice writeup on what's coming in Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7
• Docker, yes THE Docker, has a nice look at simplifying your Spring AI builds with Docker
• I love me some Flyway! And here's a nice tutorial on using it with Spring Boot
• It was nice …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to Andrey Belyaev, a Product Manager at JetBrains working on the IntelliJ IDEA product, about the latest-and-greatest support for Spring in Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA!

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…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I caught up with architecture guru and Spring Modulith founder and lead Oliver Drotbohm and we looked at some of the amazing possibilities in Spring Modulith 2.0, coming after Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 drop later this year!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's August 5th! Which means we're only a few short weeks away until SpringOne 2025! Have you registered? There's so much to cover this week, so let's dive right into it!

• I love Spring Modulith and I love JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA! So imagine my joy to discover that the new IntelliJ IDEA release features support for Spring Modulith!
• Spring Cloud Oakwood has been released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security lead and legend Rob Winch about the new and novel in Spring Security and what we're going to be talking about at SpringOne 2025! (Have you registered yet?)
• Spring Shell's been updated!
• Spring AI has been updated
• Spring gRPC 0.10.0 is available! This is another up-and-coming…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I am thrilled to talk to my longtime friend Andrew Lombardi about the latest-and-greatest, his new book Beginning Spring AI, and more