Spring Shell 4.0.0 GA released!

Releases | Mahmoud Ben Hassine | December 30, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0 GA is now available from Maven Central!

What's new?

This major release marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Spring Shell and comes with several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Some of the highlights include:

  • Alignment with Spring projects: Compatibility with the latest versions of Spring Framework and Spring Boot, ensuring seamless integration and improved performance.
  • Enhanced Command Model: A revamped command model that simplifies the creation and management of commands, making it easier for developers to build interactive CLI applications.
  • Improved APIs Null Safety: Use of jSpecify null-safety features to reduce the likelihood of NullPointerExceptions.
  • Improved Modularity: A more modular architecture that allows for better customization and extension of the shell's capabilities.
  • Updated Documentation

Spring Tools 5.0.1 released

Releases | Martin Lippert | December 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0.1.

This release includes fixes for:

  • log messages from language server appear in Error Log view in Eclipse #1747
  • ai-related code lenses around Copilot do not show up in VSCode #1746
  • TM Terminal superseded by Terminal Feature in Eclipse 2025-12 #1748

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.0.1.RELEASE

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Theia, please…

Spring Modulith 2.0.1, 1.4.6, and 1.3.12 released

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | December 20, 2025 | ...

Spring Modulith Christmas came early this year and I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 2.0.1, 1.4.6, and 1.3.12. The releases contain the usual platform upgrades around Spring Boot and Framework. On top of that, we ship the following improvements and bug fixes:

  • Allow resetting the shift in TimeMachine (2.0.1 – #1491)
  • @ApplicationModuleTest does not bootstrap beans from test configuration (2.0.1 – #1495, 1.4.6 – #1494),
  • CGLib proxy created for JdbcEventPublicationRepositoryV2causing issues in native image (2.0.1 – #1493)
  • ClassNotFoundException for package-info from JavaPackage during runtime bootstrap (2.0.1 – #1487)

Spring Shell 4.0.0-RC1 available now

Releases | Mahmoud Ben Hassine | December 19, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-RC1 is now available from Maven Central!

What's new?

This first release candidate comes with feature alignment with the previous generation as well as several improvements and bug fixes.

Major changes include:

  • Support for debug mode
  • Support for command completion and custom completion providers
  • Support for hidden commands
  • Support for command option validation with the Bean Validation API
  • Support for exception mapping

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

What's next?

Our plan for now is to make this release candidate as stable as possible in preparation for Spring Shell 4.0

Spring Boot 3.4.13 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | December 18, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 37 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of open source support for Spring Boot 3.4.x

Spring Boot 3.4.13 marks the end of open source support for Spring Boot 3.4.x. Please upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5.x or 4.0.x as soon as possible. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Boot 3.4.x is available

Spring Boot 4.0.1 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | December 18, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 88 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 3.5.9 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | December 18, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 43 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 Cloud 2025.0.1 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released

Releases | Ryan Baxter | December 17, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.0.1 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.0.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.0.1 Release Train

This release is based on Spring Boot 3.5.8.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see this GitHub project.

The module spring-cloud-starter-parent has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

  • Upgrade kubernetes java client to 19.0.3 (#1926)
  • Add the ability to disable leader info contributor (#2086)

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