On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the second milestone of Spring Data 2025.0.0 ("Spring Data 3.5").

There are a few features we want to highlight for you to explore:

• Interface Projections using now are guarded properly throwing NullPointerException if a method return value is null (i.e. a getter method) although the method is defined to return a non-nullable value. This functionality is enabled for all Kotlin Interfaces. For all other interfaces, validation is enabled when the package or the interface is annotated with Nullability annotations and marked as non-null (or inherits @NonNullApi from the package level).
• Hash Field Expiration for Spring Data Redis, extended Expiration command support, and support for GET … SET.
• ValidatingEntityCallback and a reactive variant ReactiveValidatingEntityCallback…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the third milestone of the next Spring Framework generation. The third milestone continues delivering new features and refinements on top of 7.0.0-M1 and 7.0.0-M2.

In this milestone, we are shipping the first step of our new "API versioning" feature for web applications. Keep an eye for further improvements and documentation there, we're definitely interested in feedback from the community!

By popular demand, the java Optional type is now better supported in SpEL expressions. Not only you can now call null-safe operations on Optional types, but you can also use the Elvis operator…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.18 and 6.2.4 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.18 ships with 11 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.3.10.

Spring Framework 6.2.4 ships with 46 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.4 and 3.5.0-M3.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.29.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Early access: inject bean completion proposals available in Spring components
• (Spring Boot) Experimental Spring structural view in the outline (work in progress, available in VSCode only)

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2025-03 release (new and noteworthy)

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.29.0.RELEASE

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring gRPC 0.5.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes features, 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 open issues. If you have general questions, please ask on Stack Overflow using the spring-grpc tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring gRPC 0.4.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes features, 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 open issues. If you have general questions, please ask on Stack Overflow using the spring-grpc tag.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2025.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2025.0.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.0.0-M2 Release Train

This milestone is compatible with Spring Boot 3.5.0-M2. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Support rewriting request parameters in Server WebMVC #3669.
• Bug fixes for multipart data and retry in Server WebMVC.

Spring Cloud Config

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I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.4 M2, 1.3.3, and 1.2.9. 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.

• The observability module now automatically creates counters for application events published by modules. A new ModulithEventMetrics API has been introduced and can be used through ModulithEventMetricsCustomizer beans registered in the ApplicationContext (GH-1068).
• The runtime support has been revamped to avoid the dependency on an external library to topologically sort application modules, so that they can be traversed in dependency order (GH-1060). This allows assuming a stable module order in the application metadata file that – previously only created in AOT mode – is now also written when generating documentation (GH-1063). That in turn allows us to avoid the full bootstrap of an ApplicationModules instance at runtime, for example, to execute ApplicationModuleListener beans (GH-1062, GH-1065…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 113 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Environment variable imports using spring.config.import
• Actuator support for triggering Quartz jobs
• Extended SSL support for service connections
• Customizable stack traces in structured logs

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

Thanks to all those…