On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1 (aka Oakwood) Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.1.0-M1 Release

Spring Cloud 2025.0.0-M1 depends on Spring Boot 4.0.0-M1. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Remove deprecated artifacts in favor of new ones. The new artifacts are spring-cloud-gateway-server-web{flux|mvc} and spring-cloud-gateway-proxyexchange-web{flux|mvc} #3858
• New API Versioning Predicate in Server WebFlux #3864
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I am excited to announce the release of Spring Modulith 2.0 M1. It marks the starting point of a new generation and is thus based on the latest Spring Boot 4 M1 release and Spring Framework 7.0 M7. The main feature of the upcoming generation of Spring Modulith will be the revamped Event Publication Registry that'll address many of the limitations of the current version.

Spring Modulith 2.0 M1 ships the major changes anticipated for the registry, and the JDBC implementation is tweaked to support the new event publication status model. All other store modules have been updated to still work but…

I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.4.2 and 1.3.8. The releases contain the usual dependency upgrades to the latest Spring Boot and Framework versions.

1.4.2 ships with more detailed application module metadata generated into application-modules.json (either with our AOT support enabled during the build or via the documentation generated through the Documenter API). This has enabled our friends at Sonargraph, a tool to logically define application architectures and perform advanced exploration and verification, to build integration for Spring Modulith applications. As described in their announcing blog post, they now support creating an architecture definition by picking up the structure defined in you application…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central!!

This release includes is the first milestone of the 4.x generation and is the first release including our efforts to modularize the codebase. It is also the first milestone that we are publishing to Maven central.

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

We are particularly interested in getting early feedback on the new modular design and hearing about any upgrade problems that you encounter. Issues can be raised on the GitHub project page…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 53 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 3.4.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 38 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 all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 6.0.0-M1 is available now from Maven Central! This first milestone introduces several new features, enhancements and bug fixes. It also includes a number of API breaking changes and deprecations.

This blog post walks you through the following major changes:

• Dependencies upgrade
• Batch infrastructure configuration improvements
• New command line job operator
• Deprecations and pruning

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

Dependencies upgrade

In this major…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the First Milestone of Spring Integration 7.0.0 generation. For convenience, the 7.0.0-M1 artifacts are also available in Maven Central.

In addition, the 6.5.1 and 6.4.6 versions with bug fixes and dependency upgrades have been released.

Some notable changes in 7.0.0 are:

• Compilation with Java 24 while maintaining Java 17 compatibility helps us spot some bugs, not only in the code but also in the JavaDocs;
• The Nullability via JSpecify and Nullaway is being implemented in the project. More fixes still have to be done, though;
• Jackson 3 is now supported. Jackson 2 is now marked for deprecation. See JavaDocs of deprecated classes for migration path;
• A new DistributedLock abstraction has been introduced with an API to set time-to-live per lock instance;
• The classes previously deprecated in spring-integration-hazelcast…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the milestone release of Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0-M1.

See the 2.0.0-M1 release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

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