I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 2.0 RC1, 1.4.4, and 1.3.10. The latter two ship bug fixes and the general dependency upgrades. The release candidate primarily contains polish of the new features introduced in the milestone releases and a few new ones:

• Support for application-module-specific Flyway migrations #1067
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 4.0 RC1 #1415

Find more details about the releases in the full changelog.

I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Shell 4.0 is now available on Maven Central!

What's new?

This milestone release is the first step toward a modern version of Spring Shell, aligned with the rest of the Spring portfolio.

The main focus of this first milestone is alignment with Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4.

Spring Shell 4.0.0-M1 is now based on Spring Framework 7.0.0-RC2 and Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC1.

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

What's next?

We plan to release Spring Shell 4.0 GA in November, after the Spring Boot 4.0 GA release…

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 176 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Completion of the modularization effort (including new test starters).
• Support for RestTestClient.
• Redis observability improvements

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?

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 55 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 3.5.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 69 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-RC1 is now available from Maven Central!

This release candidate comes with following features and improvements:

• Graceful Shutdown support
• SEDA style with Spring Integration message channels
• Local chunking support
• Jackson 3 support
• Remote step support

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

Graceful Shutdown support

Spring Batch 6.0 introduces support for graceful shutdown of batch jobs. This feature allows you to stop a running job execution in a controlled manner, ensuring…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the First (and hopefully last) Release Candidate of Spring Integration 7.0.0 generation. For convenience, the 7.0.0-RC1 artifacts are also available in Maven Central.

In addition, the 6.5.3 and 6.4.8 versions with bug fixes and dependency upgrades have been released.

Some notable changes in 7.0.0-RC1 are:

• Channel Adapters for AMQP 1.0 based on Spring AMQP 4.0;
• The directory to scan in the FileReadingMessageSource can now be configured as an expression to be evaluated at runtime on each scan call;
• The MESSAGE_BYTES SQL column for message store tables has been renamed to the MESSAGE_CONTENT as with some implementation the message serialization is not always byte array;
• All the Spring Integration modules now follow the standard package structure: components has been moved to input or output packages according to their purpose;
• The ScatterGatherHandler now fully support async mode emiting a Mono…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the first (and hopefully last) Release Candidate for 4.0.0 of Spring AMQP.

The patch versions 3.2.8 also has been released with bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

This Release Candidate comes with some internal imporvements, bug fixes and dependency upgrades to their latest major and minor versions.

See the Release Notes and What's New for more information.

This is the last chance to reach us out in GitHub issues with any feddback, so possible fixes would make it into GA release in November!

Cheers, 
Artem

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