I am pleased to announce that the first Spring for GraphQL 2.0 Release Candidate is now available.

This release ships a few refinements and features, including:

• improved nullness checks in the schema mapping inspection
• new GraphQlClient and GraphQlTester Kotlin extensions leveraging reified types
• UUID support in JsonKeysetCursorStrategy
• a new HttpRequestHeaderInterceptor that can copy HTTP headers of interest into the GraphQLContext
• Virtual Threads support in webmvc.GraphQlWebSocketHandler

What's next?

We have compiled all release notes on our wiki. Our next step is the final release next…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-RC1 has been released. We extend our gratitude to all contributors who made this release possible.

This is our first and final release candidate before the 4.0.0 GA release. We encourage the community to test this release candidate and provide feedback on any issues or concerns before we proceed with the general availability release.

What's New in 4.0.0-RC1

Share Consumer Enhancements: Expanded share consumer capabilities with comprehensive acknowledgment support, concurrency configuration, and factory-level container properties. The share consumer implementation now includes proper poison message protection and delivery count tracking. Speaking of Share Consumers, we recently published a dedicated blog…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.16 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 11 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-ws tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 9 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-ws tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 5.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 10 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

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?

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-ws tag…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the fantastic Vaadin Create conference here in Frankfurt, Germany. What an amazing show and community. Since we last spoke, I have been in Boston; New York city; Sofia, Bulgaria; Krakow, Poland; and now Frankfurt, Germany.

• Spring Framework 7.0.0 RC1 available now
• Spring Session MongoDB is now being led by the MongoDB team
• Spring Session Hazelcast is now being led by the Hazelcast team
• Introducing Share Consumer Support (Kafka Queues) in Spring for Apache Kafka
• Spring Cloud Gateway 4.3.2, 4.2.5, 4.1.12, and 3.1.12 are now available
• Spring Framework 6.2.12 fixes CVE 2025 41254
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to GraalVM founder and Oracle VP Thomas Wuerthinger
• Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 M4 (aka Oakwood) has been released
• Spring Data 2025.1.0 RC1 released
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 7.0.0-RC1, 6.4.12 and 6.5.6.

The highlights of 7.0.0-RC1 include:

• Improved MFA Support
• Support for providing credentials within a specified amount of recency
• Jackson 3 Support
• OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol

For a complete list of changes, refer to the changelogs:

• 7.0.0-RC1
• 6.4.12
• 6.5.6

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

This release raises the minimum supported verison of Junit to 6.0. With a Groovy 5.0 baseline for the forthcoming Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 releases, it also removes support for REST Assured which is not yet compatible with Groovy 5.

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?

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-restdocs tag…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2025.0.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

The releases include dependency upgrades.

The 2025.0.1 release updates to Spring Boot 3.4.10, Spring Framework 6.2.11, and Spring Cloud 2024.0.2.

Please see the release notes 2025.0.1) for more details.

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Please continue to engage with us by creating bug reports and feature requests on Github and asking questions on StackOverflow using the spring-cloud-stream or spring-cloud-dataflow tags.