This Week in Spring - June 17th, 2025

Engineering | Josh Long | June 17, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in the middle of June already! And you know what that means? Warm weather, fun, and of course: the amazing SpringOne event in lovely Las Vegas, NV!

The content catalog went live today!

I'll be there doing, among other things, a session on Spring AI and another on Spring Security. It's going to be amazing. Do not miss this extra large event - a gathering of the Spring ecosystem for the ages.

Anyway, without further ado, let's dive into today's roundup!

Spring Vault 4.0.0-M1 available

Releases | Mark Paluch | June 16, 2025 | ...

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

Notable new features include:

  • Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 M6, Kotlin 2.2-RC1, and JSpecify 1.0.
  • Upgrade to Jackson 3 along with support for Jackson 2
  • Support for imperative Reactor, Jetty, and JDK HTTP Clients

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

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

You can find the full changelog at https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-vault/releases/tag/4.0.0-M1

Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.13 and 1.2.7 are now available

Releases | Chris Bono | June 16, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.13 and 1.2.7 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

With the 1.1.13 release we have reached its Open Source End of Life. Please consider upgrading to the latest 1.2.x version at your earliest convenience.

The 1.1.13 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.13 release. The 1.2.7 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.7 and 3.5.1 releases.

Please see the release notes (1.1.13 and 1.2.7) for more details.

Spring Data 2025.0.1, 2024.1.7, and 2024.0.13 released

Releases | Mark Paluch | June 13, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.0.1, 2024.1.7, and 2024.0.13 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

With the 2024.0.13 release we have reached its Open Source End of Life. Please consider upgrading to the latest 3.4.x (2024.1.x release train) version at your earliest convenience.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

2025.1.7

Spring Framework 7.0.0-M6 available now

Releases | Brian Clozel | June 12, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a new milestone for the next Spring Framework generation. The M6 continues delivering new features and refinements on top of 7.0.0-M1, 7.0.0-M2, 7.0.0-M3, 7.0.0-M4 and 7.0.0-M5.

We've made lots of refinements on features delivered in previous milestones, but we also have a new feature that we would like to share.

Retry support in Spring Core

We have been working on the Spring Retry project for a very long time. The Spring team decided that it was time to trim unnecessary features, revisit some of its API and merge the resulting work into the "spring-core" module of Spring Framework. This new Retry support is located in the org.springframework.core.retry

Spring Framework 6.1.21 and 6.2.8 releases fix CVE-2025-41234

Releases | Brian Clozel | June 12, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.21 and 6.2.8 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.21 ships with 3 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.3.13.

Spring Framework 6.2.8 ships with 39 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.7 and 3.5.1.

CVE-2025-41234:

The releases address CVE-2025-41234 for RFD Attack via “Content-Disposition” Header Sourced from Request.

Open source support for Spring Framework 5.3.x and 6.0.x generations has ended, and this is our last OSS release for the 6.1.x generation, see our support page for more information

Spring Tools 4.31.0 released

Releases | Martin Lippert | June 11, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.31.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) early access preview: support for Spring Data AOT repositories
  • (Spring Boot) support for upgrades to Spring Boot 3.5 (build files and properties only)
  • (Spring Boot) support for hierarchical document symbols in both VSCode and Eclipse

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

  • updated to Eclipse 2025-06 release (new and noteworthy)
  • support for Java 24 included by default

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring…

This Week in Spring - June 10th, 2025

Engineering | Josh Long | June 10, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week indeed since we last spoke! Last week I was in Amsterdam for the IntelliJ IDEA conference and for the JSpring event in Utrecht. Now, I'm in Tokyo, Japan, for the JJUG Spring 2025 event. Importantly: both of these are Java events that take place on or around the spring season in the northern hemisphere, and are not (just?) about Spring Framework. Funnily enough, though, I did get a kick out of seeing this article of Spring creator Rod Johnson presenting at JSpring in Utrecth 20 years ago!. The more…

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