On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.11 and 1.2.5 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.11 and 3.4.5 releases, respectively.

Please see the release notes (1.1.11 and 1.2.5) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.1.5 and 2024.0.11 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

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

2024.1.5

• Spring Data Commons 3.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.4.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Data 2025.0.0 ("Spring Data 3.5") containing amongst others:

• Several database driver upgrades accross the individual data modules.
• Refined HQL, EQL and JPQL parsing.
• MongoDB QE schema derivation support for easier collection creation.
• Deprecation warnings for parts that are going to change with the next major ("Spring Data 4.0") release. Please pay close attention to those especailly for parts that are marked for removal like the JMX support.

Going forward, we plan to ship a…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a new milestone for the next Spring Data generation. The second milestone continues delivering new features and refinement mostly around infrastructure themes.

JSpecify

Spring Data is gradually migrating from Spring's Nullability annotations to JSpecify. The following projects are equipped with JSpecify annotations:

• Commons
• JPA
• MongoDB
• LDAP
• Cassandra
• KeyValue
• Elasticsearch

Other modules will follow suit.

JPA Refinements

Apart from JSpecify, Spring Data JPA ships with a few refinements around the QueryEnhancer…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.30.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot - Eclipse) Embedded into Java source code JPQL/SQL queries syntax highlighting in Java editor
• (Spring Boot) Support for new functional bean registrations via BeanRegistrar, coming in Spring Framework 7
• (Spring Boot) Improvements to Bean Injection completion proposals

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-06 milestone builds
• branding updates, moving from Spring Tool Suite 4 towards just Spring Tools and Spring Tools for Eclipse
…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 10 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 21 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Support for Configuring Arbitrary WSS4J Options
• More Flexible HTTP Message Sender

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, which I'm writing from magnificent Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I'm recording an amazing Frontend Masters course introducing Spring Boot.

• I love this article introducing Spring AI in JavaPro magazine
• Want to run an LLM entirely in Java, supercharged with GraalVM native images? Check out this tweet from GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko — it's dope.
• I loved it so much I made a quick YouTube Short on the same topic.
• By the way, want to learn Java? This is a great resource.
• The amazing Spring AI co-lead Christian Tsolov has a great talk introducing MCP.
• Spring team alumnus Arjen Poutsma has helped shape the APIs in Spring for a long time with his famous Poutsma Principles — in this blog, he discusses them.
• Spring Data 2025.0.0-RC1…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.7.17, 5.8.19, 6.0.17, 6.1.15, 6.2.11, 6.3.9, and 6.4.5 are available now which fix CVE-2025-22234.

Please refer to the releases page for more details.

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2 will be able to update to Spring Boot 2.7.24.2, 3.0.19.2, 3.1.15.2, or 3.2.13.2 respectively to receive the corresponding Security releases 5.7.17, 6.0.17, 6.1.15, and 6.2.11. These Security versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription…