Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release.

Happy holidays, one and all!

Following the announcement of the strategic partnership between JetBrains and Spring in May, I would like to share a global update on various Kotlin-related features and documentation enhancements we have made recently, with the goal of making Spring Boot 4 the best framework to develop backend applications with Kotlin.

Kotlin 2 baseline

Kotlin 2.0 introduced a new stable K2 compiler that compiles projects faster, performs smarter code analysis and allows the Kotlin team to evolve the language faster than with the K1 compiler. We recommend IntelliJ IDEA users to upgrade to 2025.3 to benefit…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 37 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of open source support for Spring Boot 3.4.x

Spring Boot 3.4.13 marks the end of open source support for Spring Boot 3.4.x. Please upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5.x or 4.0.x as soon as possible. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Boot 3.4.x is available…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 88 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 3.5.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 43 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 6.0.1 is now available from Maven Central.

This release comes with a number of improvements, bug fixes and documentation updates. The release notes can be found on GitHub here. This version will be available through Spring Boot 4.0.1.

Spring Batch Home|Source on GitHub|Reference documentation

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.0.1 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.0.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.0.1 Release Train

This release is based on Spring Boot 3.5.8.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see this GitHub project.

The module spring-cloud-starter-parent has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Upgrade kubernetes java client to 19.0.3 (#1926)
• Add the ability to disable leader info contributor (#2086)
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Authorization Server 1.5.5, 1.5.4, 1.4.8, and 1.4.7. This set of releases includes bug fixes and back to back releases due do an error in the release process.

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

• 1.5.5
• 1.5.4
• 1.4.8
• 1.4.7

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Session 4.0.1, 3.5.4, and 3.4.7. This set of releases includes bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

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

• 4.0.1
• 3.5.4
• 3.4.7

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