Towards Spring Tools 5 - Ready for Boot 4 and Framework 7

Engineering | Martin Lippert | November 24, 2025 | ...

In the light of the new major releases of the Spring Framework and Spring Boot, the next major release of the Spring Tools is also around the corner. The GA is scheduled for December 10th and RCs will start to show up from now onwards.

Support for what is new in Spring

Spring Tools 5 contains support for various new features of Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4, ranging from extensive support for the new API versioning feature, support for functional bean definitions via the new bean registrar API, semi-automatic configuration for JSpecify annotation based null analysis and support for AOT…

Spring Modulith 2.0 GA, 1.4.5, and 1.3.11 released

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | November 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the communit I am happy to announce the availablity of Spring Modulith 2.0. The release is an important milestone incorporating all learnings we've made in Spring Modulith's first generation. We ship the following major features:

  • Overhaul event publication lifecycle #796 (Neo4j #1337, MongoDB #1336, JDBC #1321, JPA #1375, #1389)
  • Support for application-module-specific Flyway migrations #1067, #1440
  • Allow serialized execution of event externalization #1370
  • Support for Jackson 3 in event serialization #1364, #1369
  • Support to verify application module structure on startup #1287
  • Migrate nullness verification to jSpecify #1192
  • Propagate named interface assignments of types to return and parameter types of methods declared #1264
  • Extract module description from a module's package-info.java Javadoc #1430
  • Remove deprecated @ApplicationEventListener annotation

A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Sébastien Deleuze on all that's new and nice in Spring Framework 7

Engineering | Josh Long | November 20, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 4.0 release day! Make sure to get the bits on the Spring Initializr (you know - start.spring.io)! This release is packed with new features, a lot of which comes from Spring Framework 7. To help break it down for us this week, we’re joined by none other than the legendary Spring Framework contributor Sébastien Deleuze!

Spring Boot 4.0.0 available now

Releases | Phil Webb | November 20, 2025 | ...

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

This release is the beginning of a new Spring Boot generation providing solid foundations for coming years. Building on top of Spring Framework 7, there are a number of exciting new features in this release, including:

Spring Boot 3.5.8 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | November 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 57 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Boot 3.4.12 available now

Releases | Moritz Halbritter | November 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 45 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring Batch 6.0.0 GA is out!

Releases | Mahmoud Ben Hassine | November 19, 2025 | ...

Dear Spring Batch community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 6.0.0 GA!

Spring Batch 6.0 is a major release that builds upon the foundations in Spring Framework 7.0, and will be available through Spring Boot 4.0 to provide a robust and efficient batch processing framework. This general availability release includes all the features and improvements introduced in the previous release candidates, along with additional enhancements based on community feedback.

Some of the key highlights of Spring Batch 6.0.0 GA include:

  • Upgrade to the latest Spring dependencies like Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data 4.0, and Spring Integration 7.0
  • Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify
  • New, more robust and faster implementation of the chunk-oriented processing model
  • New, enhanced concurrency model for better throughput and improved performance
  • Support for local data chunking with multiple threads
  • Support for remote step executions
  • SEDA style with Spring Integration message channels
  • Graceful shutdown support and ability to recover failed job executions
  • Support for observability events with the Java Flight Recorder (JFR)

Spring REST Docs 4.0.0

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | November 19, 2025 | ...

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

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

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

What's new in 4.0

The highlights of the 4.0 release include:

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" label in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-restdocs tag

Get the Spring newsletter

Stay connected with the Spring newsletter

Subscribe

Get ahead

VMware offers training and certification to turbo-charge your progress.

Learn more

Get support

Tanzu Spring offers support and binaries for OpenJDK™, Spring, and Apache Tomcat® in one simple subscription.

Learn more

Upcoming events

Check out all the upcoming events in the Spring community.

View all