On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-M3 has been released.

We extend our gratitude to all contributors who made these releases possible.

4.0.0-M3 provides initial support for Kafka queues (Share consumers) introduced via KIP-932 in Apache Kafka 4.0.0. Keep in mind that in Apache Kafka 4.0.0, queue support is introduced as an early access feature, and as such, the support that Spring for Apache Kafka provides for this should be considered early access and experimental as well.

You can find more details about it in the reference documentation for Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-M3…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring REST Docs 4.0.0-M1 is now available from Maven Central.

This initial 4.0 milestone contains 13 enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. It upgrades to Spring Framework 7 and Hibernate Validator 9. It also provides null safety through JSpecify annotations as part of the previously announced effort across the whole Spring portfolio.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 6.4.8 and 6.5.2.

Spring Security 6.4.8 ships with 3 fixes and several dependency upgrades. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.8.

Spring Security 6.5.2 ships with 7 fixes and several dependency upgrades. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.5.4.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a new milestone for the next Spring Security generation. We encourage you to review the Spring Security 6 to 7 migration guide to gauge your preparedness for the release. Please also check out the main feature set in our What's New in Spring Security 7 page. Finally, for a detailed view of all changes, please see the Spring Security 7.0.0-M1 release notes.

7.0.0-M1 is now available from Maven Central.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.0.2 and 2024.1.8 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.

2025.0.2

• Spring Data Commons 3.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.5.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the fourth milestone for the next Spring Data generation. This milestone continues delivering new features and refinements.

Ahead-of-Time Optimization for Repositories

When applying AOT optimizations through Spring Boot's build plugin, then AOT-generated Repositories are now enabled by default: You no longer need to set the spring.aot.repositories.enabled property. Additionally, you can disable AOT repository generation entirely or individually by setting either spring.aot.jpa.repositories.enabled=false or spring.aot.mongodb.repositories.enabled=false…

Hi, Spring fans! In this edition, I had the pleasure of chatting with the brilliant Arjen Poutsma, our go-to API oracle.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a new milestone for the next Spring Framework generation. We have compiled all the upgrade information, new features and deprecations on the Spring Framework 7.0 release notes preview page.

Resilience Features

After the introduction of the org.springframework.core.retry package in 7.0.0-M6, effectively moving features from the former "spring-retry" project, we recently introduced dedicated @Retryable, @ConcurrencyLimit and @EnableResilientMethods annotations. This is now documented in the "Resilience Features" section of the reference documentation…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.2.9 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.2.9 ships with 28 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.8 and 3.5.4.

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