On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.1.3 and 2024.0.9 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.

2024.1.3

• Spring Data Commons 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.4.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m delighted to announce the first milestone of the 2025.0.0 release train. If you are confused how on earth a milestone of 2025.0.0 can ship after an earlier 2025.1.0 milestone, rest assured, we are too, at times. Calver versioning is based off the actual release date. 2025.0 will go GA in May while 2025.1 is planned for November. Since we started working on the major release 2025.1 last year already, we were able to ship a first milestone in January. Hopefully, this explanation helps to clear up any confusion.

This milestone ships with…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution builds for Windows now signed with correct certificate

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.28.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Theia, please go visit:

• Spring Tools: https://spring.io/tools/

Spring Tools 4.29.…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's installment, I talk to Spring legend Glenn Renfro.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Spring Boot and Spring Initializr legend Moritz Halbritter

TL;DR; The Spring portfolio enterprise support tier is aligning all support dates to Spring Boot and going to be extended for the last minor version of each major generation for an additional 5 years beyond the previous support arrangement providing 7 years of total support for those versions.

Upgrading is hard. We get that. Whether it be technical difficulties, prioritization of upgrades against other business priorities, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, etc. While we already offer one of the most generous and predictable support policies in the industry for open source frameworks with one…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the second milestone of the next Spring Framework generation.

If you've missed it, we now ship milestones to the usual repo.spring.io artifact repository, but also to Maven Central.

The second milestone refines the work we've devlived in 7.0.0-M1, in particular arround our null safety support using JSpecify. Check the changelog for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.17 and 6.2.3 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.17 ships with 17 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.3.9.

Spring Framework 6.2.3 ships with 60 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.3 and 3.5.0-M2.

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Hi, Spring fans! It's almost Valentine's day, and let me just say: I love the Spring community! It's such an exciting and interesting place to be. Thank you everyone for all that you do.

I'm busy preparing for ConFoo, in Montreal, Canada, and for Devnexus, in Atlanta, Georgia. If you're around be sure to stop and say salut or hi!

We've got an amazing lineup for you this weekend, so let's dive right into it.

• How to create dynamic SQL queries with Spring Boot
• I love this article looking at the amazing new features in Spring Application Advisor
• a lovely video by the amazing Greg Turnquist: Using JdbcTemplate with CockroachDB
• Spring AI: a Doot to GenAI heaven for Java developers - yup!
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to "Just Use Postgres!" author Denis Magda
• I've got this queueud up: Spring AI Masterclass with Spring Boot..
• ..and this one: Spring AI with DeepSeek R1
• a gentle reminder that there are guides on …