This Week in Spring - November 18th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! I'm thrilled to be in New York City for an exciting week of joint presentations on Spring AI + Bedrock and Spring Boot with the legendary James Ward.

First up: we'll present a workshop at the AI Native Dev Conf today, then speak at the Garden State JUG tonight, then deliver a talk tomorrow at the conference, and finally speak at the New York Java SIG tomorrow night. It might be cold out, but we're bringing the heat!

You know who else is bringing the heat? The Spring team, of course! This past week saw Spring Framework 7 go GA, and with it a whole release train of new releases that will eventually culminate in Spring Boot 4. Once Spring Boot 4 is released, Spring AI, Spring Modulith, and Spring Cloud will all be able to release as well. Watch this space — spring.io/blog — for a ton of new releases this week culminating on the 20th with Spring Boot 4.0.0! (For more on what comes when, check out the Spring Calendar…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 7.0.0, 6.5.7, and 6.4.13.

The highlights of 7.0.0 can be found in the What's New Section of the reference.

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

• 7.0.0
  • 7.0.0-M1
  • 7.0.0-M2
  • 7.0.0-M3
  • 7.0.0-RC1
  • 7.0.0-RC2
  • 7.0.0-RC3
• 6.5.7
• 6.4.13

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.12 and 2.0.0 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The 1.2.12 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.12 and 3.5.8 releases. The 2.0.0 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 4.0.0 release.

Please see the release notes (1.2.12 and 2.0.0) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.0.6 and 2024.1.12 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades and bug fixes.

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

2025.0.6

• Spring Data Commons 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring Data community,

On behalf of the data team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2025.1 is generally available from Maven Central now! The 4.0 generation comes with several key themes:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7
• Upgrade to Jakarta EE 11 (JPA 3.2, Servlet 6.1)
• Ahead-of-Time Repositories
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify
• Add support for Jackson 3
• Vector Search Methods

Ahead-of-Time Repositories bring the benefits of AOT compilation to Spring Data repositories, enabling faster startup times and reduced memory consumption for applications using Spring Data JPA…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I sit down with the legendary Bruce Eckel, who has probably forgotten more about programming languages than I will ever know, and whose book Thinking in Java helped launch me into a career.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2025.1.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.1.0 Release Train

Highlights of this release are support for Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC2, updates for Jackson 3 support, initial support for JSpecify Null-Safety, dependency updates and bug fixes.

A complete list of changes for this release can found in the 2025.1.0-RC1 GitHub Project.

Spring Cloud…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 7.0 is generally available now! Spring Framework 7.0 is the beginning of a new framework generation with a focus on Java 25 and the latest open source ecosystem, serving as the foundation for Spring Boot 4.0.

This generation of Spring comes with a pragmatic baseline and dependency upgrade:

• Embracing Java 25 (as the latest LTS) while retaining a Java 17 baseline
• Jakarta EE 11 API level: Servlet 6.1, JPA 3.2, Bean Validation 3.1
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify
• Support for Jackson 3.0 (retaining deprecated support for Jackson 2.x)
• Kotlin 2.2
• JUnit 6.0
…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.2.13 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.2.13 ships with 42 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.12 and 3.5.8.

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