On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 is now generally available. We extend our gratitude to all contributors who made this release possible.

Release Journey and Highlights

The development of Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 began in March 2025 with the first milestone release and progressed through five milestone releases and one release candidate over an 8-month development cycle before reaching general availability in November 2025.

This release includes new features, bug fixes, improved documentation, and updated…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Vault 4.0 is now generally available from Maven Central.

This release ships with several refinements and new features. Highlights of the new release include:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 as baseline upgrade
• Support for Spring Framework's RestClient
• Upgrade to Jackson 3 (preserving Jackson 2 compatibility)
• Support for Reactor, Jetty, and JDK ClientHttpRequestFactory implementations

Head over to the release notes page in our wiki to find out more details. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Spring Vault over…

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'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 5.0.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 5.0

The highlights of the 5.0 release include:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7 and Spring Security 7
• Upgrade to Jakarta EE 11 (Servlet 6.1)
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify

Thank you

We want to take this opportunity to again thank all our users and contributors.

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-ws tag…

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.

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…

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 - …

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.