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Spring Data 2026.0.0-M1 released
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m delighted to announce the first milestone of the 2026.0.0 release train.
Support for Type-Safe Property Paths
We now support type-safe property paths and property references as initiative to reduce the need for stringly-typed programming when referring to properties within an entity.
Java variants:
PropertyPath.from("name", Person.class) // existing String-based API
PropertyPath.of(Person::getName) // type-safe property reference expression
PropertyPath.from("address.country", Person.class) // existing nested path API
PropertyPath.of…Spring Security 6.5.8, 7.0.3 and 7.1.0-M2 available now
A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and hilarious friend, Richard Fichtner
Hi, Spring fans! I've been waiting for this episode for so long! Today, we're finally joined by my friend Richard Fichtner, who so took pity on my plight waiting for music to be added to the GraalVM that his company, XDev Software, created the music-maven-plugin, the best Maven plugin, ever! This episode was recorded live at the amazing JFokus 2026 event!
Spring Framework 6.2.16 and 7.0.4 Available Now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.2.16 and 7.0.4 are available now.
Spring Framework 6.2.16 ships with 38 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.5.11.
Spring Framework 7.0.4 ships with 69 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 4.0.3.
This Week in Spring - February 10th, 2026
Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's February 10th, 2026, as I write this from lovely London, UK. I spoke at the local Java User Group here last night, had a wonderful time. Tomorrow, I'm going home. It's been fun, but it's time to conclude this roller coaster whirlwind tour of Toronto, Canada; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; Istanbul, Turkey; and London, UK.
I've been busy, but as usual, the community's been busier! There's a ton to get into so let's dive right into it!
- I did a video on how to build production-worthy AI systems and services with Spring AI. In it we look at most of what you need to know from Spring AI and we look at how to make it production worthy with observability, scalability, and - very importantly - security. Yes, security! We look at the new experimental Spring AI Community project called MCP Security which we can use to, you guessed it, secure MCP endpoints (in this case, with OAuth).
- another very interesting effort from our pal Thomas Vitale. It's called Docling, and it's a tool to prepare documents for AI (using Spring AI, natch)
- why AI feel hard …
A Bootiful Podcast: JetBrains and Spring community legend Marco Behler
hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to JetBrains legend Marco Behler
This Week in Spring - February 3rd, 2026
Hi, Spring fans! This week I'm in northern Europe. I went on the Vaadin cruise from Finland to Sweden, gave a talk on a boat, then arrived in Stockholm in time for the amazing JFokus 2026 event where I had the privilege yesterday of doing a deep dive with my pal James Ward on Spring AI and agentic patterns (some of which we also look at in this very roundup). Later today, I'm doing a talk introducing the new Spring Boot 4 support. Busy day, so let's dive right into this roundup!
- Spring gRPC 1.0.2 available now
- want your AI agents to be more intelligent? Check out this amazing new blog from the Spring AI team introducing Agent2Agent (A2A) support
- In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Java developer advocate Billy Korando
- Spring Cloud 2025.1.1 has been released
- and yet another blog form the Spring AI team, this one announcing agent skills support
- ... and this one introduces the subagent orchestration pattern with Spring AI
- Spring Shell 4.0.1 is out
- did you see InfoQ's Spring roundup?
- Makin-san has a nice blog post on instrumenting a
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Spring Shell 4.0.1 is out!
On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.1 is now available from Maven Central!
What's New in Spring Shell 4.0.1
Spring Shell 4.0.1 is a patch release that addresses several issues reported by the community since the release of Spring Shell 4.0.0. This release includes important bug fixes and improvements to enhance the overall stability and performance of the framework.
You can find the complete list of changes in the 4.0.1 release notes.
Feedback
Many thanks to all contributors who made this release possible! We encourage you to try Spring Shell 4.0.1 out and provide your feedback on GitHub Issues and GitHub Discussions…
Spring gRPC 1.0.2 Available Now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring gRPC 1.0.2 maintenance release is available from Maven Central.
Please see the release notes for more details.
We want to take this opportunity to again thank all our users and contributors.
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