Hi, Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! This week we celebrate 25 years of Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, and who better to talk to us about its evolution than Dmitry Jemerov, whose been a contributor and developer for the project since 2003!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 29 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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-boot tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 62 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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-boot tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 111 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Improve support for observation and metric conventions
• Configuration properties for configuring Jackon's read and write features
• New @AutoConfigureWebServer annotation for sliced tests that require a web server
• Reinstated support for Spock as it now supports Groovy 5
• Support for jOOQ 3.20 (requires Java 21 or later)
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On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 6.0.2 is now available from Maven Central.

This release comes with a number of improvements, bug fixes and documentation updates. The release notes can be found on GitHub here. This version will be available through Spring Boot 4.0.2.

Spring Batch Home|Source on GitHub|Reference documentation

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the start of the new Spring Integration 7.1 minor version. The first milestone has made it to Maven Central.

In addition, the 7.0.2 and 6.5.6 versions with bug fixes and dependency upgrades have been released.

Some notable changes in 7.1.0-M1:

• The new spring-integration-cloudevents module has been added to support CloudEvents transformations;
• The new spring-integration-grpc module has been added to communicate with gRPC protocol;
• Previously deprecated API has been removed;
• Resolved deprecations from Spring AMQP in spring-integration-amqp module.
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Have you ever asked an AI agent to perform a complex multi-step task, only to find it skipped a critical step halfway through? You're not alone.

Research shows that LLMs struggle with "lost in the middle" failures—forgetting tasks buried in long contexts. When your agent juggles file edits, test execution, and documentation updates, important steps can silently disappear. One solution, inspired by Claude Code, is to make planning explicit and observable with the help of a dedicated TodoWrite tool. The result: agents that never skip steps and workflows you can observe in real-time.

This is Part 3 of our Spring AI Agentic Patterns series. We've covered Agent Skills for modular capabilities and AskUserQuestionTool for interactive workflows. Now we explore how TodoWriteTool…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already the 20th of January and we are off on yet another rip roarin' adventure as we look at the week that has been... this week in Spring!

• even more good stuff from Spring AI team legend Christian Tsolov, this one on Spring AI agentic patterns (part 2!): AskUserQuestionTool. This blog is about agents that clarify before acting
• Spring Security 7.1.0M1 is available now
• Spring Data 2025.1.2 and 2025.0.8 released
• Spring Framework 7.0.3 is available now
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to everyone's favorite observability otter, Jonatan Ivanov, about Micrometer and observability and all the things
• looks interesting - a video on Spring AI integrations with Geminni AI and Github CoPilot
• another interesting post on …