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!

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 …

hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to JetBrains legend Marco Behler

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 DataSource…

Hi, Spring (and Java) fans! In this episode I am beyond delighted to talk Java developer advocate and longtime friend of the show Billy Korando about the latest-and-greatest in the Java ecosystem.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I cannot believe we're nearly at the end of the month! Time sure flies.

• Spring AI 2.0.0-M2 is available now
• Spring Modulith 2.1 M1, 2.0.2, and 1.4.7 released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JetBrains legend Dmitry Jemerov
• Spring Boot 3.5.10 is available now
• Spring Boot 4.0.2 is available now
• Spring Boot 4.1.0-M1 is available now
• Spring Batch 6.0.2 available now
• Spring Integration 7.1.0-M1 is available now
• Spring AI Agentic Patterns (pt. 3): Why Your AI Agent Forgets Tasks (and How to Fix It)
• Have you heard of WiseMapping? It's a fully open-source mind-mapping software suite with a web and desktop client and a backend written in Spring Boot. Neat…

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!

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 …

Hi, Spring fans! This week we catch up with the observably awesome Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 13th of January, 2026, and it's been quite the week indeed! Let's dive right into it!

• Nobody, and I mean nobody, asked. So I put together a video on how to use Spring WS to build SOAP-based services in 2026. Hey, SOAP may be legacy but the legacy endures in a lot of places and there's no reason you can't modernize those systems and services to use Spring Boot 4, GraalVM, and OAuth, as I show in this video.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7
• Spring gRPC 1.0.1 is available now
• I love this blog from Embabel creator Rod Johnson: RAG pipelines are the past, agentic is the future
• I know this doesn't have anything to do with Spring, per se, but I find it …