A Week of Innovation in the Spring Ecosystem!

The Spring ecosystem has erupted with activity during the week of August 18th, 2025, with major milestone releases across numerous Spring projects including Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server, and more!

Spring Boot 4.0.0: Enhancing Your Development Experience!

The highly anticipated second milestone release of Spring Boot 4.0.0 brings a slew of enhancements including critical bug fixes, upgraded dependencies, and exciting new features. Notably, it introduces support for the new @HttpServiceClient annotation, facilitating easier interface management.

Spring Security 7.0.0: Fortifying Application Defenses!

With the second milestone of Spring Security 7.0.0, developers gain refined security measures. This release boasts a new ExpressionTemplateValueProvider interface, designed for custom values in security annotations, alongside better integration with Spring Boot.

Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0: Boosting Token Management!

The milestone release of Spring Authorization Server 2.0.0 simplifies token management with a fresh feature that issues access tokens to enhance the OAuth2RefreshTokenAuthenticationProvider class.

GraphQL Made Easier with Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0!

The second milestone of Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0 aims to streamline development by ensuring that GraphQlException is consistently raised for fields that can't be deserialized, preventing unnecessary errors.

Spring Session 4.0.0: Minor Updates for Consistency!

In a bid for uniformity, Spring Session 4.0.0 adjusts copyright notices throughout its codebase, marking copyright years from 2014 to present.

Spring Integration 7.0.0: Enhanced Functionality!

Spring Integration 7.0.0 debuts with important updates, featuring extensive nullability improvements and a revamped PartitionedDispatcher class that leverages a Java List for better efficiency.

Spring Modulith 2.0.0: Refining Event Publication!

The Spring Modulith 2.0.0 milestone release boosts performance by updating the MongoDbEventPublicationRepository and Neo4jEventPublicationRepository classes for better alignment and enhancing bootstrapping processes.

Spring REST Docs 4.0.0: Improved Documentation Tool!

Developers can now enjoy smoother documentation processes with Spring REST Docs 4.0.0, which introduces JMustache for templating and Jackson 3 support for JSON handling.

Spring Batch 6.0.0: Making Job Recovery Easier!

The latest milestone of Spring Batch 6.0.0 improves job recovery capabilities by adding a recover() method to the JobOperator interface, making it easier to handle failed executions effectively.

Spring AMQP 4.0.0: Enhanced Message Processing!

The fourth milestone of Spring AMQP 4.0.0 brings crucial enhancements, refining Jackson-related classes for better JSON processing and allowing for a more strategic shutdown of message listeners.

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0: Efficiency Redefined!

Finally, Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 features major efficiency improvements, including refined topic filtering methods that significantly boost performance and reduce complexity.

Stay tuned for more updates as Spring continues to evolve and enhance the developer experience across its robust ecosystem!