Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it’s been! We’ve got around nine shopping days ’til Christmas, and the New Year is almost here! Things are moving so quickly and the Spring community is no exception! Let's dive into this week's wonderful roundup!

• This is a super interesting application of a design pattern with Spring AI’s dynamic tool selection, described by Christian Tzolov.
• Spring Tools 5.0 released.
• Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is out!
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring legend Rossen Stoyanchev about API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more.
• Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 available now.
• Spring Framework 7.0.2 available now.
• Spring Framework 6.2.15 available now.
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3.7, 1.4.4, and 2.0.1 released.
• Spring Web Services 4.0.17 available now.
• Spring Security 2025-12 released…

I am pleased to announce that the December Spring for GraphQL maintenance releases are now available on Maven Central.

Spring for GraphQL 1.3.7 ships a single dependency upgrade and will be shipped this week with Spring Boot 3.4.13. Spring for GraphQL 1.4.4 ships 6 fixes and upgrades and will be shipped this week with Spring Boot 3.5.9. Spring for GraphQL 2.0.1 ships 9 fixes and upgrades and will be shipped this week with Spring Boot 4.0.1.

As always, you can check the official Spring release calendar for upcoming releases.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.17 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 2 dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of open source support for Spring Web Services 4.0.x

Spring Web Services 4.0.17 marks the end of open source support for Spring Web Services 4.0.x. Please upgrade to Spring Web Services 4.1.x or 5.0.x as soon as possible. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Web Services 4.0.x is available…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 7.0.1 and 7.0.2. This release included back to back releases to fix a bug in Spring Security 7.0.1.

The highlights of 7.0.1 include:

• Fixing MFA support in Authorization Server

For a complete list of changes, refer to the changelogs:

• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.13 and 2.0.1 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The 1.2.13 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.13 and 3.5.9 releases. The 2.0.1 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 4.0.1 release.

Please see the release notes (1.2.13 and 2.0.1) for more details.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.3 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2024.0.3 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2024.0.3 Release Train

This release uses Spring Boot 3.4.12.

A complete list of issues resolved in this release can be found in the GitHub project 2024.0.3.

This is the final open source release of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.x release train. Open source support ends at the end of December 2025.

Spring Cloud…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.1.1, 2025.0.7 and 2024.1.13 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.

End of Open Source support for Spring Data 2024.1.x (3.3.x generation)

Spring Data 2024.1.13 marks the end of open source support for Spring Data 2024.1.x (used by Spring Boot 3.3.x). Please upgrade to Spring Data 2025.1.x or 2025.0.x at your earliest convenience. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Data 2024.1.x…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!