Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the fantastic Vaadin Create conference here in Frankfurt, Germany. What an amazing show and community. Since we last spoke, I have been in Boston; New York city; Sofia, Bulgaria; Krakow, Poland; and now Frankfurt, Germany.

• Spring Framework 7.0.0 RC1 available now
• Spring Session MongoDB is now being led by the MongoDB team
• Spring Session Hazelcast is now being led by the Hazelcast team
• Introducing Share Consumer Support (Kafka Queues) in Spring for Apache Kafka
• Spring Cloud Gateway 4.3.2, 4.2.5, 4.1.12, and 3.1.12 are now available
• Spring Framework 6.2.12 fixes CVE 2025 41254
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to GraalVM founder and Oracle VP Thomas Wuerthinger
• Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 M4 (aka Oakwood) has been released
• Spring Data 2025.1.0 RC1 released
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Wuerthinger, recorded at Devoxx 2025!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Boston and New York city and Bulgaria and Poland this week, but I'm still hyped about last week's amazing Devoxx Belgium event! There are a ton of videos to look at, and I'll include just some of them here.

So, without further ado, let's dive into it!

• Nice! Micrometer releases: 1.14.12, 1.15.5, 1.16.0-RC1
• And ... Micrometer Tracing releases: 1.4.11, 1.5.5, 1.6.0-RC1
• the road to GA is long and amazing, and this newest post by Soby Chacko looks at the new shared consumer support in Spring for Apache Kafka
• good news everybody! Spring Session Hazelcast is now being led by the Hazelcast team
• and in the same vein, Spring Session MongoDB is now led by the MongoDB team!
• Spring Batch 6.0.0 M4 has been released
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security legend Josh Cummings
• I loved this post from Sebastien Deleuze that looks at the brand …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring Security contributor and legend Josh Cummings

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing this fantastic October afternoon? I'm on a train returning from Frankfurt, Germany, where I spoke at the Cloud Foundry Day Frankfurt event about how awesome it is to build an application with Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Yesterday I was in Antwerp, Belgium, and did two workshops, each of three hours duration. Now, I'm on my way back to Antwerp to return to Devoxx Belgium. I'll be doing a talk on Spring Boot 4; another joint talk with James Ward and the Spring AI leads Dr. Mark Pollack and Christian Tsolov; and a joint talk with GraalVM founder Thomas…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring tooling legend Dr. Kris De Volder on tooling, AI, and so much more.

Hi, Spring fans! As I write this I am about to board a flight for Colorado for the amazing Dev2Next conference! I'll be in Antwerp, Beglium for the amazing Devoxx event next week, and I'll be speaking at the Amsterdam JUG with James Ward on the Thursday after that, too! If you're around, be sure to say Hi!

• I looked at some of the amazing new resilience methods in Spring Framework 7
• here's a nice talk on how to continuously align and ugprade your Spring dependencies, recorded at this year's Spring IO 2025 event in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!
• I love this! Check out some of the prelimary details of the MCP Security community project for Spring AI
• for more on that, check out the Securing MCP Servers with Spring AI
• I love this blog called The State of HTTP Clients in Spring
• On last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine
• Interesting! Udemy has a course: …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary lead of the Spring Batch project, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Batch in the Spring Boot 4 generation.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm preparing my talks for several amazing shows including: Commit Your Code conference in Plano, Texas (starting tomorrow); Dev2Next in Colorado; Devoxx Belgium in Antwerp, Belgium; and CloudFoundry Days in Germany. So much good stuff comin' up! And so much good stuff in the community this week, as well, so let's dive right into it!

• I love this! One of my favorite new features in Spring Framework 7 is the new HTTP Service Clients
• there's so much good stuff coming in Spring AI 1.0.2 and improved MCP support
• Spring Modulith 2.0 M3 released. This new release includes updated event publication repository implementations for JPA, Jackson 3 support, and so much more.
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the amazing Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb
• Spring Boot 3.4.10 is available now
• Spring Boot 3.5.6 available now
• Spring Boot 4.0.0 M3 available now
• Spring AI 1.0.2 is available now
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary lead of Spring Cloud and friend to the community, Spencer Gibb! This was recorded live from Las Vegas, NV, at the fantastic SpringOne 2025 event!