Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am preparing for a flight to North Carolina (first in flight!). This week's going to be busy, but next week even busier still! I'll be at AI By The Bay (in San Francisco), AI Native Dev Con (in NYC), and QCon SF (in SF). All in five days! It's going to be a ton of fun but I can't wait. Why am I so busy? Because Spring's kind of a big thing and it should be and I want to share it. Which brings us to this week's roundup. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it! Good news everybody! Spring AI 1.1.…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I had the privilege to sit down with Vaadin legends Joonas Lehtinen, Marcus Hellberg, and Leif Åstrand at the amazing Vaadin Create 2025 event in Frankfurt, Germany.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another all-out installment of This Week in Spring wherein we attempt to recap all that's new and novel in the wild, wacky, and wonderful world of Springdom. And this week, I'm doing so from an airport in Switzerland, en route to Malmo, Sweden, for the amazing Oredev conference. If you're gonna be there, don't be shy: say hi! We've got a lot to cover and I've got a flight to catch so let's dive right into it, shall we? Create Self-Improving AI Agents Using Spring AI Recursive Advisors - read this! This is super cool. Well done, Spring AI team! Spring for GraphQL 2.…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to my friend and Elastic's developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's a wonderful tuesday here in my home town of San Francisco as I write this from my condo's balcony, fresh off more than three weeks on the road. By the time we'll speak again in a week, Halloween will have come and gone. Are you all ready for Halloween? What're you gonna dress as? I always go as PHP code. The horror! The excitement is building for Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7, both of which are scheduled to be released in November of 2025. So fun! There's a ton of good stuff to look at this week, so let's dive…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the Spring team engineer Dariusz Jędrzejczyk on the latest-and-greatest in the reactive world, MCP, and more

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, 4.1.1…

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…

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