This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, and this time we're taking a look at OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot. Introduction In modern cloud native architectures, observability is no longer optional; it is a fundamental requirement. You want to understand what your application is doing via metrics, how requests are flowing through it via traces, and what it is saying via logs. The OpenTelemetry project, sometimes abbreviated as OTel, provides a vendor-neutral, open-source framework to collect, process, and export telemetry data. Backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it offers…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 55 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 36 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 53 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 44 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 38 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 49 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, 3.2.14, 3.3.11, and 3.4.5 are available now, which fix CVE-2025-22235. Please refer to the releases page for more details. Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.1, or 3.2 will be able to update to Spring Boot 2.7.25, 3.1.16, or 3.2.14 respectively. These Spring Boot versions are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 58 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Including one noteworthy change relating to Tomcat APR support. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot…
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 58 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…
