Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 7.0 is generally available now! Spring Framework 7.0 is the beginning of a new framework generation with a focus on Java 25 and the latest open source ecosystem, serving as the foundation for Spring Boot 4.0.

This generation of Spring comes with a pragmatic baseline and dependency upgrade:

• Embracing Java 25 (as the latest LTS) while retaining a Java 17 baseline
• Jakarta EE 11 API level: Servlet 6.1, JPA 3.2, Bean Validation 3.1
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify
• Support for Jackson 3.0 (retaining deprecated support for Jackson 2.x)
• Kotlin 2.2
• JUnit 6.0

Our initial Spring Framework 7.0 release ships with a wide range of new features, including:

• Programmatic bean registration
• Core resilience features
• JmsClient
• API versioning
• HTTP Interface Client configuration
• RestTestClient

Check out our release notes for a comprehensive overview of enhancements and upgrade notes.

Cheers, Juergen

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