Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another illustrious installment of This Week in Spring! It’s Thanksgiving week here in the United States. Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with friends and family every fourth Thursday of November, gathered around a table full of food and, usually, a giant stuffed turkey. When celebrated well, it’s a time to come together and revel in gratitude for life’s good fortunes. And so, in that spirit, my friends, I want to remind you — and I’m sure I can speak for the entire Spring team here, too! — that we are so grateful for you. The community is the most amazing facet of the Spring ecosystem, and without you, there would be nothing. Thank you so very much, and Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

And now, without further ado, let's dive into yet another, extra stuffed, extra jam-packed installlment of This Week in Spring!

• You've probably heard the big news, but just in case: Spring Boot 4 is here!
• and, naturally, the amazing folks over at Jetbrains have a nice blog on Spring Boot 4, too!
• Spring Boot 3.5.8 is also available now, too
• and so is Spring Boot 3.4.12
• Spring Framework 7.0.1 is available now
• Spring Framework 6.2.14 is available now
• Spring Batch 6.0.0 is GA!
• Spring REST Docs 4.0.0 is available now
• Spring AMQP 4.0.0 is available now
• Spring Integration 7.0.0 is available now
• Yet another amazing installment in the Road to GA blog series, this one looking at the fantastic support for OpenTelemtry with Spring Boot
• Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0 goes GA
• Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 goes GA
• Spring Vault 4.0 goes GA
• Spring Web Services 5.0.0 available now
• Modular design is the secret sauce of successful systems
• An amazing writeup of the recent Spring Boot 4 release on InfoQ: Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 deliver API versioning, resilience, and Null-Safe annotations
• InfoQ also covered the new Spring Framework 7, Spring Security 7, and other releases
• OK, I'll start with the obvious: I think this blog was generated at least in part with AI. But, it makes a good point!
• JetBrains is looking for a Kotlin developer advocate
• I liked this video that uses Spring AI to build a Bluesky bot
• yet another awesome video on Spring AI
• I liked this Chinese-language post on the latest-and-greatest in Spring Framework 7
• Towards Spring Tools 4 - ready for Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7
• Spring Modulith 2.0 GA, 1.4.5, and 1.3.11 released
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to the legendary Spring Framework committer and Kotlin legend Sebastien Deleuze about all that shines in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4