Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it’s been! We’ve got around nine shopping days ’til Christmas, and the New Year is almost here! Things are moving so quickly and the Spring community is no exception! Let's dive into this week's wonderful roundup!

• This is a super interesting application of a design pattern with Spring AI’s dynamic tool selection, described by Christian Tzolov.
• Spring Tools 5.0 released.
• Spring Shell 4.0.0-M2 is out!
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring legend Rossen Stoyanchev about API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more.
• Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 available now.
• Spring Framework 7.0.2 available now.
• Spring Framework 6.2.15 available now.
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3.7, 1.4.4, and 2.0.1 released.
• Spring Web Services 4.0.17 available now.
• Spring Security 2025-12 released.
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.13 and 2.0.1 are now available.
• Spring Cloud 2024.0.3 (aka Northfields) has been released.
• Spring Data 2025.1.1, 2025.0.7, and 2024.1.13 released.
• Spring Authorization Server 2025-12 releases.
• Spring Session 2025-12 released.
• Baeldung has a nice post on API versioning in Spring.
• Good news, everybody! Spring gRPC has reached 1.0, and you can read about it in this blog.
• I love this new post on AWS’ blog by James Ward on MCP elicitations with Java and Spring AI.
• This is a really nice supplementary layer for server-sent events in Spring Boot.
• Piotr’s tech blog has a nice post on transactions with Apache Kafka.
• Are you using Micrometer? Got an unscratched itch? The Micrometer team is doing their planning and would love feedback on the next iteration. Sound off on GitHub!