On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.1.0 Release Train

This is a major release, each project has been updated to version 5.0.0. This release is based on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4.

A complete list of changes for this release can found in the 2025.1.0 GitHub Project.

Spring Cloud Release

• The spring-cloud-stater-parent artifact has been removed (#437)
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On behalf of the communit I am happy to announce the availablity of Spring Modulith 2.0. The release is an important milestone incorporating all learnings we've made in Spring Modulith's first generation. We ship the following major features:

• Overhaul event publication lifecycle #796 (Neo4j #1337, MongoDB #1336, JDBC #1321, JPA #1375, #1389)
• Support for application-module-specific Flyway migrations #1067, #1440
• Allow serialized execution of event externalization #1370
• Support for Jackson 3 in event serialization #1364, #1369
• Support to verify application module structure on startup #1287
• Migrate nullness verification to jSpecify #1192
• Propagate named interface assignments of types to return and parameter types of methods declared #1264
• Extract module description from a module's package-info.java Javadoc #1430
• Remove deprecated @ApplicationEventListener annotation …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm extremely happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release is the beginning of a new Spring Boot generation providing solid foundations for coming years. Building on top of Spring Framework 7, there are a number of exciting new features in this release, including:

• A complete modularization of the Spring Boot codebase providing smaller and more focused jars.
• Portfolio-wide improvements for null safety with JSpecify.
• First class support for Java 25 (whilst retaining Java 17 compatibility).
• Support for API Versioning and HTTP Service Clients for REST based applications.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 57 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 45 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 7.0.1 is available now.

Spring Framework 7.0.1 ships with 15 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped today with Spring Boot 4.0.0.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.2.14 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.2.14 ships with 9 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped today with Spring Boot 3.4.12 and 3.5.8.

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Dear Spring Batch community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 6.0.0 GA!

Spring Batch 6.0 is a major release that builds upon the foundations in Spring Framework 7.0, and will be available through Spring Boot 4.0 to provide a robust and efficient batch processing framework. This general availability release includes all the features and improvements introduced in the previous release candidates, along with additional enhancements based on community feedback.

Some of the key highlights of Spring Batch 6.0.0 GA include:

• Upgrade to the latest Spring dependencies like Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Data 4.0, and Spring Integration 7.0
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify
• New, more robust and faster implementation of the chunk-oriented processing model
• New, enhanced concurrency model for better throughput and improved performance
• Support for local data chunking with multiple threads
• Support for remote step executions
• SEDA style with Spring Integration message channels
• Graceful shutdown support and ability to recover failed job executions
• Support for observability events with the Java Flight Recorder (JFR)
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring REST Docs 4.0.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

What's new in 4.0

The highlights of the 4.0 release include:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7
• Upgrade to Jackson 3
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify
• Antora-based reference documentation

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" label in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-restdocs tag…