On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.14 and 2.0.2 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The 1.2.14 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.5.10 releases. The 2.0.2 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 4.0.2 release.

Please see the release notes (1.2.14 and 2.0.2) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the milestone release of Spring Security 7.1.0-M1.

Please see the Spring Security 7.1.0-M1 release notes for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the 2025.1.2 and 2025.0.8 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, minor AOT and performance refinements as well as bug fixes.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

2025.1.2

• Spring Data Commons 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 8.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 5.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 5.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 5.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 4.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 6.0.2 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 7.0.3 is available now.

Spring Framework 7.0.3 ships with 65 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 4.0.2.

This release brings a noteworthy change - Spring Framework will now lazily pause an unused test ApplicationContext the 1st time a different context is used. You can override this behavior by setting the spring.test.context.cache.pause property to ALWAYS, or disable pausing altogether by setting that to NEVER. Check out the release notes and reference documentation to learn…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring gRPC 1.0.1 maintenance release is available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes for more details.

We want to take this opportunity to again thank all our users and contributors.

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On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0 GA is now available from Maven Central!

What's new?

This major release marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Spring Shell and comes with several new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Some of the highlights include:

• Alignment with Spring projects: Compatibility with the latest versions of Spring Framework and Spring Boot, ensuring seamless integration and improved performance.
• Enhanced Command Model: A revamped command model that simplifies the creation and management of commands, making it easier for developers to build interactive CLI applications.
• Improved APIs Null Safety: Use of jSpecify null-safety features to reduce the likelihood of NullPointerExceptions.
• Improved Modularity: A more modular architecture that allows for better customization and extension of the shell's capabilities.
• Updated Documentation…

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the Spring Tools 5.0.1.

This release includes fixes for:

• log messages from language server appear in Error Log view in Eclipse #1747
• ai-related code lenses around Copilot do not show up in VSCode #1746
• TM Terminal superseded by Terminal Feature in Eclipse 2025-12 #1748

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/5.0.1.RELEASE

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code, Cursor, and Theia, please…

Spring Modulith Christmas came early this year and I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 2.0.1, 1.4.6, and 1.3.12. The releases contain the usual platform upgrades around Spring Boot and Framework. On top of that, we ship the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Allow resetting the shift in TimeMachine (2.0.1 – #1491)
• @ApplicationModuleTest does not bootstrap beans from test configuration (2.0.1 – #1495, 1.4.6 – #1494),
• CGLib proxy created for JdbcEventPublicationRepositoryV2causing issues in native image (2.0.1 – #1493)
• ClassNotFoundException for package-info from JavaPackage during runtime bootstrap (2.0.1 – #1487)
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On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-RC1 is now available from Maven Central!

What's new?

This first release candidate comes with feature alignment with the previous generation as well as several improvements and bug fixes.

Major changes include:

• Support for debug mode
• Support for command completion and custom completion providers
• Support for hidden commands
• Support for command option validation with the Bean Validation API
• Support for exception mapping

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

What's next?

Our plan for now is to make this release candidate as stable as possible in preparation for Spring Shell 4.0…