On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.2.13 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.2.13 ships with 42 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.12 and 3.5.8.

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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
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On behalf of the Spring AI team, I'm pleased to announce the general availability of Spring AI 1.1.0!

Spring AI 1.1 brings Model Context Protocol integration, advanced AI capabilities, and expanded model provider support to the Spring ecosystem. The 1.1 development cycle includes over 850 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates.

We extend our sincere thanks to the community contributors, partner organizations, and the broader Spring AI ecosystem for their invaluable contributions throughout this release cycle.

Release Summary

Spring AI 1.1.0 includes substantial improvements across…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.2 release of the Spring Tools for Eclipse.

This is a maintenance release that addresses an issue with the Eclipse based distribution not showing multiline selection highlights anymore when users have upgraded to macOS 26.1. Upgrading to Spring Tools 4.32.2 fixes this issue for the Eclipse based distributions of the Spring Tools. Special thanks go to Sebastian Ratz from SAP for sharing the workaround code snippet with us.

For users who have installed the Spring Tools as an add-on into their existing…

On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, we are happy to announce that Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This patch release delivers important stability improvements and bug fixes.

Release Summary

This release includes 40 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. The focus of this patch release is on:

• Improvements: 12 enhancements to expand capabilities and functionality
• Stability: 10 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 12 improvements to help developers
• Security: 6 dependency upgrades for enhanced security
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I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 6.0.0-RC2 is now available from Maven Central!

What's new in Spring Batch 6.0.0-RC2?

This second release candidate introduces a long-awaited feature which is the use of contextual lambda expressions to configure batch artefacts. This new style of configuration provides a more concise and readable way to define item readers and writers.

For example, instead of using the traditional builder pattern like in the following snippet to define a delimited file reader:

var reader = new FlatFileItemReaderBuilder()
    .resource(...)
    .delimited…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 63 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Modularization of spring-boot-micrometer-tracing
• Restoration of Jersey Support
• A few bug fixes and last minute updates before GA

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

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…

I am pleased to announce that the second Spring for GraphQL 2.0 Release Candidate is now available.

This release brings back the GraphQL Java 25.x baseline as it will be released in November before our GA date. This also ships a new feature, the support for @EntityMapping with interface types.

What's next?

We have compiled all release notes on our wiki. Our next step is the final release next month!

2.0.0-RC2 is now available from https://repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag.

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On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 1.1.0-M4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This patch release delivers important stability improvements and bug fixes.

Release Summary

This release includes 340 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. The focus of this patch release is on:

• Improvements: 35 enhancements to expand capabilities and functionality
• Stability: 132 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 41 improvements to help developers

Thanks to all those who…