Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.11 and 2.0.0-RC1 are now available

Releases | Chris Bono | October 22, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.11 and 2.0.0-RC1 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The 1.2.11 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.11 and 3.5.7 releases. The 2.0.0-RC1 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC1 release.

Please see the release notes (1.2.11 and 2.0.0-RC1) for more details.

Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0-RC1 released

Releases | Brian Clozel | October 21, 2025 | ...

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

This release ships a few refinements and features, including:

  • improved nullness checks in the schema mapping inspection
  • new GraphQlClient and GraphQlTester Kotlin extensions leveraging reified types
  • UUID support in JsonKeysetCursorStrategy
  • a new HttpRequestHeaderInterceptor that can copy HTTP headers of interest into the GraphQLContext
  • Virtual Threads support in webmvc.GraphQlWebSocketHandler

What's next?

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

Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-RC1 is Available Now

Releases | Soby Chacko | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-RC1 has been released. We extend our gratitude to all contributors who made this release possible.

This is our first and final release candidate before the 4.0.0 GA release. We encourage the community to test this release candidate and provide feedback on any issues or concerns before we proceed with the general availability release.

What's New in 4.0.0-RC1

Share Consumer Enhancements: Expanded share consumer capabilities with comprehensive acknowledgment support, concurrency configuration, and factory-level container properties. The share consumer implementation now includes proper poison message protection and delivery count tracking. Speaking of Share Consumers, we recently published a dedicated blog

Spring Web Services 4.0.16 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.16 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 11 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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation |

Spring Web Services 5.0.0-RC1 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 5.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 10 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

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-ws tag

Spring Web Services 4.1.2 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 9 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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

Spring REST Docs 4.0.0-RC1

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | October 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring REST Docs 4.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release raises the minimum supported verison of Junit to 6.0. With a Groovy 5.0 baseline for the forthcoming Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 releases, it also removes support for REST Assured which is not yet compatible with Groovy 5.

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-restdocs tag

Spring Security 2025-10 Releases

Releases | Rob Winch | October 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 7.0.0-RC1, 6.4.12 and 6.5.6.

The highlights of 7.0.0-RC1 include:

For a complete list of changes, refer to the changelogs:

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

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