On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Session 3.5.0!

This release contains fixes, dependency updates, and enhancements to position the project for Spring Session 4.0.0 this fall.

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On behalf of the Spring for GraphQL team, I am pleased to announce the availability of 1.4.0, the generally available release.

In case you missed those, the 1.4.0-M1 and 1.4.0-RC1 release blog posts described the new features for this generation. The Spring for GraphQL 1.4.0 wiki page should help you to upgrade your application. We will keep updating this page with the feedback we get from the community on our issue tracker and on StackOverflow.

GraphQL Java 24+ baseline

The GraphQL Java team recently released new major releases for the Java DataLoader and GraphQL Java projects. They immediately supersede the 23.x generation so Spring for GraphQL 1.4 will require GraphQL Java 24+ as a baseline. This last-minute change shouldn't affect much your…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.12 and 1.2.6 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.12 and 3.4.6 releases, respectively.

Please see the release notes (1.1.12 and 1.2.6) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release adds a number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 4.1

The highlights of the 4.1 release include:

• Apache Axiom Support has been restored
• Support for WSS4J v4
• Support for Configuring Arbitrary WSS4J Options
• More Flexible HTTP Message Sender

Dependency upgrades

Spring Web Services 4.1 moves to new versions of several Spring projects and we’ve also upgraded to the latest stable releases of other third-party libraries wherever possible. Please see the release notes…

Last month, we explored how to secure Spring AI MCP Servers[1] with the OAuth2 authorization framework. In the conclusion of that article, we mentioned we'd explore using standalone Authorization Servers for MCP Security and deviate from the then-current specification.

Since we published the article, the community has been very active in revising the original version of the specification. The new draft is simpler, and the major change does match what we had imagined for security. MCP Servers are still OAuth2 Resource Servers, meaning they authorize incoming requests using access tokens passed…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 6.3.10.

Please check the changelog for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 6.4.6.

Please check the changelog for more details. Note that this release contains the fix for CVE-2025-41232.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the general availability of the final Spring Security 6 minor release, 6.5.0!

To see all the new features, please take a look at What's New in Spring Security 6.5 in the reference.

Also, since this is the target release for migrating from 6.x to 7.x, please also begin reviewing the migration guide.

Please check the release changelog as well as the previous changelogs for 6.5.0-M1, 6.5.0-M2, 6.5.0-M3, and 6.5.0-RC1 for more details.

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On behalf of the Spring Data engineering team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Data 2025.0 from Maven Central! This release comes with driver upgrades and refinements in individual store modules.

Most notable changes include:

• Vector type and Vector Search support in MongoDB and Apache Cassandra
• Constructor Expression Derivation for DTO Projections in Spring Data JPA
• Support for identifier generation using sequences in Spring Data JDBC and R2DBC
• Index Creation using Cassandra 5 Storage-Attached Indexes

Please refer to our release notes for…