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)
• …

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the General Availability for 4.0.0 of Spring AMQP.

Some notable feature and changes in this new generation:

• The spring-rabbitmq-client module for AMQP 1.0 protocol with RabbitMQ;
• Jackson 3 Support;
• Nullability via JSpecify;
• Migration to Spring Core Retry.

See the Release Notes and What's New for more information.

Cheers, 
Artem

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On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the General Availability of the Spring Integration 7.0.0 generation.

In addition, the 6.5.4 and 6.4.9 versions with bug fixes and dependency upgrades have been released.

Some notable changes in 7.0.0:

• Nullability via JSpecify;
• Jackson 3 Support;
• Migration to Spring Core Retry;
• Channel Adapters for AMQP 1.0 based on Spring AMQP 4.0;
• The directory to scan in the FileReadingMessageSource can now be configured as an expression to be evaluated at runtime on each scan call;
• The MESSAGE_BYTES SQL column for message store tables has been renamed to the MESSAGE_CONTENT as with some implementation the message serialization is not always byte array;
• All the Spring Integration modules now follow the standard package structure: components has been moved to input or output…

This is a new blog post in the Road to GA series, and this time we're taking a look at OpenTelemetry with Spring Boot.

Introduction

In modern cloud native architectures, observability is no longer optional; it is a fundamental requirement. You want to understand what your application is doing via metrics, how requests are flowing through it via traces, and what it is saying via logs.

The OpenTelemetry project, sometimes abbreviated as OTel, provides a vendor-neutral, open-source framework to collect, process, and export telemetry data. Backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it offers…

I am pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 2.0 is now generally available and ships new features:

• a new GraphQL Java 25 baseline
• Nullability and JSpecify support in the project API
• Nullability checks for your application during Schema Mapping Inspection
• Flexible binding for input types
• ArgumentValue support for client input
• Multiple queries with DgsGraphQlClient
• Kotlin extensions for GraphQlClient and GraphQlTester

You can get a full picture of this new major release with our release notes on the wiki.

Thanks to the community for your feedback and for testing the release candidates, this helped us to shape this new generation. Collaborating with the GraphQL Java team is always a pleasure, and we're sure that you will love the new GraphQL Java 25.0 features…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 is now generally available. We extend our gratitude to all contributors who made this release possible.

Release Journey and Highlights

The development of Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 began in March 2025 with the first milestone release and progressed through five milestone releases and one release candidate over an 8-month development cycle before reaching general availability in November 2025.

This release includes new features, bug fixes, improved documentation, and updated…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Vault 4.0 is now generally available from Maven Central.

This release ships with several refinements and new features. Highlights of the new release include:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 as baseline upgrade
• Support for Spring Framework's RestClient
• Upgrade to Jackson 3 (preserving Jackson 2 compatibility)
• Support for Reactor, Jetty, and JDK ClientHttpRequestFactory implementations

Head over to the release notes page in our wiki to find out more details. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Spring Vault over…

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

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 5.0

The highlights of the 5.0 release include:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7 and Spring Security 7
• Upgrade to Jakarta EE 11 (Servlet 6.1)
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify

Thank you

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

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…