Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another all-out installment of This Week in Spring wherein we attempt to recap all that's new and novel in the wild, wacky, and wonderful world of Springdom. And this week, I'm doing so from an airport in Switzerland, en route to Malmo, Sweden, for the amazing Oredev conference. If you're gonna be there, don't be shy: say hi!

We've got a lot to cover and I've got a flight to catch so let's dive right into it, shall we?

• Create Self-Improving AI Agents Using Spring AI Recursive Advisors - read this! This is super cool. Well done, Spring AI team!
• Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0 RC2 is now available
• Speaking of Spring AI, Spring AI 1.1.0-M4 is available now
• Spring Data 2025.1.0 RC2 is available today
• yet another riveting installment on the road to GA, this post looking at the newly modularized Spring Boot 4 architecture](https://404ofchina.website/blog/2025/10/28/modularizing-spring-boot)
• Spring Framework 7 RC3 is available now!
• The AI space has a benchmarking problem, …

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By the time we'll speak again in a week, Halloween will have come and gone. Are you all ready for Halloween? What're you gonna dress as? I always go as PHP code. The horror!

The excitement is building for Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7, both of which are scheduled to be released in November of 2025. So fun! There's a ton of good stuff to look at this week, so let's dive…

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• Spring Framework 7.0.0 RC1 available now
• Spring Session MongoDB is now being led by the MongoDB team
• Spring Session Hazelcast is now being led by the Hazelcast team
• Introducing Share Consumer Support (Kafka Queues) in Spring for Apache Kafka
• Spring Cloud Gateway 4.3.2, 4.2.5, 4.1.12, and 3.1.12 are now available
• Spring Framework 6.2.12 fixes CVE 2025 41254
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to GraalVM founder and Oracle VP Thomas Wuerthinger
• Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 M4 (aka Oakwood) has been released
• Spring Data 2025.1.0 RC1 released
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Wuerthinger, recorded at Devoxx 2025!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Boston and New York city and Bulgaria and Poland this week, but I'm still hyped about last week's amazing Devoxx Belgium event! There are a ton of videos to look at, and I'll include just some of them here.

So, without further ado, let's dive into it!

• Nice! Micrometer releases: 1.14.12, 1.15.5, 1.16.0-RC1
• And ... Micrometer Tracing releases: 1.4.11, 1.5.5, 1.6.0-RC1
• the road to GA is long and amazing, and this newest post by Soby Chacko looks at the new shared consumer support in Spring for Apache Kafka
• good news everybody! Spring Session Hazelcast is now being led by the Hazelcast team
• and in the same vein, Spring Session MongoDB is now led by the MongoDB team!
• Spring Batch 6.0.0 M4 has been released
• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Security legend Josh Cummings
• I loved this post from Sebastien Deleuze that looks at the brand …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring Security contributor and legend Josh Cummings

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing this fantastic October afternoon? I'm on a train returning from Frankfurt, Germany, where I spoke at the Cloud Foundry Day Frankfurt event about how awesome it is to build an application with Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry. Yesterday I was in Antwerp, Belgium, and did two workshops, each of three hours duration. Now, I'm on my way back to Antwerp to return to Devoxx Belgium. I'll be doing a talk on Spring Boot 4; another joint talk with James Ward and the Spring AI leads Dr. Mark Pollack and Christian Tsolov; and a joint talk with GraalVM founder Thomas…

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