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 new Jackson 3 support in Spring Framework 7
• want to contribute to the white hot Spring AI project? Start here
• I love this blog from CowTownCoder (the lead engineer on the Jackson JSON marshalling library) about Jackson 3.0 with a nice shout-out to the Spring team
• interesting article on running durable agents with Spring AI on Dapr workflows
• this is, as usual, an amazing talk from Spring Security contributor and legend Daniel Garnier Moiroux
• and I love this one from Buildpacks contributor Anthony Dahanne
• and I love this post on optimizing applications in the cloud with Spring Boot by community legend Patrick Baumgartner
• tactical domain driven design with Java and Spring, by Oliver Drotbohm
• and I loved this talk by Spring founder Rod Johnson on building agents on the JVM with Rod's new framework, called Embabel. Embabel, of course, is powered by Spring AI, and I love it!
• Spring team alumnus Arjen Poutsma did an amazing talk called A Long Spring: 19 years of living with your past mistakes.
• and of course, I did a talk looking at Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7