Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from the fantastic Vaadin Create conference here in Frankfurt, Germany. What an amazing show and community. Since we last spoke, I have been in Boston; New York city; Sofia, Bulgaria; Krakow, Poland; and now Frankfurt, Germany.

• 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
• Spring Data 2025.0.5 and 2024.1.11 released
• Spring Cloud Stream 2025.0.1 is now available
• Spring REST Docs 4.0.0 RC1
• Spring Security 2025-10 released
• this seems interesting - a Spring Boot starter supporting the outbox pattern
• Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm has a nice post looking at integrating Flyway with Sprigng Modulith
• Jackson 3 is GA! and of course Spring Boot 4 will feature first-class support for it.