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, but the Spring AI team have some good ideas on how to fix it!
• Spring Tools 4.32.1 is now available
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Elastic developer advocate extraordinaiire Philip Krenn about logging
• I love Amazon Bedrock's prompt caching support, now integrated into Spring AI
• The reactive support for Spring for Apache Pulsar will be discontinued