On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 1.1.0-M4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This patch release delivers important stability improvements and bug fixes.

Release Summary

This release includes 340 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. The focus of this patch release is on:

• Improvements: 35 enhancements to expand capabilities and functionality
• Stability: 132 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 41 improvements to help developers

Thanks to all those who…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the second release candidate (RC) for the next Spring Data generation.

The RC picks up Spring Framework RC3 and Spring HATEOAS RC2 and ships mainly refinements as well as some structural cleanups in Spring Data Commons. You can find the complete changelog in the Spring Data 2025.1 Release Notes.

Going forward, we're planning to release Spring Data 2025.1 GA in mid-November, aligning with the upcoming Spring Framework 7.0 release.

2025.1.0-RC2

• Spring Data Commons 4.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 4.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 5.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 8.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 4.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 5.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 4.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 5.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 4.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 6.0 RC2 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the third release candidate for Spring Framework 7.0. This should be our last release candidate before our GA version in November. We have compiled all the upgrade information, new features and deprecations on the Spring Framework 7.0 release notes preview page.

Spring Framework 7.0.0-RC3 ships with 17 new features, fixes, and documentation improvements.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

This is a maintenance release that includes 4 bugfixes. At the moment, there are no further maintenance releases planned for the Spring Tools 4.x line.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/4.32.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Theia, please go visit:

• Spring Tools: https://404ofchina.website/tools/
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I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 2.0 RC1, 1.4.4, and 1.3.10. The latter two ship bug fixes and the general dependency upgrades. The release candidate primarily contains polish of the new features introduced in the milestone releases and a few new ones:

• Support for application-module-specific Flyway migrations #1067
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 4.0 RC1 #1415

Find more details about the releases in the full changelog.

I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Shell 4.0 is now available on Maven Central!

What's new?

This milestone release is the first step toward a modern version of Spring Shell, aligned with the rest of the Spring portfolio.

The main focus of this first milestone is alignment with Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4.

Spring Shell 4.0.0-M1 is now based on Spring Framework 7.0.0-RC2 and Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC1.

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

What's next?

We plan to release Spring Shell 4.0 GA in November, after the Spring Boot 4.0 GA release…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 55 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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-boot tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 69 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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-boot tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 176 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Completion of the modularization effort (including new test starters).
• Support for RestTestClient.
• Redis observability improvements

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?