I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 6.0.0-M4 is now available from Maven Central!

The main changes in this milestone release are the following:

• Migration to nullability checks with jSpecify
• Improved domain model design

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

Null safety with JSpecify

Spring Batch 6.0 APIs are now annotated with JSpecify annotations to provide better null-safety guarantees and improve code quality. This change helps developers catch potential null-related issues at compile time, leading to more robust and reliable applications.

Improved…

On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 1.1.0-M3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This milestone release focuses primarily on Model Context Protocol (MCP) enhancements, incorporating the MCP Java SDK v0.14.0 upgrade along with new resource template capabilities and security documentation.

Release Summary

This release includes 46 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. Key focus areas include:

• Model Context Protocol: Upgraded to MCP Java SDK 0.14.0 with resource template support and security best practices
• New Features: 7 capabilities including Azure Cosmos DB chat memory and GemFire metadata filtering
• Stability: 11 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 9 improvements including MCP security guidance
• Dependency Upgrades: 3 updates including security fixes (CVE-2025-54988)
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 3 (M3) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2025.1.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.1.0 Release Train

Spring Cloud 2025.0.0-M3 depends on Spring Boot 4.0.0-M3. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Function

• Discontinue spring-cloud-function-rscoket
• Discontinue spring-cloud-function-deployer

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Upgraded Kubernetes Java Client to 24.0.0
• Upgraded Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to 7.4.0
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On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 1.0.3 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 27 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. The focus of this patch release is on:

• Improvements: 18 enhancements to expand capabilities and functionality
• Stability: 6 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 3 improvements to help developers

Thanks to all those who have…

On behalf of the Spring AI engineering team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring AI 1.1.0-M2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This milestone release focuses primarily on enhanced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, incorporating critical fixes and improvements from the MCP Java SDK v0.13.0 release, along with significant updates across many areas of Spring AI.

Release Summary

This release includes 56 improvements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. The primary focus areas include:

• Model Context Protocol Enhancements: Updated to MCP Java SDK v0.13.1 with mcp-annotations v0.4.1 and protocol version 2025-06-18 support
• MCP Integration Fixes: Resolved critical stateless server registration issues with AOT compilation support
• New Features: 16 new capabilities and functionality additions
• Stability: 12 bug fixes addressing community-reported issues
• Documentation: 6 improvements including comprehensive MCP getting started guide
• Other Improvements: 22 enhancements including performance optimizations and dependency upgrades
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I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 2.0 M3. It release ships the following new features:

• Updated event publication repository implementation for JPA #1375
• Support for serialized event publication externalization #1370
• Jackson 3 support for event publication serialization and externalization #1369, #1364
• More lenient out-of-the-box verification for Hexagonal Architecture #1366
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 4.0 M3 #1376
• Upgrade to jMolecules 2025 RC5 #1377

Find more details about the releases in the full changelog.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 36 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 3.5.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 43 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-M3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 98 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Jackson auto-configuration now requires Jackson 3
• Support for Kotlin Serialization
• Liveness and readiness probe endpoints are now enabled by default
• Improvements to MongoDB health indicators and configuration properties

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

Thanks to…