Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-RC1 is Available Now

Releases | Soby Chacko | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-RC1 has been released. We extend our gratitude to all contributors who made this release possible.

This is our first and final release candidate before the 4.0.0 GA release. We encourage the community to test this release candidate and provide feedback on any issues or concerns before we proceed with the general availability release.

What's New in 4.0.0-RC1

Share Consumer Enhancements: Expanded share consumer capabilities with comprehensive acknowledgment support, concurrency configuration, and factory-level container properties. The share consumer implementation now includes proper poison message protection and delivery count tracking. Speaking of Share Consumers, we recently published a dedicated blog

Spring Web Services 4.0.16 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.0.16 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 11 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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation |

Spring Web Services 4.1.2 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 9 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-ws tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack…

This Week in Spring - October 21st, 2025

Engineering | Josh Long | October 21, 2025 | ...

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 Web Services 5.0.0-RC1 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | October 21, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 5.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 10 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

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?

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-ws tag

Spring REST Docs 4.0.0-RC1

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | October 20, 2025 | ...

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

This release raises the minimum supported verison of Junit to 6.0. With a Groovy 5.0 baseline for the forthcoming Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 releases, it also removes support for REST Assured which is not yet compatible with Groovy 5.

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?

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-restdocs tag

Spring Security 2025-10 Releases

Releases | Rob Winch | October 20, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Security 7.0.0-RC1, 6.4.12 and 6.5.6.

The highlights of 7.0.0-RC1 include:

For a complete list of changes, refer to the changelogs:

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2025.0.1 is now available

Releases | Chris Bono | October 18, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2025.0.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

The releases include dependency upgrades.

The 2025.0.1 release updates to Spring Boot 3.4.10, Spring Framework 6.2.11, and Spring Cloud 2024.0.2.

Please see the release notes 2025.0.1) for more details.

Stay in touch...

Please continue to engage with us by creating bug reports and feature requests on Github and asking questions on StackOverflow using the spring-cloud-stream or spring-cloud-dataflow tags.

Spring Cloud 2025.1.0-M4 (aka Oakwood) has been released

Releases | Ryan Baxter | October 17, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 4 (M4) 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 2025.1.0-M4 depends on Spring Boot 4.0.0-M3. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

  • Deprecated classes and methods have been removed, and numerous other improvements to public classes have been made. See the milestone for a complete list of changes

Spring Data 2025.0.5 and 2024.1.11 released

Releases | Christoph Strobl | October 17, 2025 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.0.5 and 2024.1.11 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

2025.0.5

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