Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I’m in Portland, OR, then I'm off to Austin, TX for the Arc of AI show, and then I'm off to Amsterdam for Voxxed Days Amsterdam! If you're around, be sure to say hi! There's a ton of cool stuff to look at, so without any further ado, let's dive right into it!

• There have been some huge changes to the organization and arrangement of Spring AI
• Spring Modulith 1.4 M3, 1.3.4, and 1.2.10 have been released
• Spring Boot 3.5 M3 is available now
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to fellow Java Champion Henri Tremblay
• Spring Boot 3.4.4 is available now
• Spring Boot 3.3.10 is available now
• Spring Batch 5.2.2 is available now
• Spring Cloud 2024.0.1 is available now
• Spring Framework 6.2.5 is available now
• Spring Security 6.5.0 M3 is available now
• Spring Security 6.3.8 and 6.4.4 are available now
• Spring AMQP 4.0.0 M2 is available now
• Spring Integration 6.5 M3 is released
• Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 M1, 3.3.4, and 3.2.8 are available now
• Spring WS 4.1.0 M1 is available now!
• I love this blog about the incredible performance gains to be had with Spring and CDS
• Want to integrate all the topics and technologies discussed in this amazing diagram? Use Spring Security and Spring Cloud Gateway
• I love Michael Redlich and InfoQ's amazing Spring newsletter
• @ParameterizedClass, a companion to @ParameterizedTest, has finally landed in JUnit!
• I love this blog looking at how to use WireMock, Cucumber, and Spring Boot together
• The 0.8.0 release of the Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol spec, with some very important improvements, has just landed!
• Want to use Java 24 and Buildpacks in a Spring Boot application? Follow the configuration I lay out in this blog
• Another solid episode from the CockroachDB select star series by the legendary Greg Turnquist
• This is a fantastic blog on how to implement CQRS with Spring Modulith