Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution builds for Windows now signed with correct certificate

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.28.1.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://spring.io/tools/

Spring Tools 4.29.…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the second milestone of the next Spring Framework generation.

If you've missed it, we now ship milestones to the usual repo.spring.io artifact repository, but also to Maven Central.

The second milestone refines the work we've devlived in 7.0.0-M1, in particular arround our null safety support using JSpecify. Check the changelog for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.17 and 6.2.3 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.17 ships with 17 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.3.9.

Spring Framework 6.2.3 ships with 60 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.3 and 3.5.0-M2.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.28.0 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

highlights

• (Spring Boot) Spring index cache optimizations leading to performance and memory improvements
• (Spring Boot) additional performance improvements while running Spring specific validations
• (Spring Boot) Boot LS JAR size decreased to 207Mb from 271Mb

updates to the Spring Tools for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2025-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.1 and 2025.0.0 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases include numerous bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

The 2024.0.1 release updates to Spring Boot 3.3.8 / Spring Cloud 2023.0.5 and the 2025.0.0 release updates to Spring Boot 3.4.2 and Spring Cloud 2024.0.0.

Please see the release notes (2024.0.1 and 2025.0.0) for more details.

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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…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2025.0 (aka Northfields) Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2025.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.0.0-M1 Release

Spring Cloud 2025.0.0-M1 depends on Spring Boot 3.5.0-M1. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Adds support for spring-cloud-function and spring-cloud-stream handlers #3646
• Adds support for a Bucket4jRateLimiter in server webflux #2955
• Deprecate WebClientRouting infrastructure. This will be removed in 5.0 later this year. #3680
• New Module and Starter names have been created and the old names are deprectated. The new and deprecated artifacts are listed in the table below #3645…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the first milestone of the next Spring Data generation.

As announced previously, we shipped 2025.1.0-M1 to Maven Central. We're looking forward to collecting more feedback from the community by easing access to our milestone. The GA release is targeted for November 2025.

This first milestone comes with several baseline changes, raising its minimum requirements to Jakarta EE 11 (Hibernate ORM 7, Hibernate Validator 9) and Kotlin 2.x. It is also an opportunity for us to ship API removals (such as ListenableFuture…

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.4 M1, 1.3.2, and 1.2.8. While the latter contain a few bug fixes and the usual dependency upgrades to the latest Spring Boot releases, the milestone release ships a couple of important new features.

• GH-928 – Move to Micrometer Observations API – Marcin Grzejszczak was kind enough to port our existing instrumentation based on the tracing APIs to the more modern observations API that allows more fine-grained integration and capturing of metrics. Stay tuned for a more detailed blog post coming soon!

• GH-933 – Consider global proxy settings for proxies created.

• GH-1009 - SPI to detect NamedInterfaces programatically.

• GH-1037 - Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5 M1.

• GH-961 – Upgrade to Structurizr 3.1.

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We're pleased to announce Spring AI MCP 0.6.0 milestone release.

Breaking Changes ⚠️

• McpClient.using() - Use McpClient.sync() or McpClient.async() instead
• McpServer.using() - Use McpServer.sync() or McpServer.async() instead
• McpServer.ToolRegistration - Use McpServerFeatures.SyncToolRegistration or McpServerFeatures.AsyncToolRegistration instead
• McpServer.ResourceRegistration - Use McpServerFeatures.SyncResourceRegistration or McpServerFeatures.AsyncResourceRegistration instead
• McpServer.PromptRegistration - Use McpServerFeatures.SyncPromptRegistration or McpServerFeatures.AsyncPromptRegistration instead
• ToolHelper.toToolRegistration() - Use ToolHelper.toSyncToolRegistration()…