Hi, Spring fans! It's almost SpringOne time!! AAAAH it's all moving so quickly! I can hardly stand it. SpringOne's next month, in lovely Las Vegas, and I'll be there. Will you? Have you registered? We'll be looking at the impending Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0 releases! It's going to be a ton of fun. Indeed, you'll notice that's a theme these days: tons of new projects in the milestones or early days stages of development, making their way down the winding road to GA, in time for Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0. This is my favorite time: we should all be trying the bits out, kicking the proverbial tires, etc. Spring Web Services 4.1.1 available now Spring Web Services 5.0.0 available now Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0-M1 released Spring Data JDBC and R2DBC 4.0 will support composite IDs start your journey to production here – I'll be speaking at SpringOne! Come and see me. Speaking of the new generations, I did a video! JPA in Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 Spring AMQP 4.0 Milestone 3 Available Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0-M3 is Available Now Spring REST Docs 4.0.0-M1 Spring Security 6.4.8 and 6.5.2 Released Spring Security 7.0.0-M1 available now Spring Data 2025.0.2 and 2024.1.8 released Spring Data 2025.1.0-M4 released https://spring.io/blog/2025/07/18/spring-data-2025-0-2-and-2024-1-8-released https://spring.io/blog/2025/07/17/a-bootiful-podcast-jason-and-tasha https://spring.io/blog/2025/07/17/spring-framework-7-0-0-M7-available-now Spring…Read More