On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the third release candidate for Spring Framework 7.0. This should be our last release candidate before our GA version in November. We have compiled all the upgrade information, new features and deprecations on the Spring Framework 7.0 release notes preview page.

Spring Framework 7.0.0-RC3 ships with 17 new features, fixes, and documentation improvements.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to my friend and Elastic's developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging

In our previous blog post about Anthropic prompt caching, we explored how prompt caching dramatically reduces API costs and latency by reusing previously processed prompt content. We introduced Spring AI's five strategic caching patterns for Anthropic Claude models and showed how they automatically handle cache breakpoint placement while respecting the 4-breakpoint limit.

AWS Bedrock brings prompt caching to a broader ecosystem—supporting both Claude models (accessed via Bedrock) and Amazon's own Nova family. If you're considering Bedrock or already using it, you'll find the same Spring AI…

Reactive Support in Spring for Apache Pulsar Will Be Discontinued

TL;DR: We’ve decided to discontinue the Reactive support within the Spring for Apache Pulsar project.

Our team regularly evaluates our project portfolio with long-term sustainability in mind. When adoption declines, we thoughtfully retire projects / functionality to focus our efforts where the community needs them most. Based on an assessment of adoption metrics, download trends, and project activity, we’ve decided to remove the Reactive support within the project.

What does this mean for our users?

• The spring-pulsar-reactive module will be removed from all future releases, starting with Spring for Apache Pulsar 2.0.0.

• Spring Boot support of the Spring for Apache Pulsar Reactive components will be removed from all future releases of Spring Boot, starting with Spring Boot 4.0.0.

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I'd like to introduce two new projects that are part of the Spring AI Community GitHub organization: Spring AI Agents, and Spring AI Bench. These two projects focus on using agentic coding tools—tools you likely already have in your enterprise.

In 2025 AI coding agents have matured to the point that they need to be seriously considered for enterprise Java development and general SDLC tasks. CLI Tools like Claude Code, Google’s Gemini CLI, Amazon Q Developer, and OpenAI’s assistants are examples from leading large AI labs, but there are also smaller startups and open-source options. These…

Continuing our Road to GA series, this week we're exploring the modularization effort happening with Spring Boot 4.

When Spring Boot 1.0 was released in 2014, it shipped with a single spring-boot-autoconfigure jar weighing in at 182 KiB. Of course, that initial version didn't support a great deal, but over the years, that has changed.

One of Spring's greatest strengths is the sheer number of technologies that it supports, but each new technology brings a cost. Each time we support something new, the autoconfigure jar grows. With Spring Boot 3.5, that single spring-boot-autoconfigure jar is now…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the 4.32.1 release of the Spring Tools for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

This is a maintenance release that includes 4 bugfixes. At the moment, there are no further maintenance releases planned for the Spring Tools 4.x line.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-tools/releases/tag/4.32.1.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/
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's a wonderful tuesday here in my home town of San Francisco as I write this from my condo's balcony, fresh off more than three weeks on the road.

By the time we'll speak again in a week, Halloween will have come and gone. Are you all ready for Halloween? What're you gonna dress as? I always go as PHP code. The horror!

The excitement is building for Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7, both of which are scheduled to be released in November of 2025. So fun! There's a ton of good stuff to look at this week, so let's dive…