Following the much anticipated release of Spring Framework 7.0, there was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of November 17th, 2025, highlighting additional GA releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs and Spring Batch.
Please note that this new generation of Spring ecosystem projects provide support for JSpecify for null safety and Jackson 3.0 for JSON parsing.
Spring Boot
After three milestone releases and two release candidates dating back to July 2025, the GA release of Spring Boot 4.0.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: compatibility with JDK 17 with support for JDK 25; full modularization of the Spring Boot codebase; and support for API Versioning and HTTP Service Clients for REST-based applications. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page.
Spring Security
The GA release of Spring Security 7.0.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: minimal configuration of the authorization server, using an instance of the HttpSecurity class, for easier setup before applying advanced customization; mark the getAuthority() method, defined in the GrantedAuthority interface, with the JSpecify @Nullable annotation; and a refactor of the SimpleGrantedAuthority class that renames the constructor argument from role to authority for improved readability. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes and this what’s new page.
Spring for GraphQL
The GA release of Spring for GraphQL 2.0.0 provides many dependency upgrades and new features such as: a baseline of GraphQL Java 25; support for multiple queries with the DgsGraphQlClient class; and new Kotlin extensions for the GraphQlClient and GraphQlTester interfaces. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page.
Spring Session
The GA release of Spring Session 4.0.0 delivers notable dependency upgrades to Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC2; Spring Framework 7.0.0; Spring Data 2025.1.0; and Spring Security 7.0.0. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Spring Integration
The GA release of Spring Integration 7.0.0 ships with bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and these new features such as: the directory to scan files using the FileReadingMessageSource class may now be configured as an expression for evaluation at runtime; and the ScatterGatherHandler class now fully supports async mode by emitting an instance of the Project Reactor Mono class for processing replies. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this what’s new page.
Spring Modulith
The GA release of Spring Modulith 2.0.0 provides bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a full refactor of the event publication lifecycle that adds support for Neo4j, MongoDB, JDBC and Jakarta Persistence; an application module structure is now verified upon startup; and support for application module-specific database migrations of Flyway. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Spring REST Docs
The GA release of Spring REST Docs 4.0.0 delivers a dependency upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 and support for documentation generation with Antora. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page.
Spring Batch
The GA release of Spring Batch 6.0.0 ships with bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new and improved implementation of the chunk-oriented processing model; a more graceful shutdown with the ability to recover executions of failed jobs; and the addition of observability metrics with the JDK Flight Recorder. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Spring AMQP
The GA release of Spring AMQP 4.0.0 provides documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: an optimization of calls to the Java ArrayList class to pass the explicit size or collection copy whenever possible; and a new spring-rabbitmq-client module as an implementation of the AMQP 1.0 specification specific to RabbitMQ 4.0. More details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Spring for Apache Kafka
The GA release of Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new deleteTopics() method, added to the KafkaAdmin class, to programmatically delete topics that completes the topic lifecycle management API; an optimization of Java ArrayList allocations in the BatchMessagingMessageConverter class that specifies the batch size that eliminates internal array resizing during high-throughput processing of messages. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes.
Spring Web Services
The GA release of Spring Web Services 5.0.0 ships with bug fixes and notable dependency upgrades to Spring Framework 7.0, Spring Security 7.0 and the Jakarta Servlet 6.1 specification defined in Jakarta EE 11. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page.
Spring Vault
The GA release of Spring Vault 4.0.0 provides bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for the Spring Framework RestClient and ClientHttpRequestFactory interfaces; and implementations of Project Reactor and Jetty. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page.
