Spring Boot 3.5.16 has been released and is available on Maven Central, incorporating three dependency upgrades. This marks the final open-source supported release of the 3.5.x line. Users are encouraged to upgrade to Spring Boot 4.0.x or 4.1.x for continued OSS support, or explore commercial support options. For those wishing to contribute, the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository is recommended, and general questions can be directed to Stack Overflow.