Spring Boot 4.0.0-M2 has been released and is available on Maven Central. This milestone release includes 97 enhancements, such as Gradle 9 support, @HttpServiceClient annotation support, API versioning, and improved OpenTelemetry starter. Contributors are thanked for their efforts, and those interested in helping can find opportunities via the "ideal for contribution" tag on the issue repository. General questions can be directed to Stack Overflow using the spring-boot tag.