Spring Framework 7.0 has reached its penultimate milestone, 7.0.0-M9, prior to the upcoming release candidate. This milestone includes significant refinements to the resiliency feature, offering programmatic support for exception handling. Web enhancements are notable, with an updated HttpStatus class aligning with RFC9110 and improved gzip/deflate compression support for RestClient and RestTemplate. Servlet applications now benefit from an opt-in OpenTelemetry-aligned HTTP server observation convention. For Kotlin developers, a new PropagationContextElement operator facilitates context propagation for traces within Kotlin Coroutines. However, Undertow support has been dropped due to its incompatibility with Servlet 6.1, a baseline requirement for this Spring Framework version. Spring MVC applications can still be deployed on any compliant Servlet 6.1 server. The release also incorporates API Versioning and Nullness feature refinements. The @HttpServiceClient annotation has been retired for now to gather further community feedback. Detailed changes are available in the changelog. This latest milestone is now accessible via Spring's repository and Maven Central.