The Spring portfolio is preparing for its next major versions, with Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7 scheduled for release in November. This release maintains the JDK 17 baseline, aligning with industry standards. Significant upgrades include transitioning to Jakarta EE 11 and adopting newer versions of Kotlin, Jackson, and JUnit. The upcoming major releases will introduce a wide array of new features and capabilities requested by the community. To keep users informed, weekly blog posts will highlight these new features leading up to the November general availability. The blog series will cover topics such as core Spring resilience features, API versioning, and HTTP client enhancements. It will also delve into Jackson 3 support, Kafka queues, modularizing Spring Boot, and progressive authorization in Spring Security. Other planned topics include Spring gRPC, null-safe applications, OpenTelemetry integration, and Ahead of Time Repositories. The community's input has been instrumental in shaping these new features, and their feedback on available milestone releases is highly encouraged. Users are advised to bookmark the post for weekly updates and links to the new blog content.