This Week in Spring for August 5th highlights several exciting developments for Spring developers. IntelliJ IDEA's latest release now includes support for Spring Modulith, a project highly praised by the author. Spring Cloud Oakwood has also been officially released. A recent Bootiful Podcast featured Spring Security lead Rob Winch discussing new features and upcoming SpringOne 2025 content. Updates have been released for Spring Shell and Spring AI. The new Spring gRPC 0.10.0 version is available, combining Spring's programming model with the gRPC protocol. The author also mentions exploring Spring's service loader facility. Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4 was introduced in a talk by Sébastien Deleuze. IntelliJ continues to offer valuable features for Spring developers. Finally, IBM provides resources on Spring Boot, and a roadmap for backend service development is suggested, with additions of Spring AI and Spring Modulith.