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This Week in Spring - August 18th, 2026

This Week in Spring highlights new developments and resources for Spring developers. A video tutorial explores multitenancy integration using Spring Security, OAuth, and Arconia, with Arconia releasing a corresponding update. Ayush Shrivastava provides a guide on building agents with Spring AI, complementing Craig Walls' excellent recipe series. Walls' latest Spring AI content explains reasoning and acting (ReAct) and graph-based agentic workflows with LangGraph4j. Julien Dubois is maintaining an interesting Spring Boot UI project. Spring FlashAPI, a community project, generates REST APIs directly from JPA entities without requiring a Spring Data repository. Embabel 1.5.0 is available, offering an agentic workflow engine built on Spring AI, with related posts updated by Craig Walls. The spring-ai-privacy-guardrails project focuses on request-scoped PII tokenization and least-privileged disclosure. A guide on null-safety with JSpecify and Spring is recommended for safer coding practices. Lastly, A Bootiful Podcast featured a discussion on AI risks in enterprises, and a video showcases the latest JobRunr release.