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This Week in Spring - August 19th, 2025

This week's installment of This Week in Spring heralds the upcoming SpringOne event, with a poetic prelude capturing the excitement. Several important releases are highlighted, including Spring Authorization Server in versions 2.0.0 M2, 1.5.2, and 1.4.5. Spring Security also saw new releases with versions 6.4.9, 6.5.3, and 7.0.0 M2. Updates were also made available for Spring for Apache Pulsar and Spring Data. A recent Bootiful Podcast featured Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm. Spring Framework released version 7.0.0 M8 and version 6.2.10, which addresses a CVE. Embabel, a new agentic framework from Spring creator Rod Johnson built on Spring AI, is presented as a noteworthy technology. An online workshop by AWS utilizing Spring AI is also mentioned. A video explaining the JSpecify effort, which influences nullability in Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4, is recommended. A new tutorial on Spring AI by Siva Prasad Reddy is featured. The Spring team's presence on Blue, in addition to X/Twitter, is announced. A useful tool for mapping Spring project generations to Spring Boot versions is introduced. Finally, an explainer on API versioning in Spring Framework 7 by Rossen Stoyanchev is recommended.