This Week in Spring highlights an upcoming busy European tour for the author. He anticipates catching up on reading during his travels. Several Spring AI resources are featured, including a piece on Hypothetical Document Embeddings for better RAG results and another on the ReACT paradigm. Spring AI 2.0.1 is also available. New milestone releases are abundant, with Spring Integration 7.2.0-M1 and Spring AMQP 4.2.0-M1 now released. Spring Batch sees 6.0.5 and 6.1.0-M1. Spring Data has released 2026.1.0-M1, 2026.0.1, and 2025.1.7. Spring Cloud 2025.1.3, codenamed Oakwood, has also been released. New Spring Boot versions include 4.2.0-M1, 4.1.1, and 4.0.8. A comparison between RabbitMQ and Kafka is mentioned, alongside praise for a new book on crafting Spring Boot starters. Finally, a post discussing the cost of DIY platforms and a new BootUI release are also noted.