This installment covers recent developments in the Spring ecosystem, highlighting the new Spring Boot 4.1 release train. A blog post discusses Spring Batch, MongoDB, and Spring Boot 4.1 integration. Christian Tsolov detailed the new tool calling API in Spring AI 2.0. A Bootiful Podcast episode featured a discussion on the latest Spring Boot 4.1 releases. Craig Walls provided a Spring AI recipe for voice control using ElevenLabs. Another AI-focused project involves building a trading assistant with Spring AI and Binance API. InfoQ has published extensive coverage of the latest Spring community news and the Spring Boot 4.1 release. A notable integration is the Spring Cloud Stream externalization module with Spring Modulith. Concise release notes for Spring Boot 4.1 are also available. Craig Walls also shared a recipe for agentic AI using Embabel, which is built on Spring AI.