This week's Spring update comes from Mainz, Germany, where the author is attending the JAX conference. After the talks, the author will continue to London for the Devoxx UK show. A previous podcast episode featured a discussion about a JobRunr-powered project. The blog has a new Releases section with concise information about Spring project updates. Several Spring project releases are highlighted, like Spring AI, Spring Shell, and Spring Modulith. Spring Boot releases, including 4.1.0 RC1, also have been released. Additionally, Spring Authorization Server, Spring for Apache Pulsar, and Spring for Apache Kafka releases are mentioned. There are articles focusing on graph-based agentic workflows and database optimization with HikariCP. Other interesting topics are a third-party event sourcing library, the role of LLMs in Java, and the power of @Retryable support.