This week's Spring update features new releases for Micrometer and Micrometer Tracing, including release candidates. Soby Chacko highlights shared consumer support in Spring for Apache Kafka in a new post. Spring Session Hazelcast and MongoDB are now managed by their respective database teams. Spring Batch 6.0.0 M4 has been released. The update includes links to "A Bootiful Podcast" with Josh Cummings and a post on Jackson 3 support in Spring Framework 7. The article also highlights opportunities to contribute to the Spring AI project. Several articles cover topics like Spring AI, optimizing cloud applications, and tactical domain-driven design with Spring. Furthermore, it mentions a talk by Rod Johnson on building JVM agents with Embabel, powered by Spring AI. Arjen Poutsma also gave a talk about the Spring's history. The author also presented talks on Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7.