This Week in Spring - October 28th, 2025

This Week in Spring highlights upcoming releases and new features. Excitement is growing for Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7, both slated for November 2025. Key updates this week include modularizing Spring Boot and the release of Spring Tools 4.32.1. Spring AI now offers prompt caching with Anthropic Claude. Several Spring Modulith versions are now available, alongside Spring Shell 4.0.0 M1. New Spring Boot versions, including 3.4.11, 3.5.7, and the RC1 for 4.0.0, have been released. Release candidates are also out for Spring Batch 6.0.0, Spring Integration 7.0, Spring AMQP 4.0, and Spring for Apache Kafka 4.0.0. Spring for Apache Pulsar has new versions, and Spring Integration AWS has a new home. Multi-factor authentication support in Spring Security 7 is a notable addition. Updates are also available for Spring Authorization Server, Spring for GraphQL, and Spring Web Services across various versions.