There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of January 20th, 2025, highlighting milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Security, Spring Integration and Spring Modulith.
The Spring team has also announced that they will begin releasing milestones and release candidates of Spring projects, with GA releases planned for November 2025, to Maven Central.
Spring Boot
The first milestone release of Spring Boot 3.5.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for the Spring Framework TaskDecorator interface for scheduled tasks; and support for the Vibur DBCP connection pool to the DataSourceBuilder class. More details on this release may be found…