Spring News Roundup: First Release Candidates of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Modulith, AI
There was a flurry of activity during the week of October 19th, 2026, highlighting: first release candidates of: Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring HATEOS, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs, Spring AI, Spring Batch, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka, Spring LDAP and Spring Web Services. By…
The week of October 19th, 2026 saw a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem, with the release of first release candidates for multiple Spring projects. Spring Boot 4.2.0 delivered bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features including a migration to the Ubuntu Resolute builder and improved Uber-Jar performance.
Spring Framework 7.1.0 shipped with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features like improved nullability and new overloaded methods in RetryListener interface. Spring Data 2026.1.0 provided bug fixes, dependency upgrades and a notable new feature in Spring Data Redis that now forwards subscription notifications. Spring Cloud 2026.0.0, codenamed Paddington, delivered dependency upgrades and a notable change where Spring Cloud Bus is now incorporated into Spring Cloud Stream.
Spring Security 7.2.0 introduced bug fixes, dependency upgrades and two new features including changes in HTTP method detection and setting of Content-Type header. Spring for GraphQL 2.1.0 provided a bug fix and dependency upgrades, maintaining backwards compatibility. Spring Session 4.2.0 brought bug fixes, dependency upgrades and features like integrating the Spring Security Settings Plugin.
Spring Integration 7.2.0 contained bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and features such as a deprecation of the default constructor in SerializingHttpMessageConverter. Spring HATEOAS 3.2.0 delivered dependency upgrades and features like new enumerations in EventPublication.Status interface. Spring Modulith 2.2.0 provided bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features including new enumerations and improved event publications.
Spring REST Docs 4.1.0 introduced a bug fix, dependency upgrade and features like improved nullability and support for a new interface. Finally, Spring AI 2.1.0 offered dependency upgrades and new features such as a new SessionService interface and the ability for OpenAI and DeepSeek chat models to build messages.
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