There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of March 16th, 2026, highlighting the third milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring AI and Spring AMQP; along with the second milestone releases of Spring Data and Spring for Apache Kafka.<\/p>\n
Spring Boot<\/p>\n
The third milestone release<\/a> of Spring Boot<\/a> 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for the AMQP 1.0<\/a> specification that includes auto-configuration of the AmqpConnectionFactory<\/a> and AmqpClient<\/a> interfaces; and auto-configuration for Spring Batch<\/a> using MongoDB with a new spring-boot-batch-data-mongo<\/a> module. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a> and this wiki page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Data<\/p>\n The second milestone release<\/a> of Spring Data<\/a> 2026.0.0 ships with notable changes such as: a new @EnableRedisListeners<\/a> annotation, in Spring Data Redis<\/a>, that enables listener endpoints for publication and subscription; a new bulkWrite() method, added to the MongoOperations<\/a> interface in Spring Data MongoDB<\/a>, that allows for a mix of insert, update and delete operations in one method call; and new compare-and-set and compare-and-delete functionality, for users of Redis 8.4<\/a>, with new set and delete operations that allows for configuring the command conditions and expiration.<\/p>\n Spring Security<\/p>\n The third milestone release<\/a> of Spring Security<\/a> 7.1.0 provides bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new MessageExpressionAuthorizationManager<\/a> class for authorization of an expression-based message to a public API; and a new InetAddressMatcher<\/a> interface that allows for general reuse by extracts logic for matching a Java InetAddress<\/a> class from the Jakarta Servlet HttpServletRequest<\/a> class.<\/p>\n This release also addresses CVE-2026-22732<\/a>, a vulnerability that allows an attacker to expose sensitive data via caching mechanisms due to HTTP headers not being written while specifying HTTP response headers for servlet applications using Spring Security.<\/p>\n Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Integration<\/p>\n The third milestone release<\/a> of Spring Integration<\/a> 7.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new CloudEventHeadersBuilder<\/a> class that exposes a builder through the headers() method, defined in the CloudEvents<\/a> class, to configure cloud event headers with direct values; and a replacement of using the Java TimeUnit<\/a> enum class with the Java Duration<\/a> class in all of the RedisQueue* classes. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring AI<\/p>\n The third milestone release<\/a> of Spring AI<\/a> 2.0.0 ships with bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new McpClientCustomizer<\/a> interface that allows for customizing a named client component; an improved, more generic, builder pattern in the ZhiPuAiChatOptions<\/a> class for a more flexible configuration; and a new builder pattern added to the OllamaChatOptions<\/a> class for more flexible configuration options. Further details on this release, including breaking changes, may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring AMQP<\/p>\n The third milestone release<\/a> of Spring AMQP<\/a> 4.1.0 provides bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new @AmqpListener<\/a> annotation to support the AMQP 1.0<\/a> specification; and a new classic() method, added to the QueueBuilder<\/a> class, to ensure that a classic queue is set as a default queue if no argument is provided. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring for Apache Kafka<\/p>\n The second milestone release<\/a> of Spring for Apache Kafka<\/a> 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new RENEW acknowledgement type and corresponding renew() method, added to the ShareAcknowledgment<\/a> interface, that extends the acquisition lock on a record when processing takes longer than the configured time; and improvements to the ShareKafkaMessageListenerContainer<\/a> class that add poll-level and listener-level error handling strategies. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Vault<\/p>\n The first milestone release<\/a> of Spring Vault<\/a> 4.1.0 ships with bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new CertificateContainer<\/a> class to to issue, obtain and manage certificate bundles; a new ManagedSecret<\/a> class and SecretsRegistry<\/a> interface for a more simplified management of secrets, obtained from vault operations, using functional callbacks. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of March 16th, 2026, highlighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[215038,44626,11777,49,48,4113,35858,39650,215037,215036,55428,215035,55431,61],"class_list":["post-554564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-amqp","tag-apache-kafka","tag-architecture-design","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-development","tag-java","tag-spring-ai","tag-spring-boot","tag-spring-data","tag-spring-integration","tag-spring-news-roundup-mar16-2026","tag-spring-security","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}