There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of April 20th, 2026, highlighting the first release candidates of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring Vault.<\/p>\n
Spring Boot<\/p>\n
The first release candidate<\/a> of Spring Boot<\/a> 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) SDK exporter environment variables<\/a>; and support the Spring Framework LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy<\/a> class for improved transaction management. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Security<\/p>\n The first release candidate of Spring Security<\/a> 7.1.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new method, anyOf(), added to the AllRequiredFactorsAuthorizationManager<\/a> class, that grants access to a resource via the AuthorizationManager<\/a> interface; and support for the new Spring Framework PreFlightRequestFilter<\/a> class, a servlet filter that handles pre-flight requests. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Session<\/p>\n The first release candidate of Spring Session<\/a> 4.1.0 provides documentation improvements to reflect support for Spring Boot 4.x. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Integration<\/p>\n The first release candidate<\/a> of Spring Integration<\/a> 7.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a refactor of the RedisLockRegistry<\/a> class that takes advantage of the Redis 8.4+ Compare-and-Set (CAS) and Compare-and-Delete (CAD) native commands for lock renewal and release; and improvements to the JmsChannelFactoryBean<\/a> class that allows users to set a custom instance of the Spring Framework JmsTemplate<\/a> class instead of using the default. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a> and this what’s new<\/a> page.<\/p>\n Spring Modulith<\/p>\n The first release candidate<\/a> of Spring Modulith<\/a> 2.1.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and improvements such as: a new @ModuleSlicing<\/a> annotation that eliminates integration test failures on multiple types annotated with @SpringBootApplication<\/a>; and improved transaction handling in JobRunr<\/a> by decorating the Java DataSource<\/a> interface, fed into the JobRunr StorageProvider<\/a> interface, to ensure that Spring transactions are considered as expected for event externalization. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring AMQP<\/p>\n The first release candidate of Spring AMQP<\/a> 4.1.0 provides bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new method, setStopListenerOnFatal(), added to the ConditionalRejectingErrorHandler<\/a> class, that now treats a fatal error as “fatal” for the listener, not the message; and improvements to the @EnableAmqp<\/a> annotation that semantically aligns with its @EnableRabbit<\/a> counterpart. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring for Apache Kafka<\/p>\n The first release candidate<\/a> of Spring for Apache Kafka<\/a> 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new ContainerProperties.ShareAckMode<\/a> enum class that maps use cases (explicit mode, implicit mode and manual) to a clear name for shared consumers; and support for the Apache Kafka AcknowledgementCommitCallback<\/a> interface that provides visibility into the success or failure of asynchronous commits. More details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a> and this what’s new<\/a> page.<\/p>\n Spring LDAP<\/p>\n The first release candidate of Spring LDAP<\/a> 4.1.0 ships with one bug fix, dependency upgrades and two new features: the removal of constraints with the dependency on JUnit 4; and a refactor of the LdapClient<\/a> interface that adds various single, optional, list, and stream methods to align with the Spring Framework JdbcClient<\/a> interface. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spring Vault<\/p>\n The first release candidate<\/a> of Spring Vault<\/a> 4.1.0 provides bug fixes, dependency upgrades and one new feature that builds on the recent release of HashiCorp Vault<\/a> 2.0. 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