Spring News Roundup: First Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP
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"Spring Boot The first milestone release of Spring Boot 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a new @AutoConfigureWebServer annotation to start a webserver in support of the annotation with specific classes and a random port; and improved observability and metrics support with automatic configuration of configuration beans defined in Spring AMQP and Spring Kafka."
"Spring Security The first milestone release of Spring Security 7.1.0 ships with bug fixes, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a nullability contract added to the method defined in the interface; and use of the getSharedInstance() method, defined in the Spring Framework DefaultParameterNameDiscoverer class, instead of creating separate custom instances of that class. More details on this release may be found in the release notes."
"The first milestone release of Spring Integration 7.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: new spring-integration-cloudevents and spring-integration-grpc modules to support CloudEvents transformations and the gRPC Protocol, respectively; and new and classes to serve as inbound and outbound gateways"
During the week of January 19, 2026, multiple Spring projects issued milestone releases. Spring Boot 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, a new @AutoConfigureWebServer annotation to start a webserver with specific classes and a random port, and improved observability with automatic configuration for Spring AMQP and Spring Kafka configuration beans. Spring Boot 4.0.2 removes the unused org.eclipse.jetty.ee11:jetty-ee11-servlets dependency. Spring Security 7.1.0 adds a nullability contract and switches to DefaultParameterNameDiscoverer.getSharedInstance(). Spring Integration 7.1.0 adds spring-integration-cloudevents and spring-integration-grpc modules plus new gateway classes. Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP, and Spring AI also saw milestone releases.
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