Spring News Roundup: Third Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, AI and AMQP
InfoQ, Monday, March 23rd, 2026
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.
Spring Boot
The third milestone release of Spring Boot 4.1.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: support for the AMQP 1.0 specification that includes auto-configuration of the AmqpConnectionFactory and AmqpClient interfaces; and auto-configuration for Spring Batch using MongoDB with a new spring-boot-batch-data-mongo module. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page.