Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome (and oh-so-agentic) week in Spring! We've got a ton to look into, and I've got even more to prepare for next week's DevNexus event in Atlanta, GA, so let's dive right into it! (Be sure to say "hi" if you're going to be there, though!)

• You've heard of Agent Skills before, right? The new thing announced about a month ago by Anthropic as a way to conditionally add knowledge about your expectations for workflows, processes, conventions, etc.? Well, good news! In this video, DaShaun Carter, James Ward, and I look at the amazing support for building Agent Skills (.md) with Spring AI and--- you heard it here first! ---the new SkillsJars project!
• In this video, I look at some of my favorite features in the new Spring gRPC 1.0 release, going from .proto to an OAuth-secured, gRPC-powered client and service that runs in a GraalVM native image.
• Enterprise-grade AI with Spring AI. In this video, I look at the latest and greatest (the ChatClient, RAG, MCP) in the Spring AI ecosystem and explore production-centric concerns like MCP security (with OAuth and the Spring Authorization Server, natch!); observability; scalability (virtual threads); and efficiency (with GraalVM native images).
• I had the privilege of sitting down with Neo4j developer advocate extraordinaire Jennifer Reif to revisit modern Neo4j in the context of Spring Data Neo4j! Enjoy this Neo4j first steps with Jennifer Reif.
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, Glenn Renfro and I talk about the amazing DevNexus event (which is going to be, again, next week! Will you be there? Glenn, James Ward, DaShaun Carter, and I will all be there!).
• In this video, I looked at some of my favorite features in the new Spring Security 7, including passkeys, one-time tokens, multi-factor authentication, authorization, Password4j, and more.
• Skills, by the way, are very interesting, and there have been several very good ones created of late. I really liked this one from Julien Dubois, which shows how he would create a Spring Boot project.
• Spring Modulith 2.1 M2 and 2.0.3 and 1.4.8 released
• Spring Boot 4.1.0-M2 available now
• Spring Boot 4.0.3 available now
• Spring AMQP 4.1.0 M2 is available now
• Spring Boot 3.5.11 available now
• Spring Integration 7.1.0 M2
• New Spring Session releases available now!
• Spring Framework 7.0.5 available now
• A nice post from our friend Rod on memory in Embabel.
• A nice link from our friend Simon Martinelli on using Mailpit and JavaMail with Spring and Testcontainers.
• Hey, speaking of Simon, he linked to this SonarQube MCP server, which is very interesting and might be worth adding to your MCP client of choice.