--- title: Spring Boot 4 & Spring Framework 7 – What’s New | daily.dev description: Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7 introduce significant modernization updates including Java 17 baseline with Java 21/25 support, Jakarta EE 11 alignment,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-4-spring-framework-7-what-s-new-32sgv6roy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Spring Boot 4 & Spring Framework 7 – What’s New | daily.dev og:description: Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7 introduce significant modernization updates including Java 17 baseline with Java 21/25 support, Jakarta EE 11 alignment,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-4-spring-framework-7-what-s-new-32sgv6roy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/32sGV6Roy.png og:image:alt: Spring Boot 4 & Spring Framework 7 – What’s New og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Spring Boot 4 & Spring Framework 7 – What’s New **[Baeldung](https://daily.dev/sources/baeldung)** · 11 min read · 93 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7 introduce significant modernization updates including Java 17 baseline with Java 21/25 support, Jakarta EE 11 alignment, and Kotlin 2.2+ compatibility. Key features include enhanced GraalVM native image support, built-in API versioning, declarative HTTP clients with @HttpServiceClient, resilience annotations for retry logic, improved observability with Micrometer 2 and OpenTelemetry, modular architecture for better performance, and JSpecify null safety adoption. The releases also bring testing improvements with context pausing and RestTestClient, while removing deprecated javax.* packages and Jackson 2.x support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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