On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 4.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 113 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes . Notable new features include: Support for OpenTelemetry SDK environment variables HTTP Client SSRF Mitigation with InetAddressFilter Support for LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag . Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow