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SPRING ECOSYSTEM CLOSES COMMONS LOGGING GAP ACROSS THREE PROJECTS
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Spring LDAP, Spring Session, and Spring Data Rest are all pulling the same commons-logging 1.4.0 upgrade overnight, closing a dependency consistency gap across the stack.
Both spring-ldap [1] and spring-session [2] bumped commons-logging from 1.3.6 to 1.4.0 in coordinated moves that suggest this was flagged as a priority across the dependency graph. Spring Tools landed a critical fix for bean method validation [3], stopping false positives when public @Bean methods override inherited methods from superclasses or interfaces, a real pain point for WebMvcConfigurer implementations. The tools team also pinned esbuild to 0.28.1 [4] and updated Spring Boot, Spring AI, and JDT Core dependencies [5]. Spring Data Rest shipped a fix ensuring link-save events now capture the value being saved rather than the previously linked value [6], which matters for PUT operations on collections and maps. Spring Kafka fixed a POM leak where spotbugs was incorrectly marked runtimeOnly instead of compileOnly [7], which was leaking into final artifacts.
Action items
- → Verify commons-logging 1.4.0 compatibility across your Spring LDAP and Session usage spring-projects/spring-ldap [plan]
- → Update Spring Tools if you use bean validation in your IDE spring-projects/spring-tools [monitor]
- → Rebuild Spring Kafka projects to avoid spotbugs runtime leakage spring-projects/spring-kafka [plan]
References
- [1] Bump commons-logging:commons-logging from 1.3.6 to 1.4.0 ↗ spring-projects/spring-ldap
- [2] Bump commons-logging:commons-logging from 1.3.6 to 1.4.0 ↗ spring-projects/spring-session
- [3] Do not flag overridden bean methods ↗ spring-projects/spring-tools
- [4] Ensure esbuild is at 0.28.1 spring-projects/spring-tools
- [5] dependency updates (spring boot, spring ai, jdt core) spring-projects/spring-tools
- [6] Publish link-save events with the value being saved. spring-projects/spring-data-rest
- [7] Make `spotbugs` as `compileOnly` spring-projects/spring-kafka
FAQ
- What changed in Spring on June 18, 2026?
- Spring LDAP, Spring Session, and Spring Data Rest are all pulling the same commons-logging 1.4.0 upgrade overnight, closing a dependency consistency gap across the stack.
- What should Spring teams do about it?
- Verify commons-logging 1.4.0 compatibility across your Spring LDAP and Session usage • Update Spring Tools if you use bean validation in your IDE • Rebuild Spring Kafka projects to avoid spotbugs runtime leakage
- Which Spring repositories shipped on June 18, 2026?
- spring-projects/spring-ldap, spring-projects/spring-session, spring-projects/spring-tools, spring-projects/spring-data-rest, spring-projects/spring-kafka