Who contributed to Spring on July 16, 2026?

6 developers shipped this update, including Stéphane Nicoll, gichanGim, zxuhan, BoykoAlex, Zernov-A, and Soby Chacko.

What were the notable Spring updates?

Remove deprecated code, Make ResourceHandlerRegistrationCustomizer public, and Expose Path getters on ApplicationHome and ApplicationTemp.

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SPRING BOOT CLEANS HOUSE WHILE INTEGRATION FIXES KAFKA BATCH MODE

By RepoJournal · Filed 07:01 UTC on July 16, 2026 · About Spring

6 people shipped this

Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll 1 cited

gichanGim @gichanGim 1 cited

zxuhan @zxuhan 1 cited

BoykoAlex @BoykoAlex 1 cited

Zernov-A @Zernov-A 1 cited

Soby Chacko @sobychacko 1 cited

Spring Boot is removing deprecated code and exposing critical NIO APIs, while Spring Integration ships a fix for Kafka batch processing that was breaking downstream splitters.

In brief

Spring Boot nuked deprecated code. dead weight's finally out. if you're on an old version, upgrade window just closed.
Spring Integration fixed batch mode message ID generation in KafkaMessageDrivenChannelAdapter. kafka users who hit this one know the pain.
ResourceHandlerRegistrationCustomizer is now public in Spring Boot. customizing static resource handling just got easier.
ApplicationHome and ApplicationTemp now expose Path getters. no more string juggling for file paths at startup.

Spring Boot is consolidating its API surface. A cleanup pass removes deprecated code [1], while two interface changes land back-to-back: ResourceHandlerRegistrationCustomizer moves public [2] to match WebFlux parity, and ApplicationHome/ApplicationTemp now expose Path getters [3] so developers stop round-tripping through File.toPath(). This is the polish work that makes migration to modern Java APIs frictionless. Over in Spring Integration, a critical Kafka fix lands [4] addressing batch mode message ID generation that was causing splitter failures downstream. The batch listener was incorrectly inheriting the record-mode converter instead of getting its own BatchMessagingMessageConverter, breaking correlation headers on split messages. Spring Tools continues cleanup, removing LSP contribution leftovers from the Boot Claude plugin [5]. Spring Kafka shifted to the official Apache image for samples [6], deprioritizing the Bitnami variant.

Action items

→ Review Spring Boot deprecation removals before next minor version upgrade spring-projects/spring-boot [plan]
→ If you use Kafka.messageDrivenChannelAdapter with ListenerMode.batch and splitters, upgrade Spring Integration immediately spring-projects/spring-integration [immediate]
→ Migrate to ApplicationHome/ApplicationTemp Path getters to simplify NIO code spring-projects/spring-boot [monitor]

References

[1] Remove deprecated code spring-projects/spring-boot
[2] Make ResourceHandlerRegistrationCustomizer public ↗ spring-projects/spring-boot
[3] Expose Path getters on ApplicationHome and ApplicationTemp ↗ spring-projects/spring-boot
[4] GH-11183: Fix batch mode message ID generation in KafkaMessageDrivenChannelAdapter ↗ spring-projects/spring-integration
[5] Remove LSP contributions leftovers from Boot Claude plugin ↗ spring-projects/spring-tools
[6] Use apache/kafka docker image in sample app instead of bitnami spring-projects/spring-kafka

Quick answers

What shipped in Spring on July 16, 2026?: Spring Boot is removing deprecated code and exposing critical NIO APIs, while Spring Integration ships a fix for Kafka batch processing that was breaking downstream splitters. In total, 32 commits and 5 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Spring on July 16, 2026?: 6 developers shipped this update, including Stéphane Nicoll, gichanGim, zxuhan, BoykoAlex, Zernov-A, and Soby Chacko.
What were the notable Spring updates?: Remove deprecated code, Make ResourceHandlerRegistrationCustomizer public, and Expose Path getters on ApplicationHome and ApplicationTemp.

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