Release notes from spring-modulith

1.4.1

2025-06-19T21:27:08Z

💡 Improvements

Reflection metadata missing in JSONPath lookup for application module identifiers on GraalVM #1250
Prevent application module misconfiguration due to invalid additional packages #1247

🪲 Bugs

Incompatible path handling for KAPT with Maven #1255
Fix automatic module name of Moments artifact #1220

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5.2 #1257
Upgrade jGit to 7.0.1.202505221510-r #1236
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.8 #1235
Upgrade ArchUnit to 1.4.1 #1233
Upgrade Micrometer Tracing to 1.5.1 #1222

1.3.7

2025-06-19T21:26:32Z

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.4.7 #1256
Upgrade jGit to 7.0.1.202505221510-r #1239
Upgrade ArchUnit to 1.3.2 #1238
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.8 #1237

1.4.0

2025-05-28T07:57:25Z

⭐ New Features

Support for bean instances located in test sources for @ApplicationModuleTest #202
Automatically create counters for cross-module application events #1068
Provide abstraction to access ApplicationModuleIdentifiers in order of module dependency #1066
Avoid the bootstrap of an ApplicationModules instance to execute ApplicationModuleInitializers #1065
Documenter should automatically write application module metadata #1063
Application metadata JSON should list ApplicationModuleInitializer beans #1062
Avoid dependency on JGraphT #1060
Migrate to FinishedSpan.localServiceName(…) #935
Remove AWS integration in favor of Spring Cloud AWS port #1024
Allow detecting NamedInterfaces programmatically #1009
Move to Micrometer's Observations API #928

💡 Improvements

Remove deprecated support for Spring AutoRestDocs for Javadoc extraction #1193^*
Deprecate @CheckReturnValue in favor of the Spring Framework variant #1189^*
Support to disable automatic additional verifications executed by ApplicationModules.verify() #1185^*
Improve rendering of tree structures in reference documentation #1171
Removed deprecated FormatableType #1153
ApplicationModules should expose root packages #1152
ApplicationModule should expose internal types #1150
Module observability listener performance issue on publishEvent #1149
Performance problem with event publication lookup #1146
State change detection for Scenarios should only accept non-empty collections by default #1131
Event externalization bootstrap should log which event types it's configured to externalize. #1130
Align automatic module names with project portfolio #1122
Register AssertablePublishedEvents in test ApplicationContext if AssertJ is on the classpath #1110
ModuleTestExecution should use ApplicationModulesFactory to create ApplicationModules instance #1090
Set up DCO infrastructure #1087
Move AOT processor generating application module metadata to runtime module #1064
Structurally identical events cause the wrong publication to be selected for completion #1056
Avoid dependency on Apache Commons Logging from spring-modulith-docs artifact #1055
ModulithMetadata.of(String) should pick up classes annotated with @Modulithic in the given package #1015
Allow filtering Violations #995
Allow registering skin parameters in generated PlantUML diagrams #983
Provide a Spring Boot compatibility matrix #971
Improve Application Module Canvas rendering #968
Improve documentation when to add the Spring Modulith Core artifact in compile scope #943
Controllers implementing interfaces not mapped when the observability module is used #933

🪲 Bugs

FormattableType.getAbbreviatedTypeName(…) skips containing class for nested ones #1151
@NamedInterface not detected on composed annotation #1139
Fix Kotlin examples for module and named interfaces declarations and … #1138
Severe performance regression in JavaPackage #1098
Complete description for Neo4j index property #1084
Application module identifier not picked up on package marker types #1052
Resubmission of publications must not unregister in-progress publications in case of successful invocation #1051
@ApplicationModuleTest in separate test files does not cache the ApplicationContext #1050
ApplicationModuleSource picks up module identifier from nested modules #1042
NamedInterfaces.Builder excludes all packages by default #1040
JavaPackage.getSubPackages() does not include empty intermediate packages #1039
ApplicationModuleInformation needs to be public #1038
Proxy creation in observability support should use the original bean's classloader #1016
IllegalArgumentException in AsciiDoc generation for Spring @EventListeners without parameters #1006
Prevent compile time dependency of APT on docs artifact #984
Asciidoctor.toInlineCode(String) does not handle local method references correctly #965
Archiving JPA entity causes unnecessary need to set up archive table #964

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade Micrometer Tracing to 1.5.0 #1205^*, #1169, #1104, #1072, #1036
Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5 #1203, #1176, #1073, #1037
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.7 #1202, #1168, #1116, #1103, #1071, #1046
Upgrade jMolecules to 2023.3.1 #1167, #1045
Upgrade to ArchUnit 1.4 #1097
Upgrade to APTK 0.29 #992
Upgrade to Structurizr 3.1 #961

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Alexander-Miller @ciberkleid @marcingrzejszczak @lukasdo @dtsaryov @sangjun121

^* – Added between RC1 and GA.

1.3.6

2025-05-27T08:09:50Z

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.4.6 #1201
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.7 #1200

1.2.13

2025-05-27T08:08:55Z

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3.12 #1199
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.1.20 #1198

1.4 RC1

2025-04-25T12:15:25Z

💡 Improvements

Improve rendering of tree structures in reference documentation #1171
Removed deprecated FormatableType #1153
ApplicationModules should expose root packages #1152
ApplicationModule should expose internal types #1150
Module observability listener performance issue on publishEvent #1149
Performance problem with event publication lookup #1146
State change detection for Scenarios should only accept non-empty collections by default #1131
Event externalization bootstrap should log which event types it's configured to externalize. #1130
Align automatic module names with project portfolio #1122

🪲 Bugs

FormattableType.getAbbreviatedTypeName(…) skips containing class for nested ones #1151
@NamedInterface not detected on composed annotation #1139
Fix Kotlin examples for module and named interfaces declarations and … #1138

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5 RC1 #1176
Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.5 RC1 #1169
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.6 #1168
Upgrade jMolecules to 2023.3.1 #1167

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@dtsaryov @sangjun121

1.3.5

2025-04-25T09:35:34Z

💡 Improvements

Improve rendering of tree structures in reference documentation #1173
Performance problem with event publication lookup #1160
Event externalization bootstrap should log which event types it's configured to externalize. #1136

🪲 Bugs

FormattableType.getAbbreviatedTypeName(…) skips containing class for nested ones #1161
@NamedInterface not detected on composed annotation #1142
Fix Kotlin examples for module and named interfaces declarations and … #1140

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.4.5 #1175
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.6 #1165
Upgrade jMolecules to 2023.2.2 #1164

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@sangjun121

1.2.11

2025-04-25T09:35:11Z

💡 Improvements

Improve rendering of tree structures in reference documentation #1174
Event externalization bootstrap should log which event types it's configured to externalize. #1137

🪲 Bugs

@NamedInterface not detected on composed annotation #1143
Fix Kotlin examples for module and named interfaces declarations and … #1141

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3.11 #1172
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.1.19 #1162

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@sangjun121

1.4 M3

2025-03-21T11:18:19Z

⭐ New Features

Support for bean instances located in test sources for @ApplicationModuleTest #202

💡 Improvements

🪲 Bugs

Severe performance regression in JavaPackage #1098

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.5 #1116
Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.5 M3 #1104
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.4 #1103
Upgrade to ArchUnit 1.4 #1097

1.3.4

2025-03-21T10:46:40Z

🪲 Bugs

Severe performance regression in JavaPackage #1100

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.4.4 #1121
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.5 #1115
Upgrade to ArchUnit 1.3.1 for Java 24 support #1112
Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.4 #1108