On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 4.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This first release includes 16 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Support for Apache Axiom has been restored now that it supports Jakarta.
• Apache WSS4J has been upgraded to 4.0.0.

Spring Web Services 4.1.x is based on Spring Framework 6.2.x and Spring Security 6.5.x and will be the LTS in that line.

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-ws tag.

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