After almost 5 years, new major releases of Spring Boot and Spring Framework are imminent in autumn 2022. The talk briefly skims over important milestones of the current 2.0/5.0 generation and discusses the changes and trends of the Java ecosystem since then, such as new Java and JakartaEE versions, ahead of time (AOT) compilation and GraalVM native images. We then elaborate on how these themes are reflected in the upcoming releases of Spring Boot 3 and Spring Framework 6, look out on topics of the coming releases and conclude with a brief overview about news in the general Spring ecosystem.