Hi, Spring fans! I hope everyone who celebrated Thanksgiving had a wonderful time. Did you indulge in too much turkey? Anyway, let's jump into this week's edition of This Week in Spring—a particularly special one for a couple of reasons. First, it's our first issue after the launch of Spring Boot 3.2 last Thursday. Second, it's my inaugural post as a member of the Broadcom family. Exciting times!
Spring Boot 3.2: A Game Changer
Spring Boot 3.2 is nothing short of revolutionary. I've delved into its myriad features in an in-depth video, which you can watch here. This release includes:
reactive cache/scheduled abstraction
virtual threads (project Loom)
CRaC
improved GraalVM native image support
Spring for Apache Pulsar support
the new Spring Framework 6.1 RestClient and JdbcClient
The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Paul Bakker from Netflix mentioned on Twitter that Netflix is gearing up to roll out Spring Boot 3.2 this week. Similarly, Michael Simmons tweeted about his seamless upgrade experience with a decade-old Spring Boot project.
More From the Spring Sphere
There's a plethora of other exciting Spring-related updates and articles from the past week. Let's dive into those: