Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from beautiful Paris, France, ahead of the amazing Devoxx France event. I've come to almost all of these events over the years. It's hard to believe it's been more than a decade since the show was first announced. I remember when these franchise editions - Devoxx UK, Devoxx FR, Devoxx PL, Devoxx MA, Devoxx UA, etc. - were new and novel. Now, rumor has it, this year edition of Devoxx FR will be even larger than Devoxx Belgium! What a coup. I love Devoxx. I've talked about it endlessly, but last year's…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.5 release.

This release includes several dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.0-RC1 has been released and is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone now!

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 release.

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

• Transaction support for @PulsarListener and PulsarTemplate

Please see the release notes for more details.

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring HATEOAS 2.1.5, 2.2.2 and 2.3 RC1. The primary content of the release is the upgrade to the latest Spring Framework releases as they contain a fix for a CVE.

The releases will be included in the Spring Boot service and RC release next week.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.1.5 and 2023.0.11 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.2.5, respective 3.1.11 will pick up the above releases by next week.

2023.1.5

• Spring Data Commons 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce that Spring Data release train 2024.0 has entered the release candidate phase with 2024.0.0-RC1 being available now.

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Going forward, we aim for a GA release in mid May. The releases are as usual picked by by Spring Boot.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Finally, here are the links to the documentation and release notes:

• Spring Data Commons 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

The Spring Framework team has been busy reviewing the issue tracker in anger and reducing the number of opened issues. This was long overdue, with a number of issues being invalid or superseded in the meantime. This helped the team focusing on a more manageable amount of issues and we used the opportunity to look at long standing issues that we haven’t had the time to address yet.

In this post, I’d like to walk you through a collection of those relatively small issues, sometimes highly voted, that are finally available in this milestone.

Support for escaping property placeholders

Property placeholders are a way to replace a property from the environment in an arbitrary String. Assuming that customer.name is set to "John Smith" in the Environment…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the core framework team, it is my pleasure to kick off the Spring Framework 6.2 milestone phase: 6.2.0-M1 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

This milestone contains several enhancements in the core container, including a revision of the autowiring algorithm (e.g. for consistent generic type matching and for faster resolution of name-based matches) and a revision of singleton locking (e.g. for background bootstrapping), as well as a range of new features in Spring's testing support. Check out our What's New page for details about the new features…