Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

Have you tried out Spring Boot 3.2? It comes out NEXT week on the 23rd! Get the bits and try them out now! https://start.spring.io

This week I am joined by Google Developer Advocate, Java legend, Alexis Moussine Pouchkine

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the core framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.0 is generally available from Maven Central now! The 6.1 generation comes with several key themes:

• Embracing JDK 21 LTS
• Virtual Threads (Project Loom)
• JVM Checkpoint Restore (Project CRaC)
• Resource Lifecycle Management, revisited
• Data Binding and Validation, revisited
• New RestClient and JdbcClient APIs

Virtual Threads are a perfect fit for Spring MVC on a lean Servlet stack (typically on Tomcat), providing a new degree of scalability with imperative programming in common web…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.31 and 6.0.14 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.31 ships with 18 fixes and documentation improvements, including 1 fix for a regression. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.18, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 6.0.14 ships with 38 fixes and documentation improvements, including 4 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.13 and 3.1.6, to be released next week.

Note, Spring Boot 2.7.18 and 3.0.13 will be the last OSS support releases in the 2.7.x and 3.0.x lines respectively…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops (on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less)!

Some key features include:

• virtual threads
• initial CRaC support
• more sophisticated observability with Micrometerio
• JdbcClient, RestClient
• ActiveMQ Testcontainers/ Docker Compose support
• Kotlin 1.9.0

I can't wait for the next release. I've been playing with it for months. It builds on the strenghts of Spring Boot 3.0 and 3.1. 3.0 brought GraalVM native images, and 3.…

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment I talk to Azul Deputy CTO Simon Ritter (@speakjava), recorded live at Devoxx Belgium 2023!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.14, 3.0.9, 3.1.5 and 3.2.0-M3 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Spring Repos respectively.

Please see the release notes 2.1.14, release notes 3.0.9, release notes 3.1.5 and release notes 3.2.0-M3 for more details.

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

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Hi, Spring fans!

Can you believe we've already turned the calendar page to November? Time sure is a swift developer, deploying months as if they were minor versions in an ever-evolving application. As we adjust our clocks to fall back, waving a reluctant goodbye to daylight savings time, the encroaching evening arrives with a brisk efficiency. Yes, it's dark outside, a bit too early for my liking, if I'm honest. The shortened days remind us that while we may not be in control of the celestial clock, we do have the power to harness the hours we're given. This is the perfect time to settle in…

In Spring Boot 3.2.0, we're adding the ability for embedded web servers to hot-reload SSL certificates and keys. That means you can rotate your SSL trust material without restarting your application. Hot reloading is supported for Tomcat and Netty embedded web servers.

Let's see that in action!

First, we're going to create our SSL private key and matching certificate using OpenSSL:

mkdir certs
cd certs
openssl req -x509 -subj "/CN=demo-cert-1" -keyout demo.key -out demo.crt -sha256 -days 365 -nodes -newkey ed25519 

This creates a private key stored in certs/demo.key and a matching (self-signed) certificate with the common name "demo-cert-1" in certs/demo.crt…