Hi Spring fans, and Happy Halloween from the Spring team to those who celebrate!

I hope your evening is fun and your day free of scary bugs!

My friends, we've got some interesting stuff to look at this week so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls
• Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2022.0.0 available now
• Spring Statemachine 4.0.0-M1 is now available
• laech/java-stacksrc: Decorates stack traces with source code snippets. - this is super cool. It's a way to decorate stack traces with source code snippets.
• Blog: Introducing ingress2gateway; Simplifying Upgrades to Gateway API
• Blog: Plants, process and parties: the Kubernetes 1.28 release interview
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-M1 is now available from Spring repos.

Please see the release notes 4.0.0-M1 for more details.

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

How can you help?

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2022.0.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release updates all of the applications from Spring Boot 2.7.x to 3.1.x. There are many other fixes and enhancements, see the release notes for more information.

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub.

On behalf of the Spring Framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second Spring Framework 6.1 release candidate is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

Spring Framework 6.1.0-RC2 ships 51 fixes and improvements.

This is our last stop before the official 6.1.0 release mid-November!

What's next

Check out our What's New page for details about the specific features shipped so far.

The second Spring Boot 3.2 release candidate will be released next week.

Hi, Spring fans! This week, I'm joined by one of my longtime heroes and fellow Disney fans, Craig Walls (@habuma). He wrote the most popular book on Spring, Spring in Action, while helping the world stay connected with efforts like Spring Social.

This episode was recorded live at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las vegas, NV! Did you miss it?

Other parts in this blog series

Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Part 3: Synchronizing with External Transaction Managers in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Part 4: Transactional Rollback Strategies with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka

Part 5: Apache Kafka’s Exactly-Once Semantics in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

In this last part of this blog series, we dive into a relatively new design pattern first proposed by Chris Richardson but seeing it from the perspective of Spring Cloud Stream. We will see what the outbox pattern is, how it works, and how we can adapt to the semantics of this pattern when using Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. See the descriptions here…

Hi, Spring fans! This week I'm in Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal, ahead of the Porto Tech Hub event in Porto, and my tour bus is about to leave! So, let's dive right into it!

• Spring Authorization Server 1.1.3, 1.0.4 and 0.4.4 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.2.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Boot 2.7.17 available now
• Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Modulith 1.1 RC1 and 1.0.2 released - this is quickly turning into one of my favorite new projects and is well worth your attention, too. It's a structured way to build well-designed, elegant, modular monoliths (or moduliths), but it…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Vault 3.1.0-RC1 release is available now.

Spring Vault 3.1.0-RC1 ships with numerous enhancements.

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