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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the Spring Cloud 2021.0.3 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.3 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.3 Release Train

This release is primarily for compatibility with Spring Boot 2.7.0 along with Spring Boot 2.6.x.

To see all the issues and pull requests in this release, please see here.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Bug fixes and minor enhancements

Spring Cloud Contract

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Spring Boot and Spring Cloud luminary, the good Dr. @David_Syer, about the latest and greatest on Spring and Kubernetes

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post by Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft

Azure Spring Cloud is now Azure Spring Apps

We launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019 to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. Since then we’ve helped many customers adopt the service including Bosch, Digital Realty, FedEx, Kroger, Liantis, Morgan Stanley, National Life, Raley’s, and Swiss Re. They value the fully managed infrastructure of Azure Spring Cloud that lets them focus on their apps, while the service manages dynamic scaling, security patching, out-of-the-box instrumentation for monitoring, and more. Through customer feedback. we have expanded the capabilities of the service, including the Enterprise tier that we announced in preview at SpringOne 2021. Azure Spring Cloud is a fully-featured platform for all types of Spring applications, and to better reflect this the service is now Azure Spring Apps.

Hi, Spring fans! I’m in Spain for business and not just a little pleasure. Yesterday, my partner, her mother, and I went to Formentera, Spain, a little island off of Ibiza, Spain. It was amazing. We’re now in Ibiza, Spain, which is a little island not far from Barcelona, Spain, on the mainland of Spain. It feels a bit like that Inception movie. We traveled by boat to Formentera for a little vacation inside of another little vacation (Ibiza) and inside of another little vacation (Barcelona). Tomorrow I’ll return to Barcelona for the Spring IO event. Yes, technically, this is work. But it’s an oh-so-much pleasure, too. I can’t wait! It’ll be the first time I’ve seen a ton of these people in years! I hope to see y’all there or los vemos!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 74 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configuration for Micrometer Observation, Tracing, and OtlpMeterRegistry
• Reinstated Support for REST Assured and Pooled JMS

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

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

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What’s new in 2.7

The highlights of the 2.7 release include:

• Auto-configuration and metrics for Spring for GraphQL; see related 1.0 release announcement
• New @DataCouchbaseTest and @DataElasticsearchTest support
• Podman can now be used when building images using Cloud Native Buildpacks
• Support for Cache2k
• Simplified registration of Jackson Mixins
• Web server SSL configuration using PEM-encoded certs

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Devoxx UK organizer and Voxxed Days cofounder Mark Hazell (@mrhazell).