Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, it's been another crazy awesome, and jam-packed week in Spring, so we've got a ton of stuff to get to and so very little time in which to do it. Andiamo!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Mark Pollack on Physics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Data, Spring.NET, Spring XD, and so much more
• Changing Spring Boot packaging to WAR and deploying to Tomcat and Jetty
• Discover Lenovo Innovation at VMworld: Smarter Technology for All
• How much faster is Java 17?
• In June, Okta's Matt Raible, Brian Demers and I did a Twitch stream to figure out how to make the Okta Spring Boot starter work with Spring Native. We succeeded! However, it wasn't easy. Watch our trials and tribulations in this video.
• Check out this massive commit kicking off the official Jakarta EE 9 migration within the Spring Framework codebase!
• Spring Data 2021.0.5 and 2020.0.13 released
• Spring Data 2021.1.0-M3 released
• Spring Framework 5.3.10 and 5.2.17 available now
• Spring Security 5.6.0-M3 released
• Spring Tips: A Bootiful Look at SpringOne 2021
• Spring Tools 4.12.0 released
• Vaadin Reaches Version 21
• What are the implications for our applications if we reduced (or halved) the Java object header size ?
• Oracle recently proposed a two year cadence (instead of three) for long term releases. Microsoft's Martijn Verburg's onboard with the new proposal. This bodes well! ](https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pi)