Hi, Spring fans! What a crazy wonderful week it's been and what a wonderful week it'll be! It's the holidays. I've set my out-of-office status and am already winding down for the year. You can expect new episodes of This Week in Spring and a Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), of course, but I won't be doing any new Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) videos until next year. That said, I can't wait for you to see what I'm cooking up for the new installmetn of Spring Tips! It's going to be a ton of fun!

Now then, we've got a crazy amount of stuff to get to this week. Let's dive right into it. It'll be Christmas before we talk again, so Merry Christmas, if you celebrate that. Otherwise, I just hope you're having a wonderful week. I look forward to next week's installment where of course we'll do our yearly This Year in Spring installment!

• I wrapped up the last month's news that's fit to reprint in This Month in Spring, which I wouldn't normally reprint here (talk about a circular dependency!), except that this month's installment is brimming with new and novel stuff about my (mis)adventures with GraalVM and the recently released Spring Native 0.11: check it out!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Ronald Dehuysser, Creator of the Distributed Job Scheduler JobRunr
• Asir V Selvasingh on Twitter
• Blog: Kubernetes 1.23 Prevent PersistentVolume leaks when deleting out of order
• Blog: Kubernetes 1.23: StatefulSet PVC Auto-Deletion (alpha)
• Blog: Using Admission Controllers to Detect Container Drift at Runtime
• Blog: What's new in Security Profiles Operator v0.4.0
• Client Side Development with Spring Boot Applications
• JHipster works with Spring Native, Part 2!
• Migrating a Spring Boot application to Java 17 – the hard way
• Spring Cloud Square 0.4.0-RC1 is available
• Spring Framework 5.3.14 and 5.2.19 available now
• Spring Framework 6.0 M1 released
• Spring GraphQL 1.0.0-M4 Released
• Spring Security 5.2.15, 5.3.13, 5.4.10, 5.5.4 and 5.6.1 released
• Spring Tips: @Controllers and GraphQL
• Test RSocket with IntelliJ IDEA
• The Talking Application: Developing with Spring + Alexa
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 6.x · spring-projects/spring-framework Wiki