Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doin' well. Got a lot of exciting stuff to share with you in the near future so check this space! We've got a ton to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm
• Introduce example value object implemented as record. · xmolecules/jmolecules-examples@4e60942
• Spring Shell 2.1.0-M2 is now available
• Spring Tools 4.13.1 released
• the initial Micrometer 2.0.0 and Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0 observability is on its way to Spring Boot!
• Additions and Updates to Microsoft Build of #OpenJDK https://t.co/LRWnPdBTIY #OpenJDK https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/additions-and-updates-to-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
• Blog: Spotlight on SIG Multicluster
• Build 33 of Java 18 is available
• Liberica Native Image Kit 22.0.0.2 and 21.3.1 builds are released (check out the bit about Spring Native)