Aloha, Spring fans, from beautiful Maui, Hawaii, where I am with my family on a bit of vacation. It's our daughter's Spring break and so we're enjoying the family time while we can get it! I wanted to take a brief interlude in between the never-enough time on the beach and all the rum to get this week's installment out for y'all, so let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Event streaming guru Jan Svoboda on Apache Kafka Design Patterns
• An update on Java 17 adoption
• Build To Manage: Proper Exception Handling Makes Your Applications Easier to Build and Manage
• CVE report published for Spring Framework
• Getting Started with Spring WebFlux
• Initial AOT support in Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3
• Java 18 is out! Get the bits while they're hot! Or at least get Java 17. Wouldn't want to be two major versions behind, would ya?
• Java Records tortured with Lombok yet again (builder edition)
• Want an industrial grade Kubernetes distribution? Check out this blog on how to run Tanzu Application Platform locally on your laptop
• Spring Authorization Server 0.2.3 available now
• Spring Batch 5.0 M2 available now
• Spring Boot 2.5.11 available now
• Spring Boot 2.6.5 available now
• Spring Boot 2.7.0-M3 available now
• Spring Boot 3.0.0-M2 available now
• Spring Security 6.0.0-M3 and 5.7.0-M3 available now
• Spring Security and Thymeleaf - a great post over on the Okta blog
• In this installment of Spring Tips , I look at: Multitenant JDBC: enjoy!
• Spring for GraphQL 1.0 Milestone 6 Released
• The Spring for GraphQL Team is now on Twitter! AND they took the occasion recently to announce that there will soon be Spring GraphQL on RSocket support available! Huzzah!
• I dig this: kagkarlsson/db-scheduler is a persistent cluster-friendly scheduler for Java
• and this: digitalfondue/npjt-extra: A small layer over Spring's NamedParameterJdbcTemplate