Hi, Spring fans! It's Tuesday, the 22nd of November, 2022, as I write this, which means we're two days away from Spring Boot 3 and Thanksgiving. Spring Boot 3, I've written about in abundance so I won't rehash that. If you want to learn more about some of the amazing new features in Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, perhaps check out my Spring Tips installment introducing them in this episode:

And, of course, a major new feature in Spring Boot 3 is the new ahead-of-time (AOT) engine, about which I speak at great length in tomorrow's new installment of Spring Tips:

This video is done so that you can watch the first part as an application developer and get a lot out of it. Folks who want to take the concepts further - as a library, or framework, or developer, can carry on 'till the end of the video. Either way, I hope you learn something interesting in your journey to production with Spring Boot 3, due - again - in less than 48 hours' time!

I mentioned Thanksgiving. The US isn't the only country to have such a holiday, so I'm perhaps telling some folks things they already know, for which I'm sorry, but: Thanksgiving is a (self-explanatory) holiday in which people are encouraged to be thankful. To take stock in our lives and find reasons for gratitude. My friends, I am grateful for you. I'm sure I speak for the entire Spring team (celebrating Thanksgiving or not!) when I say that we are all thankful for you. Happy Thanksgiving, my friends.

Without further ado, let's dive right into this week's epic roundup.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, legendary engineer, and teacher Trisha Gee
• Access HTTPS REST Service Using Spring RestTemplate
• Enable and Disable Endpoints at Runtime With Spring Boot
• Expression Types in Thymeleaf
• New Major Releases of Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring for RabbitMQ
• Spring Authorization Server 0.4.0 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.0 is now GA
• Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10.0-RC2 Released
• Spring Data 2021.2.6 and 2021.1.10 available
• Spring Data 2022.0 goes GA
• Spring Framework 5.3.24 available now
• Spring Framework 6.0 goes GA
• Spring Modulith 0.1 RC1 released
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.7.RELEASE
• Spring REST Docs 3.0.0
• Spring Security 5.8 and 6.0 are now GA
• Spring Web Services 4.0.0 is now GA
• Spring for GraphQL 1.0.3 released
• Kafka’s Shift from ZooKeeper to Kraft
• Blog: Kubernetes Removals, Deprecations, and Major Changes in 1.26