Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonderful, fancyful installment of This Week in Spring! I was just at the first Devoxx GR, in the sunny mediterranean city of Athens, Greece. Uh, yah, this was a good'un. If you can get to it, you should. Don't miss next year's installment if you missed this one. And now, I'm in London, for one of my all time favorite shows, Devoxx UK. Are you going to Devoxx UK? Come find me! I'll be talking about Spring Boot 3, and it should be fun. After this, I'm off to Germany where I may be appearing at a JUG near Wolfsburg (I'll keep you posted). Then, it's off to Spring IO in beautiful Barcelona, which is sure to be a ton of fun. Seriously, if you get one show in western Europe, make it this one. And then, finally, it's off to ITKonekt in Belgrade Friends, we've got a whole host of things to get to this week, so let's dive right into it!

• Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC2 available now The latest-and-greatest in our journey to Spring Boot 3.1 is here.
• Another fantastic article by Vlad Mihalcea on Hibernate and Spring Data JPA entity locking
• The Spring Framework docs just got a major upgrade! Check it out! Spring Framework Documentation :: Spring Framework
• Spring Shell 2.1.9, 3.0.3 and 3.1.0-RC1 are now available
• Exciting news! Spring Boot has officially reached a milestone of a thousand contributors! Thanks to the amazing community of developers who have contributed their time and expertise to make Spring Boot better!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion Ken Kousen on Gradle, Java, Kotlin, Mockito, and more
• I love this An Incomplete Guide to Modern Java I/O Idioms by legendary Java Champion Cay Horstman
• Encode Passwords With Spring Boot CLI
• Enhanced pattern-matching will be in Java 21 (JEP 441)!
• This was a good French-language talk introducing some of the foundational knowledge - the core abstractions and patterns - in the Spring Framework: Les secrets internes de Spring (Carl Azoury)
• I love Thomas Vitale's blog looking at how to use Podman to replace Docker Desktop: Podman Desktop for Java Development
• Have you learned about Scoped values in scoped values in Java 20, which will be useful in the structured concurrency afforded by Project Loom
• This is a weird, and interesting topic: how can a bean inject a reference to itself in Spring? I confess I've never really thought about this and I loved this discussion.
• Spring Boot H2 JdbcSQLSyntaxErrorException expected “identifier”