Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 16th of January already! We're closer to February than not! I can hardly believe it.

As always, we've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it.

• the Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-m1 is now available
• this is such a cool project: it lets you use the Spring Boot programming model for TestContainers - as dependencies that get spun up for you automatically - but for other Spring Boot projects, like other services. It's super common to spin up multiple JVMs to test an entire application. One such use case? Spinning up an instance of the Spring Authorization Server, or the Spring Cloud Eureka Server, or the Spring Cloud Config Server, or even just collaborating microservices.
• Spring Session 3.3.0 M1 is now available
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.2 is now available
• Spring Web Services 4.0.10 is now available
• Spring Data 2023 1.2 and 2023.0.8 are now available
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.2 is now available
• Spring Framework 6.1.3 and 6.0.16 are now available
• in last week's episode of a Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Trista Pan (from Apache «ShardingSphere) and Sheng Wu (from Apache Skywalking)
• in last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at Spring Data JDBC
• Trifork has a fantastic blog looking at how to ugprade to the latest-and-greatest Spring Cloud AWS release
• RabbitMQ 3.13 has some nice new queues
• Interesting new effort: WireMock Spring Boot drastically simplifies testing HTTP clients in Spring Boot & Junit 5 based integration tests
• Have you seen the Spring Health Assessment Report? Find out what you can do to improve your application
• A practical guide to Spring for Apache Kafka and websockets