Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein we explore the latest-and-greatest in the wonderful world of Springdom. This week's going to be a very good one, so let's dive right into it!

• https://spring.io/blog/2024/02/23/spring-modulith-1-0-6-1-1-3-and-1-2-m2-released
• https://spring.io/blog/2024/02/23/spring-ai-0-8-0-released
• https://spring.io/blog/2024/02/23/a-bootiful-podcast-timefold-solver-ai-lead-geoffrey-de-smet
• good news everyone! Spring Boot's been updated! 3.3.0-M2, 3.2.3, and 3.1.9 are now available!
• Spring Security 6.2.2, 6.1.7, and 5.8.10 are now available
• Spring LDAP 3.1.4 and 3.2.2 are now available
• Spring Batch 5.0.5 and 5.1.1 are now available
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3.M1 and 1.2.5 are now available
• Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0 M2 and 1.1.5
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.0 M1 is now available
• I had a nice discussion with some of the folks working on Microcks, a consumer driven testing option that works well with Spring. This new release features improved Testcontainers support and GraalVM native image test support.
• Exciting to see GraalVM native image support landing in the Azure OpenAI SDK module for Java
• Did you see the new Micrometer website?
• Want to change the response given from Spring Authorization Serer? Check out this nifty blog from Daniel Garnier-Moiroux
• Speaking of the Spring Authorization Server, I did a video introducing it here a few weeks ago and tomorrow, I've got a video that dives deeper, into securing single page applications and messaging flows with the OAuth Spring Authorization Server. It debuts tonight at midnight, PST.
• I wrote a foreword for a book, Cloud Native Spring in Action, by my friend Thomas Vitale, for Manning. I quite liked the book and was happy to sit down and have a discussion with him for GOTO here
• Have you checked out the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot? You might like this talk I did at Voxxewd CERN a month ago