Hi, Spring fans! How're things? It's almost Halloween! I'm so excited! I'm going as a PHP program. Boooooooo...t. I'm writing this from the amazing Vaadin Create conference in Frankfurt, Germany, about to do my keynote for an amazing, Spring-loving audience here. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

• RestClient support for OAuth 2 in Spring Security 6.4
• Spring Modulith 1.3 RC1, 1.2.5, and 1.1.10 released. The RC has several cool new contributions, including one from my friend and teammate Cora Iberkleid introducing an archiving event publication completionm mode; and one contribution from me, that supports externalizing events with Spring Integration MessageChannels. Nice! Get the bits now!
• An awesome blog from Marcin Grzejszczak: Let's Use OpenTelemetry with Spring
• Spring Boot 3.4.0 RC1 is available now
• in last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to GraalVM benevolent dictator for life and founder Thomas Wuerthinger
• Spring Integration 6.4 RC1
• Spring Boot 3.3.5 available
• Spring Framework 6.2.0 RC3 available now
• Spring Boot 3.2.11 available now
• Spring Batch 5.2.0 RC1 is out
• Spring Authorization Server 1.4.0 RC1, 1.3.3, and 1.2.7 now available
• Spring for GraphQL 1.2.9 and 1.3.3 released
• Spring AMQP 3.2 RC1 available
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0 RC1 released
• I love this incredibly comprehensive list of cool people in the Java ecoststem
• this is an interesting Portuguese-language video on creating a To-Do list in Spring Boot
• Have you seen the new CRON expressions support in Spring Tools 4?
• Spring AI continues its Anthropic integration with support for the newly released Claude 3.5 Sonnet model upgrade
• A nice blog by Karanbir Singh on using Spring Boot AWS Roles Anywhere
• Hey! Readers of Java Magazine (NL), check out Oracle GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko's new article looking at the amazing opportunity in using Spring and GraalVM together
• Did you see the latest Spring Boot 3.3.5 release has an incredible optimization for scalability in R2DBC (and, for the moment, PostgreSQL)?
• A recap for those who need it: Aggregate Design Rules according to Vaughn Vernon