Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's time to dive into this week's wondrous roundup!

• Good news, everybody! Spring Cloud AWS 3.3.0 is available!
• A neat video on stored procedures in Spring
• A very interesting article on the flow diagrams for Spring Security—a must-bookmark!
• The Spring Academy has a new tutorial on Spring Cloud Stream.
• Christian Tsolov (our very own Spring AI wunderkind!) has an amazing blog detailing how to write agentic code with Spring AI.
• Spring Data 2024.1.2 and 2024.0.8 released.
• Spring gRPC 0.3.0 released.
• In last week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talked to the Apache Causeway project's Dan Haywood.
• Spring Framework 6.2.2 is available.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.1.2 and 2024.0.8 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

Next week, we are shipping a first milestone of the Spring Data 4.0 development line (Calver 2025.1.0 M1) containing several refinements around JPA support including the baseline upgrade to JPA 3.2 (Hibernate 7.0 Beta3, Eclipselink 5.0 B05) based on Spring Framework 7.0 M1. This is…

The experimental Spring gRPC project released its 0.3.0 version recently. Jars are available in Maven Central, and you can generate a new project with Spring gRPC at https://start.spring.io. We recommend you do that if you are trying it out because there are some build plugins to configure and the generated project will have that all sorted out for you.

The new release has some updates to factory interfaces on the client side. Also there is now full support for autoconfiguration of client side interceptors, including the ones from Micrometer. On the server side we now support Spring Security…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Dan Haywood, contributor to the Apache Causeway project.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.2.2 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.2.2 ships with 47 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.2 and 3.5.0-M1.

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Hi, Spring fans, and greetings from the island of St. Barths! Salut depuis l'île de Saint-Barthélemy!

I'm on a bit of PTO and have been bouncing around from one beach to another with my family. I just landed on a winning combination for a beach: warm water, a restaurant/bar, and some for-pay seats with shade. There are precisely three things to do in such a cherished spot: use it as a launchpad for occasional dips in the sea, read, and sleep—usually in that order!

And you know what I've been reading? The wild and wacky antics of the Spring community, of course!

There's a ton of exciting news…

We're pleased to announce Spring AI MCP 0.5.0 milestone release.

Major Features & Improvements

Transport Layer Enhancements

• New Servlet-based SSE Transport

  • Added HttpServletSseServerTransport with Servlet 6.0 support
  • Enables integration with any Java HTTP server supporting Servlets
  • Compatible with Jakarta Servlet API 6.1.0
  • Includes comprehensive integration tests with Tomcat

• Enhanced WebMVC Transport

  • Replaced Spring's SseEmitter with custom BlockingQueue-based implementation
  • Improved event delivery control and connection management
  • Added dedicated session management with SSEEvent record
  • Enhanced error handling and timeout management
  • Includes comprehensive integration tests
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.5 (aka Leyton) Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2023.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.5 Release Train

This is mostly a bugfix and dependency upgrade release. Please find the issues and pull requests here.

The following modules were updated as part of 2023.0.5: