Hi, Spring fans! It's the 20th of December, 2022 as I write this, which means that by the time we meet again, here on this humble blog, Tuesday next week, Christmas will already have come and gone. Chanukah is already here! Time is sure flying! So, to those of you who celebrate: Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, and happy holidays!

There's arguably nothing better than the gift of knowledge, so let's dive right into this week's roundup:

• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Brian Benz on the state of Java, Microsoft, Azure, and so much more
• Spring Framework 6.0.3 available now
• Spring Security 6.0.1, 5.8.1, 5.7.6 and 5.6.10 available now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 0.1.0 available now
• Spring for GraphQL 1.1.1 released
• Fixing the No Main Manifest Attribute in Spring Boot
• Oracle has a nice post: Go Native with Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM
• Baeldung has an interesting tutorial on Pinpoint, which looks to be a large APM suite with some interesting capabilities.
• Stream Large Byte[] to File With WebClient
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Microsoft's Brian Benz (@bbenz)

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I truly, absolutely, can not believe that we're nearly done with the year already! Have you made your new years' resolutions? Submitted your expense reports? It's that time of the year when I'm going to start focusing on staying warm and avoiding undue work for a while :-) I hope you do too. This is why I'm glad I write these roundups: I hope they save people from extra, undue work! So, with that... let's dive into the roundup!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg on rich UIs, Spring Boot 3, GraalVM native images, and more
• A Guide to Spring CredHub
• Do more with Azure Spring Apps – scale to zero and enhance productivity
• Form Login and Basic Authentication in springdoc-openapi
• Getting Started with Blaze Persistence
• Guide to Java PriorityQueue
• Java Generics PECS – Producer Extends Consumer Super
• RSocket Security with Spring Boot via Spring Security | VMware Tanzu Developer Center
• Rate Limiting With Client IP in Spring Cloud Gateway
• Reinitialize Singleton Bean in Spring Context
• a very important release - v3.0.0 - of the rickroll-security-spring-boot-starter · TomCools/rickroll-security-spring-boot-starter…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg (@marcushellberg) about rich UIs, Vaadin Flow, the new Hilla Framework, GraalVM native image compilation, and so much more

In 2020, Spotify coined the term "Golden Path” to refer to a supported approach and set of components to build and deploy software. Having these paths simplifies the development process, lets developers focus on their applications instead of infrastructure and speeds time to production. Microsoft and VMware have partnered to make Azure Spring Apps a golden path for deploying and scaling Spring applications in the cloud. And with new capabilities like the scale to zero and developer productivity enhancements, Azure Spring Apps now offers an even more economical and optimized route to get your…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? You know what I've wanted to do? See my friends on the Spring team in person since the pandemic descended. And, I'm overjoyed to relate, I've just had the privilege of a nice meeting with several of them last night. And I'm going to see more of them today! Seriously. I feel like I won the lottery. I've missed my friends. Hug your friends and family, friends. You never know when the next pandemic (or life in general) will put distance between you and them. So, in order to close that distance, I'm going to go…

With the recent announcement of Spring Boot 3.0 going GA, some of you may be interested in upgrading your Spring Web Services-based applications to take full advantage of this. The Spring WS team has upgraded our set of sample apps to help you carry that out.

The main branch now tracks the version of samples with all these updates. (The prior version of samples built on Spring Boot 2.7 are now on that repository’s 1.0.x branch.)

Some of the highlights are covered below.

A LOT of our tools have moved!

Back in the olden days, much of our XML processing tools were inside the JDK. But ever since…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Champion Gunnar Morling (@gunnarmorling) about messaging middleware, Debezium, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! It's here! It's finally here, at long last! Spring Boot 3!! And of course with Spring Boot 3.0 comes a whole portfolio of integrated projects that have also been updated! Remember, a huge theme in this release is support for GraalVM native images, and that's now supported across the board. You know what to do: start.spring.io.

I put together a Spring Tipds video introducing some of the major themes of Spring Framework 6 / Spring Boot 3.

I also did an in-depth look at the new GraalVM support powered by Spring's ahead-of-time (AOT) engine.

There's so much else to talk about this week, but I really can't stress this enough: Spring Boot 3 is here! In some ways, it feels like this release has been more than four years in the making! It's amazing, and I can't wait for people…