Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here (or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!), bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and we'll dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the Spring component model.

This video is a detailed masterclass on the new AOT engine. It starts by examining the everyday usecases of an application developer and delves deeper and deeper into the engine, treating concerns that library and framework developers will care about.

Enjoy!

Also, Happy thanksgiving…

Hi, Spring fans! It's Tuesday, the 22nd of November, 2022, as I write this, which means we're two days away from Spring Boot 3 and Thanksgiving. Spring Boot 3, I've written about in abundance so I won't rehash that. If you want to learn more about some of the amazing new features in Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, perhaps check out my Spring Tips installment introducing them in this episode:

And, of course, a major new feature in Spring Boot 3 is the new ahead-of-time (AOT) engine, about which I speak at great length in tomorrow's new installment of Spring Tips:

This video is done so…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Champion, legendary engineer, and teacher Trisha Gee (@trisha_gee) bout her extraordinary career working at organizations like LMAX, MongoDB, Jetbrains, and her new books, Heads First Java, and Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA.

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doin' this fine Tuesday morning? I've returned home to San Francisco and am up and at 'em nice and early to catch a flight to Seattle, where I'll speak at the Java User Group tonight. If you're in Seattle, don't miss it!

We've got a ton of cool stuff to get into this week, but let's not bury the lede here: Spring Framework 6 comes out tomorrow, Wednesday, the 16th of November, 2022! And you know where to go to get the bits: the Spring Initialzr, start.spring.io!

Let's dive into this week's roundup!

• Did you see the new Reactor 2022.0.0 release? This release contains integration with Micrometer Tracing, context propagation, and plenty of other improvements. See this for more.
• Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 available now
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.5 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 available now
• Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now
• Updates on Spring Cloud Stream 4.0.0 Schema Registry Support
• Coming with the RC of Spring Modulith: improved module canvas listing cross-module bean references (first image) and publicly exposed value types (second image).
• …

This blog gives an update on the Schema Registry support that is part of Spring Cloud Stream version 4.0.x.

Many enterprises use a schema registry for schema evolution use cases, such as the Confluent Schema Registry. Starting with version 1.1.x of Spring Cloud Stream until 3.0.0, we provided a schema registry server and AVRO-based schema registry client converters that can reconcile the schema from the schema registry server. Spring Cloud Stream version 3.0.0 moved the Schema Registry components into a top-level spring-cloud project, and Spring Cloud Stream included those in its BOM for the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to RabbitMQ engineer Arnaud Cogoluègnes (@acogoluegnes) on the new and novel in RabbitMQ

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've been busy this last week! I've been visiting with customers and talking to the community here in South East Asia. I was in Malaysia last week, and now I'm in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm near the end of my time here in SE Asia, which makes me sad. I'm dearly going to miss the food and the weather, but time waits for no person, and it's almost time to go home.

And with time comes a jam-packed roster of new things we can read and learn from. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, legend, and prolific open source contributor Andres Almiray
• CVE Report Published for Spring Tools
• Can a Java Application Use More Memory than the Heap Size?
• JUnit – Testing Methods That Call System.exit()
• Spring Authorization Server 0.4.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.0.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Data 2022.0.0-RC2 available
• Spring Modulith 0.1 M2 released
• Have you tested your application against the upcoming Spring Boot 3? There's a ton of amazing new features arriving in this release and you should definitely be kicking the tires now. Remember: Spring Framework 6 is due in about a week's time and Spring Boot 3 is due less than a few weeks after that! And you know where to go: …

We have released STS 4.16.1 for Eclipse and Spring VSCode extensions 1.40.0 to address the following CVE report:

• CVE-2022-31691: Remote Code Execution via YAML editors in STS4 extensions for Eclipse and VSCode

Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

Eclipse: STS upgrade to 4.16.1 VSCode: Spring Boot Tools upgrade to 1.40.0 VSCode: Concourse CI Pipeline Editor upgrade to 1.40.0 VSCode: Bosh Editor upgrade to 1.40.0 VSCode: Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support upgrade to 1.40.0

See Spring Tools page to find the latest releases

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Champion, legend, and prolific opensource contributor Andres Almiray (@aalmiray)