Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm en route to Bangalore, India, via Frankfurt, for the Developer Summit 2023 edition. It's going to be a ton of fun, and I hope you won't miss it! para

• Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 available now
• One of the most exciting new features in Spring Boot 3.1 RC1 is the new support for Testcontainers and Docker Compose at development time. I did a video introducing these new features here
• Spring Boot 2.7.11 available now fixing CVE-2023-20873
• Spring Boot 3.0.6 available now fixing CVE-2023-20873
• Spring Boot Debugging with Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
• Spring for GraphQL 1.2.0-RC1 released
• krud-dev/boost: Boost is a desktop application that provides various features to monitor and interact with Spring Boot Applications via Actuator.
• Speaking of the Boost desktop application, …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Java Champion and legend Trisha Gee (@trisha_gee) rejoins the show to talk about Gradle, developer productivity, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I just returned from Western Europe for Devoxx FR (Paris) and Kotlin Conf (Amsterdam). I went home, saw my family, did some laundry, and then turned right back around to head to Chicago, Illinois, for a special joint session of the Chicago Kotlin and Java Users Group tonight where I'll be copresenting with my pal, field CTO Justin Reock. It's going to be a ton of fun! Don't miss out!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Sonatype's Steve Poole and Gradle's Justin Reock on Improving Developer Productivity without compromising on things like security
• Spring Authorization Server 1.0.2 and 0.4.2 available now
• Upgrade to the latest and greatest in Spring Data, because it's good for you: Spring Data 2023.0-RC1 and Service Releases 2022.0.5 & 2021.2.11 released
• Spring Shell 2.1.8, 3.0.2 and 3.1.0-M2 are now available
• A Guide to @Timeout Annotation in JUnit 5
• Best practices for managing Java dependencies
• I love the new pod topology constraint support in Kubernetes 1.27. Blog: Kubernetes 1.27: More fine-grained pod topology spread policies reached beta…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, recorded at Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, I talk to newcomer to the show Steve Poole, from Sonatype, and Justin Reock, from Gradle, about improving developer productivity without comprising on things like security.

• I wrote an e-book on AOT and GraalVM support in Spring Boot 3
• Check out this roving 1 hour tour of Spring Boot 3 over on the Jetbrains channel
• I did a 6m video looking at Spring Boot 3 for the impatient on my channel
• want a great free resource to learn Spring Boot? Check out the Spring.academy

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I am in Amsterdam, Netherlands, preparing to speak at the Utrecht JUG tonight along with fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee. We're not speaking together, but instead it's a double header: she'll speak first, then I after. I am super excited to learn from her! Then, I join James Ward and we'll speak at Kotlin Conf. Then, I take a quick train to Paris to speak at Devoxx Fr. I hope if you're about you'll join me at any of these talks.

• Want to learn the nitty gritty of using Spring Cloud's Azure Key Vault integration? Check out this guide on the Baeldung blog: A Guide to Spring Cloud Azure Key Vault
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 1 - The Basics
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 2 - The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 3 - Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative
• Is There an Equivalent of Spring Boot for Kotlin? (Yes. Also: Sébastien Deleuze works like a "Greek hero")
• Did you know that Spring has a ton of helpful utility methods? Check out this oldie-but-a-goodie Spring Tips…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment I'll talk to legendary Oracle Java Champion (alumnus), Java advocate, professor emeritus, and all around amiable fellow José Paumard, recorded at the amazing Devnexus 2023 event!

• José's English-language Youtube channel
• José's French-language Youtube channel
• José's twitter account
• I wrote an e-book on AOT and GraalVM support in Spring Boot 3
• did u see that Spring Tips video I did on Spring Boot 3 and Vaadin?
• Check out this roving 1 hour tour of Spring Boot 3 over on the Jetbrains channel
• I did a 6m video looking at Spring Boot for the impatient on my channel
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

How are you doin? Me, I'm exhausted! It's been quite the odyssey trying to get to Devnexus, but I made it, eventually! If you're at Devnexus, check out this roundup of interesting and awesome talks from the Spring team and community this week at Devnexus 2023!

• Spring Web Flow 3.0 RC1 Released
• in last weeks' A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Integration lead Artem Bilan
• Announcing Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes 2.0
• Blog: Kubernetes Validating Admission Policies: A Practical Example
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 2 - The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth
• Context Propagation with Project Reactor 3 - Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative
• the good Dr. Dave Syer shares our friend Jacky's extension to the Apache Maven Toolchains plugin
• Spring Cloud 2022.0.2 Is Available
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Integration lead Artem Bilan (@artem_bilan) about the latest and greatest in Spring Integration. Spring Integration makes it easier to connect an increasingly larger ecosystem of disparate services and systems.

SHOW NOTES:

• I wrote an e-book on AOT and GraalVM support in Spring Boot 3
• did u see that Spring Tips video I did last week on Vaadin?
• Check out this roving 1 hour tour of Spring Boot 3 over on the Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA channel
• I did a 6m video looking at Spring Boot 3 for the impatient on my channel
• See you soon at Devnexus, Kotlin Conf, and Devoxx France!
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This post is a part of a series:

1. The Basics
2. The bumpy road of Spring Cloud Sleuth
3. Unified Bridging between Reactive and Imperative

We concluded the last article with the thought that Spring Cloud Sleuth’s MANUAL context propagation strategy is both performant and provides correct semantics. Out of many experiences, the Spring, Micrometer, and Reactor teams created a new context-propagation library. Its goal is to encapsulate the concern of transporting contextual data between ThreadLocal values and Map-like structures. Both Micrometer 1.10 and Reactor 3.5 build on top of it to provide a first-class experience between Reactor and imperative code. By using Reactor Context, we implicitly expose ThreadLocal…