The Spring Team has been working on native image support for Spring Applications for quite some time. After 3+ years of incubation in the Spring Native experimental project with Spring Boot 2, native support is moving to General Availability with Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3!

Native images provide almost instant startup time and reduced memory consumption for Java applications. The recent Spring Boot 3.0.0-M5 release marks the first time we’re asking for broader community feedback on our native story. If you need to catch-up on the basics, please refer to the Ahead Of Time basics blog post from late March. You can also learn how to prepare your applications for Spring Boot 3.0…

It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate and understand that the devil is in the details regarding software development. Writing happy-path business logic isn't the hard part! It's the failure cases, observability, resilience, and process. It's security and other so-called non-functional requirements. It's architecting for agility. It's production. Spring is unique because it sits at the crossroads of many exciting application development discussions.

Spring's community contains multitudes and is one of the key defining features. This diversity of discussion means that any conference that endeavors to cover the full sweep of ideas has its work cut out. I don't know of any other show - and I've spoken at many thousands of shows and events in my life! - that completely covers the different dimensions of application development like SpringOne…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend, fellow Java Champion, and director of developer relations and strategy at Couchbase, Laurent Doguin (@ldoguin)

SpringOne 2022 is almost here! This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and it's when we release Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, the next generation of Spring and Spring Boot respectively. It's running 6-8 December in my sunny San Francisco, CA! Register now at SpringOne.io and use the code S1VM22_Advocate_200 to get $200 off the current registration price.

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2022.0.0-M3. These releases deliver, enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up these artifacts with its upcoming releases.

The following modules were updated as part of 2022.0.0-M3:

• Spring Session Core 3.0.0-M4 - release notes
• Spring Session Data Redis 3.0.0-M4 - release notes
• Spring Session JDBC 3.0.0-M4 - release notes
• Spring Session Hazelcast 3.0.0-M4 - release notes

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring wherein I endeavor as best as I can to capture the latest-and-greatest in the wide, wacky, and wonderful world of Springdom! Naturally, I fail miserably basically every week. There's no way I could hope to capture everything of note. But I persist...

Are you coming to SpringOne 2022? This is our first in-person event since the pandemic and it's when we release Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, the next generation of Spring and Spring Boot respectively. It's running 6-8 December here in my hometown of sunny San Francisco, CA! Register now at SpringOne.io and use the code S1VM22_Advocate_200 …

Updates

• [09-19] Vulnerability announced here and Spring Data REST 3.6.7 and 3.7.3 released
• [09-19] Blog post updated to refer to the CVE report published

The Spring Data 2021.1.7 and 2021.2.3 releases shipped on September 19th contained releases for Spring Data REST 3.6.7 and 3.7.3 which include fixes for CVE-2022-31679. Users are encouraged to update as soon as possible.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to big data legend, former Pivot, and friend to the Spring community, Tim Spann (@PaaSDev), about big data, StreamNative, and Apache Pulsar, and Spring for Apache Pulsar. Get your notebooks ready for this one, class!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot of good stuff to get to so let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Hashicorp's Rosemary Wang on securing the intersection of apps and ops with Hashicorp Vault
• a nice video by my colleague Dan Vega: Spring Security JWT
• I also loved Dan's video on Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
• Dispatching Queries in Axon Framework
• Guide to Find the Java .class Version
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.4 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Static Fields and Garbage Collection
• Blog: Announcing the Auto-refreshing Official Kubernetes CVE Feed
• Blog: Kubernetes 1.25: KMS V2 Improvements
• Blog: Kubernetes’s IPTables Chains Are Not API
• this is an interesting post looking at how to use JUnit with Spring Boot. The only thing I didn't quite understand is why the author declares Mockito explicitly. I'm pretty sure it's brought in transitively in spring-boot-starter-test…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Hashicorp Developer Advocate Rosemary Wang (@joatmon08) about a few Hashicorp technologies and their integrations with Spring Boot.