Aloha, Spring fans, from beautiful Maui, Hawaii, where I am with my family on a bit of vacation. It's our daughter's Spring break and so we're enjoying the family time while we can get it! I wanted to take a brief interlude in between the never-enough time on the beach and all the rum to get this week's installment out for y'all, so let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Event streaming guru Jan Svoboda on Apache Kafka Design Patterns
• An update on Java 17 adoption
• Build To Manage: Proper Exception Handling Makes Your Applications Easier to Build and Manage
• CVE report published for Spring Framework
• Getting Started with Spring WebFlux
• Initial AOT support in Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3
• Java 18 is out! Get the bits while they're hot! Or at least get Java 17. Wouldn't want to be two major versions behind, would ya?
• Java Records tortured with Lombok yet again (builder edition)
• Want an industrial grade Kubernetes distribution? Check out this blog on …

We have released Spring Cloud Function 3.1.7 & 3.2.3 to address the following CVE report.

• CVE-2022-22963: Remote code execution in Spring Cloud Function by malicious Spring Expression

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

We have released Spring Framework 5.3.17 and Spring Framework 5.2.20 to address the following CVE report.

• CVE-2022-22950: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability

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

Spring Boot users should upgrade to 2.5.11 or 2.6.5.

As a follow-up to my blog post from last year's SpringOne, it is time for an update on our Java 17+ baseline efforts!

We established the new baseline on our main branches, with a few milestones out already. The feedback has been very positive, not only in terms of framework improvements but also in terms of the motivation for a Java upgrade at the application level. Of course, it does not end with JDK 17 LTS: JDK 18 is an immediate option already, JDK 19 will be the current release when we go final later this year, with JDK 20 to be in early access by then - and JDK 21 LTS on the horizon…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to event streaming guru at Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka, Jan Svoboda about Apache Kafka design patterns.

• Kafka summit in London Europe end of April 2022 Kafka Summit London 2022 | April 25-26 | London, UK
• the Confluent Developer Education Portal: Your Apache Kafka® Journey begins here
• check out the upcoming Kafka Summit London event April 25-26, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at how to use Spring's AbstractRoutingDataSource to build multi-tenant JDBC database code.

code: https://github.com/spring-tips/multitenant-jdbc speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

It finally happened! They did it! They did it just in time for me to get on the road and start building applications on the road with my shiny new laptop, too! JOY!! Oracle and the GraalVM team released GraalVM and the GraalVM native image capability for Apple M1! I've been waiting for this day for so, so, so long! I bought the first Apple M1 the day of the announcement way back in 2020 (does anybody remember that far back? That was, meteorologically speaking, the early pandemic period).

Apple's M1 devices are insanely fast, energy-efficient beasts of machines that run circles around all but the beefiest and latest-and-greatest Intel/NVidia configurations while also consuming a pittance of the power that other configuration does. In short, I'm a big fan…

Those of you who know the Spring Native experimental project are aware that the Spring team has been working on native image support for Spring applications since 2019. After a first beta in March 2021, we shipped an extensive revision of our Spring Native efforts in December 2021.

We’ve also announced at SpringOne last year that we intend to promote this work to Spring Framework 6.0 proper in the course of 2022. Following the release of our third milestone, this blog post walks you through what has been included already and what is coming next.

Ahead-Of-Time Processing

Processing the…

On behalf of everyone involved, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the sixth and final milestone of Spring for GraphQL on the way to 1.0. Our next stop is RC1 in 4 weeks, followed by the GA on May 17.

GraphQL Client

A GraphQL client is something we identified as a goal quite early on. It's issue number 10 from 336 at present in the issue tracker, but we viewed testing support as higher priority and so the GraphQL Tester came first and has been available from the start.

The Tester did prove valuable and popular, but we knew we had to fully explore the client before 1.0 as the two are…