On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to returning guest RedHat's Kate Stanley (@KateStanley91) on the distinction between traditional brokers and Apache Kafka.

Hi, Spring fans! Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot apps, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. And gain a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments.

Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed, fun-filled, rock'em sock'em installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 18th of January and I'm feelin' great because I just got back from a three-day weekend. Here in the US, we celebrated on Monday the life of the good Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist who advanced the plight of African American civil rights. Dr. King is another one of my favorite doctors, along with Drs. Syer, Strange, Who, Subramaniam, and Pollack.

How're you? We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan
• First Spring Data 2022.0.0 and 2021.2.0 milestones released
• Michael Coté on Twitter
• the Oracle Java team's Sharat Chander (@sharat_chandler) recently took time to thank me, along with my heroes and Bootiful Podcast guests Dr. Venkat Subramaniam (@venkat_s) and Matt Raible (@mraible), for our contributions to the Java ecosystem. I want to return the favor, Sharat, here on this very large platform: thank YOU for all you've done for the community. You're an inspiration.
• Spring Data 2021.1 SR1 and 2021.0 SR8 released
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan (@sabbyanandan).

Hi, Spring fans! How're you? I'm fresh off my three weeks respite and this is my first blog back on the clock officially! It's so good to be back. I've been busy over the break, working on updating my blog and on updating the Reactive Spring book. Fun, fun! Anyway, we've got a fun week to recap, so let's get right to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb (and happy new year!)
• Blog: Kubernetes is Moving on From Dockershim: Commitments and Next Steps
• My talk from the last Brighton Kotlin session of 2021 is up: Bootiful Kotlin with Josh Long
• Improving Micrometer's Build with Gradle Enterprise | Gradle Enterprise
• Introducing the Spring Integration Groovy DSL
• JDK 18 Early-Access Builds
• Spring Framework CVE-2021-22060 has been published
• Uploading Media in Spring Boot Programmatically With Cloudinary - DEV Community
• There's a new release of Project Reactor, …

Happy New Year, Spring community!

Hope you had great holidays and ready for new excitements in front of us.

After the rest and recharging during Christmas break I decided to pay honor to my favorite language back in days - Groovy.

And now it’s my pleasure to present you a brand new Groovy DSL for Spring Integration. You perhaps heard about our old attempt to make a Groovy DSL on top of Spring Integration XML support. But the solution was pretty cumbersome (especially for protocol-specific channel adapters) and support burden has grown tremendously. This my latest implementation is fully based…

Hi, Spring fans, and happy new year! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud co-founder, legend, and the all-around nice guy Spencer Gibb (@spencerbgibb).

The Spring Framework 5.3.14 and 5.2.19 releases on December 16 included fixes for CVE-2021-22060 and are a follow-up to CVE-2021-22096, to address additional types of input that can cause the issue. As the Spring Boot releases 2.6.2 and 2.5.8 picking up these Spring Framework versions were due the day before Christmas and given the medium severity, we postponed the announcement until after the new year, to avoid disclosure during a period when many take time off. Please, upgrade to those latest maintenance releases.