We are happy to announce the availability of the second milestone of Spring Framework 6.2.

In case you missed it, we previously kicked off this milestone phase with 6.2.0-M1 and talked about the "little improvements" we worked on and how bean overriding in tests has evolved.

Spring Framework 6.2.0-M2 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now, with over 30 improvements and new features.

UrlHandlerFilter for trailing slash match

With the tailing slash match option being deprecated, the Spring community requested a way to gracefully handle this transition period in large applications. We have just introduced the new UrlHandlerFilter…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Support JPQL syntax in Java sources and Named Query properties files (Java sources not supported yet in Eclipse)
• (Spring Boot) Spring Symbol indexing has order of magnitude smaller memory footprint allowing for indexing very large Spring Boot projects
• (Spring Boot) New UI in VSCode to show/hide/refresh Live Data for running Spring Boot apps
• (Spring Boot) .properties <-> .yml conversions available in Eclipse and VSCode
• (Spring Boot) Show active profiles for running spring boot applications in Eclipse and VSCode with Boot Dashboard extension
• (Eclipse)…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0-RC1 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Spring Milestone Repo.

This release updates the stream apps to use the updated version of the Spring Functions Catalog.

Release notes are available:

• Spring Functions Catalog
• Stream Applications

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or Spring Functions Catalog - GitHub or Stream Applications - GitHub.

I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4. it primarily ships an upgrade to ArchUnit 1.1.1 which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat JAR format of Spring Boot. It had been improved in 3.2 but unfortunately broke ArchUnit's class scanning. Spring Modulith applications that were using the runtime, actuator and observability modules had been affected and should now properly work.

Find more information about the releases in the full change logs for 1.0.7 and 1.1.4.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4 and 3.3.0-M1 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Milestone Repo respectively.

Please see the release notes 3.1.11, release notes 3.2.4 and release notes 3.3.0-M1 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 93 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configure support for Embedded Web Server SSL with SNI
• Support for Prometheus Client 1.x
• Completion of our documentation migration to Antora

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and…

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1. Its most important new features are:

• Dependency upgrades to Spring Boot 3.3 RC1, ArchUnit 1.3, and jMolecules 2023.1.3
• Optimized starters to avoid them being included in the packaged JAR
• Improved reference documentation

For more details check out the full change log and the reference documentation.

The release of a first release candidate is a perfect opportunity to give the new version a try. We're looking forward to your feedback and aim for a GA release at the end of May, immediately following Spring Boot 3.3.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 34 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the release candidate of Spring Security 6.3 is released.

The 6.3 release brings several compelling features including

• Long-term JDK serialization backward compatibility
• New method security annotations and capabilities
• Compromised password checking, and
• OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange support

You can read more about each of these in the What's New section of the 6.3 documentation and also see the exhaustive list of of features across the 6.3 release in the release pages for 6.3.0-M1, 6.3.0-M2, 6.3.0-M3, and 6.3.0-RC1…