Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the core framework team, it is my pleasure to kick off the Spring Framework 6.2 milestone phase: 6.2.0-M1 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

This milestone contains several enhancements in the core container, including a revision of the autowiring algorithm (e.g. for consistent generic type matching and for faster resolution of name-based matches) and a revision of singleton locking (e.g. for background bootstrapping), as well as a range of new features in Spring's testing support. Check out our What's New page for details about the new features…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.6, 6.0.19 and 5.3.34 are available now:

• Spring Framework 6.1.6 ships with 41 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.5, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 6.0.19 ships with 14 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.1.11, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 5.3.34 ships with 10 fixes and documentation improvements.

The releases address CVE-2024-22262 for "URL Parsing with Host Validation (3rd report)". Important CVEs on popular projects, like the original CVE-2024-22243, often get attention from the security community. We received many reports and helpful feedback about new attack variants over the last weeks. The security of Spring applications is…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0-M1 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Spring Milestone Repo.

This release updates all of the applications to use 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.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0-M2 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Spring Milestone Repo.

This release updates all of the applications to use 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 pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.2.6 is now available on Maven Central.

This release closes 8 issues. It is a bit off our usual cycle but we wanted to fix particular issues a give an early chance to external integrations to release against this version.

The 1.2.6 version will ship with Spring Boot 3.1.11 and 3.2.5, to be released next month.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.1 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2023.0.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.1 Release Train

Based on Spring Boot 3.2.4.

See the GitHub project for all changes made in this release.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Add support for selective namespaces in Fabric8 LoadBalancer implementation (#1604)

Spring Cloud Function

• Added native support for deploying and processing WEB Workloads as AWS Lambda with sample provided here
• Fixed filter registration in WEB support for AWS Lambda
• Fixed SNapStart processing in WEB support for AWS Lambda
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 70 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Support for CDS archives
• Base64 Resources
• SBOM Actuator Endpoint

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

NOTE: We are in the process of migrating the Spring Boot documentation to Antora. The docs for this release will be a little delayed.

Thanks to…

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 M3. It contains a couple of dependency upgrades, bug fixes but the following new features primarily:

• Support for open application modules – Application modules can now be declared as open, which gives other modules full access to the open module's internals. Primarily intended for scenarios in which Spring Modulith is introduced in existing, sub-optimally structured projects.
• Support for package info types – Kotlin does not directly support annotating packages as it doesn't know an equivalent of package-info.java. Package-level configuration annotations such as @ApplicationModule or @NamedInterface can now be used on types annotated with @PackageInfo.
• @ApplicationModuleListener now exposes @EventListener's condition…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 30 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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