Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.19.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early-access builds available for early Eclipse 2023-09 milestones (via the Eclipse Marketplace or the corresponding update site)

selected fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Experimental validation support for Spring Modulith (#953)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: duplicates of symbols showing up (#10056)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Let show optional: prefix for spring.sql.init.schema-locations and spring.sql.init.data-locations (#1067)
• (Eclipse) fixed: class loading exception: SpringModelLanguageServer cannot be found (#1060)
• (Documentation) fixed: Use Theia Blueprint in the documentation? (#1073)
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.4 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2022.0.4 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.4 Release Train

This release is based on Spring Boot 3.0.9.

A complete list of issues resolved in this release can be found in this GitHub project.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Support for retry-aware load-balancing for ServiceInstanceListSupplier delegates has been added (1221)

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Upgraded OpenFeign/Feign 12.4 (878)
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Spring Shell 2.1.12, 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 are now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.12, 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 2.1.12, release notes 3.0.7 and release notes 3.1.3 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 am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.6.12, 5.7.10, 5.8.5, 6.0.5, and 6.1.2 are available now.

Please refer to the releases page for more detail on what is included in each release.

Those versions fix the following CVEs:

• CVE-2023-34034: WebFlux Security Bypass With Un-Prefixed Double Wildcard Pattern
• CVE-2023-34035: Authorization rules can be misconfigured when using multiple servlets

It is also important to remember that the 5.8 version of Spring Security is a special release designed to help you to migrate to Spring Security 6.0, therefore if you are planning to upgrade your applications, using that version combined with the special migration guide…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 27 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'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 49 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'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 60 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'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 141 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Initial support for virtual threads when running on Java 21
• Auto-configuration for Spring Framework's new RestClient
• Logging changes for improved observability
• Numerous dependency upgrades, including new milestones of several Spring projects

Please see the release notes for more…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Batch 5.1 is now available from our milestone repository.

This milestone release comes with the following features:

• Dependencies upgrade
• Virtual Threads support
• Memory management improvement in the JpaItemWriter
• New synchronized decorators for item readers and writers

This blog post walks through these features in more details. For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Dependencies upgrade

This milestone release upgrades Spring dependencies to the…