Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.18.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-03 release (new and noteworthy)

important highlights

• (Spring Boot): new and vastly improved content-assist for Spring Data repository query methods (thanks to contributions from @danthe1st)
• (Spring Boot): the additional reconciling of Spring Boot projects to show Spring specific validations, outdated versions and more, now reports progress, runs faster, and uses less memory - please consider using this and tell us about your experiences and if you hit issues while having this feature enabled
• (VSCode): fixed an extremely annoying issue that caused regular Java content-assist in VSCode to stop working after a short while
• (Eclipse): a bug in m2e got fixed and is included in this release, which caused resource files (e.g. application.properties) to not be copied into the target folder anymore. This works again and automatically copies your changed application.properties…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, we are very excited to announce the 2.10.2 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow is now available from Maven Central. Release Notes

Spring updates

Updates to the following versions:

• Spring Boot 2.7.9

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Project Page Data Flow Mini-site

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub.

I am excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 0.5. The most relevant features the release ships are:

• #152 – A dedicated starter to ease inclusion of actuator and observability features
• #163 – The renamed property to trigger JDBC database initialization. (spring.modulith.events.schema-initialization.enabled -> spring.modulith.events.jdbc-schema-initialization.enabled)
• #149 – Default to await termination of task executors unless configured not to
• #150 – Scenario should run stimulus in new transaction
• #162, #154 – The usual dependency upgrades (Spring Boot 3.0.4, jMolecules 2022.2.4)
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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 service releases. These releases ship with improvements, including fixes for regressions. Some of them were important enough that we decided to release this version early, outside of the usual schedule.

The upcoming Spring Boot 3.0.4 release is going to pick up Spring Data 2022.0.3 for your convenience. If you want to upgrade your Spring Boot 2.7.x application to use Spring Data 2021.2.9, then use the version property mechanism to specify the Spring Data BOM version:

Maven POM:

<properties…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

The release was earlier than originally scheduled because of a regression found in Spring Framework and it includes 19 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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.6 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.6 ships with 35 fixes and documentation improvements, including 7 fixes for regressions. Some of them were important enough that we decided to release this version early, outside of the usual schedule.

This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.4, to be released tomorrow. Spring Framework 6.0.7 and 5.3.26 will be released in two weeks as planned initially.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.7, 3.0.1 and 3.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central and https://repo.spring.io/milestone respectively.

Please see the release notes 2.1.7, release notes 3.0.1 and release notes 3.1.0-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 3.1.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 105 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Different log levels for file and console
• Maximum HTTP Response Header Size
• Many dependency upgrades

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

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…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.6 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.6 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.6 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Add utility method to configure zone-preference load-balancing with user-provided zone (#1174)

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Allow setting timeouts for fetching instances (#4110)

Spring…