On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0 Release Train

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Spring Cloud Function

• Updates for Observability and Native Hints

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Added support for target URL refreshing (#710)
• Added support for LoadBalancer X-Forwarded Headers (#748)
• Set Jackson Autoconfiguration to be enabled by default (#476)
• Removed deprecations and adjusted to the API changes in Feign (#768)
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.16.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Spring Tools 4 on Eclipse 2022-12 milestones

important note for upgrading from a release prior to 4.16.0 on Eclipse

• If you are upgrading an existing Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution 4.15.3 or older to 4.16.1, please take a look at the necessary manual steps described for the upgrade to 4.16.0.

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring XML Config support does not show symbols with scope "File" (#860)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [open-rewrite] exception when executing quick fix for project (#853)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: [refactoring] quick fix to convert autowired field to constructor param shows up even if the constructor param already exists (#815)
• (VSCode) fixed: Vscode Spring Boot Tools 1.39.0 prevents Java project from Running/Debugging (#847)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Web Tools Platform (WTP) validation is activated by default (#859)
• (Eclipse) fixed: ask user to save dirty editors before deploying on docker (#803…

Dear Spring community,

I was so eager to find and fix bugs in the latest Spring Integration release, that missed to announce a 6.0 RC1 last week. But I believe it is still worth to mention it even after Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 announcement since there is a number of notable changes and improvements.

So, please, welcome Spring Integration 6.0 first Release Candidate. It can be obtained from Spring Milestone repository:

dependencyManagement {
    imports {
        mavenBom 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-bom:6.0.0-RC1'
    }
}

Here you can find important changes after the previously announced Spring Integration 6.0.0-M5…

It is finally here! The first release candidate of Spring Batch 5 is now available from our milestone repository. In this release, we worked on the following items:

• Execution context Meta-data improvement
• GemFire support removal

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

Execution context Meta-data improvement

In addition to what Spring Batch already persists in the execution context with regard to runtime information (like the step type, the restart flag, etc), this release adds an important detail in the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.13 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC2 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC2 includes 28 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 later today!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 31 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 3.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 135 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This is our first release candidate for Spring Boot 3.0, which we expect to release November 24, 2022. We are not expecting any more features to be added at this point, and we will only be making API changes if we find issues.

This release is the culmination of 11 months of work and is the first release to fully…

I'm pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring for GraphQL 1.1.0 is now available from our Milestone repository. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 due for release later this week.

This release candidate is the last stop for shipping new features; from that point, we'll be focusing on bug fixes and documentation improvements. Our goal is to stabilize the current branch for our GA release scheduled next month.

With RC1, we're shipping our new Observability support in Spring for GraphQL. Based on the new Micrometer Observation work, this infrastructure replaces the former GraphQL Metrics support in Spring Boot 2.7. GraphQL is a good use case for Observability in general, as the GraphQL engine can distribute the data fetching operations over caches, databases, REST APIs and more. It's important not only to keep track of performance metrics for your GraphQL API, but also to…