Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.18.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) enhancement: support navigating to a Spring property file when inspecting on @Value annotations (#761)
• (Spring Boot) enhancement: support @ConditionalOnProperty in property navigation feature (#1033)
• (Spring Boot) enhancement: automatically add import for types when applying content-assist proposals for query methods (#991)
• (Spring Boot) enhancement: [spring-data-support] take type hierarchy of domain types into account (#1013)
• (Spring Boot) enhancement: [spring-data-support] remove pure findBy method completion from proposal list (#1014)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: several live hovers are missing when running Spring Boot 3 applications (#1019…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, we are very excited to announce the 2.10.3 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow is now available from Maven Central. Release Notes

Spring updates

Updates to the following versions:

• Spring Boot 2.7.11

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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 0.6 release of Spring Modulith. We have packaged a number of great new features, most notably:

• GH-175 – Auto-configuration for MongoDB transactions if you use the event publication registry
• GH-184 – The event publication registry now enables asynchronous processing and shutdown behavior.
• GH-190 – @EnableScenario for using the Scenario testing API with @SpringBootTest integration tests.
• GH-192 – Support for jMolecules architecture stereotypes in the Application Module Canvas.

Find the complete changelog here, as well as the reference documentation and Javadoc.

In other news, we have decided to promote the Spring Modulith project into a top-level, non-experimental Spring project. We are going to move to the org.springframework.modulith…

This is a guest post from the maintainers of Spring Cloud AWS.

Spring Cloud AWS 3.0.0

Spring Cloud AWS 3.0 is a recent release of the Spring Cloud AWS project. This version represents a complete rewrite of the library using AWS SDK v2 for Java. Since this has required a major refactoring, we took it as an opportunity to revisit all the assumptions and integrations modules. As a result, we've produced a library that is lightweight, flexible, causes less headache and provides simple to use abstractions.

Spring Cloud AWS 3.0 has been developed with following principles in mind:

• Spring Boot “native” developer experience - sensible defaults, highly customizable
• Minimal startup time overhead
• Integration module independent of each other
• Kotlin friendly (@Nullable annotations)
• Testing as a first class citizen - Spring Cloud AWS uses Localstack in its own tests and we made the library easy to use with Localstack.
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.7 Release Train (aka Jubilee) is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.7 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.7 Release Train

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

This release is primarily a bug fix release.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Path parsing optimization (2884)

The following modules were updated as part of 2021.0.7:

I'm happy to announce that a Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0-M1 milestone is now available via https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

We are updating it to support Spring Security 6.0.x. This brings the project up to date with latest versions from the Spring family. As a result, it needs JDK 17 or higher. The samples in the project have been updated to support Spring Boot 3.0.x. The goal for 2.0.0 is to simply release it with updated dependencies and get there quickly now that the first milestone is out.

The next minor version 2.1.x will depend on Spring Security 6.1.x and will let us start…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 112 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Improved Testcontainers support including support at development time
• Support for Docker Compose
• SSL Configuration enhancements
• Improvements for Docker Image Building

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

Thanks to all those who have contributed…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 41 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

This release includes a fix for CVE-2023-20873: Security Bypass With Wildcard Pattern Matching on Cloud Foundry.

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'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 24 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

This release includes a fix for CVE-2023-20873: Security Bypass With Wildcard Pattern Matching on Cloud Foundry.

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…