I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.3 M3, 1.2.4, and 1.1.9. While the latter two ship the usual bugfixes and service release bugfix upgrades, I am particularly delighted about the milestone releases as it contains two major community contributions. Here are the most significant new features:

• Support for change-aware test execution (contributed by @lukasdo and @davidbilge) which optimizes test runs along the changes made to the application by skipping tests not affected by those.
• A new deleting event publication completion mode to — as the name suggests — immediately delete completed event publications.
• Support for contributing application modules from other packages and external JARs.
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server in JDBC-based event publication registry (contributed by @oyjoh, GH-804).
• Deprecate spring.modulith.republish-outstanding-events-on-restart in favor of the variant residing in spring.modulith.test.… (GH-823…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 38 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'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 51 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’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.11.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release contains several bug fixes and nuemrous dependency upgrades. Spring Boot version and addresses a couple of CVEs. See the release notes for more information.

Stay in touch...

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

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 111 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Spring for Apache Pulsar updates
• Observability improvements
• Improvements when using @AutoConfigureTestDatabase with containers

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Batch 5.2 is now available from our milestones repository. This blog post walks you through the main changes in Spring Batch 5.2:

• Dependencies upgrade
• Query hints support in JPA item readers
• Data class support in JDBC item readers
• Configurable line separator in RecursiveCollectionLineAggregator
• Job registration improvements

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Dependencies upgrade

In this release, the Spring dependencies are upgraded to the…

On behalf of everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce the availability of Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M3 and patch GA releases for 3.2.4 and 3.1.9. We thank everyone who contributed to these releases.

Release Notes

See the release notes for more details:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.3.0-M3

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.2.4

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.1.9

Spring Boot Integration

The patch releases (3.2.4 and 3.1.9) will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.10 and 3.3.4 respectively. The 3.3.0-M3 release will be integrated with Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the third Milestone for Spring AMQP 3.2 generation.

Some highlights of this release:

• Based on the latest dependencies;
• Found so far bug fixes;
• Distinguish exchange and routingKey properties in the RabbitMessageSenderContext for better mapping into the Open Telemetry conventions.

See more info in the Release Notes.

In October we are heading for RC1, which is is going to include further improvements for Open Telemetry conventions. So, give it a try - and feedback is welcome!

Cheers, 
Artem

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On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the third Milestone for Spring Integration 6.4.0 generation.

In addition the regular bug fixes and dependency upgrades were release as Spring Integration 6.3.4 and 6.2.9.

Here are some notable improvements and new features in Spring Integration 6.4:

• First class support for IndexAccessor from SpEL and JsonIndexAccessor implementation (shout out to Sam Brannen for contribution);
• Performance and memory improvements for dynamic integration flow registrations;
• Control Bus Management via ControlBusCommandRegistry and deprecation for SpEL-based (and Groovy) Control Bus components;
• The ControlBusController at /control-bus to expose an endpoint for Control Bus Management via REST API;
• Fix JdbcMetadataStore for PostgreSQL and MySQL (and cover with respective tests);
• Introduce an MqttMessageNotDeliveredEvent to be emitted from the MqttActionListener.onFailure()…